{"id":774,"date":"2013-12-23T21:41:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T10:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/?p=774"},"modified":"2013-12-23T21:41:16","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T10:41:16","slug":"review-gettysburg-1993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/12\/23\/review-gettysburg-1993\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Gettysburg (1993)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very well made film with a cast of thousands including\u00a0Tom Berenger, Martin Sheen, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Gettysburg-Movie-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-777\" alt=\"Gettysburg-Movie-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Gettysburg-Movie-1-300x175.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a>Stephen Lang and Richard Jordan following the American Civil War battle of (you guessed it) Gettysburg.<\/p>\n<p>The version I watched came in at just under four hours and my only criticism of it overall would be that unless you are a civil war reenactment nut, a lot of the minor skirmishes and events leading up to the Gettysburg battle portrayed in the film make it rather confusing. Sure I know the basic details of the battle, but packing in every little tiny incident, as <em>Gettysburg<\/em> does, leaves you a bit lost after a few hours.<\/p>\n<p>My recommendation is if you want to really enjoy this film read <a title=\"Wikipedia Battle of Gettysburg\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Gettysburg\">this link<\/a> first (not after you watch the film as I did) to brush up on the history a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very well made film with a cast of thousands including\u00a0Tom Berenger, Martin Sheen, Stephen Lang and Richard Jordan following the American Civil War battle of (you guessed it) Gettysburg. The version I watched came in at just under four hours and my only criticism of it overall would be that unless you are a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/12\/23\/review-gettysburg-1993\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: Gettysburg (1993)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}