The Lone Gunmen: The Complete Series
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Actor: Bruce Harwood, Dean Haglund, Stephen Snedden, Tom Braidwood, Zuleikha RobinsonBrand: N/A
Writer: Chris Carter
Writer: Frank Spotnitz
Writer: John Shiban
Writer: Vince Gilligan
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 559 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-03-29
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of The Lone Gunmen: The Complete Series
Movie Review: Someone at FOX Should be fired!
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm kinda peeved, so bear with me. The Lone Gunmen is the third great show FOX cancelled after less than a year (the other two being Greg The Bunny and The Tick). These shows were all well written, hilarious, and very off beat. Perhaps Fox is afraid of offbeat now that they're "legitimate". This is the same company that launched and stuck with The Simpsons, X-Files and Married With Children? At least two out three were probably the most subversive comedies since All In The Family, and X-Files raised the bar for quality drama on TV. So what's up? Will the success of the Lone Gunmen DVD slap FOX upside the head and convince them that they goofed up (the same way they did with Family Guy)? Will they bring the trio back (which is slightly more complicated, but they could do it!!!)
Alright I'm done ranting, but geez!
The show is obviously five stars. I personally loved every episode. The serious ones, the goofy ones, the ones where you roll your eyes in the first 20 minutes and are laughing your butt off in the last 20 - I loved them all. Obviously, writing-wise the pilot (with its creepy pre-911 scenario) and the final episode with its revelations about Yves and the daring ending were the best, but great casting throughout and ingenious twists and turns made every episode worthwhile.
... I don't know but its still bothering me! If FOX had been deciding the fate of say, MASH or Law and Order, both shows that struggled in their first years, well, who knows...
Anyway, I don't know if anyone else noticed, but the "look" of this show is amazing. Basically its the third Chris Carter show (although he apparently had limited input), run by people who had years of experience on X-Files and Millenium. This experience shows with amazing and complicated camera moves, editing, sets and designs. It looks like a million dollar an episode show! The writing is top notch with the bulk of it from X-Filer' John Shiban, Frank Spotnitz and Vince Gilligan; the majority of the shows were directed by Bryan Spicer and the amazing pilot was by Rob Bowman.
Watching the shows again I was struck by something that makes its cancellation even more sad. This show had unlimited potential, constructed basically as: Three Stooges meets Mission Impossible, the shows plots were limitless. Unlike Carter's other two hits, this show was not "limited" by its mythology (remember Millenium couldn't have gone on forever - either the world was going to end or not - although I would have preferred it end "after" another season - and X-files was limited by the fact that "when the heck are the aliens coming afterall"; and I think both shows were sometimes limited by their overall "seriousness" - and please save the hate mail - I love both of the shows!) The Lone Gunmen could be serious, funny, both in the same episode and one week they could solve something big like a terrorist plot, one week they cold save a baby, one week they could tango, one week they could take on an old stand-by (JFK assassination, car that runs on water, etc.) and it could all blend seamlessly because of the loose structure of the show. This show did not start off with the crutch of the others that bascially said: "One day this will have to end". They would never run out of plots, even in the post 9-11 world. They would always have been able to rescue damsels in distress or protect the little guy from the government (Hey, we need them now more than ever!)
A note on packaging: It is so bad I almost deducted a star! It's one thing to use slimline cases (which I actually like), it's another to only use 2 with 3 discs, but it's totally ridiculous to make the those discs 2 sided so that the discs can fly off and bang in to each other! Hello! Double sided discs I don't like but can live with to save on the overall cost of the set, but how much would a 3rd slipcase have cost us (them and us) - another dollar, maybe?
Bonus features rock in this set and are kind of surprising considering how long the show lasted, but the creators definitely care! NOTE: Do NOT watch the documentary (about 40 minutes) unless you've watched the episodes - way too many spoilers. In fact - don't watch it until you've watched the best bonus feature which is an X-Files episode centered on the boys, that wraps up the Lone Gunmen series. I know alot people didn't watch season NINE(!) of X-files so you might have missed this one. This show is a stunner - you will definitely be surprised! It also has a variety of commentaries with the shows 3 main writers on several, the actors on 2 of them and various other directors/techs joining in. A total of five commentaires out of 14 episodes (counting the X-files episode) is not bad considering the price and length of the show. It also contains 4 TV spots.
If you missed this in its first run (and most fans did), this set will not disappoint. And if anyone knows the name of the exec who cancelled this show...
Summary of The Lone Gunmen: The Complete Series
A trio computer hackers and theorists called The Lone Gunmen investigate a number of conspiracies.Genre: Television
Rating: NR
Release Date: 6-FEB-2007
Media Type: DVD
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