 Flashman14  | 17 Feb 2012 8:00 p.m. PST |
was on TCM just now. I've owned it for years on DVD yet watched the whole thing again anyway without planning to. It's not my favorite movie of all time but it's in the top 10, and profoundly timeless – and over 20 years old too. Where does it rank for you? a) #1
b) Top 3
c) Top 10
d) Top 50
e) Top 100
f) Never seen it |
| John the OFM | 17 Feb 2012 8:07 p.m. PST |
I do not do the "top of all time" thing because I dislike the phrase.
However, it is a VERY GOOD movie with a fine message. |
| Dynaman8789 | 17 Feb 2012 8:16 p.m. PST |
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| Ceterman | 17 Feb 2012 8:24 p.m. PST |
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| peru522000 | 17 Feb 2012 8:39 p.m. PST |
Top 10 as well. Watched it not too long ago and thought it still held up pretty well. |
| SonofThor | 17 Feb 2012 8:47 p.m. PST |
I would put it in my personal top 10. Some kids from my High School were extras in it. |
| DJCoaltrain | 17 Feb 2012 9:02 p.m. PST |
As ACW entertainment it's fairly good. My favorite ACW entertainment remains Gettysburg, perhaps because I really liked the book so much. Good ACW entertainment is hard to find. |
| 21eRegt | 17 Feb 2012 9:17 p.m. PST |
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| ochoin deach | 17 Feb 2012 9:18 p.m. PST |
Yes, an excellent war movie. One of the best. |
| Ivan DBA | 17 Feb 2012 9:21 p.m. PST |
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| galvinm | 17 Feb 2012 10:10 p.m. PST |
Great movie. I also have it on DVD. |
| flooglestreet | 17 Feb 2012 10:31 p.m. PST |
I have it, too. February is Black History month and Glory is a god way to celebrate it. |
| Valator | 18 Feb 2012 12:15 a.m. PST |
One of my top 3 ACW movies. |
| ZULUPAUL | 18 Feb 2012 3:56 a.m. PST |
Very Good movie, not very historically accurate but I enjoy watching it.Top 10 ACW films for me |
| FusilierDan | 18 Feb 2012 6:12 a.m. PST |
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| FireZouave | 18 Feb 2012 6:47 a.m. PST |
For me, "Glory" is the best Civil War movie, hands down! Great acting, great action, great moments that we all remember! |
| David Miniature Armies | 18 Feb 2012 6:56 a.m. PST |
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| vtsaogames | 18 Feb 2012 7:46 a.m. PST |
Among the best ACW battle scenes on celluloid, though there's too much bayonet action in the first fight of the 54th. |
| Cosmic Reset | 18 Feb 2012 8:58 a.m. PST |
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| highlandcatfrog | 18 Feb 2012 9:11 a.m. PST |
Top 50. Top 10 are all comedies. |
| Gennorm | 18 Feb 2012 10:30 a.m. PST |
Dunno, but it's very good. |
| Old Slow Trot | 18 Feb 2012 12:58 p.m. PST |
D-Saw it when it first was in theatres. One of my fave ACW movies. |
| bracken | 18 Feb 2012 2:21 p.m. PST |
Top film, up there with ride with the devil, gettysburg, and dare I say G&G ! |
| 14Bore | 18 Feb 2012 3:03 p.m. PST |
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| John Michael Priest | 18 Feb 2012 3:10 p.m. PST |
I really liked it despite some historical innacuracies. |
| Don1962 | 18 Feb 2012 5:45 p.m. PST |
I love 98% of the movie. However, the idiotic white Union re-enactors the 54th encounters just before the charge on the beach ruin the movie for me. They are worst bunch I've EVER seen!!! |
| vtsaogames | 18 Feb 2012 5:53 p.m. PST |
Hmm, I hardly noticed them. Oh well. |
| Clovis Sangrail | 19 Feb 2012 4:29 p.m. PST |
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| SECURITY MINISTER CRITTER | 20 Feb 2012 1:04 a.m. PST |
It's in my top 1000 for sure… |
| Sane Max | 20 Feb 2012 3:57 a.m. PST |
It's a good film – I don't do 'top movies' as my tastes change – but it's a very good film, with some great performances, Andre Braugher especially. Pat |
| Altius | 20 Feb 2012 10:02 a.m. PST |
That's pretty subjective. If we're talking just war movies, it's within the top 10, maybe even the top 3. If we're talking all movie genres together, I'd say top 50. |
| BW1959 | 20 Feb 2012 3:39 p.m. PST |
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| Billy Yank | 20 Feb 2012 4:21 p.m. PST |
It inspired both my masters thesis and my dissertation. Definitely my favorite movie. Billy Yank |
