I enjoyed the 2 parts I have seen and will watch the rest. A lot better than

most of the TV crap that is on today. I'm not talking about just movies.

I think that damn lawyer should be hung. Ken U

Well, I didn't want to mention this because there be a few posters on this forum I'm suspectin' have some Hatfield blood in them (The Literalist, APrice and Buzz-gun come to mind). My great, great, great Grandfather was none other that Tronald P. McCoy, the original inventor of the the cotton gin and a varietly of high quality, yet reasonably priced Cat grooming devices. His pattens were all stolen by the damn Hatfields! I'm still fixen to get even ya'll.

Tron,

Your story is a touching one, yet highly suspect.

Nobody alive in those days would bother to devote any time to devising "Cat grooming devices".

First reason being that cats were for practical purposes in those days, vice strokin'. The most significant factor debasing your tale is that the Buck family had already invented the Buck Knife, which remains the perfect cat skinin'--oops, I mean cat grooming device ever devised.

Guy B.

I am watching and like it so far, but when I read where it was filmed I was shocked. They filmed the thing in the mountains of Transylvania. I though we still had some back woods left in this Country.

Tom Furst

Guy, you write like a damn Hatfield............

Reading these posts is almost as entertaining as last nights episode and probably as fictional. I am watching it and interested in the way they portray Appalacihians. I have lived with these very proud and simple people for the past 6 years. The portrayl in the series I believe is fairly accurate. As I explained to my wife last night who took some offense in the percieved portrayl of ignorant Southerners, there is a difference between illiterate and ignorant. The Appalachians during that time did best with what they had which was primarily Family. It's still that way today. Can't wait till tonights episode via DVR without commercials evry 5 minutes.

blade819

I bet that lawyer was a democrat

warren

I didn't get to watch it, but my wife did. I was going to watch it later, but she said in the first twenty minutes she hardly understood a word that was said. This woman has hearing like a whitetail deer, but she said that the backgroun d noise and music was so overbearing that she could not understand the dialogue. If she can't understand it, I know an old shooter like me can't! Jack

Use closed caption if having trouble with background noise in the film or understanding the dialects. Comes in real handy when watching BBC.

This is not Academy Award material, but then what is. From what I read about the feud, this accounting is closer than any previous Hollyweird treatment.

Lots of details left out, some sterotyping for sure, but trying to tell a story that took over 25 years to unfold in 5 hours (after commercials) isn't that easy.

I'm sure its been embelished a bit...because who would really want to watch 30+ years of two families bickering

I dont understand how anyone can watch programs with 4 minutes of show and 5 minutes of commercials and so on. I record on my DVR harddrive used to speed up scan button to get thru commercials 'til I found a button,SKIP, initially press is 30 sec,now a fast couple taps and any time I use 4 minutes on skip and a fast scan no commercials. I hope its good, most TV yuk, thank heaven for gun cleaning.

Why Calvin,,the same people who would argue 7 1/2s or 8's

lol Doug H.

I enjoy it, it is my kind of show. Will probably even watch it again. I personally think the acting is not to bad. They are shooting the right guns for the era and riding horses that are close to being historically correct not huge athletic looking quarter horses. Wish they would make more movies like it. I do agree that the commercials are a bit overdone.

I watched ir from beginning to end the only thing that irratated me was the commercials. I will buy it when it comes out on DVD so I can watch it with interruptions, just like I did with Band of Brothers and others. Woody

Not to bad of a show, won't rush out and buy it on DVD though.

Hollyweird and Accuracy is a oxymoron!

Yep, the commercials and their amount, especially in the last 45 minutes was totally out of line!! They should have realized that the people who watched, would be more interested in the "what happened to them" at the end of the show then the whole movie. They didn't give enough time to read the sub-lines!!!

Poor time management!

Sad thing is, of all the shows that were on cable at that time slot, it was the only thing of any substance!

