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It's doing very well for only being shown twice a day in some cities..

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[John H K]

It's pretty terrible for a second week of release, any way you slice it.

[Chewbacca]

Waiting to see this at the $1 theater. Then I will buy popcorn during the intermission.

[GeneD]

God and Generals did $504 per screen on Friday. Dividing $504 by $8.50 (the approximate average movie ticket price) is roughly 59 tickets. Even at two shows per day this masterwork is playing to largely empty houses. Ted's folly will be out of the theaters in about three weeks.

[WL-law]

I saw it opening weekend, in Lexington VA -- at the old/only movie theatre in town -- and it wasn't sold out, which surprised me. Sat next to a group of VMI cadets, and we were all choked up at the local scenes, as well as the battle scenes.

Having said that, it was a deeply flawed movie on many levels. This was a case where one person's vision (director/screenwriter) was just too claustrophobic. He needed another pair of critical eyes in the editing.

The re-enactors were too fat and too old.

The southern women were ridiculous cartoon caricatures of 'southern belles', when real and natural performances would have been so much more effective.

And Jackson was, in real life, far more idiosyncratic than he was portrayed. That doesn't mean artistic license couldn't be used, but it was wrong to use it the way the director did, which was to caste all things southern in a false, cloying, over-romanticised light.

Jackson was zealously religious,yes, but that's not the same as PRESENTING the CHARACTERS as god-like, rather than real historical people. Unfortunate, in that the director's shortcomings make it too easy for the masses to dismiss the ideas (attempted to be) presented in the film (and in the eventual trilogy), i.e., why the war was fought, whether it needed to be fought

[Dante3]

After having read several the negative comments on this board, my husband (who is a Civil War buff) and I were surprised what an excellent film it was. We both thoroughly enjoyed it. Even though it was long, there was an intermission.

The people felt real, not like Hollywood extras trying to look pretty. They spoke like people of that era. Lang's performance as Jackson was terrific.

I am sure that it will become one of the classics.

[Dante3]

Some people are so antagonistic towareds Ted Turner that they will attack anything he does. Actually, there are even worse people in Hollywood producing films. This is an excellent film. Even Michael Medved had praised it.

[rustbucket]

I saw it today. Small audience, mostly older white couples. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Some of the dialog was a bit wooden, but that's a small price to pay in exchange for historical accuracy. No Oliver Stone warped-history treatment here.

The combat scenes gave a real sense of the battles without being gory. I liked the mounted staff officers with their drawn long-barrel pistols.

Most of the movies these days are junk having no story but lots of special effects, violence, and bad language. Gods and Generals on the other hand was worth seeing. Mrs. rustbucket was impressed enough with the movie that she started reading a history book on Lee.

[KriegerGeist]

I just bought the soundtrack to Gods and Generals and it is even better than the Gettysburg soundtrack. It even comes with a DVD that contains Bob Dylan and Mary Fahl's music videos, plus the movie trailer and scenes cut from the movie.

Well worth buying.

[The Grim Freeper]

I saw Gods and Generals with my mother and my 10-year-old daughter this weekend. What a pleasure it was to see a Godly movie--we've waited so long! We've watched Gettysburg about 20 times, and I look forward to seeing Gods and General over and over again, as well. This is a great movie.