And good Christ, was the Union really that fucking stupid?? I mean, I know they had a rough start of it at the beginning, but the way that movie went, you'd think the South fucking won the war! There was not a single, solitary Union victory I could see, and they spent the whole damn movie engaged in one fuckup after another! Meanwhile, the COnfederates were perfect. They won it all, by God!
Of course, I just loved the Union "tactic" of walk up in a nice big formation, get shot to shit by cannons. Then, after awhile of this, start running. Then, 100 yeards from the enemy lines, enemies who are dug in behind a fucking stone wall, stop in your nice big line, and shoot, while you are getting your ass shot. Keep getting shot up, then finally run back a little bit, then kneel and take some kind of cover. Do absolutely no good there while still getting shot, then retreat. Rinse, wash, repeat, until the Generals get tired and give up.
Did they really fight like that back then?
The Rebels, of course, ran, and kept running, in their ambush of the Nothern camp. THey didn't stop or anything. They just kept on running, while the North ran like a buncha pansies (some did stop and fight, but not much, and it didn't have very much effect; they got shot for their trouble, while taking out less Southerners).
Is this a Ted Turner Southern wank-fest or something? Or was it really that bad for the Feds?
And then, of course, General "Stonewall" Jackson, which is who the movie was really about (the Civil War was kinda incidental to the whole thing). He's like the Civil War Osama bin Laden! "Desertion is a sin against the Army of the Lord (his group, it seems)." "Their deaths are of God's consequences (the deserters)." "Bayonet any stragglers."
And he spent over half the movie doing nothing but praying, really. He made Jerry Falwell look like a moderate.
Anyway, that's my two cents on this movie, and it may have some bias...I just watched the full-fucking-four hours of it. Four hours of my life I really want back.
