The Hatfields and McCoys

[swede]

I say Costner sucks, and thems of you what don't agree better keep yourselves, your hawgs and your wimmenfolk away from this side of the river.

[Patler]

Taped all three, then watched them all a couple nights ago. Thought it was "OK", but nothing special. Costner was Costner. He got his lines out, but did not make it a memorable character. Mare Winningham probably delivered the most memorable character.

[GrnBay007]

C'mon now!!! I like Costner....and he's handsome to boot!!

Movies of his I liked...

The Guardian
The Bodyguard
Dances With Wolves
Revenge
Field of Dreams (shout out for Iowa!)

idk seems like there should be more.

[MJZiggy]

C'mon now!!! I like Costner....and he's handsome to boot!!

Movies of his I liked...

The Guardian
The Bodyguard
Dances With Wolves
Revenge
Field of Dreams (shout out for Iowa!)

idk seems like there should be more.

Seems I'm watching the wrong movies...

[woodbuck27]

Seems I'm watching the wrong movies...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099348/

Rating a very solid 8 out of 10. Not enough for some of you?

[woodbuck27]

Wist, I'll tell ya, when you find the "true" story, be sure to let everybody know. So much of the story of this and other feuds has been surpressed and altered. These people were engaged in criminal activity. Some of the participants lived until the 1950's. They were guilty of capital offenses and there is no statute of limitation on murder, then and now. What the real deal was never came out in a lot of situations.

That said, it is a hell of a show.

No kidding as with most of TV pure CRAP this series is refreshing.

[MadtownPacker]

Looks like you can watch it on the HistoryChannel website.

http://www.history.com/shows/hatfields-and-mccoys

[MJZiggy]

Looks like you can watch it on the HistoryChannel website.

http://www.history.com/shows/hatfields-and-mccoys

Sweet! Thank you! Now we know what I'll be doing this week. Anyone know how I hook my laptop up to this fancy TV?

[MadtownPacker]

Sweet! Thank you! Now we know what I'll be doing this week. Anyone know how I hook my laptop up to this fancy TV?

If your tv has a VGA connection you should be able to do it with a PC monitor cable.

[MJZiggy]

I wonder if I have one of those laying around still...

[wist43]

The show was okay... and for the record, I've always liked Costner. I didn't like Bill Paxton's portrayal of Randall McCoy though.

For the most part, I think the show stayed pretty close to what we know happened. 3 Hatfields dead, 7 McCoys.

[wist43]

C'mon now!!! I like Costner....and he's handsome to boot!!

Movies of his I liked...

The Guardian
The Bodyguard
Dances With Wolves
Revenge
Field of Dreams (shout out for Iowa!)

idk seems like there should be more.

If you're a romantic, you'll like "For Love of the Game".

[Zool]

Is it his multi-dimensional character portrayals that swayed you? His delivery is as monotone and flat as you can get.

[wist43]

Is it his multi-dimensional character portrayals that swayed you? His delivery is as monotone and flat as you can get.

I prefer emotionless killing - getting all worked up, all the unneccessary histrionics... where's the percentage in that?? No, monotone works for me... shoot 'em and be done with it

[KYPack]

The show was okay... and for the record, I've always liked Costner. I didn't like Bill Paxton's portrayal of Randall McCoy though.

For the most part, I think the show stayed pretty close to what we know happened. 3 Hatfields dead, 7 McCoys.

That's about the body count. There's a lot of this that is lost in the "fog of war". For instance, The show has the hanging of "cotton top" Mounts. They show Cotton top as a cute young, mentally challenged kid going to his doom. he rides in on a carriage, waving to the crowd of a hundred people or so.

Actually, "Cotton top" was a big guy with a shock of prematurely gray hair, (hence the nickname.). he was driven to the gallows guarded by 60 armed men, seated on his own casket. the crowd was huge, 4-8000 jeering specatators, including McCoys and their sympathysers. It's one of the biggest events in the history of Pikeville.

Mounts hanging was violent and bizarre deal, like many of the other actions in the feud.

I think the writers and producers did veer from the truth when some of the more sick and twisted incidents are portrayed.