i be really excite about see cold mountain . ala and like most movie i be really excite about see and it be a letdown . be it not for that miraculous invention call a dvd and i think i would have put my head through the monitor and i be so bored . i closely watched kidman and law when they meet because their character be supposedly destine for each other . yet law face show anything but dumb struck love and while kidman seem to be count the second until she could run back to her trailer . zellweger character be pure granny clampett ( a if we do not get it and cornball banjo mark her every entrance ) and and so over the top and it be all i could do not to laugh . ironically and her performance serf to highlight just how stiff a a board the lead be . ada nearly starves because she free her slave while we never learn why . more perplexing be why do not any of them stay on a ada and her father be unusually benevolent and and ( a show in one scene ) it be a very dangerous time for negro ( a theyre politely call here ) . why do not the neighbor teach her how to milk a cow or grow a crop . heck and why do not she just sell the farm and go home . and for all of ruby practicality and when she dispatch ada evil rooster and that kind of put the kibosh on them have any more chicken . by the time her beloved finally return and ada doesn not need him or anyone else which be the big joke . indeed and she may be physically intimate with inman and but her real intimacy be with ruby and who have turn ada into an über babe version of herself . do anyone else notice how they walk down the hill hold hand and happy a two pea in a pod and a they leave inman behind . i doubt that minghella recognize this a he be too busy make an anti bush movie . inman tell u he be like every fool send out to fight with a flag and a lie and and ada father say i imagine god be weary of be call down on both side of an argument . these observation be historically inaccurate and insulting . while slavery be the basis of the south economy and the reason for the war be more complex . it be incomprehensible for a soldier to think that the cause be a lie ( in fact and most in the rank and file be indifferent to it ) . for filmmaker to stamp their view onto a period where such view be foreign to those who live in that time be beyond obnoxious . structurally and the film be choppy and episodic . law and kidman be miscast and and have zero chemistry . the script be little more than half bake dialog and and an egregious bunch of clichés and banality . small moment like a bag of diamond . ugh .