| WARSTEPHEN | 20 Feb 2012 5:27 p.m. PST |
FUNNY! Gettysburg is the best ACW movie and Gods and Generals is one of the worst ACW movies. Yet both have same Director same Producer, and many of the same actors
I wonder why? |
| DJCoaltrain | 22 Feb 2012 12:22 a.m. PST |
I wonder why? *NJH: Script and editing. |
| John Michael Priest | 22 Feb 2012 5:37 p.m. PST |
I read in Civil War Times Illustrated that straight history does not necessarily mean a good movie. I thought that the directing was stiff and awkward. In regard to Glory get Captain Emilio's book, A Brave Black regiment. It is tremendous. |
| ChicChocMtdRifles | 23 Feb 2012 9:53 a.m. PST |
Gettysburg is good because it covers a fight. G&G covers a couple of years. Too, the early war(G&G) was filmed after the later war(Gettys) when all the actors were starting to show their age. That's Hollywood for ya. |
| Altius | 23 Feb 2012 10:13 a.m. PST |
It wasn't the actors' age that bothered me as much as the sense that I was watching paint dry. I rented it soon after it came out, but could barely make it through the first half hourr. The dialogue was just awful. Robert Maxwell co-wrote and directed both of them, but it looks like he took a 10-year hiatus from directing between the two films. I dunno, maybe he lost his mojo during that 10 years. |
| XV Brigada | 24 Feb 2012 10:35 a.m. PST |
I don't know why G&G got such a pasting and Gettysburg didn't. It was slow at times and too long for sure but Gettysburg suffered from the same. At least the beards were better in G&G. No beards at all in Glory as I remember. |
| Gunfreak | 24 Feb 2012 11:29 a.m. PST |
G&G is whitewashing history, making the south seem like some sort of disneyland for black slaves.
On topic, glory was a great movie, I recomend you get the blu ray version, it got fantastic picture and even better sound, while the sound in both G&G and gettysburg is prety bad, when it comes to rifle sound ect.
But in Glory, in blu ray the rifle volleys cover the room in sound, Really only two things I don't like with Glory 1, to little from antietam, could have spent 5 or 10 extra minitues on it.
2. the flogging sceen, as corprol punishment had been abolished in the us army. |
| Grand Duke Natokina | 24 Feb 2012 1:22 p.m. PST |
It's a great movie, but for teaching I would show Gettysburg instead. |
| Double G | 25 Feb 2012 1:47 p.m. PST |
It's in my top 10 all time favorite movies; the "Give em Hell 54th!!" scene chokes me up everytime, the 54th was trained a short distance from where my parents live and I've seen their monument many times in front of the Massachusetts state house………… |
| Flat Beer and Cold Pizza | 25 Feb 2012 1:56 p.m. PST |
Top 50 for me. It's a great film. |
 Milhouse | 26 Feb 2012 11:14 a.m. PST |
"We's ready, C-c-c-colonel." *sniff* |
| Uesugi Kenshin | 26 Feb 2012 8:42 p.m. PST |
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| Sane Max | 28 Feb 2012 9:48 a.m. PST |
"We's ready, C-c-c-colonel." Try saying that in a Jar-Jar Binks voice though…. Pat |
| Patrick Sexton | 28 Feb 2012 12:12 p.m. PST |
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| XV Brigada | 20 Mar 2012 5:58 p.m. PST |
>G&G is whitewashing history, making the south seem like some sort of disneyland for black slaves.< As a white Protestant Englishman that is not the impression I got. |
| Given up for good | 21 Mar 2012 6:00 a.m. PST |
Looks like I am the first 'F' |
| capncarp | 23 Mar 2012 8:16 p.m. PST |
If you get a chance to see the full film, including some of the deleted scenes, you'll be in for a treat; one of the cut scenes had a soldier ramming home a ball, a shell comes along and takes his arm off--and they used an amputee with a fake arm to film it.
My godsons' stepfather was historical consultant for the film, and he has lots of stories about the actors and the shooting of the film. He's all through it, in the background of the "left foot/right foot" training scene, and he's the captain in the porkpie hat that Matthew Broderick turns around to and tells him to send out skirmishers at the end of the James Island fight. (at 4:40 in the following clip)
YouTube link He was always behind Matthew Broderick during shooting, and taught him what he needed to know about being an officer. |
ponders nirvana.