Comanche Moon (Mini-Series) Starts Tonight
Guess I'll give it a look tonight. Here's the rundown on it.
C&P:
Comanche Moon, author Larry McMurtry's prequel to Lonesome Dove, is a bustling tale of the 1858-65 wars between the Comanches and the Texans, with bumpy pit stops along the way for bedroom shenanigans and booze. As a younger version of Gus McCrae (the role carved out by Robert Duvall in 1989's Dove miniseries), Steve Zahn is playful but ornery as a Texas Ranger saddled up alongside sullen pardner Woodrow F. Call (The Lord of the Rings' Karl Urban). It's gutsy to take on roles made famous by Duvall and, in Urban's case, Tommy Lee Jones, but the actors have the good fortune of working from a character-rich script by McMurtry and Diana Ossana (who won Oscars for their Brokeback Mountain screenplay).
The chronicle starts with McCrae and Call joining famed Capt. Inish Scull (Val Kilmer) in his crusade against the Comanche and their chief, Buffalo Hump (Streets of Laredo's Wes Studi). Scull ends up in the hands of Ahumado (The Astronaut Farmer's Sal Lopez), a vicious Mexican outlaw, and Kilmer is such a grand hambone he makes slowly going mad in a pit fascinating. Lighter moments of romance and horseplay are woven into CBS' six-hour miniseries, but they too often feel farcical - blame the muddy, mean humor of Deadwood. These false notes, however, are eased by simple, stirring scenes, like when McCrae and Call first come across Lonesome Dove, and find the ''town'' circa 1858 has only one (essential) structure: an open-air saloon, heartily hospitable despite its lack of roof or walls. B+
C&P:
Comanche Moon, author Larry McMurtry's prequel to Lonesome Dove, is a bustling tale of the 1858-65 wars between the Comanches and the Texans, with bumpy pit stops along the way for bedroom shenanigans and booze. As a younger version of Gus McCrae (the role carved out by Robert Duvall in 1989's Dove miniseries), Steve Zahn is playful but ornery as a Texas Ranger saddled up alongside sullen pardner Woodrow F. Call (The Lord of the Rings' Karl Urban). It's gutsy to take on roles made famous by Duvall and, in Urban's case, Tommy Lee Jones, but the actors have the good fortune of working from a character-rich script by McMurtry and Diana Ossana (who won Oscars for their Brokeback Mountain screenplay).
The chronicle starts with McCrae and Call joining famed Capt. Inish Scull (Val Kilmer) in his crusade against the Comanche and their chief, Buffalo Hump (Streets of Laredo's Wes Studi). Scull ends up in the hands of Ahumado (The Astronaut Farmer's Sal Lopez), a vicious Mexican outlaw, and Kilmer is such a grand hambone he makes slowly going mad in a pit fascinating. Lighter moments of romance and horseplay are woven into CBS' six-hour miniseries, but they too often feel farcical - blame the muddy, mean humor of Deadwood. These false notes, however, are eased by simple, stirring scenes, like when McCrae and Call first come across Lonesome Dove, and find the ''town'' circa 1858 has only one (essential) structure: an open-air saloon, heartily hospitable despite its lack of roof or walls. B+
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Wes Studi was the bad guy in "Last of the Mohicans," he is a helluva bad Indian.
I imagine he and his Comanche buddies have some nice torture in mind for any Texan that they capture.
The warfare between the Comanche and Texans certainly has the makings of a great movie, I hope this show does it justice.
Thanks for the heads up I will give it a watch.0 -
quote:Originally posted by allen griggs
Wes Studi was the bad guy in "Last of the Mohicans," he is a helluva bad Indian.
Magua. Awesome movie but the book was difficult to read (Last of the Mohicans).0 -
Well if is half as good as the first two It would still be worth watching!!! Lonesome Dove and its sequel are both freaking Awesome!!! 0 -
quote:Originally posted by ljwrench
quote:Originally posted by allen griggs
Wes Studi was the bad guy in "Last of the Mohicans," he is a helluva bad Indian.
Magua. Awesome movie but the book was difficult to read (Last of the Mohicans).
I think all of Coopers books are hard to read. They just talked and wrote different back then. It is really beautiful writing. If I read one then I am tuned up to read the others-I do this every few years. James Fenimore Cooper was the first American novelist!
I have read Comanche Moon and look forward to seeing it on tv.0 -
According to the web site it doesnt start till Sunday night[:0]
Sun. Jan. 13 9:00 PM CBS
Tue. Jan. 15 9:00 PM CBS
Wed. Jan. 16 9:00 PM CBS0 -
Hmmm, so, it isn't on tonight? 0 -
quote:Originally posted by pabooger
According to the web site it doesnt start till Sunday night[:0]
Sun. Jan. 13 9:00 PM CBS
Tue. Jan. 15 9:00 PM CBS
Wed. Jan. 16 9:00 PM CBS
Pa, you are correct! That's what the site says. I could have sworn the commercial said it was on Tonight 9EST/8CST.
Man, I think I'm losing it.[B)]0 -
Sunday Night after Amazing Race, then Tue & Wed.
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Gonna TiVo it, then watch it all in one sitting.
Doug0 -
Hey, I looked and looked for my cowboy show last night, no dice!
I had figured it must be on HBO.
Peon you have GOT to lay off the booze until after 5 pm.0 -
So did anybody watch it? My work hours don't permit me to. And our cable provider had some kind of glitch in which we didn't get CBS all weekend. So couldn't record it.
How was it?0 -
I watched about 5 minutes and turned off the tube. 0 -
The first five minutes was all 21st Century Hollywood - awful! 0 -
You mean it was like the last western mini series ("The Way West" or something like that). Chuck FULL of Liberal undertones? 0 -
I did not watch the first 5, saw Val Kilmer wading across a river, and then I don't remember what was next. 0
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