People are voting emotionally.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Dances With Wolves4 Out Of 5Dances With Wolves is a character driven feature of an all-lost man that is ready to survive and mold itself into any shape or form for one more chance. The chemistry and the relationship that is built-up among the characters is depicted form the scratch that helps the viewers too connect with the feature; a slick move by the makers. It is rich on technical aspects like costume design, sound department, background score, cinematography and editing. It is shot beautifully and the camera work is charming and makes it immensely pleasing to encounter with great locations and visuals. The writing is strong especially on character's perspective that is judged, accounted and balanced upon nicely. The adaptation by Michael Blake of his own novel, is smart and gripping and the primary reason why it works is his awareness of the characters image and the palpable environment offered to it, since the beginning. Kevin Costner; the director, is surprisingly good considering that it is his first project, as it shows a lot of potential since such character driven feature can easily come off as a dull and over-chewing feature if not executed accordingly. Kevin Costner as the protagonist is convincing in his performance along with his supporting cast like Marry McDonnell and Graham Greene. Dances With Wolves is a rhythmic beat that values its culture and rituals that binds it all to create something colossal out of a mere gesture.

Dances with Wolves. Hate to oversell things but forget it! It's an expertly directed movie with some truly beautiful shots, lots of gorgeous wides, the best shot of the movie IMO is at 1:34:46 of the directors cut. Kevin Costner gives his best performance of his career as do all the other actors, Graham Greene and Mary McDonnell give the best of the entire movie. It's also a movie with really good intentions portraying the Sioux with a great amount of respect. John Barry delivers his best soundtrack, Two Socks, Journey to Fort Sedgewick and the Love Theme are the best of the OST. It's also a movie that takes its time with nearly every aspect. All the characters, locations, themes (as in the emotional aspects) and scenes are all very well written, realised and developed perfectly, I guess since the movie is 4 hours long that was inevitable.I think what sets it apart from most other films is how peaceful and welcoming it is, it's a really optimistic and positive movie, a tone that is similar to the Shire scenes in the Middle Earth franchise. Also normally movies that deal with animals tend to end up feeling unconvincing. But this movie does a great job with the Wolves, the wolf trainer they got and the Costners directing merge really well to create some very believable scenes with the animals.The character of John Dunbar has an extremely optimistic view on the world he lives in. Dunbar is an every man, Costner usually portrays characters like that, a person who the audience can easily connect with and one that the audience feels comfortable going on an adventure with.The only real problem is that some people won't like hearing Kevin Costners voice for 4 hours straight and I guess it could be a bit longer.

Movie Review: "Dances With Wolves" (1990)U.S. historian and writer Michael Blake (1945-2015) presents producer/director Kevin Costner with Academy-Awarded screenplay adaptation on his reowned book, when Hollywood star Kevin Costner also taking on the highly-identifiable character of Lieutenant John Dunbar, depositioned as blue-coat Northern Union army soldier to become a "Neutrum" of a human being in a run-down western-front outpost only to witness the beauty of a soon disappearing uncharted territory, turning the picture from a "civil-war" movie into a harmonic inception of as "Western" by indulging deep-diving interpretation of the Native American's way of life in a highlighted live-action buffalo hunting scene accompanied by hyper-realistic animatronics by Howard Berger and associates, known for extraordinary special visual effect works for "The Chronics of Narnia" (2005).Director Kevin Costner, accompanied by cinematographer Dean Semler, together they ensure a splendidly-received 180 minutes Hollywood-entertainment movie with a peaking balancing act of being able to turn tides for a seemingly-doomed main character to follow a journey self-destruction to self-reflections over stranger-encounters as cultural differences with nature-bonding Native Americans, suspense stake-raising hostile tribe battles to get literally reborn in his own skin to a match-making female-pendant orphan-character of a Non-Native, yet fully Native-educated woman called "Stand With A Fist", portrayed by actress Mary McDonnell to eye-reading trauma-inhabited proportions, when "Dances With Wolves" finds its exceptional story-telling language in panoramic landscapes apart from any "Civil-War" scenario, despite opening sequence confusions with an all-hope-refusing John Dunbar to leave his fate in the hands of some frontier-cowering soldiers with rifles behind wooden bars on both sides.When this motion picture in itself becomes the star-picture to be the Best Picture of 1990 to remembered for; then mainly through a subconsciously-mesmerizing score composition by John Barry (1933-2011) to all extent the Academy-Award for the best film music had been earned among seven wins in total reception, only leaving out the nominated cast, inlcuding Kevin Costner and Graham Greene in the supporting role of "Kicking Bird", who together get along in almost juvenile trust of being strangers, featuring famous title-given bonfire dance of Dunbar with a lonely-parie-wolf called "Two Socks", when an emerging new world of a continuously heavy-hitting as laws-of-the-gun-indulging "Wild West" become future motion picture promises of an Industry in constant search for the next story to tell.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

What in the world is with this 250 IMDb list ? I cannot believe DWW is excluded !The greatest western movie ever done, one of the most well directed movies ever made, a state of the art cinematography, a brilliant color and stunning decor, by far and it's not even close. This movie, believe it or not, was produced with only a $20MM budget- Costner had to guarantee his own house! Do you know how much John Carter cost ? Look it up.Dances with Wolves, is the material proof, that low budget movies are sometimes the best ever made. The story could not be more moving. Is does not encourage apologia of patriotism, courage, lakota natives or the United States. It's an elaborated think piece of an adventure through the struggles of segregation, the civil war, the conquest over the frontier, the last remaining tribes and the expansion of the northern federation, peace, friendship and nature. All characters play their role perfectly - there's not a single miscast. Costner incredibly displays as a rookie an epic voyage in the mid-west to find himself befriending a native-American tribe and their civilisation. The insight, the language, the manners and the buffalo hunt, are extremely rich and plastically breathtaking. The score is brilliant. Might be one of the best scores ever written. All along, the score simply corresponds perfectly with every scene that requires a matching music. You cannot deny that, whether you think there's not enough this or that, that Costner has delivered a colossal effort to offer us a movie that will go down as one of the greatest film pieces in cinema history. Never once do you get bored, look at the time, in fact, you wish this movie never ends, and when it does, you are not disappointed by the ending. The CGI are spectacular - you really believe that the buffalo hunt is real. I urge everyone to check the making of this movie. DWW follows the great traditions of westerns, simultaneously renovating the genre.