Dances with Wolves

PG-13 8
1990 3 hr 1 min Adventure , Drama , Western

Wounded Civil War soldier, John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.

  • Cast:
    Kevin Costner , Mary McDonnell , Graham Greene , Rodney A. Grant , Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman , Tantoo Cardinal , Robert Pastorelli

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Reviews

Hellen
1990/11/09

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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Micitype
1990/11/10

Pretty Good

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Matho
1990/11/11

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

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Marva
1990/11/12

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

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jcsmith-00566
1990/11/13

I hated this movie! This is the first movie that I have given an F because nothing in this movie is good. Dances with Wolves is a super depressing movie about a suicidal civil war hero. The movie is way to long and half of it is just scenery when if you live anywhere in the west, you can look outside your window! Also, another part that screws with me, is that the credits are 10 minutes long! The movie is Best Picture Winner, and it does not help the fact that it was nominated for 12 Oscars! Now the movie is made for people who like watching animals get killed. You get emotionally attached to the wolf, horse, a dog, and half of the buffalo that get slaughtered. Screw you, Kevin. The first animal that you see dead is a dog you see arrows in it, the second animal you see get killed is all the buffalo. Then you see Robin Hood's horse get shot and burned. Finally, you see the wolf he dances with getting shot. But the part that really screws with me is the fact that the wolf does not die, and you just watch it squeal in pain. Kevin Costner does such a bad job playing this character, I would rather watch him try to do an accent in Robin Hood Prince Of Thieves. Most of the acting in Dances with Wolves is so bad, everyone is a cardboard character, but I will say Graham Greene did do a good job acting, and that is the main reason I did not give this movie an F-. Mary McDonnell is a terrible character acting wise, she is a cardboard character like everyone else. Also, she goes to her wedding with the worst hair humanly possible, she looks like she was trying to be Mel Gibson in Braveheart. To recap, I hated Dances with Wolves because how bad the acting was, how super depressing it was, and how dumb of story it is. F is my final grade for Dances with Wolves.

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cinemajesty
1990/11/14

Movie Review: "Dances With Wolves" (1990)U.S. historian and writer Michael Blake (1945-2015) presents producer/director Kevin Costner with Academy-Awarded screenplay adaptation on his reowned book, when Hollywood star Kevin Costner also taking on the highly-identifiable character of Lieutenant John Dunbar, depositioned as blue-coat Northern Union army soldier to become a "Neutrum" of a human being in a run-down western-front outpost only to witness the beauty of a soon disappearing uncharted territory, turning the picture from a "civil-war" movie into a harmonic inception of as "Western" by indulging deep-diving interpretation of the Native American's way of life in a highlighted live-action buffalo hunting scene accompanied by hyper-realistic animatronics by Howard Berger and associates, known for extraordinary special visual effect works for "The Chronics of Narnia" (2005).Director Kevin Costner, accompanied by cinematographer Dean Semler, together they ensure a splendidly-received 180 minutes Hollywood-entertainment movie with a peaking balancing act of being able to turn tides for a seemingly-doomed main character to follow a journey self-destruction to self-reflections over stranger-encounters as cultural differences with nature-bonding Native Americans, suspense stake-raising hostile tribe battles to get literally reborn in his own skin to a match-making female-pendant orphan-character of a Non-Native, yet fully Native-educated woman called "Stand With A Fist", portrayed by actress Mary McDonnell to eye-reading trauma-inhabited proportions, when "Dances With Wolves" finds its exceptional story-telling language in panoramic landscapes apart from any "Civil-War" scenario, despite opening sequence confusions with an all-hope-refusing John Dunbar to leave his fate in the hands of some frontier-cowering soldiers with rifles behind wooden bars on both sides.When this motion picture in itself becomes the star-picture to be the Best Picture of 1990 to remembered for; then mainly through a subconsciously-mesmerizing score composition by John Barry (1933-2011) to all extent the Academy-Award for the best film music had been earned among seven wins in total reception, only leaving out the nominated cast, inlcuding Kevin Costner and Graham Greene in the supporting role of "Kicking Bird", who together get along in almost juvenile trust of being strangers, featuring famous title-given bonfire dance of Dunbar with a lonely-parie-wolf called "Two Socks", when an emerging new world of a continuously heavy-hitting as laws-of-the-gun-indulging "Wild West" become future motion picture promises of an Industry in constant search for the next story to tell.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

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Lars Lendale
1990/11/15

What in the world is with this 250 IMDb list ? I cannot believe DWW is excluded !The greatest western movie ever done, one of the most well directed movies ever made, a state of the art cinematography, a brilliant color and stunning decor, by far and it's not even close. This movie, believe it or not, was produced with only a $20MM budget- Costner had to guarantee his own house! Do you know how much John Carter cost ? Look it up.Dances with Wolves, is the material proof, that low budget movies are sometimes the best ever made. The story could not be more moving. Is does not encourage apologia of patriotism, courage, lakota natives or the United States. It's an elaborated think piece of an adventure through the struggles of segregation, the civil war, the conquest over the frontier, the last remaining tribes and the expansion of the northern federation, peace, friendship and nature. All characters play their role perfectly - there's not a single miscast. Costner incredibly displays as a rookie an epic voyage in the mid-west to find himself befriending a native-American tribe and their civilisation. The insight, the language, the manners and the buffalo hunt, are extremely rich and plastically breathtaking. The score is brilliant. Might be one of the best scores ever written. All along, the score simply corresponds perfectly with every scene that requires a matching music. You cannot deny that, whether you think there's not enough this or that, that Costner has delivered a colossal effort to offer us a movie that will go down as one of the greatest film pieces in cinema history. Never once do you get bored, look at the time, in fact, you wish this movie never ends, and when it does, you are not disappointed by the ending. The CGI are spectacular - you really believe that the buffalo hunt is real. I urge everyone to check the making of this movie. DWW follows the great traditions of westerns, simultaneously renovating the genre.

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SquigglyCrunch
1990/11/16

Dances with Wolves follows a soldier who is posted in a largely isolated outpost and ultimately befriends the natives living in the area. The actors are all pretty good in their roles. Kevin Costner does really well, although for the first 10 or so minutes he just wanders around with his mouth open as if confused. He sort of portrayed my feelings for the first bit. I had no idea what was going on until a little ways into the movie. Graham Greene and Rodney A. Grant were both quite good in their roles as well, as as much as Costner but pretty close. Mary McDonnell was kind of over-the-top in this role, and while her performance wasn't bad, it wasn't great either. She seemed to be trying to pull off some kind of overdone insanity performance, but it didn't work in the context of the movie or just as a performance overall. The characters are pretty interesting, and it's really cool to see their relationships develop over a long period of time. By the last 1/3 of the movie the audience feels really attached to the characters, and it becomes just that much more investing. And considering the last hour is the best, it gives it a much more effective ending. The movie is, however, 3 hours long, the first 2 of which are the development stages. While it isn't necessarily boring, it's very long and definitely on the slow side. It was needed for the last hour to have the effect that it did, but it probably could have been just a little more engaging, or shorter even. The romantic aspect wasn't something I was very fond of. It came off as very rushed and a little forced, like it was happening simply because that was the expectation for movies. It seems that filmmakers sometimes think that if it's worth seeing, it has a love interest. That seems to be the case a lot of the time, but that doesn't mean that it always works. And in this case it doesn't really. Overall Dances with Wolves is an engaging character study that suffers from being on the slow side for the majority of it's runtime and a forced romance. In the end I'd still recommend this movie.

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