Gods & Generals

I just got back from seeing Gods and Generals, the prequel to Gettysburg. I left with a very profound sense of weightiness. Was it long? Yes. Were the battle sequences nearly as interesting as Gettysburg? Yeah, Chancellorsville was, but the rest was pretty repetetive.

And yet, I loved it. I really did. I searched Google for reviews for it, and everybody gave it like 1 start out of 5 or whatever, very very low ratings. I've come to the conclusion that one of the highest praises of a movie is that critics don't like it. They're all a bunch of cynical people anyway, trained to focus on the negative of everything. Blech on them. So when I see that critics give a low rating to what looks to me to be a good movie, it encourages me to look into it.

To keep it simple and brief (who'd have thought I was capable of such a thing!), I walked away with several things. First, both sides of the Civil War were right in some areas and wrong in others. Second, anyone who thinks that the Civil War was really about slavery is an ignoramous (this is a slap at the critics I read). Third, it was refreshing to see the characters' faith in God not just as a Being, but as tremendously worthy of our affection and hope.

I could go on, but I said I'd keep it brief. Off with me!