Too much of everything

Masterful Movie

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

I just watched Lonesome Dove, Return To Lonesome Dove, Streets Of Laredo and Dead Man's Walk. All excellent. This sorry hunk of junk is cheaply done and poorly acted.In the previous series, Captain Call and Gus McCrae come off as tough respectable cowboys. Despite the fact that Caption Call is played by a different actor every time each one quickly won me over. In Dead Man's Walk the boys are believable as the younger versions of the experienced Texas rangers. In Comanche Moon they are just a couple of chubby rednecks. I had to stop watching.I suspect many of the glowing reviews for this show were written by the people who made this stinking pile. It's a sorry end to an otherwise great franchise.

Look, Lonesome Dove is one of the best books ever written. The mini series with Robert Duval and Tommy Lee Jones was excellent. Unfortunately none of the sequels or prequels have stood up to the original. After reading and watching Comanche Moon I'm still waiting to see why Call and McRae became the famous Texas rangers that they were in Lonesome Dove. Comanche Moon is one of the stupidest books that I have ever read and the TV series was just as bad. I'm still waiting to see Jake Spoon earned his undeserved reputation as a gunfighter. Deets character was not developed at all. Nothing happened in the entire book or movie. The Black Vaquero was killed by a parrot for God sake! The Indian stealing the horse and then giving it to the Mexican psycho, Skull heading off after it on foot, and then they eat the damned thing...stupid from beginning to end. This series and the book were two huge wastes of my time. It's funny how some people can write a great book, so you read it and then run out to get another one of their works only to discover that the first book was the only good book that they ever wrote. Very disappointing, don't know why CBS bothered.

Lonesome Dove is my favorite western second only to The Searchers with John Wayne. I watch Lonesome Dove about every 6 months and never get tired of it. I have read all the LD books, although I cannot remember much of Comanche Moon. I too looked forward to this mini-series and decided to tape it on our DVR so we could fast forward through commercials. Unfortunately, I messed up and didn't record the first part, but decided to watch the other parts and try to pick up.There is nobody that can ever compete with Robert Duvall or Tommy Lee Jones, and I was expecting to be disappointed and I was.Although there were so many things that didn't ring true, the most apparent to me was when Nellie died the day before and Gus was out on the range, it switched over to Clara writing him a letter from Nebraska telling him how sorry she was to hear of her death. How in the world could she have known the next day way out in Nebraska? Additionally, it was supposed to be 7 years later after her leaving and her children looked to be about 6-7 years old, maybe a little younger, yet more time went on before they actually moved to Lonesome Dove, and in Lonesome Dove they had been there about 10 years or longer before leaving to Montana. When they stopped at Clara's in Nebraska, which probably took another 6 months on the trail, the girls looked to be about 10-13, since they were playing in the yard like little children. The math just does not add up.I agree that the man who played Gus had a lot of his mannerisms and looked a little like Gus may have looked as a young man.I am also a little confused about one thing. The captive white girl that they brought back - was she the one they captured when they raided Austin? They said she had been captured 25 years ago, but if she was the one captured in Austin, it was only 7 years later when this took place in the movie. Was she captured earlier? I remember seeing a captive girl after they raided the town and don't know if this is the same one. If someone can explain since I missed Part 1. If it had been 25 years, she would probably be over 40 years old when they found her since she looked to be grown lying on the ground. Also, the way they were ravaging her when they captured her, it is hard to believe she would have lived to go on to be married and having Indian children.I have to admit though, nothing is worse than John Voight playing Call in the sequel to Lonesome Dove or the unbelievable marriage of Lorena to Pea Eye in the McMurty sequel to Lonesome Dove, which was never explained either. Also, the way he killed Newt off was I hear from spite for them doing the sequel with John Voight without his approval.If anyone can clear up these discrepancies, I would appreciate.

Comanche Moon takes us Ten years into the future Call and Gus are now approching middle age and Rangering is all they have known both men have two women waiting for them for Gus it's the love of his life Clara for Call it's a young whore named Maggie Tilton who is in love with Call both women want their men to give up Rangering but it's in their blood. Gus and Call are made Captains and their responsbilties increase. This puts a hardship on Gus and Clara's relationship as she wants him to give it up. For Call it's duty above else even above a woman who loves him. This tale could be called Bittersweet a love letter to a bygone age. Steve Zahn however amazed me he actually Channels Robert Duvall you can even see Duvall in Zahn's performance he acts like him so much it's uncanny. Karl Urban is easily one of the best Woodrow Call's ever portrayed his performance stands up to Tommy Lee Jones portrayal and maybe actually even betters it. What makes this movie so outstanding is the level of respect that comes across it's well down and is respectful to the book from which it is based on. Val Kilmer is excellent as Captain Scull making again a argument that he is simply one of the best in Hollywood today. Highly recommended highly enjoyable and well worth buying on DVD when it comes out.