Deadwood: The Movie

I have watched Deadwood many times over and waited in anticipation for this movie. I truly was not disappointed. It was unfortunate that a few characters were missing (due to death and other committments) however it was perfect. It did not feel like years had passed since the final series episode ended. I cried and I laughed but most of all I wanted it to never end.

Love the series and like the way the movie ties up the story. The characters are great and their personalities have not been lost. My only complaint is that the dialog seemed forced and at times like the actors were reading the script for the first time.

I am an avid fan of the first 3 seasons, bought them all at full price when they can out. All I can say is the story was very weak, no plot, bad acting, and the ending looked like a Hallmark Christmas movie ending..... Very disappointed...

Fantastic to have one last chance to visit these wonderfully rendered characters, listen to the language and lines, and get a feel for the time period again. An amazing job to get them all back together again and carry on like nothing had passed, except time, and it is not lost on us what a privilege and major feat it was to make that happen, although it shouldn't have been so in the first place, thank you to all involved who pushed this through, diverting budget from another hollow reality show with no meaning, into something of artistic merit, which this most certainly is. To the actual movie/episode; the story was almost secondary to giving the characters some forward movement, and closure, to see how they had carried on with their lives, learned to live with each other etc etc, and the plot did feel kind of secondary to that, ie baddie did something bad, and is found out, case closed etc. Seeing Swearingen age and Succumb to life was a core feature of this episode, but there was so much to fit into such a small space, but so thankful they did. It should be more, why isn't it?

This sucked. The flowery dialogue gave me a headache. Too much, trying too hard. Same story, same players, but a very unclear storyline. Just, meh.

Based on my opinion of the excellent series I wanted to rate this so much higher. The performances are great, the production values high, dialogue and humour good and delivered well. Unfortunately the plot, or what passes for a plot feels so contrived. Too much packed into 2 hours ruins the pace and impacts on the delivery. No subtlety, no flavour. It's not the Deadwood I remembered so fondly. At the end I felt like I'd watched a Christmas Special of an average drama.

This movie, a brilliant & touching send off to one of the best series ever aired, is like a study on how to write a finale. Every character has a prime moment, the story flows beautifully and it's full of comedy, pathos & action. It makes me wonder how HBO let some shows go on well past their due date and ended this prematurely. Congratulations to all involved for giving the fans the best send off anyone could expect and more.

Finally, we returned to Deadwood! My family has been waiting for this for SOO Long...we felt like we were attending a family reunion after being away for 10 years...this is the most perfect ending to a perfect series...every once in a while in the movie industry, all actors, actresses, plot, scenery, director & writer come together to make an unforgettable, magical work of art....this is DEADWOOD. The characters have aged but the magnificent prose that each espoused years ago is still as familiar as old slippers....The end was very much like attending the funeral of a beloved relative....too bad there will never be another masterpiece like this show!

This was less a movie than it was a curtain call, a love-in, a goodbye to the characters of the series. I wouldn't have even been a particularly memorable episode of the series, a series that definitely had its ups and downs. I liked it but thought that it never deserved more than the three seasons it was allotted, and it didn't make the best use of the final episodes. This movie was a sad close to a series that had some great moments but ended on a sour note. This movie was mostly sour. So now the vile Al Swearengen is avuncular and a softy on his death bed? Ugh, I'd rather strangle him with my bare hands than see him fall to this fate. I never liked the Calamity Jane character and certainly didn't want to see her softer, lesbian side. I'm surprised they decided not to reinvent her as transgender seeing how fashionable that is these days. This reminded me of A Very Brady Christmas, not exactly what I was expecting for an ending to Deadwood. OK, this truly was terrible. I hope that the writer(s) was an unpaid intern, because if someone got paid for this it means there is no order to the universe. If you thought this was "brilliant" you have low standards for that adjective.

As a huge Deadwood fan, I marked my calendar for the Deadwood movie in order to see how everything wrapped up. Unfortunately, it took almost an hour for anything substantive to happen story-wise. Also, the guiding plot line seemed weak. There were a couple of moments of true Deadwood excitement, but these moments were ruined by Al's newfound blandness and weakness. Deadwood's strong point had always been dynamic characters and interesting plots. Neither existed here. I felt let down and like after all these years in hiatus, I deserved more.