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India Press Store - Lonesome Dove
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List Price: $14.98
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Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Starring: Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover, Diane Lane, Robert Urich
Directed By: Simon Wincer
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: DUVALL,ROBERT
EAN: 0012236127178
Format: Closed-captioned
Label: Lions Gate
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2002-04-30
Running Time: 360
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: 1989-02-05
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Summary: Clunky and cartoonish
Comment: I haven't read the book, but I bought this on the strength of other reviewers. And what a disappointment. I'm a big fan of westerns, going back to the Lone Ranger - and that's pretty much what this goes back to. Plotwise, it's episodic and simplistic, full of cornball events and ridiculous coincidences. The direction is boring and basic, the photography and scenery repetitious and forgetable. Everyone keeps running into everyone else on the trail to Montana, with dramatic timing that makes the whole yarn laughable. Apart from Duvall, who's superb, the characters are thin and cliched, no more than flesh and blood cartoons. By halfway through the second episode, I couldn't care less, and after Angelica Houston made her miscast entrance, the whole thing became unbearably sentimental, sluggish and silly. This is not an epic masterpiece by any stretch. The Godfather is an epic masterpiece. Or Star Wars, for that matter. This is a staid western ultra-lite. I shudder to think what the subsequent DVDs are like if, as most reviewers concur, they exhibit diminishing returns.
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Summary: Excellent Adventure
Comment: I have read the book and watched the movie multiple times and it is still as exciting as the first time. Wonderful story and superb acting. What a great ride!!
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Summary: FANTASTIC
Comment: GOT THE CD AND THE DVD, THEY WERE GREAT! DEFINATELY WILL BUY FROM HERE AGAIN.
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Summary: Most of the god bits were left on the cutting room floor.
Comment: This much cut down and butchered version of the Hallmark adaption of Larry McMurty's great book left most of the meat on the cutting room floor.
Put up on two DVDs it is much shorter that the full six hour version.
In my opinion the book was great for all the detail it provided on the life and times of those living in the West in those days, and I especially appreciated the way the background of the characters and events were presented to flesh out the story. The Hallmark TV series on which these two DVDs are based was true to the book and IMO that is part of the reason it was so mesmerizing.
But in this version almost all the background has been omitted so you don't understand that Gus and Call were once famous Texas Rangers who cleared that part of Texas of the Indians, you are not shown the details of Gus and Clara's youthful relationship so when they finally meet you wonder why. No mention of the young Irish boys fear of snakes, which amplifies his being killed by snakes, almost all the data on July Johnson's search for the killer of his town's Mayor and his deputy Roscoe's adventures with his small, silent rock throwing partner is no where to be seen.
But the omission that I simply cannot forgive is total omission of Blue Ducks taking of the Lori and Gus rescuing her at the cost of Roscoe and the two children's lives. Not only is the action missing you are left wondering why the Lori is suddenly being taken care of by Gus and why she has become so withdrawn. You have been cheated out of the heart of the story.
Plus points of course are the great acting by Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones.
I could go on but the best advice I can offer is to give this synopsis like version a miss and find somewhere the original uncut version of this glorious tale of the West.
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Summary: great movie made for tv or not
Comment: i watched this movie when it was on tv the first time and like it alot . the only part i didn't like was when one of my favorite stars was hung. oh well that's all part of the story. i'm hopping to own all of this set some day
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Editorial Reviews:
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Epic western about two former Texas rangers who leave the south Texas town of Lonesome Dove on a cattle drive to the lush ranch country of Montana.
Genre: Westerns
Rating: NR
Release Date: 21-OCT-2003
Media Type: DVD
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