Talk about disappointment

Rating: 3/10 (19 February 2011)

I a real bit of a war history buff and really enjoyed reading about American civil war, the ins and the outs, the various battles and generals involved. As such I even more so enjoy movies about battles and also adds perspective that simply reading can't achieve. So when I saw this movie about the famous battle that was the 'turning of the tide' as people say, I thought this should be really good.
But to be honest I was really disappointed. I spent most of the movie fast forwarding it. That's how bad it got. Enjoy the battle scenes and I like to watch the dialog between the generals and reasons/thoughts about tactics, but omg talk about talking for sake of talking absolute rubbish. I just keep fast forwarding through the needless crap. I know it was 1993 when it was made, but obvious fake facial hear, repeated scenes, some bad acting in spots. And more so that it really really doesn't do this epic 3 day battle justice with the poor realism on the 'pickets charge' to really try and bring the movie goer into what it would've been like.
It really was pretty bad. I'm surprised people voted it so well. Maybe it's just me, so if so someone tell me. So much bad acting and like they just thought, how long can we make this go for, maybe we'll just show the men talking among themselves about not much whilst flashing between various important peoples faces showing some level of really bad faked emotion. EPIC EPIC fail. Please do a new 21st century verison about this battle that does it some justice to honour it appropriately.