Lee to Longstreet as they are riding out to start the action on the 2nd day. It's really pointless and we just want to get to the action.
Hancock and Chamberlin just before Pickett's Charge. The relationship between Hancock and Amistad had been well established by that point and we didn't need ANOTHER speech about it.
Chamberlin and Buster after they find the escaped slave. BORING!!!
I disagree. I liked all the dialoug. Also every single thing everyone says in this is taken from the book The Killer Angels so it maybe that you just don't like Michael Shara's writing.
shareEven though his is a big part of the novel, I would've reduced or eliminated Fremantle. My god, he just makes every scene draw out. Put in Culp's Hill action in his place.
I've enjoyed The Killer Angels very much. But even there some of the speeches were a little long winded and redundant. And it's even more so in the movie. It just did not need to be four and half hours.
And the Chamberlin/Hancock speech wasn't just unnecessary, but completely nonsensical. The 20th Maine was in the 5th Corp, with was under General Sykes. That's who Chamberlin would have been getting orders from, and meeting with. And if not him then it would have been General Meade.
Nearly everything with Fremantle, including the 'sons of virginia' speech by Armistead.
Also: some of the stuff with Chamberlain was preachy and too long.