Snore.

Rating: 1/10 (29 June 2007)

Well, I watched it. And while it may be on Roger Ebert's Great Movies list, it's not on mine. It falls into that category of "Movies That Are Technically Important but Hard to Watch," and that much smaller category of "Really Evil Movies." Every critic recognizes that, yes, this is probably the most racist film ever made, a terrible revision of post-Civil War history, and a glorification of the KKK - ah, but it's so innovative, and so wonderfully shot! Ho hum. What I notice -- after struggling to root for the heroes, seeing as they are self-righteous bigots - is that it is so incredibly, tediously, ridiculously LOOOOONG. Griffith could've been really inventive and created a miniseries, or a trilogy. As it is, by the time you get the "chase" scene near the end that Ebert goes on an on about, you're so bored out of your skull you hardly care.
If you decide, as I did, to try and set aside your feelings of outrage due to the racism, you'll find yourself feeling....nothing. Snnnnooooorrre.