Impressively Choreographed Crowd Scenes, But Ultimately Overlong And Too Melodramatic

Rating: 5/10 (23 April 2020)

My first time watching right through. To be sure the crowd scenes are all very impressively choreographed. I can see why folks would have flocked to see the movie. The colors too, are vibrant and pleasant. Apart from that the first hour or so is enjoyable, and after that occasionally their are interesting moments. But ultimately it's just too long, and by the end I was done with all the melodrama. Clarks Rhett Butler is fun though, while DeHaivilands character is annoyingly upbeat. The ending too is a dissspointment. It should have cut right where Rhett tells Scarlett, "I don't give a damn." That would have been a sobering conclusion. Incidentally, I found it fascinating that the movie showed a man being shot in the face and then revealed him laying in a pool of red blood. Scorcese could not have filmed it better!