The Burning of Atlanta

Highly overlooked movie of tremendous historical value!! Top notch musical score, choreography & acting at Oscar worthy level. Should be shown in schools & universities across the country.

Poor acting. Poor "action" scenes. Poor quality cinematography. It was almost like watching and listening to a stage performance done in a budget theater. It was actually hard to watch. The bits of history were almost lost with how distracting the rest was, and the o kt reason for 2 stars instead of one. It was only gross fascination that kept us watching.

The battle scenes were balletic creating a Lotus Eaters effect and the cannonades with smoke blossoms were as relaxting as distant thunder. The manouvers on hoof and foot had all the sedateness captured in the term "manana". The dialogue has the vivacity and stiffnecked emphasis of a Victorian teacher speaking clearly and emphatically to to a child of slow comprehension. The burning wood had a relaxing effect with gentle crackling and music. Could replace counting of sheep. The faces of the characters were of a mature quality so at variance with today's preoccupation with Youth Culture where some boys are prettier than girls. The Largoesque deliver of dialogue failed to evoke any deph of suffering or hardship. A must watch (not necessarily all of it) with glases of red wine or legal marijuana.

Seemed like a re-enactment with a weak story line laid over the top. The acting was a bit wooden, the production values were okay for a re-enactment but well below par for a film, the set were primitive and very limited with the battle for Atlanta being fought by maybe 50 or less troops!

FYI my DVD was titled "1864 The battle of Atlanta - A burning city under siege"

Well as title suggests-did just that.

I'm not sure if it was a very low budget reenactor made film or a film using reenactors, but it was.....offensive word

The opening reenactor battle was typically bad seen it before in person reenactors wandering around, no direction, firing off lots of rounds and no-one dies; oh and can clearly see the confederate army was very well fed judging by the number of podgy/porky people

Then the scene of 3 soldiers being brought before General Hood. I was expecting an actor or reenactor who looks like Hood, instead there's a guy in his 60s Clearly past his prime, overweight. I didn't get any further. I was expecting him to stand up and use his left arm or in fact have both his legs.