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| Posted: Sun Aug 1st, 2010 04:03 am |
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Wally Member
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The schooltext books and media largely focus on the Union perspective. I like seeing the Confederate side getting a little more attention for a change. They werent portrayed like animals like you would usually see. Jeff Daniels did a terrific acting job...
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| Posted: Sun Aug 1st, 2010 04:08 am |
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Wally Member
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Great acting Last full measure is the missing piece right. Last edited on Sun Aug 1st, 2010 04:09 am by Wally |
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| Posted: Sun Aug 1st, 2010 09:30 am |
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Doc Editor Member 
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Question is - when does his option expire? Photoplays have been put together on very tight budgets. M*A*S*H cost 3.5 million, taken in 80+ million. The picture needs to be made very badly to complete the Triology. All it needs is some support to get it rolling. Once the ball starts down hill, it will pick up momentum.
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| Posted: Fri Aug 27th, 2010 03:43 pm |
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bolaman1975 Member
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on IMDB it says that Last full measure is in pre-production anyone get anything on this???
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| Posted: Sat Aug 28th, 2010 06:17 am |
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Hellcat Person 
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This is only good news if they stat fairly close to the book and don't try what they did with Gods and Generals. The movie was not as good as the book it was based on. Look at Gettysburg and The Killer Angels. Yes the movie had points where it differed from the book. But unlike Gods and Generals, Gettysburg followed the book better. When I first saw Gods and Generals I was greatly disappointed as I had read Gods and Generals before it was to be made into a movie. I was looking forawrd to some of the scenes in the book being played out on the screen. But so many of those scenes were just plain dropped that the feel of the movie was more one of just using the title of the name of the book and some of the events. If that ends up the case with The Last Full Measure then it won't be a good movie.
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| Posted: Sun Aug 29th, 2010 05:46 pm |
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20th_Mass Member 
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I believe there is another movie with the title Last Full Measure that was just completed a year ago.
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| Posted: Tue Sep 14th, 2010 07:23 pm |
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bolaman1975 Member
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i really think that Gettysburg was so good for the mear fact that it only concentrated on one battle. it has to be hard to make a movie that covers close to 3 years and fit it into a 3 hour movie. i read it somewhere in here that alot of people felt that if they do the Last full measure it would be better to do it in a mini series. look at some of the better civil war movies...Noth and South...blue and the gray. they did much better as a mini series. North and south they did compress some of the mini series..but for the most part it was pretty much what was in the book. i never read blue and the gray, but that was a good series. i really hope they do make the last full measure...this might be controversial, but i think Ron Maxwell needs to stay out of it...i was in the Gettysburg movies when i was a reenactor and that was the best time i ever had as a reenactor. well lets pray that this movies does get done. i think it is something that does need to be made.
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| Posted: Tue Sep 14th, 2010 11:23 pm |
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southern blue Member
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For whatever its worth my husband recently attended a fund raising event where Maxwell was the speaker. His take on the reason there will be no LFM is because it took him years to make Gettysburg and GAG and he didn't have the time to invest in another massive project. And for whatever else its worth I have a slight acquaintance with one of the actors from that 'brothers leaving home' scene in GAG. He wanted to date my daughter..apparently she wasn't interested. I would like to see a dramatization of the events leading up to Appomattox but it doesn't have to be LFM.
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| Posted: Sat Sep 18th, 2010 12:56 am |
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ryan_johnson Member
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i have to say i am a huge fan of the Shaara trilogy for the civil war. loved Gettysburg, had a few beefs with GaG. who didn't? Maxwell went to native for it, it ended up only being watchable by die hard CW fans. LFM would be awesome, can not have Maxwell be any Part of it. I saw the post about M*A*S*H* could be an idea....... i would want Duvall gone as Lee, give it back to Sheen. must also have Tom Berenger as Longstreet and put Lang somewhere, Daniels as Chamberlin, and also bring back J.E.B STuarts and Hancocks actors back.
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| Posted: Sat Sep 18th, 2010 02:05 am |
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Hellcat Person
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Have to disagree on most of those actors as now they'd just be too old for the roles. Daniels for one just no longer looked the same in Gods and Generals which given the fact that he was about ten years or so older than he had been when filming Gettysburg is no big surprise. It was good to get him back in the role, but Gods and Generals takes place before Gettysburg and even with the makeup he looked like it should be taking place long after. Though with today's computer tech it would be possible to de-age the actors on screen so they could look about the right age.
