Gettysburg
Gettysburg
PG | 08 October 1993 (USA)
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In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania with the goal of marching through to Washington, D.C. The Union Army of the Potomac, under the command of General George G. Meade, forms a defensive position to confront the rebel forces in what will prove to be the decisive battle of the American Civil War.

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Cubussoli

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

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Solemplex

To me, this movie is perfection.

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RipDelight

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

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Brenda

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

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cinephile-27690

With almost an hour left I am writing this review. I heard of this movie from my 12th grade History teacher. She taught an elective on just the Civil War and showed us a clip of this movie-also frequently referencing the sequel-Gods and Generals- which is also a good movie. This is very long-clocking in at 4 hours and 14 minutes long. This is the longest American movie ever made, even 25 years later. This length makes the movie overstay its welcome and distracts the ADHD viewer(hence why I am watching the movie as I write this review), however it is very well made and should be seen by those into history. Jeff Daniels as Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain is probably the best performance. Oh, and another fact about my teacher-she begged her mom to take her, and so she dropped her off at the theater and said she would pick her up in another 4.5 hours. I told her if I were born then I would have watched it with her! She also, believe it or not, had a cameo in the aforementioned Gods and Generals(in the 9 hour extended cut). Now, back to Gettysburg, I watched Part 1 last night, which is what you may have to do. A little background on the battle may help too. All things said and done, as much as it drags it is very much worth your time as a time capsule to the middle of The Civil War and despite it's length should be seen. Besides, the battle took 3 days to fight. What's 4.5 hours of 1 or 2 days to you?

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nataliestevensocc

Although it is long, the movie builds up a lot of characters and gives background to the battle occuring around them. Good movie with great historical accuracy, recreation of battles were realistic.

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SaiyanKingVegeta

The music and melodrama in this movie, make war seem like a glorious event. In fact, of course, war is foremost horrific. All the men in the movie, act like little boys and murder each other. But this no less true in real life, so one could say it is a realistic representation of war, or men fighting each other. Still, murdering and wasting lives is kind of depicted as meaningul and heroic in these movie. Typically American and totally moronic and detrimental to society's values.

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Jon Sanfratello

Gettysburg is a great war movie if you are interested in them (war movies) as I am. Many historically based movies are out there in this world and this is one of them...although it took pretty much 4 hours to watch the whole thing, it held my attention. Through the constant fighting, and watching the stress the commanders and soldiers were experiencing were very real. Real, as in you're fully attentive to see what's going to happen next and if the North will really be able to keep the South back! Historically, you can also relate as many of the true issues of the Civil War were mentioned and/or apparent as you watched. One, being the difficulty of loss and the tragedy of the situation...men from the same country were killing each other...men who were friends were supposed to be killing each other...starvation, over-exertion,and simply, yet, very importantly...the necessity of winning the battle of Gettysburg. The battle that we all know, was the defining moment of the war and its winner. Along with the historical allusions, the characters made it very real-the division was quite clear. One of the colonels had even said that this war was being fought due to the fact that it is the right thing to do; and along with that,freed states vs. slave states is not something that should be happening and that unity is an essential value of a functioning country. In all, the con for me was the time consumption...however the action and the history made it enjoyable.

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