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Dances with Wolves (Special Extended Edition) Customer Reviews (7 - 9 of 64 Reviews)

Panoramic gem of a movie
Although I'm not a Kevin Costner fan, I have to admit that he done real good with this movie--both acting and directing. This truly is an epic and wonderful film that will always be one of my favorites, as well as one of the best westerns of all time. Amazing cinematography warmly embraces the beauty, story, and history this film has to offer. Very, very highly recommended.

I was and am transfixed
Dances With Wolves is a cinematic masterpiece - a tour de force almost beyond the power of words to praise or describe.

This film gathers its power slowly but steadily, and unleashes it with an irresistible tidal wave of feeling that blurs the lines between a theatrical experience and a genuine outpouring of very real grief at the tragedy of the American West.

When John Dunbar encounters Stands With Fist under a tree, mourning her dead husband with blood flowing from her wrist, he binds her wound with an American flag. If the symbolism of that moment doesn't have the tears pouring down your face, nothing will.

This is perhaps the first film in the history of American cinema to have the courage to represent faithfully the noble people that we destroyed in our rushed hunger for land, for gold, for riches. In John Dunbar's transformation from army officer to honorary Lakota Sioux, we are confronted with our own failure, our own short-sightedness, in imposing our own beliefs and culture on people who needed nothing from us but to be left alone.

Of course it wasn't possible. The moment the first white man crossed the Mississippi River, the open West's days were numbered. We encountered people who built no fences, who owned no land, who gathered no wealth and who saw the land and the animals not as something to be conquered or tamed, but as something to be worshipped. We met these people, and in our greed-distorted vision, we saw them as savages.

Dances With Wolves clears our vision, and gives us a haunting, powerful, wrenchingly-evocative glimpse of what was lost by both Indians and Whites in the clash of cultures.

back in the days
ive seen this movie in the early 90's and no wonder why Kevin Costner won the best director in this movie, great great epic movie

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