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| nativedoll |
Posted - January 13 2008 : 11:29:57 PM
Just finished watching Comanche Moon.
While I was a bit skeptical toward the acting, I must admit - when To Be Continued flashed across the screen, I shrieked louder than any angry Indian.  Especially because I have dance Tuesday night and won't be able to watch.
Your verdicts? |
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| Wilderness Woman |
Posted - March 02 2008 : 09:31:53 AM
quote:
Originally posted by richfed
I absolutely loved Val Kilmer and Rachel Griffiths as the quirky Scull couple.
Me too! As I said in my earlier post, Val Kilmer stole the whole show, in my opinion. The whole flea thing... oh my gosh... I laughed at the craziness of his later years and his obsession with fleas! That was too funny.
I think he should win an Emmy for that role. |
| Hawkeye_Joe |
Posted - March 01 2008 : 9:55:07 PM
The only reason I watched the whole thing is because it was a good western, which are hard to come by... I had to overlook the fact that it was supposed to be about Gus and Call......
Oh,,,,,and what the hell kinda bacon did Gus have?? Charlie Goodnight cooked that bacon in about two minutes flat......crispy too.... |
| Jayne |
Posted - March 01 2008 : 5:39:08 PM
Gosh - I couldn't even get my husband to go beyond about five minutes before turning it off! I figured I would watch it later, but now I may not bother! Rich, I LOVED Lonesome Dove, too.
Jayne |
| richfed |
Posted - March 01 2008 : 10:52:40 AM
Lonesome Dove is one of my very favorite movies ... I mean right up there at the top.
So, my dislike of this piece of garbage, Comanche Moon, is not because of a lack of interest in the subject matter. Maybe, because of it! Well, OK, perhaps "piece of garbage" is a bit harsh ... it does have some redeeming qualities. It's just that I bought the darn thing!! What a mistake ... Oh well, it does complete my LD-saga collection, at least ...
I absolutely loved Val Kilmer and Rachel Griffiths as the quirky Scull couple. Steve Zahn was pretty good as Gus. I could see Duvall in him at times. That's about it. I mean it was nice to see Deets and Jake and Pea and Woodrow again and all, but where was the story?????
There was none. Things were just beaten to death ... over and over ... Rangering coming to an end ... the love of my life ... very lame. Oh, and the dialog ... was it dialog???? One of the original's strongest points was its dialog ... the banter was real and endearing. You could feel the friendships and emotions. This was clearly sub-par and weak imitation. Failed miserably, in my opinion. It was just continuous small-talk. Embarrassing, actually. The villains were awful. All of them. Pathetic charicatures ... Even Wes Studi ... Now Frederic Forrest, in the original Lonesome Dove, was a VILLAIN. These guys? Uh-uh ...
I'm going to have to watch Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall in the real thing to free my memory of this one.
DUD!
Oh, and Newt was cute! |
| RedFraggle |
Posted - January 18 2008 : 4:19:58 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Kyfrontiersman
In the original, Blue Duck was a commanchero I believe? But in the recent Commanche Moon it looked like he was Commanche. Or did he have a Mexican mother?
In the little bit of Comanche Moon that I actually watched, when Val Kilmer's character is first looking into the Indian camp with his spyglass, he says about Blue Duck, "He has a Mexican look about him." Then he makes some kind of remark about Blue Duck's mother probably being a captive. So Blue Duck's parentage is mentioned, though very briefly.  |
| Kyfrontiersman |
Posted - January 18 2008 : 12:58:20 PM
I was  , but now I'm   thank you for refreshing my fast fading memory.  |
| Irishgirl |
Posted - January 18 2008 : 12:29:56 PM
KY his mother was the Mexican girl you see Buffalo Hump abducting towards the end of "Dead Man's Walk". So he is half Mexican. His mother was a right handful for Buffalo Hump and his other wives had to beat her regularly.
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| Kyfrontiersman |
Posted - January 18 2008 : 12:26:03 PM
In the original, Blue Duck was a commanchero I believe? But in the recent Commanche Moon it looked like he was Commanche. Or did he have a Mexican mother? |
| Irishgirl |
Posted - January 16 2008 : 11:56:55 AM
Did you know that Wes played "Famous Shoes" in "Streets of Laredo" another in the series. Funny how he gets to talk with himself in this one when Blue Duck, his son captured FS and brought him into camp thinking they would get to torture him. |
| blackfootblood |
Posted - January 16 2008 : 11:53:31 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Irishgirl
Blackie, Famous Shoes walks everywhere in the book as well, just his "thang" girl. Guess they did not wish to change that. Famous Shoes in not one for the horses.
