atomicinumatt Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 So I re-watched Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy today and honestly, The Good the Bad and the Ugly is probably the best piece of cinema from the last 80 years.. So good. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insipid Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 Why 80 years? Please don't say Citizen Kane. Also chanbara > spaghetti western Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atomicinumatt Posted December 31, 2022 Author Share Posted December 31, 2022 27 minutes ago, Insipid said: Why 80 years? Please don't say Citizen Kane. Also chanbara > spaghetti western Because after the 30s and 40s is when film started to get good. The tech began to proliferate and a community started to burgeon. Let me me refrain: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly is one of the best movies ever made. I am no film snob, but it is just unequivocally the best IMO. Citizen Kane is good but the Dollars Trilogy will always be my favorite movies.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insipid Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 (edited) I know Citizen Kane came out in 1941, which is why I thought you said past 80 years. This has more to do with my autistic recollection of trivia than film snobbery. Also, I brought up chanbara because A Fistful of Dollars is basically a readaptation of Yojimbo. Kurosawa even wrote Leone saying he liked the film, but it was actually his film. Edited December 31, 2022 by Insipid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewBluntsworth Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 Never seen any of the dirty harry movies. Someone actually gave me the trilogy but I never watched it and eventually got rid of it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewBluntsworth Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 (edited) I did rewatch Burn After Reading last night for the first time in some years, reaffirmed itself as my favorite Corn Brothers movie (sometimes I forget and think it might be The Man Who Wasn't There) Edited December 31, 2022 by NewBluntsworth Corn Brothers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1pooh4u Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 The Good The Bad and The Ugly is definitely my fav of the three but I also enjoyed Sergio Leone’s version of Kaze No Yo jimbo, I believe that was For a Few Dollars More (he puts two towns against each other) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atomicinumatt Posted December 31, 2022 Author Share Posted December 31, 2022 58 minutes ago, Insipid said: I know Citizen Kane came out in 1941, which is why I thought you said past 80 years. This has more to do with my autistic recollection of trivia than film snobbery. Also, I brought up chanbara because A Fistful of Dollars is basically a readaptation of Yojimbo. Kurosawa even wrote Leone saying he liked the film, but it was actually his film. Yea I always found the stories by themselves a bit trivial. For me the movie is perfect because of the cinematography, direction, score, etc. it all is perfect IMO. The whole 80 years thing was me just referring to film in general haha The last 20 minutes are so epic though. Barely any dialog and just pure acting. Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef are GOAT and their performances in the final film are some of the best of all time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atomicinumatt Posted December 31, 2022 Author Share Posted December 31, 2022 53 minutes ago, NewBluntsworth said: Never seen any of the dirty harry movies. Someone actually gave me the trilogy but I never watched it and eventually got rid of it... Dirty Hairy is pretty good but the Dollars Trilogy, and The Good The Bad and The Ugly in particular are amazing. Definitely give it a watch if you can haha 36 minutes ago, 1pooh4u said: The Good The Bad and The Ugly is definitely my fav of the three but I also enjoyed Sergio Leone’s version of Kaze No Yo jimbo, I believe that was For a Few Dollars More (he puts two towns against each other) FFoD and FaFDM are great but yea, the Final Film is just so good. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1pooh4u Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 20 minutes ago, atomicinumatt said: Dirty Hairy is pretty good but the Dollars Trilogy, and The Good The Bad and The Ugly in particular are amazing. Definitely give it a watch if you can haha FFoD and FaFDM are great but yea, the Final Film is just so good. Eli Wallach as Tuco was one of my fav parts of the movie. Cinematically it’s a masterpiece and the musical score was also great. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atomicinumatt Posted December 31, 2022 Author Share Posted December 31, 2022 (edited) 48 minutes ago, 1pooh4u said: Eli Wallach as Tuco was one of my fav parts of the movie. Cinematically it’s a masterpiece and the musical score was also great. Wallach is one of my favorite actors of all time (RIP). He was perfect as Tuco. The graveyard scene where he startles the dog and then proceeds to run around looking for the grave that Blondie told him about with the gold. All the long shots and swirling camera motion with that score on top of it.. **chefs kiss** EDIT: This is the scene I am talking about. It leads right up to the finale. Zero dialog. So fucking good. Edited December 31, 2022 by atomicinumatt 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sieg67 Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 The Good the Bad and the Ugly was always one of those films that I dismissed thinking it was just a typical western. I'm planning on picking it up at the mall now that I've seen RLM's review of it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsar4 Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 (edited) On 12/30/2022 at 10:47 PM, atomicinumatt said: So I re-watched Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy today and honestly, The Good the Bad and the Ugly is probably the best piece of cinema from the last 80 years.. So good. You might like "My Name is Nobody", you might recognize the plot as being somewhat the same as a very popular later movie. Spaghetti western, but with more comedy. Another one with Terrence Hill is "Trinity is Still My Name". Edited January 1, 2023 by tsar4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sieg67 Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 3 hours ago, tsar4 said: You might like "My Name is Nobody", you might recognize the plot as being somewhat the same as a very popular later movie. Spaghetti western, but with more comedy. Another one with Terrence Hill is "Trinity is Still My Name". Good movie but the scenes just ran on for way too long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemming Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 If you like spaghetti westerns check high plains drifter lonesome dove and deadwood that is all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsar4 Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 On the oddball side of westerns - Evil Roy Slade (John "Gomez Addams" Astin as a man in black gunslinger) Support Your Local Sheriff/Support Your Local Gunfighter (James "Maverick/Rockford Files" Garner) A Gunfight (Johnny Cash & Kirk Douglas) The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (Paul Newman in a historical fiction movie) and of course Once Upon a Time in the West (Charles Bronson as the good guy and Henry Fonda as the bad guy - Fonda's bad guy was voted the most evil person in some survey at the time) And of course the star-studded "The Magnificent Seven" (The Seven Samurai goes western). Yul Brynner reprises the gunslinger he portrays in "Return of the Seven" and in the original "Westworld" and in "Futureworld". Brynner also did "Adios, Sabata" and "Pancho Villa". Oh, and this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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