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I've got to admit it's a fine addition to the Western canon.
Amazingly, Bobby Duval gave a fine performance free from the obnoxious, stock mannerisms he later adopted. Tommy Lee was fine, not allowing himself to lapse into the Texan caricature he often has since then. Sensational performances.
Unlike many Westerns, Dove doesn't follow the "more gore the merrier" adage. People die, for a reason and brutality isn't sugar-coated. Also, again against cliché, the women aren't one-dimensional; they're complex creatures driven by circumstance and tragedy (still, the whore does have a heart of gold and Huston's character appears to have NO faults.....).
The music wasn't overly intrusive, but the cinematography and their subject, the great American mountains and plains, were marvelously presented.
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" Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination." -Michael McClure
There are lots of great lines in LD, but one of my favorite comes from the cook, Po Campo-"My wife is in hell, where I sent her. She made good biscuits, but her behavior was terrible".
Edits: 10/25/10
has James Garner + Sissey Spacek, Sam Shepard lots of great characters ( George Carlin is one ) ; I thought this was better developed + lots more fun than "Dove"Randy Quaid is an amazing John Wesley Hardin...
Also based on a Larry McMurtry novel; if you enjoyed "Lonesome Dove" then "Streets of Laredo" is worth finding
Tommy Lee Jones in "The three burials of Melquiades Estrada" is also a decent film, he stars + directs, possibly his best role yet
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Edits: 10/22/10
"I'd like to own a squadron of tanks"
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Share a bowl of grits with someone you love tonight.
Tommy Lee also in his top form there.
Nice work, indeed.
Nor bull, neither....
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Share a bowl of grits with someone you love tonight.
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