Oh, okay, I guess that clears it up. I bet his feet hurt at the end of the day!  |
| Irishgirl |
Posted - January 16 2008 : 11:38:50 AM
Ky, I was pounding that moron Sean Penn not you. I like you
Blackie, Famous Shoes walks everywhere in the book as well, just his "thang" girl. Guess they did not wish to change that. Famous Shoes in not one for the horses.
Susank started another thread "Comanche Moon Part Two" so I posted my thoughts on last night in there. |
| Kaylynn44 |
Posted - January 16 2008 : 11:38:23 AM
I've been reading this thread and am thankful that I decided to watch "Persuasion." I love all of Jane Austen's novels, so there is no way that I was going to miss this movie, and of course, I LOVED it!!!
Love,
Kay |
| blackfootblood |
Posted - January 16 2008 : 11:07:31 AM
Okay, I finally got to watch CM last night and I must say, I wasn't impressed. Is it me or does that Indian scout, Tonto, have to walk everywhere? I thought that kinda stupid. Meanwhile you got like eight or nine guys behind him ridin' on horseback. Not to mention they are making him out to be the typical 1920's Indian, "Me scout, me see tracks." Whatever!  |
| Kyfrontiersman |
Posted - January 16 2008 : 09:53:07 AM
oops!!! you're right and i'm wro, wron, wro, wro, oh well???
you know...... |
| Irishgirl |
Posted - January 16 2008 : 09:18:06 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Kyfrontiersman
It is a movie, not a documentary. But the best was by far the original Lonesome Dove. James Garner did OK in Dead Man Walking as Call. He was supposed to [play him on the original, but had other commitments. I do wish they'd have used better rifles though.
Slight corrections KY James Garner played the older Call in "Streets of Laredo" not "Dead Mans Walk". Call was played by Johnny Miller in that one and he did a great job unlike the current Call played by "stiff as a board" Karl Urban. The movie "Dead Man Walking" was a totally different and not related to "Lonesome Dove" in any way. Thank God as it had that moron Sean Penn in it |
| Fitzhugh Williams |
Posted - January 15 2008 : 11:34:47 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Obediah
I think what DubyaDubya was saying, was that anything translated from French would make no sense at all!
Well, when I finally found her last summer at Crown Point, it was in the FRENCH camp. Need I say more? |
| Gadget Girl |
Posted - January 15 2008 : 11:34:01 PM
Just catching up tp CM (got TOO caught up in Persuasion Sunday) and I think Steve Zahn should get a award for channeling Robert Duvall! I can hardly keep in mind it is Zahn at all! That in itself has been entertaining to me! |
| Kyfrontiersman |
Posted - January 15 2008 : 11:29:37 PM
It is a movie, not a documentary. But the best was by far the original Lonesome Dove. James Garner did OK in Dead Man Walking as Call. He was supposed to [play him on the original, but had other commitments. I do wish they'd have used better rifles though. |
| winglo |
Posted - January 15 2008 : 3:53:06 PM
Well, I won't read this topic again--I taped it, but haven't watched it yet. I shouldn't have looked at this at all. Oh well. |
| Obediah |
Posted - January 15 2008 : 3:42:26 PM
I think what DubyaDubya was saying, was that anything translated from French would make no sense at all! |
| Fitzhugh Williams |
Posted - January 15 2008 : 09:32:23 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Wilderness Woman
quote:
Originally posted by Fitzhugh Williams
Il n'y a pas de quoi.
You will have to tell me what that says. I don't par-lay Fran-say, and Babelfish would not translate it into anything that made sense.
It' just "Thank you. It's nothng." Or, "Think nothing of it." Sometimes Bablefish will give some really strange results, especially on a idiomatic expression. |
| Wilderness Woman |
Posted - January 15 2008 : 08:44:05 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Fitzhugh Williams
Il n'y a pas de quoi.
You will have to tell me what that says. I don't par-lay Fran-say, and Babelfish would not translate it into anything that made sense. |
| Fitzhugh Williams |
Posted - January 14 2008 : 7:40:21 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Wilderness Woman
Oh, Bravo, Fitz! Bravo! 
Well done! 
Merci madam! Il n'y a pas de quoi. |
| Wilderness Woman |
Posted - January 14 2008 : 5:40:05 PM
Oh, Bravo, Fitz! Bravo!
I could tell he was singing in German, but I could not identify what it was. I am ashamed of myself, because I am very fond of The Magic Flute!
Well done!
Of course, my "joke interpretation" still works, as well! |
| Fitzhugh Williams |
Posted - January 14 2008 : 4:36:11 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Irishgirl
Well I certainly didn't Fitz....what's the joke??
Scull was singing in German one of Papageno's aires from Mozarts "Die Zauberflöte". Papageno was the bird catcher to the Queen of the Night. |
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