Comments on: Neo-Confederate Movie Director Takes on New Cause

By: Boris

Boris — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:46:14 +0000

Gods and Generals was a wonderful movie that I am proud to own.

By: Evan Thomas

Evan Thomas — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:36:33 +0000

I don’t understand how you can call the movie “God-awful.” It was very accurate in the portrayal of the personalities on both sides of the war.

By: Chrisy

Chrisy — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:41:25 +0000

I liked the movie. The thing that was really sad was that it showed good people on both sides who really were torn because they loved this country, God, and knew that both sides would have to do things that were bad. War is terrible and Civil War is the most terrible because families are fighting each other in many cases.

I think the story of both sides should be told. Let the Story of the South be told. Let the story of the North be told. That tragic War is part of our nation’s history. We must not hide from it, but be able to examine it so that hopefully it does not happen again where brother has to fight brother.

Why is everyone so afraid of letting someone who has a different thought express themselves. We are so afraid that someone might say something that we disagree with that instead of listening to them with an open mind we attack them. I see this from both sides. One side calls the other side racist for wanting to make a movie that told the South’s side. Ted Turner even spoke in the version of the movie I have. He isn’t a racist. He wouldn’t endorse a racist movie. The other side calls people who disagree with them a red commie, or a jew or some other name. On and on it goes.

I say let this man make his movies and let the market place decide on if it is good or not.

By: Billy Yank

Billy Yank — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:29:50 +0000

I would not worry about Maxwell and his new “cause”. It is sad to see how bad God’s and Generals really was. It could have been a great movie about the battles leading up to Gettysburg if that was the story he wanted to tell. Or, it could have been a great biographical movie about Jackson. But, Maxwell tried to do both in one film and it flopped. There are great scenes, but he tried to do too much. The other thing the killed G & G was it was so full of Lost Cause rhetoric you could almost see it dripping off the screen.

By: Cajie

Cajie — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:07:25 +0000

I love the movie “Gods and Generals” and I play it all the time.
I love the song by Dylan – because it is the TRUTH!

I am furious that You get away with your media biased bashing of black and white Southern Confederate History and their descendants – you caused the movie to flop. A movie that all should see, but then social science during that period of time is not in your best interest – which is hate mongering and race card playing bias.