Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton star in this three-part miniseries about the legendary and deadly family feud that broke out in the backwoods of West Virginia and Kentucky after the Civil War.
Finally got around with watching the second and third part. While the first part is indeed slow and in some places a bit too long, the second episode has little conficts and shows that retaliation for a retaliation for a retaliation for a retaliation for a retaliation for a retaliation leads to no where, and creates hate so big you can't imagine. The third episode is a full blown war, with scenes showing the cruelty and how such hate can kill so many people.
I really liked it and was entertained all the way through, recommend it to everyone. I'll surely watch it a few more times and goes quite high on my list of favorite miniseries.
Also, great, great music, I want the OST to this so badly. Oh well, I'll listen to this for now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r3z_rVGFfY
by Orlando posted 12 years ago
Watched the first part. It is indeed slow, but the tension that builds up between the families is well worth it. :)
by Quinlan posted 12 years ago
I can say it wasn't bad. Quite good in fact but a bit laborious and long.
It's a bit like comparing the Tombstone (Kurt Russel/Val Kilmer) and Wyatt Earp (Costner/Quaid) flicks. Both were good (from an objective point of view) but Tombstone was a bit more entertaining/popcorn style and faster paced within a 2 hours movie while Wyatt Earp streched it a lot more before and after the Tombstone timeframe and story to more than 3 hours.
In this case, were on the Wyatt Earp style as there are a lot of scenes that probably could've been dropped even though in the grand scheme, it doesn't make it bad.
But... it's long. I'm no editor so I sure can't tell what would be the stuff to drop but when you're at the end, you just know it was a tad too long.
Not sure I should've watched them all in one night but the first 1, maybe 2 hours were a bit laborious and at some point, it fails a bit to be totally clear why there's so much hate until a later incident that make everybody go nuts. But it slowly gets better about half of the second episode and on.
Condensing the whole thing within 2 episodes instead of 3 might have done the trick.
Note that Kevin Reynold, old Frienemy of Costner is directing. (The director who dropped from directing Waterworld after a falling out with Costner who finished it.)
by Keisu posted 12 years ago
Not sure about this yet. Maybe in the weekend.
by Orlando posted 12 years ago
Maybe I'll try today as well.
As of the episode length:
E01: 102 min
E02: 95 min
E03: 87 min
by mclame posted 12 years ago
Orlando said:
Testing this later today. Impressive cast so it should be good.
And? :)
...and got distracted at the 30min mark. Will try again today maybe. Or I will finally start those GoT books...
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD9EC71B2A021E228&feature=mh_lolz
I really liked it and was entertained all the way through, recommend it to everyone. I'll surely watch it a few more times and goes quite high on my list of favorite miniseries.
Also, great, great music, I want the OST to this so badly. Oh well, I'll listen to this for now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r3z_rVGFfY
It's a bit like comparing the Tombstone (Kurt Russel/Val Kilmer) and Wyatt Earp (Costner/Quaid) flicks. Both were good (from an objective point of view) but Tombstone was a bit more entertaining/popcorn style and faster paced within a 2 hours movie while Wyatt Earp streched it a lot more before and after the Tombstone timeframe and story to more than 3 hours.
In this case, were on the Wyatt Earp style as there are a lot of scenes that probably could've been dropped even though in the grand scheme, it doesn't make it bad.
But... it's long. I'm no editor so I sure can't tell what would be the stuff to drop but when you're at the end, you just know it was a tad too long.
Not sure I should've watched them all in one night but the first 1, maybe 2 hours were a bit laborious and at some point, it fails a bit to be totally clear why there's so much hate until a later incident that make everybody go nuts. But it slowly gets better about half of the second episode and on.
Condensing the whole thing within 2 episodes instead of 3 might have done the trick.
Note that Kevin Reynold, old Frienemy of Costner is directing. (The director who dropped from directing Waterworld after a falling out with Costner who finished it.)
As of the episode length:
E01: 102 min
E02: 95 min
E03: 87 min
...and got distracted at the 30min mark. Will try again today maybe. Or I will finally start those GoT books...