"Lonesome Dove" on AMC tonight - one of the better westerns, with Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones.

[whitbaby]

"Lonesome Dove" on AMC tonight - one of the better westerns, with Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones. (If you can endure the commercials.)

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[Bailey Guns]

Wait... Did you say one of the "better" westerns? Blasphemy. To anyone with any taste it's one of the BEST westerns. Duvall is god-like in that series.

[Mtn.man]

Long as there will be whores.

[Tim K]

I assume Duvall is Cal? I've not seen the miniseries, but I have it set to record. Can't wait.

[LippCJ7]

Robert Duvall is Gus and Tommy Lee Jones is Call, once you have seen it I'm sure you will think that the cast nailed the roles

[whitbaby]

Duvall is Gus, TLJ is Woodrow Call.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonesome_Dove_%28TV_miniseries%29

[Tim K]

I'd have bet money it would be the other way around. Now I really can't wait to see it. Who's Lorrie?

[whitbaby]

There were some good lines in that flic:

"Lonesome Dove: Return (#1.4)" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1502546/) (1989) [Gus refuses to have his leg amputated knowing he will die if he doesn't]
Woodrow Call (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000169/): What do you want legs for anyway? You don't like to do nothing but sit on the porch and drink whiskey!
Gus McCrae (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000380/): I like to kick a pig every once in a while. How would I do that?

[Aloha_Shooter]

Eh, I'm not a McMurtry fan. Read the book because of all the hoorah and hated it. When I watched it on TV, it just couldn't hold a candle (IMO) to Rio Bravo or McLintock! or The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Hell, I even enjoyed Silverado and Quigley Down Under more.

[wctriumph]

Way too much violence for me. Watched it twice before just make sure. Yep, too many killings and stabbings and shootings and fights for me to watch it again.

[Beer]

[whitbaby]

Eh, I'm not a McMurtry fan. Read the book because of all the hoorah and hated it. When I watched it on TV, it just couldn't hold a candle (IMO) to Rio Bravo or McLintock! or The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Hell, I even enjoyed Silverado and Quigley Down Under more.

3:10 to Yuma...Once Upon a Time in the West?

[whitbaby]

After watching Dove, now I know why the also called cowboys - cowPOKES

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[Aloha_Shooter]

3:10 to Yuma...Once Upon a Time in the West?

Well, I didn't want to have list a compendium of all the Westerns I thought were better than Lonesome Dove. I'm already in the minority in this thread, just offering an alternate perspective.

[Singlestack]

..of course, true rock and roll aficionados recognize that the late "Lonesome Dave" was in Foghat! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Peverett