I’m happy to comment that I’ve watched Lonesome Dove for the first time. I’ll never forget it. Absolutely LOVE IT. I bet people reading this are wishing they could watch it for the first time again too.
I apologize for the grammar and the misspelling of my prior post. I've always found it hard to remember to preread before I send. Still a little shook up which is no excuse and again I apologize.
I have watched lonesome Dove many many times. Just McCray has always been an iconic hero of mine! For the first time yesterday I realized what a coward and fraud guss was. As was many things in life we are certain that things are a certain way only to find years later it weren't that way at all. Gush and company hung a good friend for not going against five on one. Yet gus had Blue duck one on one with a boulder to hide behind. He didn't have Laurie bring him his rifle because he knew this probably would have provoked a fight. He sat there in his underwear wearing his sidearm exchanging witty banter was one of the most dangerous psychopathic murders of the times! Left of defenseless woman on the side of the river he knew was traveled by this monster. Gus could have demanded and physically thrown Lori darling on a horse and said no ma'am I'll not leave you here alone! This was certainly a cause for all hands on deck to find this murdering renegade! Never before had Blue duck been so close and trackable! The lives lost because of this cowardly act was despicable! I love Gus McCrae! I've noticed many mannerisms that I have picked up from watching McCray. While still the Best Western ever made, and when I will most certainly watch again and again they're never will be the river for custom cray that I've had for many many years. Again, Jake spoon had five against him was usually at least one at his back at all time! There's certainly would have been no victory other than taking down what few he could before he fell. Augustus McRae had Blue duck exactly where he wanted him, one on one! He said "well it could have gone either way"!?! Cowardly actions and cowardly words followed by irresponsibly weak response to the situation. As was so many things in life I find myself faced with the realization that something I have believed in to my soul was not so! That's McCray was a hero of mine from the first I watched the movie. I cannot count the times I have re-watched it. Last night and came to me and my heart broke. I know it's just a movie. But in this day and age true heroes have become harder and harder to find and even harder to keep. I'm 63 years old and someone had told me as little as a month ago that Gus McCray was a coward there would have been a problem! Wonderful movie? Yes greatest Western ever? Most probably! But "I god Woodrow, this hurts!
I'm almost 80 years old. Will be next month I've seen a lot of movies in my life. Some of them are absolute trash. Some of them were good, but I don't know of any single movie that is touch me in so many different ways this this movie. It's outstanding, the script, the actors, the scenery. It's incredible. I urge you watch it if you haven't seen it. He will be moved in so many different ways...
I saw this epic just a day before. Still haunts me. Why i didn't come across such a gem before i got 56 ? .....being a Western lover , i should have seen it long ago. Thank you RU-vid. Now and the rest of my life , some of the characters from lonesome dove , will rest in peace with me only. Thanks everyone who makes it possible and present to me. Love.
This miniseries came out when i was 26, just when I was starting to have this "go west" fantasy kick in. That lasted a while. Still had the dream five years later when Tombstone and Wyatt Earp came out. I saw some of the West over the years but never really dud what I wanted. Plenty if disappoihtments and bliwn opportunities but its been a blessing to be alive.
I love them both. Most people love Gus the most. He's definitely more likeable. But for some reason Call has always been my favorite. My son has autism, and I always wonder if Call has that to some extent.
Charles goodnight and Oliver loving were real.. the book is loosely based on those two gentlemen, so the story look those two guys up, lonesome Dove in my opinion is the best mini-series and respects to Western days and times lots of life lessons if you listen ..
