Hatfields & McCoys

[rpm]

Took me a while to catch Tom Berenger, I was looking for Sgt Barnes.

I was impressed with his performance. I never knew he had the acting chops to pull role that off. You could feel the mean oozing off of him.

[fbWldcat]

I was impressed with his performance. I never knew he had the acting chops to pull role that off. You could feel the mean oozing off of him.

He played his role well. Like it was said earlier, the cast was selected very well, and it made a great mini-series.

I love Bill Paxton in anything, but I think he played his part of going insane very well. He had a complex part and nailed it.

[jimson]

It was an excellent mini series. As others have said I hope it leads to more quality programming and less non-history garbage.

[Flench]

I did not like it . I'm ready for the Walking Dead to come back .

[Grayeagle]

I realize I made a crack at inbreeding being the cause of just how far wrong McCoy's decisions were.

The feud began with him and he escalated it until he was totally undone by it.

The story hit close to home.
You wouldn't expect there to be people on this planet who could go so far off the deep end,
..sadly I know some like that and worse, as relatives.
And they make a point of going to Church every Sunday which showed me in spades how much that means to some.
It's as if they use that as a license to be just as despicable as they can be.

They are always taken aback at the consequences of their actions..
.. then play the blame game loudly and often pointing everywhere but at the source in the mirror.

As Hatfield said 'You see a mean dog, do you go over and kick it?'

-GE aka Frank .. a mean dog when he has to be.
-just sayin, tm Pasha

[Dichotomy]

watching it now.  Always said the mark of a great actor is when they play a role you don't think about who they are.  Beringer and Paxton did a really good job of that.

[oakranger]

Who was right and who was wrong?  Who was the bad guys in all this?

[Chalenge]

To read this thread it seems some people think the Hatfields were in the right. I dont agree.

I find it interesting that the Vance that started it all by killing the Yankee (the first McCoy to die) has a descendant that today owns McCoy land as well as the McCoy cemetary and is to this day defying a court order to allow McCoy families access. Meanwhile the media is ignoring that and claiming the feud is settled. Stupidity reigns supreme!

[jd]

Ole man McCoy should have shot dead that two bit deserter Hatfield when he had the chance during the civil war. You dont up and leave your outfit. After that McCoy tried using legal means,but we see how that turned out. Interesting one line McCoy states his sons were innocent until proven guilty!?!?Good times, Goood times. lol

[Grayeagle]

on 'deserting' .. last days of the Confederacy.

When the prisons were death camps, the Union army average soldier would rather shoot you than accept surrender,
the Confederacy had lost.. I can understand why just goin back home would have it's appeal.

They were not going to accomplish anything by standing and delivering at that point,
..and like McCoy said ..the whole company got slaughtered except him.

If it had been me .. yes .. I would have asked McCoy to think about it but the decision to leave ..
..well .. that would have been determined by how personally attached I was to the company.

Apparantly the only close friend Hatfield had left in the company was McCoy.
Not close enough to stand beside him to the last apparantly.

No one I ever met would stand and deliver for 'the cause' or any political views or BS..
.. it's all about the friends you have in the unit.

The ones who have your back no matter what comes.

That is the bottom line.

-Frank aka GE

[PFactorDave]

History channel ran a new documentary on the fued today, voiced by Kevin Costner.  Intended to be a companion piece to the film, I am sure.

I was interested to learn that it was actually Johnse that beat down the McCoy mother (her name escapes me at the moment) and not the guy portrayed in the film.  It makes me wonder why the film makers felt it was necessary to preserve Johnse as more of a tragic figure then the bastage that he apparently really was.  It seems to me that it would have been better to let him do the deed.  He obviously had his own grudge against the McCoys, albeit for different reasons.

Some of the other details that the writers took liberties with seemed odd and unnecessary to me as well.