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I kept thinking that this movie was an SNL-style farce. The so-called "military advisor" for this movie, Don're Walker, allowed a general to wear a uniform with 1st Lieutenant bars instead of stars and his medals in the wrong order of precedence. The Marine Officer's hair is far too long for any actual Officer and his camouflage cover (hat) is squashed down on his head. The Production company should have hired a company like Captain Dale Dye's "Warriors." The acting was horrible ans often over-done. How anyone could believe that an alien civilization would not be able to intercept and analyze all cell phone calls is really stupid. IT mocks the sophistication of computer systems made by humans let alone aliens. FUNNY in its pathetic attempt to be serious . I am amazed thjs movie ever saw the light of day.

This movie accurately follows the story of the Battle of Gettysburg. Unlike what some reviewers have said, its NOT a pitch for the "Lost Cause." Stellar performances are given by Martin Sheen as Confederate leader Robert E. Lee, Tom Berenger as Lee's right hand man, Lt Gen James Longstreet, Stephen Lang as Confederate Division commander, George Picket. (Lang would go on to nail Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson in the prequel, "Gods and Generals.) Jeff Daniels is brilliant as self-taught idealist college professor turned warrior, Col Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. Sam Elliott portrays Union Cavalry division commander, Buford and it was Buford's stopping and holding the Confederates from getting into the town of Gettysburg that allowed the Federals to occupy a series of hills that are known as the Fishhook. At the southern end of those hills was Little Roundtop where Colonel Chamberlain ably led the Federals 20th Maine Regiment. While the dialogs seem long to us, they are fairly accurate for that era and a lot of the dialogs follow the original 1976 Pulitizer Prize-winning book, 'The Killer Angels" by Michael Shaara which I enjoyed as a young US Marine lieutenant. The movie was filmed on the actual Battlefield with actual buildings used such as the barn that was used as a field hospital. The cast of re-enactors did their level best and you could see that their hearts were in their portrayal. It is said that Lee might have had a minor heart attack and his decision to attack the Union Center was not well thought-out and hopeless as Lt General Longstreet well understood. Longstreet wrote of his objections to this charge in his autobiography for which he would be condemned as a traitor. He also became the model for the "reconstructed (former) Confederate General, also to his eternal condemnation by Southern "Lost Cause" advocates. Yes - its a long movie but worth your time. A good movie like this is a "time tunnel" to an early day.

This is an in-depth look at Christ Jesus thru the lens of his own words in the Gospels as well as Old Testament Prophecies and, to a lesser degree, the letters of Paul, the Apostles that comprise the rest of the New Testament. I found the talk called "How Christ Saw Himself" being particularly illuminating. Crissler explains the nature of the Christ idea that Jesus presented as the image and likeness of his Father. He talks about Jesus's words such as "The Son can do nothing of himself except what he sees the father do," and "I and my father are one." Highly recommended. Crissler was unafraid to take a truly independent look at the life and words of Jesus of Nazareth.