Dances with Wolves - Extended Cut (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
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Movie Reviews of Dances with Wolves - Extended Cut (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Movie Review: Lt Dunbar
Summary: 5 Stars
Dances with Wolves is a 1990 epic film which tells the story of a United States cavalry officer from the Civil War who travels alone into the frontier near a Sioux tribe. Developed by director/star Kevin Costner over 5 years, the film (released 21 November 1990) has high production values[1] and won 7 Academy Awards (1990) and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama[2] Much of the dialogue is in the Lakota language with English subtitles, unusual for a film at the time of its release.
Great cast, scenery, historical
Trivia: Because Lakota contains both masculine and feminine forms of speech, the filmmakers decided to simplify the language by using the feminine form for all Lakota speech in the film. Native speakers of Lakota were reportedly highly amused by hearing warriors and other men in the film speak as if they were women. {wikipedia}
Movie Review: One of my favorite moview
Summary: 5 Stars
Few movies touch me in the way that this film does. It is one of the most beautiful and moving films that I have ever seen. I used to watch it as a kid but I saw it again 6 months ago and re-realized how much I love this movie. Not many things have brought me to tears of joy but this movie has done so in multiple places. To see the beauty of the brotherly love that is learned and shared among the white man and the natives in this movie is a wonderful fulfilment of the love of Christ. I only wished that our history would have shown this type of love instead of the brutal greed and ignorance that lead our nations pioneers to savagely murder all the natives and steal their land.Movie Review: It is an incredible film
Summary: 5 Stars
I have rarely seen such a moving and beautiful movie as Dances with Wolves. The stunning thing is that it was directed by Kevin Costner, who did a brilliant job as actor as well. Everything about this film is first rate. I know some will say that it makes the white man all evil but I thought it was a nice mix of different people, at their best and at their worst. I would also add that this is a long movie, but it puts you right there on the prairie and some of the moments are almost excruciatingly beautiful. This a film not to be missed. Movie Review: (and 5 more stars) AN EPIC. A BEAUTIFUL, MOVING EPIC !
Summary: 5 Stars
I first watched Dances With Wolves in a movie theater in 1990 when the movie was first released, and have since seen it on cable TV, network TV, several times on VHS, at least 8 or 9 times on DVD, and again last night! I can't praise this movie enough, and every time I watch it, it brings me back to where I belong.
It's the story of Civil War Union Army Lt. John Dunbar (Kevin Costner), who after being designated a hero, chooses to be stationed on the western frontier "before it's gone". He arrives only to find a deserted post on the Dakota plains and believes he will be sent reinforcements later. He becomes friendly with a lone wolf he calls Two Socks, and forms a tentative relationship with members of a nearby Lakota Sioux tribe. Time passes, the troops don't show, and Dunbar spends more and more time with the Lakota. He eventually unites with them, becomes an honorary member of the tribe, and joins them and their way of life.
Dances With Wolves was also directed by Kevin Costner, and he really did his homework for this one, going the extra mile to make this a realistic portrayal of the 19th century Lakota Sioux people. The actors that portray the Sioux are Native Americans who speak Lakota in the movie (with English subtitles), and the clothing, weapons, and customs are all accurately replicated. There is even a realistic and exciting buffalo hunt that is actually quite a film making accomplishment.
The central character here is played by Costner, but the real star of the movie is Graham Greene, who plays Kicking Bird, the temperate and wise Lakota medicine man (Greene was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor).
This is a serious movie, but instead of being preachy and driven, it's compassionate and deliberate. The story and the relationships are given time to develop, making the highly unlikely circumstances a little easier to digest and the characters more familiar and interesting.
There is nothing political at all about Dances With Wolves. There's no lecture. It's just the story of a white man who finds that what he's been conditioned to believe about "the enemy" is not true at all. As he gets to know them and observe their way of life, he sees them for what they really are. People.
The scenery in the movie is breathtaking, the music is beautifully moving, and the acting is captivating and balanced. Dances With Wolves won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture. And I personally like Dances With Wolves so much that I can't imagine enjoying another movie as much as I've enjoyed this one over the years.
Movie Review: Great!
Summary: 5 Stars
We watched this for the first time last week. It was spectacular. The acting was great. The story was powerful and well written. The sets were great. A man is by himself at an Army outpost for months, he makes friends with Indians though they are cruel in some ways. He becomes one of them and takes a wife. And when he's enjoying himself and lets down his guard, the Army returns and believes he's a traitor. I won't tell you the ending, but I will say there are a few places where you might want to fast forward. After watching it we felt it was time well spent. We had no regrets about buying the DVD.