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Post by andydecker on Jul 2, 2014 10:24:26 GMT
I have a soft spot of both Sabata movies with Lee Van Cleef. At times they are groanworthy parodistic, but I like the sheer weirdness of them. Today I guess one could name them Gothic Westerns more then Spaghetti Westerns.
I recently rewatched The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, and frankly I thought it too long this time. Maybe I have seen too much documentaries on the american Civil War, but the willful (and often playful) ignorance of historic facts was more tiresome then entertaining. Also in retrospect it seemed so much tamer then films like Il grande silencio or the original Django. These were dirty little movies and much more subversive then Leone after he became a Director.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jul 2, 2014 11:18:43 GMT
I recently rewatched The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, and frankly I thought it too long this time. Maybe I have seen too much documentaries on the american Civil War, but the willful (and often playful) ignorance of historic facts was more tiresome then entertaining. It is a "re-imagining," in which the Civil War takes place in a desert.
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Post by mattofthespurs on Jul 2, 2014 15:44:00 GMT
Thank fuck I never let facts get in the way of a film.
I think it would probably ruin all films for me forever.
FWIW, TGTBATU won the Oscar for best Civil war film set in a desert in 1964. Two years before it was released.
Good going, I say.
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Jul 2, 2014 18:54:04 GMT
I'm not a huge fan of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly--I find it a bit too long and much prefer For a Few Dollars More. There's also something about that wah-wah theme tune that just curls my toes. Heretic! Burn him! BURN HIM! I like the "wah-wah" theme just fine, but I prefer the music from the long scene near the end where Tuco runs around the graveyard looking for the right grave. It's called "The Ecstasy of Gold."
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Post by ripper on Jul 5, 2014 20:01:58 GMT
That scene is one of the ones I like from the film and the music played is very good indeed.
The spags that I really can't stand are those comedy ones with Terence Hill and Bud Spencer. Even My Name is Nobody, which I think is quite well thought of, I find only so-so, as those acrobatic tricks performed by Hill put me off. Generally, I like my spags to be grim and dirty. Increasingly, I find myself nowadays seeking out obscure american westerns from the 60s and 70s.
In (I think) 1976, ATV ran a season of spags and obscure US westerns in their "Savage West" season in the post News at Ten slot. I think this was when I first saw A Town called B*st*rd and Cry Blood, Apache. Does anyone else remember that season that ATV broadcast. Actually, I am assuming it was just shown on ATV but maybe it was shown across all the regions?
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