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The Good the Bad and the Ugly of course. I hope you
check it out and love it like I do.
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Mmmm, i better exclude myself from this...
"See...you...soon...idi...?"
"idiots!"
"Eh?"
"Its for you!"
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The Dollars Trilogy for me. Nothing else comes close, much as I like his others.
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If you asked a computer this question (like in that ep of THE PRISONER) it would spit smoke , fire and electrical sparks before crashing.
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If you asked a computer this question (like in that ep of THE PRISONER) it would spit smoke , fire and electrical sparks before crashing.
no it wouldnt el Bruco. It would say "Dont ask stupid questions, everybody knows its GBU!"
"Is that your family?....Mmmm, nice family."
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May 27, 2017 - 1:54 PM
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Richard-W
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THE BEGUILED takes place in Georgia which is in the south not in the west. The Civil War was fought mostly in the south. So Civil War movies are period films and historical films but not westerns.
Spaghetti westerns are foreign hybrids of various genres and have so little to do with the American west and more to do with European fascism so that they're not really westerns. They're foreign art films that steal and exploit the iconography of the American western. Some would argue there's not much art to them, either. TGTBATU makes mincemeat of the Civil War and geography so it's not really a western. That's what I like about it -- the fact that it's not really a western. It's Tuco's film all the way. And the best scene goes to Angel Eyes. Clint plays third fiddle until the end and then he's a real twinkle-toes. There are some great and memorable scenes and moving passages but it isn't a western.
I used to think THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES was Clint's best western. I enjoyed it so much when it was new that I went back to see it a few times. Watched it again recently and was disappointed. It is monotonous, plodding, every scene the same, and it goes on and on without any development or arc to it. Also, I've read the books, and I find that Clint had no idea what the story was about and no grasp of the subtext the author was dealing with. A lot of depth is sacrificed so that Clint can be cool. It's an obtuse one-note movie.
HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER is an unauthorized remake of a third-rate spaghetti western and really ugly in its depiction of, well, everything and everybody. It also advocates rape. PAL RIDER is a rip-off of SHANE with the collars and cuffs switched around. Both are minor B films and not very well made. UNFORGIVEN tells the same story twice. First, English Bob goes through the ordeal, then Clint goes through the same ordeal. They only needed to do it once. I would have preferred cutting Clint's character and reassigning all his business to English Bob because Richard Harris is an interesting actor.
HANG 'EM HIGH (1970) is a classic American western directed by Ted Post (who also directed the best of the Dirty Harry movies MAGNUM FORCE) and Clint is actually good in it. But Don Siegel directed Clint's best western, TWO MULES FOR SISTER SARA (1970). It looks and feels authentic, what with its source novel and Mexican locations. Even the score by Ennoi Morricone sounds like a kicking mule. What a great score. So I recommend HANG 'EM HIGH and TWO MULES FOR SISTER SARA.
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, despite its final act, I'd go for Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970).