I read on the internet that this was the most watched cable tv program ever with the exception of sports. I watched it all and thought it was good entertainment and I learned a few things. In my area it competed with Oreily and Sean and it was a pleasent break from politics. Those tv commercial people must think the viewing public are idiots, I'm really not interested in Joe Thiesmans prostate.

warren

I dont care about Joes prostate either...nor do I need a Pos-T-Vac...or a bottle of Cyvita..for Longer, Stronger, more frequent erections..but the idea of chatting with a "We are 18" girl is interesting

Guess I am different. I really enjoyed it. But yes some of the background noise was not good at all. From all I have read this was a fairly close accounting of the events. I never like commercials on anything I watch.

Wesleyb

I should tape it then I could watch the whole thing in a couple of hours. Just fast forward past the COMMERCIALS.

Excellent! Less the boring and bothersome commercials. Can't wait till it comes out on DVD with 3 hrs. of extras. All in all, very good. Highest 3 nights of cable viewers ever.

blade819

The Geico Hatfield and McCoy Cave man commerial was hilarious.

My step-dad was a Hatfield from Oklahoma. My mom showed me a picture of devil Anse and he and my step dad looked incredibly alike.

It would have been a pretty good show if it had been filmed somewhere that looked even remotely like Kentucky.

I believe some of it was shot in WV. However, most outdoor scence were shot outside LA and they even used John Boy's cabin as on of their cabins.

blade819

They mixed in events that happened after the feud. It was dramatized big time. In 25 years 13 people lost their lives some were just drunks fighting. I saw at least 13 shot in one scene.

As far as performances go I think Tom Berenger was excellent as Jim Vance. He was a good instigator and convincing dirtbag

Speaking of Berenger, I did not even know he was in it, until my wife pointed out who he was near the end of the first episode.

Guess that is what makes a good actor for me, is when you get so caught up in their character, you lose sight of who they are, even you know who they are before you see the moive.

Saying that howver there are the icons that you liked so well you did not care if their character was the same one in each and every movie, i.e. Wayne, Stewart, Fonda, etc., etc.

I didn't know that was Berenger either, but thought the actor playing Jim Vance did a great job. Now I know why.

Much to do about nothing IMHO.

Now, Lonesome Dove, that's all together different. Don't know if that could be topped.

Romania Becomes Appalachia (2:03)

Discover why the Southeastern European country of Romania was used as the Appalachian backdrop of the Hatfields & McCoys mini-series.

Thanks Joe. Living in Appalachia now, I find it very, very, VERY hard to believe their reason(s).

blade819

I was born and raised, and had my first job in Southern WVa. We studied the feud as WVa history in school--some of this was correct but other parts such as the multiple marriages and basic immorality were things we were not presented with. I'll give them some benefit of doubt since perhaps our teachers didn't think that material was appropriate for eighth graders in 1967. I do believe the amount of bloodshed was less than depicted and the feud actually lasted and festered a lot longer than they led one to believe. Don't think the families crossing paths was a frequent event either. I think not filming in the actual location may have had to do with the still strong union loyalties that exist in WVa and the higher production costs that would likely cause the producers. I had no trouble understanding the dialect used, but my wife from Pa. sure did. (Can't imagine why LOL) You'll not find finer people anywhere--they may not all be wealthy or even well educated but they are fine people and intellegent in most ways that matter.

Tom Frazer

Excellent commentary TF / Tom Frazer.

Tom I agree the best people you could meet anywhere.

How about they do a mini-series on the last 50 years in kenya? I'm tired of reliving the civil war , the hatfields & mccoys for the last 150 years. I'd like to see the navies of the world smoke the somali pirates. I'd like to see all our men & women in harm's way come home. I'd like to see our governmant chase all the illegal aliens (including obama) out of the USA. I'd like to see our government tell the UN to take a flying F**K.

I thought it was a good mini-series, the Hollywood writers had to write the dialogue so that you and I could understand it, and still have the hillbilly accent. Illiteracy was very commonin those parts back then. One of the problems the producers had was finding actors who could speak with hillbilly dialogue with an accent. Tom Berenger, Bill Paxton and Kevin Costner did a poor job trying to copy that accent. Powers Booth did an okay job, but he is originally from the south. It was filmed in Romania probably for cost reasons.

TF..nicely said! OZ.... good way to pollute a thread!

blade819

Oz for Sect. of Defense!

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