I started watching Lonesome Dove the other night for probably the first time in 5+ years. Almost everything in my life has changed in some way since the last time I watched it, but the movie is still the same. Simply one of the best...EVER...in any category, in my opinion.

I love the part where the bartender in San Antonio shows disrespect to Gus, and he breaks the guys nose while putting him in his place. I always wanted to do that when I was in college...break some jackhole bartender's nose.

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it would be cooler if you just did this



for your ag tag.


agree with lonesome dove

Does it bother you knowing that Larry McMurtrey wrote teh screenplay for Brokeback Mountain?

If you show me how to do that with your Ag Tag, I will gladly update. Although I'll have to also keep the one I have, because I've kind of fallen in love with it.

And no, I couldn't care less if McMurtry wrote the screenplay to that movie. I also don't care that his son has a new album out that pretty well criticizes everything I love about America (I base that on what I read in Texas Music; I personally have no desire to listen to the music and make my own opinion). And I don't care that his book _Sin Killer_ pretty well sucked. And I sure as hell don't care that he's a former tu clown.

I only care that Lonesome Dove was an awesome movie, and I am starting to read the tetralogy of Gus & Call, which insofar is pretty awesome itself.

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How did they do the special effect where the guy got bit in the face by the snake? It looks real! Do you think some stuntman really got bit by a nonvenomous snake?

i haven't seen this movie in ages... a friend said he watched part of it on TV the other day. i really need to go rent or buy it to relive some old memories.

I don't see how whackin' a surly bartender is any crime.

it aint a crime to whack a surly bartender

get it right

My Parents went to high School with the Surly bartender. Oh yeah and the trilogy is all good. And Gus is my favortie character I have ever come across in any movie, Tv show or Book.

No love for Capn Call?

Larry McMurtry never attended Texas University or taught there or lived in Austin. In fact, he has said some pretty nasty things about the town. He went to North Texas and taught at Rice.

I liked Sin Killer.

I'm hoping they remake that movie and put some real money into the production. The original is like a movie made for tv.

What a coincidence... I ran into WalMart to pick up some beer and lo and behold, Lonesome Dove for 9.44 catches my eye.

I'm about to fire up the DVD player, crack open a 12 pack of modello and see how far I can get before I fall asleep.

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The original is like a movie made for tv.

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You mean like Lonesome Dove?

de longhorn

ya know in Mexico Modelo is the beer you get for a dollar in bars right?(i.e. the cheap sh-t) The kind that tastes like crapola. And you pay what 7, 8 bucks for a six-pack?

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Does it bother you knowing that Larry McMurtrey wrote teh screenplay for Brokeback Mountain?

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It probably wouldn't bother you near as much if you'd ever read "The Last Picture Show."

I majored in English in undergrad. I teach English now. I've read a ton of the classics. Gus is still, without doubt, the best fictional characters ever put down on paper that I have ever read.

And, in my very unworthy opinion, Larry McMurtry is one of the best authors in our time.



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"I-God, Woodrow, you just don't get it, do ya? It's not dyin' I'm talking about. It's living!"

"We don't rent pigs"

I'm not sayin' I did, and I'm not sayin' I didn't. But I will say this-a man who won't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough.

It's at the top of my book list and the top of my movie list. Not very often do you find one like Lonesome Dove that is just an amazing and oustanding book AND movie. Augustus McCrae is my favorite all-time movie character.

At least 5 times a semester (generally before tests, projects, and such), a good buddy and I start telling everyone that we're quitting school, going to Mexico to steal horses and cattle, and then driving them to Montana.

Gus and Call are the best characters I've ever read in a set of books. My wife got me the Lonesome Dove series books for my wedding present and they are all pretty good. The last one is a little difficult to get into, simply because Gus isn't in the book.

It took a lot to supplant The Outlaw Josey Wales as my favorite western, but Lonesome Dove did it.

I'd like a chance to shoot at an educated man just once in my life.

I hate rude behavior in a man. Won't tolerate it.

