It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

I love Westerns. The best ones (Naked Spur, The Searchers, Ride the High Country, Shane, etc.) told gritty tales of struggle and hardship, of man at war with nature, evil and himself. They are not alabaster saints, they are real people struggling with real temptation and real failures, but in the end they are redemption stories of people making amends and saving others from their mistakes.In "Lonesome Dove", however, the message is different: Life Stinks and Then You Die.8 hours of talk, talk, talk with no point but vanity and stupidity will get you killed. If that's news to anyone, just surf the internet for five minutes, it'll save you wasting a lot of time.

I have seen this miniseries several times, as it is my favorite movie. I currently live and work on a ranch, and while cattle are no longer driven across the country in cattle drives, I do a lot of work off the back of a horse. My favorite thing about this movie is how authentic everything is. All of the equipment, the way that the horses are handled and the way that the cowboys behave could not be more accurate. Another great thing about this movie is that it does not stray away from the book. It does not add things and it does not take a lot out. In my opinion, this is the greatest movie that has ever been made, and ever will be made.

This is a wonderful snapshot of the old West. I have no idea if it's true to life, but it seems as if it is, and that's all that matters. Wonderful writing, and the actors jump on it to flesh out terrific characters. The crusty Robert Duvall, the steely self denying Tommy Lee, the empathetic Danny Glover, Cocky Robert Urich, gawky Robbie Benson, and then Anjelica Houston, Diane Ladd, Frederic Forrest as the hateful Blue Duck, and some really wonderful supporting performances and great, aged , weathered faces. It's funny, moving, awe inspiring in it's epic geography, and very moving as well. I have the tape but need to upgrade to DVD, although I just watched it on AMC. Then, sadly, I watched the sequel the next night. I strongly suggest you skip the sequel which has nothing that was part of the original. Some bad writing, curious casting and indifferent performances are all part of this bad attempt to recapture the magic of the original.

This may be the only time that a television adaptation is as good as the source. Lonesome Dove is a great book which won a Pulitzer Prize for Larry McMurtry. The mini series runs six hours, and is never boring. Robert Duvall is Gus McCrae, and Tommy Lee Jones, Woodrow Call, both former Texas Rangers who run a livery in Lonesome Dove in Texas. Joshua(Danny Glover) is their scout and tracker who joins them on a cattle drive to Montana with another ranger named Jake(Robert Urich),who is on the run after shooting a dentist in a barroom brawl. Along with them is a prostitute, Lorie(a young and beautiful Diane Lane), to make the journey a lot more interesting, especially when Gus repeatedly tells her, Lori, you're just a whore. The dialogue is real, and not your typical western with all good and all bad guys; it is not all black and white in this world, and McMurtry is a genius. The story is a long and all encompassing one, with beautiful scenery from start to finish. It is the best television series ever made, ranking with any theatrical release in its depth and character development. The biggest difference being the length, which provides the time to fully realize the novel. A 10/10.