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I've waited for this DVD for years!
Sit down and get comfortable, cause you're going to be there for the long haul. With an additional 56 minutes, the film is just under 4 HOURS LONG. Not that that's a bad thing.

The original DVD is now out of print, and has been for some year or two now. When I heard that, I was shocked. This is one of the best films ever made, and at least with this one, the 'powers that be' took notice, and gave it 7 oscars. This is an epic of a film that sees John Dunbar (Kevin Costner) during the US civil war. He's given his choice of assignments, so he chooses Ft. Sedgewick, "the westernmost fort in the realm". He arrives to find it deserted.

Dunbar begins interacting with the local Sioux indians in what is some of the best film ever shot. The characters are rich and full of life, and the indian culture is portrayed as both beautiful and violent. This film shows a different side of the indians than most other films, a very refreshing side.

This DVD set contains TONS of extras, more than I could describe here. They are well worth the extra price, and make a great addition to the film. The added hour of footage gives more insight into the characters and really make this film better believe it or not. The scenes were originally cut for obvious film-length reasons.

All that said, I feel that this film is one of the best movies ever made, and that everyone should watch it at least once. I think it gives a bit of insight into the plight of the native americans, and shows us how their culture existed in harmony with nature before Europeans came. There are many messages in this film. I hope everyone enjoys it as much as I do.

Dissapointting statement
When you watch the run of the arrow of Samuel Fuller, you'll know why this a adaptation of that one, but without its force.
I didn't have notice of Fuller's movie till I read a long interview in 1996 in a Spanish magazine called Nosferatu, in which Mr. Fuller complainted around the special fact that Dances was a light reading of the run of the arrow.
But we know what happened with Samuel Fuller.
I think Mr. Costner who undoubtly is very original with the use of the camera, seems to carry by the safe road of a tearful movie, in a clear searching of touching the soul and heart of the viewer. The excess of romanticism about an outlaw who decides to rebel against the rules.
There're too many elemental situations close to cliché, the story is too predictable than you'll be wondering why this movie won so many Academy awards if you compare with deepest and ambicious films , like The searchers, The naked spur, Ride the high country, Rio bravo, The man of the west, The life and times of judge Roy Bean, Sundance kid, Johnny guitar, The treasure of Sierra Madre, The wild bunch, The ballad of cable Hogue, Once upon a time in the west, or Tombstone (the best western in the last decade) to mention just a few.
Don't forget that the western is the mithology of the american cinema. So having this statement in mind, it`s difficult conciliate the anti-hero figure and accept it like political correct.
Thanks God that Mr. Costner thought a lot about that point and with his new film Open Range, he inscribed this film as the best western in this new century. I'm very glad about that. Because like Robert Refford and Clint Eastwood, Costner will be better remembered as director instead a standard actor And don't surprise if this new film is not so recognized like Dances, because it's too hard that another western be prized again by the Academy. It would be a record, considering that the Unforgiven won an Oscar by the best picture in 1992.
The fact that four films like Dances with wolves, Unforgiven, Forrest Gump, American beauty,have been rewarding with the Oscar in just the last decade is a point that deserves an apart mention. But if you turn your attention in films like Patton, Braveheart and Gladiator, (winners too) you'll understand that there's something in the air.

costner makes his point
i find it funny how many folks are upset that white men are portrayed as unflattering in this movie. the whole point of this movie is not only to entertain but to give us plain old white folks a taste of how those of other cultures felt when they had been portrayed as idiots,etc. Growing up and watching movies as a child on saturday mornings the only cool indian i remember was tonto. and what about tarzen kicking a whole bunch of natives behinds darn near single handedly? costner wants us to think and fill a little of what others have felt over the years.this i think was one of his main points of this great movie. also check out open range.

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