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| Posted: Sat Sep 18th, 2010 09:30 am |
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CameronsHighlander Member
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Ron Maxwell will Never do this movie due to the unfortuate outcome of G&G.. Point Blank the closest you will ever get to seeing LFM is reading the Book and seeing the Imiages in your head. I am sorry to say but Glory and Gettysburg set a high bar for other Civil War period peices though Ride with the Devil, Gangs of New York, and Cold Mountain were amazing Gods and Generals flat out was Terrible....
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| Posted: Sun Sep 26th, 2010 09:05 pm |
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abt123 Member
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Pre-Production? Who, where, I'm all for it.
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| Posted: Tue Sep 28th, 2010 04:55 am |
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CameronsHighlander Member
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I repeat this movie is not being made the Last FUll Measure everyone is seeing on IMDB is not the Jeff Sherra book... Indications have Morgan Freeman and Lawerence Fishburne in it which Correct me if Im wrong no black men had speaking parts in Last Full Measure
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| Posted: Thu Dec 30th, 2010 02:05 am |
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frenchview Member 
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I Just finished to watch GAG, and damn...even if the fights parts of the movie can be comparated to the gettysburg'ones it sufere too much of lake of balance and focus on union caracters. Hope the tird part will be released soon ! " I wish i was in Dixie...."
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| Posted: Wed Jan 12th, 2011 02:59 pm |
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Kent Nielsen Member
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It isn't going to happen. Not now. Not ever. I suspect that any new Civil war films that come up will be fictional, with (possibly) an historic event like the Battle of the Crater in Cold Montain thrown in.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 14th, 2011 06:34 pm |
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samscv1 Member
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If Maxwell had any issues with Turner, perhaps it could have been the Turner is an arrogant pompus a$$ who thinks he knows something about everything. I have no doubt that interfeared with the process. As for Gods and Generals? As a Jackson biography it does rather well. In fact I personally could watch an entire movie about Jackson alone. But even with that, the entire Shanandoah Campaign was left out. However, I understand the need for balance. With that, I must point out (and I'm sure my even my Union friends would agree) That the Federal Army consisted of more than just Joshua Chamberlain. I don't mean any disrespect to him. But I think would have like to have seen a little more focus on Gen. Hancock who in my opinion was the only Federal General in the eastern theatre at that time with the luxury of a working brain. On "Last Full Measure"? Perhaps they should go straight to DVD this time? Lion Heart pictures did a good job on "Wicked Spring" with very little budget. Why not give them a crack at it? Just a thought.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 18th, 2011 03:33 am |
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bolaman1975 Member
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i think the problem is that with the magnitude of this movie..a small budget would not do. like alot of people here i think now that this will just have to be left to our imaginations. i don't think that there is a way this movie can be made.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 20th, 2011 01:02 am |
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Captain Crow Progressive Southerner 
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it's baaaaaack........personally I love Shaara's books and I find it hard to understand the animosity I sense from so many folks. I have long suspected that a certain amount of fictional reading is probably helpful in developing ones capacity for abstract thought. The fact that the books happen to be largely based on historic figures in whom I am intensely interested only heightens the reading experience. I know it's speculation and I have no problem setting aside my disbelief for the sake a good read. Anyway that's my two cents...different strokes etc....I just really wanted to beat the horse in 2011.....let's hope this movie is made before the end of the century.....optimism.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 20th, 2011 03:12 am |
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Hellcat Person
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I've nothing against Shaara's books. My problem here is more with the movie Gods and Generals compared to the movie Gettysburg. They're both based on two of the Shaara's books, Jeff Shaara's Gods and Generals and Micheal Shaara's The Killer Angels respectively. Both are of course Hollywood producing a movie based on a book. So you have to expect some differences at the very least. Of course the greater the differences the more disappointment may be present. But in this case Gettysburg seemed to better follow The Killer Angels than Gods and Generals followed Gods and Generals. There was just too much left out of Gods and Generals that I was quite disappointed. Right now I'd rather see a new production of Gods and Generals, not just the supposed director's cut but something completely new, that better follows the book than see The Last Full Measure. Split it into two movies if you have to, but give us something that better follows the book. Then if it's any good move on to doing The Last Full Measure and again try to stay fairly close to the book.
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| Posted: Sun Mar 6th, 2011 04:34 am |
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mkidder3 History Major 
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See you must understand that the reason why "Gods and Generals" mainly featured the Confederacy, well because prior to 1863 the Union had very small victories. The main dominate battles were all won by Lee due do Union leadership mistakes. The last full measure would at least i would think,focus on the Union like Grants leadership and probably Shermans march south. This movie would be a great finish to an amazing trilogy. Last edited on Sun Mar 6th, 2011 04:39 am by mkidder3 |
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