The latest efforts are barely worth viewing. The orginal trilogy was pretty darned good, mainly because it WAS so original. People should know when to quit, when it comes to a good idea, but tell that to the movie industry or Tim Horton's or WalMart or any other profit-oriented monstrosity of that sort.

Black Robe is a very good film, but I still love Dances With Wolves. It is Kevin Kostner's unequaled moment of glory in a career that has seen some pretty poor movies (and a few quite good ones).

I really liked "Heaven And Earth", a Vietnam movie with some real Vietnamese roles in it (which is very rare...usually they're all just about Americans (the only real people in the eyes of Hollywood), and the "gooks" are just there to get shot at, etc...). That's what Indians were for too, in most of the westerns ever made.

- LH