A good friend told me that this is the most boring . . .

Rating: 6/10 (13 April 2019)

. . . flick of All Time, so when I noticed a copy in the dumpster behind a defunct Blockbuster store I was understandably cautious. GONE WITH THE WIND is too lengthy to be crammed onto just one DVD; it's divided between TWO discs. I decided to make use of the "Scene Selection" feature, and scanned this menu on Disc One for something sounding worthy of my attention. Let's review Scene #25 (of 400 or so) to determine if GWTW merits a week of your time. Running 4 minutes, 32 seconds, "ATLANTA BURNING" begins about 1:22:57 into this cinematic marathon. A dude and a wench are descending a shadowy staircase, and the dame stammers "Why, what--what's that?!" as she clumsily anticipates "Mrs. O'Leary's" cow by dropping the lantern she's carrying. Since Georgia's capital always has been infamous for being a rat's nest tinder box, most of the city then explodes in a gargantuan conflagration three minutes later. Then the chagrined geezer accompanying the arsonist bimbo remarks "It's a historic moment: One day you can tell your grandchildren how you burned down the Old South tonight." Soon the Neighborhood Watch folks seem on the verge of bringing the Lady Firebug to Justice, but her henchman viciously drives them off with his whip. If this sounds like your cup of julep, go jump into GWTW's Lake of Fire. But if you're a normal person, you might be better off watching something more tasteful, such as THE ARISTOCRATS or THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE.