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Epic Ratings for ‘Hatfields & McCoys’ on History Channel
The New York Times ^
| May 29, 2012
| BILL CARTER
Posted on 05/29/2012 2:27:36 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: Bratch
I couldn’t get into it. Too much of a guy movie.
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posted on
05/29/2012 2:59:31 PM PDT
by
FrdmLvr
(culture, language, borders)
To: Bratch
I watched it last nigh as well. Unfortunately, I missed the first ten minutes so I had to try and piece together where the animosity between the two men was first ignited. I'll try and re-watch this part some other time as I'm currently away from a TV.
Both actors did a convincing job. Costner, for some reason tends to be an actor I can't really stand unless he's starring in a western, and then he's great!
I didn't even realize it was Tom Berenger playing Hatfield's violent uncle until I saw his name on the IMDB entry after the film was over. Powers Boothe, as always, is great in this genre.
My only complaint is the "Romeo and Juliet" sub-plot between Roseanne McCoy and Johnes Hatfield seems a little sappy. I wonder if this was true to history or if they added it to try and appeal to younger viewers?
Looking forward to Part 2!
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posted on
05/29/2012 3:00:28 PM PDT
by
Drew68
(I WILL vote to defeat Barack Hussein Obama!)
To: I Drive Too Fast
I’ll have to catch a repeat of it.
To: LS
Still-and I didnt see this but would like to-I am extremely skeptical about these numbers.I suspect the cable numbers are pretty good, since they form the basis for renewal negotiations, i.e. how much the channels will get for their content from the cable/satellite/phone company. Today's digital set-top boxes probably have the capability to send information about what's being watched back to the cable/satellite/phone companies.
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posted on
05/29/2012 3:03:52 PM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
To: Bratch
I liked it.
Very interesting look at the complexities of the time. One McCoy brother a union soldier, the other confederate soldier and POW. Anse Hatfield a confederate deserter and friend of McCoy. All living in close proximity. And that was all before they got to the hog that supposedly touched it all off.
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posted on
05/29/2012 3:05:49 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: Bratch
I enjoyed the episode as well....but Costners bad southern accent was distracting. (Seems he has trouble with accents...ie: Robin Hood and his bad english accent)
To: burroak
Don’t forget Tin Cup as the best pure golf movie either (as opposed to Caddyshack being the best golf comedy) . Still watch it before every club tournament I play in...
Dollar bills...
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posted on
05/29/2012 3:10:02 PM PDT
by
shotgun
To: pepsionice
As for the History Channel doing productions like this in the future....Im all for it. And I can name off three possible productions (Lewis & Clarks expedition, Have you seen the IMAX production of the Lewis and Clark expedition? Extremely well done. I highly recommend it.
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posted on
05/29/2012 3:10:47 PM PDT
by
FrdmLvr
(culture, language, borders)
To: Bratch
When TV and Movies do good stuff, people watch.
When they do leftist propaganda stuff, people don’t watch.
The formula is relatively simple.
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posted on
05/29/2012 3:12:14 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
He was pretty ruthless in 3000 miles to Graceland opposite of Kurt Russell.
I believe Paxton got his first role in Terminator. He played one the punks that confront AH-nold in the first scene of the movie.
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posted on
05/29/2012 3:15:02 PM PDT
by
shotgun
To: Bratch
The Civil War stuff was great, but as it went on it looked a little slow and televisiony. Sets and acting not as good as, say, Deadwood.
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posted on
05/29/2012 3:17:26 PM PDT
by
x
To: Drew68
The Roseanne Johnes IS true. Johnes actually left her later, while she was pregnant, and married her cousin Nancy McCoy.
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posted on
05/29/2012 3:18:35 PM PDT
by
Jim from C-Town
(The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
To: Joe 6-pack
I would like to see that guy wandering around Yellowstone on an alien monster quest, just a some huge asteroid crasshe Yellowstone caldera setting off a huge earthquake, destroying half the earth, just like the ancient Myans and Nostradomus predicted.
It would be an entire History Channel season in one episode.
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posted on
05/29/2012 3:18:59 PM PDT
by
CharacterCounts
(A vote for the lesser of two evils only insures the triumph of evil.)
To: Jim from C-Town
From Wiki
The feud escalated after Roseanna McCoy began a relationship (courtship) with Johnson "Johnse" Hatfield (Devil Anse's son), leaving her family to live with the Hatfields in West Virginia. Roseanna eventually returned to the McCoys
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posted on
05/29/2012 3:21:38 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: Bratch
Since I live in Kentucky, Im naturally biased in favor of the production.
Maybe you'd be more in favor if you lived in Romania, which is where they actually shot it.
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posted on
05/29/2012 3:21:50 PM PDT
by
x
To: shotgun
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posted on
05/29/2012 3:23:25 PM PDT
by
GRANGER
To: Joe 6-pack
Actual history? I thought they didn’t know what caused the feud, much less that it was a pig. Or at least that’s what I gathered during the 30 seconds it held my attention.
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posted on
05/29/2012 3:27:21 PM PDT
by
bgill
To: TexasCajun
No telling how many millions were spent to hype the thing.Not near as much as AMC spent hyping Mad Men before it's first episode...
To: GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
“Either I’m going deaf or something is seriously wrong with the sound quality or audio/mic settings used during production of this program.”
Perhaps the show is being authentic. I can barely understand anyone here much further east than Richmond.
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posted on
05/29/2012 3:35:23 PM PDT
by
The Antiyuppie
("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
To: Jim from C-Town
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posted on
05/29/2012 3:37:49 PM PDT
by
Bratch
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