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Summary: Touching, Poignant, Beautiful, and Emotionally Gripping
Review: It has been many years since I have seen this movie, yet to this day whenever I think of it, I cannot help but tear up. "Lonesome Dove" is not just the greatest television production of all time, but one of the best movies ever filmed. The characters are all extremely well drawn, the acting is nothing less than superb, and the script is absolutely brilliant. This magnificent picture stays true to the romantic vision of the American West while not shying away from the dark aspects of its history. Because of this, the story has the sprawling look of an epic saga, yet is on many levels an intimate story of friendship. I love practically everything about this movie, and only wish there were more like it. This film definitely ranks with "The Searchers," "My Darling Clementine," and "The Unforgiven" as one of the greatest and most intelligent westerns of all time.
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Summary: Yes, it is 360 minutes, not 240.
Review: 240 minutes refers to the much shorter Return to Lonesome Dove mini-series. There is nowhere on the the Amazon website that the original series of Lonesome Dove DVD set is only 240 minutes, it is 360 minutes. By the way, my daughter and I loved this series when it was on TV and I purchased the multi-tape set VHS way back when. But the last tape was bad and Cabin Fever, the manufacturers/publishers, would not replace my bad tape (they never even answered my mail except to tell me how to order the set), so, now that I have the DVD version, I finally have a complete set of watchable scenes.
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Summary: Best Western Ever Made, But Poor Video Quality
Review: There is no need to comment on this movie's quality as a drama and a western. It is the best that has ever been done.
It is most unfortunate that this copy, apparently produced by Hallmark, has the video resolution of a poorly produced VHS. It is virtually unwatchable on a large screen TV. What a travesty.
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Summary: Lonsome Dove
Review: While the two DVD disks were wonderful, what happened to the rest of the story. It does not end in Montana, but back in Lonsome Dove when Call brings Gus's body back. How do we get that third disk and the rest of the story. It seems that if you sell and ad a product, you should sell the complete story and not just part.
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Summary: The best Western Ever Made
Review: As I said, "the best western ever made" and one of the best films, period!
No more need be said, this is a fabulous film. If you've never seen it, do yourself a tremendous favor.
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Summary: A note on running time
Review: I imagine a lot of Amazon shoppers will be confused about the various reviews claiming that this DVD of Lonesome Dove is cut down and is not the full length, original version. Sadly, a lot of this is Amazon's fault, for erroneously listing the running time as 240 minutes (4 hours). This is absolutely incorrect. Having just ordered this and watched it, I can say that it is the original 6 hours-and-change version (the extra 2 hours from the original 8 miniseries coming from commercials).
As far as the quality of this movie, I don't believe I can add anything else that hasn't been said. I can sum it up with: you can't go wrong with this DVD. For $11 and change, it has got to be one of the greatest bangs for your buck in entertainment value you can buy on this website.
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Summary: 'I God, Call!
Review: There isn't much I can add to the body of comments about the movie/mini-series itself. Truly one of the great western sagas of all-time. Great drama, great scenary, truly beautiful musical score. Perhaps not the most politically correct show of all-time, towards Native Americans and women, but given the story is told from the perspective of frontiermen, that isn't all that out of line.
Without hestitation I rate the movie a 5 out of 5 stars. A must-see western.
However the video quality of the DVD leaves something to be desired. It really isn't much better than watching it on TV or on a VCR. Most DVDs, even those of a TV movie, are better than this. So on DVD quality, I give it only 2 stars out of 5.
Still a great movie and worth purchasing to have in your collection, but it is disappointing that the video quality is mediocre. Probably still fine on a 32" or smaller TV for most.
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Summary: IS THE DVD COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED?
Review: I've read a lot of confusing reviews about Lonesome Dove on DVD. It's my favourite book and I've got a pretty well used copy of the mini series I video-taped when it aired on TV. I want to purchase the DVD but before doing so would like feedback on whether the DVD (containing 2 discs) is a true transfer from the original VHS version. Could someone categorically verify this for me. Thanks.
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Summary: An experience
Review: One of my, if not the, favorite movies ever. Robert Duvall IS Augustus McCrae!! His portrayal of this character is uncanny and brilliant. Tommy Lee Jones is amazing as Woodrow Call. The interaction and contrast of these 2 actors and characters is outstanding. These 2 are the stars and lead characters of the movie, but all the actors and characters are magnificent.
It is hard to express how good this movie is. It is adventurous, funny, sad, dramatic, melancholy, moving, beautiful....and long.
A rainy and lazy Saturday would be well spent watching this movie. You will think about it for days to come.
If this movie were the worse movie ever made, it would still be worth watching just to see Duvall as Augustus McCrae. Amazing.
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Summary: Running Time Confusion
Review: I borrowed the 2-DVD set from a friend with the same picture on the front as the one shown here. The back of the case says the running time is approximately 6 hrs. Amazon shows the running time as 240 min.
I went to the last chapter of each of the 4 episodes and fast-forwarded to the credits. The running time was between 1:25 min and 1:32 to the start of the credits and credit time is counted in movie length.
There are a couple of minutes under 6 hrs of running time not including the credits.
I have never seen Lonesome Dove but an 8hr mini-series, from back then, would have about 2hrs of commercials. Today there would be more.
In short, the whole mini-series is on the 2-DVD set.
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