Buffalo Bill And The Indians details
| Format: | PG DVD |
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| Starring: | Will Sampson, Geraldine Chaplin, Burt Lancaster, Paul Newman, Shelley Duvall, Joel Grey |
| Director: | Robert Altman |
| Genre: | Action/Adventure - War |
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Buffalo Bill And The Indians |
PG Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 58 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 30 Aug 2004 |
| Main languages: | English |
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Avoid if your are sane
By a customer from London, England , 19 Dec 2004[Highly rated reviewer]
Having Paul Newman and Burt Lancaster on board, directed by Robert Altman, one would bet this must be a good movie, or at least solid entertainment. And one would loose. This is one of the worst movies I ever saw. After about one hour I started to skip ahead. It is a pointless farcical movie with no plot, no direction that I could see, and no sense at all. It is all done in a farcical way but it is not funny. It is about the kind of circus owned by Wild Bill but there is nothing except stupid rehearsals, lots of people worried about various aspects of the show, hints at Wild Bill?s adventures, but Newman himself does not do or say anything at all, he just hangs out there with the others. Terrible.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(8)Buffalo Bill and the Indians
By thecuckoo (107 reviews) , 31 May 2012The goings on and history of a wild west show.
Great actors poor dialogue and its long and drawn out with very little action apart from that what goes on in the ring.
A lot of opera singing in it as Wild Buffalo Bill had an appetite for young opera singers which he seemed to acquire very easily for being way out west.
Bill and Sitting Bull had a sort of feud going on each trying to prove each other right.
Sitting Bull won the so called arguement then made a break for freedom he got shot while they were trying to capture him and only Annie Oakley seem to shed a tear for him.- Was this review helpful to you?
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By a customer from UK , 23 Jun 2008Watching this movie (despite the big stars like Paul Newman and -I think - Burt Lancaster) was like watching something written by a complete lunatic. It portrayed Bill as a drunk, who surrounded himself with sycophants and women with a penchant for opera singing.
The only sane characters were the indians. Even they didn't get a fair representation.
Sorry to be so negative, but this was really quite appalling.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Always on the verge of something
By Savage (632 reviews) from London, England , 27 Oct 2006Way out in the American hinterlands, Buffalo Bill is trying to keep his legendary travelling Wild West show in order; trying to stop it becoming just another circus. But he's a manipulative, blustering, lying, arrogant, impotent drunk, and while he rules his gang of yes-men and blowhards with a rod of iron, the centre cannot hold. Especially when the noble savage turns up in the person of Sitting Bull, silent, impassive, mysterious and always one jump ahead.
Arthur Kopit's play is a minor classic, and Altman has approached it with his usual lack of respect, turning it into something very like a piece of self-parody. No-one can miss the fact that this is an Altman film, all his usual tropes are present, but none of them work very well here, leading one to the suspicion that the director sees a little of Buffalo Bill in himself. A fraudster and a huckster, apparently revealing the dark underbelly of America in classics like 'The long goodbye' and 'Nashville', but actually just perpetrating another version of the same old myth.
Which doesn't make the result a good movie - or a particularly interesting one, given how long Altman spins out his two points - but any fan of the director, anyone who thinks he knows what Altman is about, has to see this oddball portrait of a unique, mendacious showman.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Buffalo Swill
By RJNeb2 (924 reviews) from London , 17 Apr 2006In which Robert Altman contends that America is founded not on valour and heroism but on showmanship and illusion. Or something. When Altman is good, he can be very very good, but when he's off form - and he most certainly is here with this relentlessly uninteresting account of Buffalo Bill's Western show, the first American theme park - he can be exceedingly tiresome.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Not So Wild About This Western
By klauski from west sussex , 25 Apr 2005A generous 3 rating for a film which tries to recapture the brilliance of the director's previous works, such as MASH and Nashville, but fails.
It fails largely because the canvas is too narrow when compared to those other two movies, with a restricted location, few characters, and a nasty (rather than satirical) edge to the story.
The film uses the character of Buffalo Bill to show how American heroes are more likely to be the creation of myth, propaganda and downright lies. Whereas Bill presents himself to the world as a hero of the West, he is clearly a coward, a drunk, an abuser of Indians, and a general deadbeat. His gift is for self-publicity and manipulation.
In this, the film is very much a product of 1970s anti-Nixon and anti-Vietnam sentiment: the "Red Indians" are seen in the same light as the Vietnamese, exploited and victimised by a crass, aggressive culture. The film tries to be quirkily comic, but fails most of the time, and it does drag. So, if you are a scholar of Robert Altman, catch this oddity: otherwise, perhaps not one of his great works.- Was this review helpful to you?
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