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I am a big..big fan of the original Gettysburg..and a civil war buff.....I am not sure what happened but it seems like it was made by "Confederate lovers of America".....incredibly one-sided....cheesy preachy dialog... and laughable scenes of Sonewall Jackson praying with his slave to end slavery,(sure that happened!!!!)....and his slaves lying to Northern soldiers to keep their property from being looted....Was is really a war between with greedy North...and the Christian, righteous, glorious South??the original Gettysburg was fascinating with equal time to both North and South....Why not at least one shot with Lincoln??? Would that shift too much sympathy to the North?? .while "Gods" missed this opportunity showing about 80% of the South.......Did we really have to Christmas with the Lees??Even the music is a big step down from Gettysburg.. It really deserved its critical drubbing and box office failure....

Good actors and a very good production.But (there is always a but) the movie makes you sleep sometimes. It does not bring high emotions to you.And they should have done something with the dialogues. Seems that the characters have come down from Heavens, speaking like Gods and poetic phrases.The producers spend a lot of time and money to bring a historical precision to the movie but the dialogues are pretty far fro the reality of that time.

Not a bad film as Civil War films go, but the character of Stonewall Jackson, a hypochondriacal, anal-retentive, religious zealot as the saintly character played by Steven Lang is a little far-fetched. For example, we know that Stonewall rode with his left hand raised to keep his "humors in balance" and was constantly concerned about his alimentary health. The movie suggests that he rode with his hand raised only to stem the bleeding from a wound. He was a decidedly unpretty man, but the depiction here is of a man who might model men's work clothes in an LL Bean catalog. His religious zealotry is offered only as a deep and beautiful faith. The canonization of Stonewall is silly. I grant, a clever and courageous General, he deserves all our proper honor. But this film makes him an angel such as he never really was.