Return To Lonesome Dove: The Entire Series [DVD]

If only the people who made this series had not insisted that Oliver Reed spoke "Scottish".The decision to make him use such an abominable accent absolutely spoils the film from the very first moment he appears and I do not understand it, for, were there not many English gentlemen involved in many of the openings of The West? Apart from this absolute mess of a player's part, the rest of the film is almost ... well, almost - nearly almost, more than quite good.I did not bother going after this film for quite some time because of the naysayers on various sites/forums who seemed to be universally condemning it. Then one night, when bored (again) after just having finished watching the original "Lonesome Dove" series for the umpteenth times, and *desperate* for more LD tales I came to Amazon and spreed myself all of £0.68 (+ p&p!) for a used copy.By-Gad-Woodrow, It's one hell of a copy! And "copy" really is the operative word! Almost every single scene from the first-to-last simply plagiarises the original series. Even the background music seemed to back scenes which were very, very similar to the original.Then we see the Plains burial, just like that poor old Irish boy.And yet, ... and yet, ...I like it, because whilst it is most certainly a definitive rip-off of the original "Lonesome Dove", it really does try to stay true to the original. For that it does deserve recognition.However, the cringes constantly created by Oliver Reed's "Scottish accent" keep recurring and it really does spoil the film. What should have been a possible four-and-possibly another-half Star rating gets immediately bumped down to a generous 3***, and all because of Oliver's elocution tutor.I wonder if he had any decision in his "Och Aye the Noo!" persona?

I liked this mini-series TV follow-up to Lonesome Dove. I wonder why there is no Larry McMurtry credit on it as a lot of the characters and plot lines echo his original.It's good and plays out satisfactorily - good to see Oliver Reed chewing the scenery too.!Picture quality is not as sharp as it would be now due to this being a TV series from the 90s but it passes the time well and there is a lot going on here to keep your Western viewer entertained.

I was interested to see that there was a lot of critiscim to this follow up and while the storyis not as good as "Lonesome Dove", i still found it to be a worthy addition to the Series and itheld my interest with once again superb cinematography, good acting and for the most part believable characters.In fact, i found John Voight's performance as Woodrow Call superior to Tommy Lee Jones of "Lonesome Dove" in every respect but i did miss the other characters from the original, i have to admit with the exception of Ricky Schroeder, who was from the original. Barbara Hershey was not a patch on Angelica Huston for instance as Woodrow Call's big dislike.Also, this series does not have English subtitles and i missed some dialogue as i did in "Lonesome Dove", but i will definately keep this in my collection.

Sequel (obviously) to Lonesome Dove, with Jon Voight taking over from Tommy Lee Jones and Ricky Schroder playing his illegitimate (and unacknowledged) son. Also taken from a very good book and the film is more or less an accurate rendition of it. Very enjoyable and intelligent western.

Though not as good as original series, this is still a worthy sequel well worth viewing.However, considering that this is a blu-ray release and is supposed to be in high-definition,this is in my opinion, a very shoddy release and provides a picture quality that is no betterthan the DVD release. When watched side by side I observed no difference whatsoever in thequality of the definition between the two.This was a big disappointment, especially after the American blu-ray release of the original series,which though slightly spoilt by the aspect ratio being formatted as 1:1.85 ratio from the original1.1.33, provided a far better quality picture than the DVD release and was worth the cost of theup-grade.

Bit of a letdown compared to the other films in the series of the books by Larry McMurtry

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I am such a massive fan of Lonesome Dove that I couldn't wait to watch RtLD, only to be hugely disappointed. To me it didn't capture the same magic or passion from the original - everything that shone in LD, was dull in RtLD. Yet again the story attracted an all-star cast but LD had set too high a standard that RtLD was never going to be able to reach. Having said that, if you watch RtLD as a stand-alone, the story is very strong with excellent acting. Maybe I had too high an expectation but sadly for me, this was yet one more example of why America needs to lose it's love of sequels...