This DVD item from MGM (Video & DVD) was reviewed on 11-Dec-2008.
Dances with Wolves - Extended Cut (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) Reference DVD. Classifications : General Drama Genres DVD Video General AAS Love & Romance Drama Genres DVD Video Civil War Military & War Genres DVD Video General Westerns Genres DVD Video Action & Adventure Westerns Genres DVD Vide . Click the following link to view the cover of Dances with Wolves - Extended Cut (Two-Disc Collector's Edition). Related topics: 1990-11-21. General. Drama. Genres. DVD. Video. General AAS. Love & Romance. Drama. Genres. DVD. requestid: f8527b4d-29e2-4efc-ac66-e572a5d5472e
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1) DVD DVD Dances with Wolves - Extended Cut (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) by MGM (Video & DVD). Kevin Costner has tried at least three times to make an epic film. He has succeeded one and one-half times. With ´Dancing with Wolves´, he succeeded hands down. He presents the clash between white and red, future and past, in a manner sympathetic to the ugly choice faced by the Sioux in the post Civil War era. John Dunbar is ´everyman´; learning that his conception of the American Indian is wholly wrong. The minutes pass with the grand scenery. The story flows with the majesty of the American west. This film belongs in every video library. (Oh. The other half is the oft-bashed ´The Postman´.)¤ 2) DVD DVD Dances with Wolves - Extended Cut (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) by MGM (Video & DVD). Actually -- let´s skip the counting and get to the heart of the matter...
I despise this movie most of all for the way it tries to forcibly yank out emotions using simplistic, cardboard-cutout characters (the BAD cavalrymen, the GOOD indians, etc...you get the drift). By the end I felt sullied by the brazen manipulation, and I was PISSED OFF.
A director with a deft touch might have pulled it off. But not Kevin -- no, he had to use an effin´ sledgehammer!
Loved Costner in Bull Durham. Hated this flick.
Bah!¤ 3) DVD DVD Dances with Wolves - Extended Cut (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) by MGM (Video & DVD). KEVIN COSTNER AND FRIEND/PRODUCER, JIM WILSON TOOK MICHAEL BLAKE´S WONDERFUL NOVEL AND TURNED IT INTO A MASTERPIECE FILM THAT IS ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!!! THIS IS THE BEST FILM ADAPTATION OF THE SIOUX STORIES MY GRANDMOTHER USED TO TELL ME AS A CHILD. I AM PROUD OF MY HERITAGE AND BELIEVE MICHAEL BLAKE DID ONE HELL OF A JOB ON THE SCREENPLAY. I THINK COSTNER PLAYED JOHN DUNBAR BEAUTIFULLY AND DORIS LEADER CHARGE HAD EVERY SINGLE NATIVE AMERICAN TAP INTO THEIR OWN HERITAGE´S . REMINDED MY GRANDMOTHER OF HOW MY GRANDFATHER CAME TO FALL IN LOVE WITH HER. I SAW THIS MOVIE IN THEATERS 4 TIMES AND HAVE WATCHED IT IN MY HOME SCREENING ROOM ABOUT 30 TIMES. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THE WONDERFUL SOUNDTRACK BY THE GREAT JOHN BARRY. I CANNOT THINK OF A BETTER FILM AND THINK COSTNER´S DIRECTORIAL DEBUT WAS MARVELOUS!!!!¤ 4) DVD DVD Dances with Wolves - Extended Cut (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) by MGM (Video & DVD). Dances with Wolves starring and directed by Kevin Costner is such a boring and long war film. The art direction and acting is pretty good but the story goes nowhere and I just can´t get into this over-ambitious drama. Stick with Gone with the Wind if you want an entertaining, gorgeous epic.¤ 5) DVD DVD Dances with Wolves - Extended Cut (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) by MGM (Video & DVD). this movie drags after the first act. the movie feels like its 4 or five hours long. so its amazing to me that they recut the movie to make it longer.
many people have commented that this movie is PC becasue the white men are bad guys and the native americans are noble savages. I completely disagree. Instead, I see it as the Indians are in trouble and cant find buffalo or fight off the neighbor tribes until the magic white man comes in and shows them how its done.
so dont buy this movie if you want to be entertained. or teach history. or show any sort of flattering view of native americans.
this is pulp escapist fantasy - I would catagorize it with early 20th century pulp with a dash of late 20th century.
¤ 6) DVD DVD Dances with Wolves - Extended Cut (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) by MGM (Video & DVD). A "truly spectacular" (The New York Times) film that combines action, romance and breathtaking adventure, Dances With Wolves is "a cinematic masterpiece" (American Movie Classics) that is nothing short of "a triumph" (Roger Ebert)!Sent to protect a US outpost on the desolate frontier, Lt. John Dunbar (Kevin Costner) finds himself alone in the vast wilderness. Befriending the very people he´s sent to protect the outpost from, the Sioux Indians, Dunbar slowly comes to revere those he once feared. But when the encroaching US Army threatens to overrun the Sioux, he is forced to make a choiceone that will forever change his destiny and that of a proud and defiant nation.¤ 7) DVD DVD Dances with Wolves - Extended Cut (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) by MGM (Video & DVD). Kevin Costner´s 1990 epic won a bundle of Oscars for a moving, engrossing story of a white soldier (Costner) who singlehandedly mans a post in the 1870 Dakotas, and becomes a part of the Lakota Sioux community who live nearby. The film may not be a masterpiece, but it is far more than the sum of good intentions. The characters are strong, the development of relationships is both ambitious and careful, the love story between Costner and Mary McDonnell´s character is captivating. Only the third-act portrait of white intruders as morons feels overbearing, but even that leads to a terribly moving conclusion. Costner´s direction is assured, the balance of action and intimacy is perfect--what more could anyone want outside of an unqualified masterpiece? --Tom Keogh¤ Page Updated: Robert N. Goolsby, 8-Jan-2009, 079285568X027616880598, 1X6-A2B-1MB-JQB-ZZB-BYB-GMB-5YB-8 
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