Interesting but ultimately a missed opportunity

This is one rare movie whose only equal I know is Dances With Wolves, in terms of the honest and real Indian parts.
So I grew to relish all those talks and interaction, without which it would be a much shallower movie, adding a depth and realism. I think it was a gained opportunity.
Actually I viewed the other way round to you. At first I thought the talk would be tredious, but then increasingly was not.

But what takes the grand cake for this film, which it probably stands alone in, is the no-holds-barred, no flinching away from, westernisms in almost every other piece of dialogue, which almost crack me up, but not laughing at the movie.

Yes, Carlos Ramboldi's ghost-like buff, called Spike,is an inventive masterdon piece.

Another thing. If this film was made today, it would be a comnmercial, watery mess. Like most of Cowboys and Aliens whose only culture is bacterial, that grew inncreasingly in my mouth. Except once it started to pull itself out of the slime.
This odd comparison can give an appreciation of character the witty White Buffalo has, which appears to me as almost a literary film and partly the reason for its 'failure.'

A lot depends on what you expect, of course, which can often transform a movie. Even the same one. I started with low expectations and tolerance.

The dvd version is crisp and beautiful.