"Looks like you been up all night readin' the good book!"

Best movie ever. I made my wife (well, fiance' at the time) watch it about a year ago. Gettin' her to sit down and watch it was like pullin' teeth.....after the first two hours she was ready to watch it all the way through.



"Thirty years ago kids talked about their duties and responsibilities ... today they talk about their rights and privileges."

I watched the segment last night where Deets (sp?) gets it right through the chest. I almost cry every time. I've always thought Danny Glover was pretty good (hey, who doesn't love the Lethal Weapon series, right?), but he is AMAZING in Lonesome Dove. Hell, even Robert Urich, the quintessential made-for-TV actor, was very good as ol' Jake Spoon.

huisache -- sorry, I thought I had read at one time that he attended tu.

bearamedic99 -- there was another thread some time back by a guy who got drunk and tried to recreate the snake scene with his drunk buddies using a bunch of garter snakes or something. I thought BS then and I think BS now, but it was still a pretty funny read. Unfortunately, I don't have the link.

"You never had to ask for a clean glass when Wee Willie Montgomery ran the place"

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My wife is in Hell where I sent her. She could make good biscuits but her behavior was terrible - Po Campo

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I saw a TexAg handle for Captian and went for the villian, with Blue Duck.

A few of my favorites from the movie.

"I shot many a sassy bandit with this here pistol."

"I know you too, Blue Duck."





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I've always enjoyed reading Westerns.... while I don't really consider Lonesome Dove to be a "western" in the traditional sense, I manged to convince my wife to read Lonesome Dove... she hates anything remotely western (book or movie)... She has now read Lonesome Dove at least five times... it's her second favorite book of all-time (next to Gone With the Wind).......

I've tried reading a couple of Louis L'Amour's books, who many would call the quintessential "Western author", but I haven't enjoyed his work as much.

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I used to have a good handle over here, "Augustus", of course that was before I got banned back in the day. I've played nice since then......

Lonesome Dove, both in print and on screen, is one of the best pieces of work in either category. This is a loose comparison, I know, but it reminds me of For Love of the Game with Costner. Has enough of a chick theme to keep the wife interested, yet the premise is all man.

I'm a nut for the story...named my last Dobie "Augustus". Beautiful dog, wore the name well.

For our honeymoon, my wife and I spent some time in Fredericksburg. Went into Cactus Jack's down there and struck up a conversation with the owner. (I had noticed the "senator" picture of Gus, Call, and Jake from the movie being sold in the store.) The owner was telling me that several times a year, Tommy Lee Jones goes in and shops rather incognito. Anyway, through the course of our conversation, the guy realized how much of a fan I was, and when I went to buy one of the pics, he said he couldn't sell that to me. Instead, he pulled an AUTOGRAPHED pic from behind the counter and gave it to me. It now adorns our nursery wall, signed with both the character names of Call and Gus and by Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall, as well.

"I went down to Captain Tony's..."
--Jimmy Buffett

96,

That is greatness. I named my first pet Gus. He ran off and we named the second one Woodrow. He is a pain in the ass and the words "Damn it, Woodrow" fly around our house very often.

Lotta praise for Gus. I always associated with Call...I considered him the visionary. Too bad that vision ended with the deaths of so many of his friends. His trek back to bury Gus is true friendship that few of us will ever experience.

ANd here I thought I was the only clever person who named a pet after Augustus McCrae. My cat's name is Gus.

i think the name "Lonesome Dove" was supposed to be symbolic of Newt. lonesome in that he didnt know his father, and a dove in the sense that he is the youngest and purest of all the characters. also, the latin quote uva uvam vivendo varia fit roughly translates into "a grape matures by looking at another grape." also could be symbolic of newt's transition to manhood throughout the story.

anyways, thats my theory.

McMurtry was asked how he came up with the name Lonesome Dove. He said he saw it on the side of a van in Denton or somewhere. It was the name of a church. He liked the sound of it and slapped it on his imaginary town.