Nonureva Really Surprised!
Greenes Please don't spend money on this.
Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
Michael Ledo It seems like every time I see one of these movies, Jim Vance (Tom Berenger) is always the bad guy. Clocking in at just under five hours, one must make time to watch this film which is not as much fun as LOTR or the "Star Wars" saga. I enjoy watching histories when they are not too long. Clearly this could have been condensed with some of the opening Civil War scenes edited except for the fact Civil War pictures are popular.I almost turned it off when 'Devil' Anse Hatfield (Kevin Costner) said "brain pan." I also didn't like Bill Paxton's portrayal of Randall McCoy. I thought much of the ing cast was excellent. This version appears to be one Charles Beard might have written as the origins of the feud is economic. As a history, this was far superior to the version with Christian Slater, but then what isn't better without Christian Slater in it? This is a History Channel presentation, where unfortunately history occasional gets sold out for ratings.PARENTAL GUIDE: 2 f-bombs, Rear nudity. Couples in bed. Prostitution.
eryui The plot, being a real story could be interesting, if it not for its silly premises and the execution that, my bad, leave much to desire.The whole movie indeed, between a spit and a gunshot it is not, despite its potential, as gripping or engaging as it could have been. The problem is, as well, that all the premises to this eternal fight, turn around a couple families that look like really a bunch of specious and forceful idiots! Maybe it needed some poetic license to adjust the aims.The script is somehow flat, many secondary characters, impersonal and banal. The photography, that should accompany a now day film of this scale, isn't that great. Locations, sets and costumes, generic and not studied and not really characterized. Many characters so shallow you wont really care about. Kevin Costner is good but, wow, seems like that to enter into his hard soul cowboy character he had to (obviously) spit on the ground every now and then. Doubtless his charismatic presence, greatly helps the entire movie, anyway.Don't get me wrong, this three episode movie still watchable but, it is a shame the fact that with this main cast (Costner, Paxton, Berenger, Boothe, Howard and the beautiful Parish) and this plot, with a bit more attention and build effort, and maybe some gripping poetic licenses, it could have been great. It is just not really well executed to me, despite the now day cinematography possibilities. It looked like made right to the TV without any (but necessary) extra efforts. The fight scenes were often out of focus and barely comprehensible and the whole movie a little stretched and not well edited, so, also the pacing and the linearity are loosed in here.I have read "best miniseries" everywhere but if you watched enough TV series and miniseries you should know there are many better executed and gripping one out there. Cause those sentences and the actual 8.1/10 I really expected much more. It is instead around a barely simple 6-7/10 to me, that precisely, does not mean it is excellent at all.
loujustice-503-100354 I am from this area of West Virginia/Kentucky and although the movie was really good and based on fact. A lot of it was not accurate. Still very interesting though. We have a nice tour here in Williamson, WV and also one in Pikeville, Ky that will take to the sites. One is the well(which is still standing) where the McCoy girl was killed during the New Years Day massacre. Another is where the McCoy boys were shot while tied to the paw paw trees (which are still there). We would love to have you all to come visit us and take a look around. You can't throw a rock and not hit a Hatfield or McCoy still.Visit the tug valley chamber of commerce in Williamson, WV for more information on tours
classicsoncall I watched the first two parts of this mini-series yesterday and then found out Kevin Costner picked up a Best Actor award at the Golden Globes later in the evening for his role as the patriarch of the Hatfield Clan. I don't think I've seen him give a finer performance. There's an interesting dichotomy to his portrayal of Devil 'Anse' Hatfield. Viewed objectively, the character does live up to his nickname with a stone cold heart and an unwavering quest for revenge for every wrong committed against his extended family. The odd thing is, somehow he comes across as reasonable, even when he's about to execute a trio of McCoy kin propped up in front of a Hatfield firing squad.The same holds true for his nemesis Randall McCoy (Bill Paxton). Randall is the more tragic of the two figures, who succumbs to alcohol and a placid sort of dementia over time after witnessing so many of his family fall victim to the infamous feud. Paxton could have been a contender for the same Golden Globe award, but his character didn't have the kind of charisma that Costner brought to his portrayal. Even so, Paxton does a superb job in his role.Other standouts in the story include Tom Berenger as Uncle Jim Vance on the Hatfield side, and Mare Winningham as Randall's wife Sally. Berenger's completely unrecognizable, at least to me, underneath the woolly beard and all that mountain man gear. Whenever I see Winningham, I think back to her Brat Pack days in "St. Elmo's Fire" and marvel at how she's developed as an actress over the years. The writers gave her a great line when she made an observation about the newly discovered light bulb, calling it Tom Edison's electric lightning ball - that was a hoot.Over the years and like most people, I had heard of the feud between the Hatfields and McCoys without ever knowing anything about it's history. After a falling out over Anse Hatfield's desertion from the Confederate Army in 1863, and Randall's serving time in a Union prison camp, the two men always seemed to have something come up between them. Sometimes it involved cousins or other kinfolk, but the matter generally landed at each other's doorstep forcing one man's hand against the other. The war between the families didn't end until 1891, and even then only unofficially. The end credits state that a formal resolution wasn't reached until, get this, 2003!, when a formal peace treaty was signed by sixty descendants of the original ancestors. One hundred thirty eight years - and you thought your neighbor was a pain in the neck.
