... like The God, The Bad and The Ugly, A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, Once Upon A Time In The West, My Name Is Nobody etc etc.... or I'm the only one lol
2007-08-12 16:32:14 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
... *The Good not The God... lol
2007-08-12 16:44:26 · update #1
...it's a shame that when most people (present company NOT included) think of Italian westerns, they think of only the Sergio Leone/Clint Eastwood trilogy; there are so many others, which warrant equal praise, that are waiting to be discovered by the uninitiated masses...
...the "Django" series (and it's respective off-shoots and emulations)
......the "Sartana" series (...love Lee Van Cleef in THAT role, although Yul Brenner made an amiable substitute, in one of the films)...
...I could go on and on, but I would easily favor some substantial space on this particular question/answer forum...
I used to be chastised by my father, for not having an appreciatation for the western; of course, his day and age of the western falls amidst the era of Roy Rogers, Tom Mix and Hopalong Cassidy. These films were O.K., and all, but the Italian Spaghetti Western had considerably more acidic and viceral 'bite' than even the Western epics that featured the great John Wayne.
...I'll personally take the raw, acidic and viceral attitude of the Spaghetti western, over an epic tale exuded by the Duke, anytime...
2007-08-12 16:51:55 · answer #1 · answered by Fright Film Fan 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've seen every Clint Eastwood Sergio Leone film, as well as his own pseudo-spaghetti westerns, at least 15 times each. Probably more.
The storytelling is superior, as is that of the samurai films that often exchange remakes.
It happens that I just saw "Silverado" last night (a standard western, no pasta), and saw the director's interview where he was saying how the western had been in disfavor when he made the movie, and that he'd wanted to re-create the westerns he'd grown up with. He called it a "post-modern" western. It had a great cast, but I found it hollow, even dumb.
There is a gritty realism to Leone's work. If you're going to shoot, shoot --- don't talk! Eastwood kind of took the genre as far as he could go, with "Pale Rider" seeming to be the end of the line. Years later he found the true "post-modern" western, and gave us "Unforgiven" -- a very hard act to follow.
2007-08-13 00:12:51 · answer #2 · answered by Less is Less 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are no alone my Favorite Clint Eastwood . The Good the Bad and the Ugly is my all time Fav
of the "Dollar Trilogy".
2007-08-13 00:00:03 · answer #3 · answered by Drake Deth 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I like the Spaghetti Westerns that Clint Eastwood made.
The ohters, I could do with or with out.
2007-08-13 00:48:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good, the bad and the ugly is one of the best movies of all time. Those movies are great.
2007-08-12 23:42:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I watch them quite frequently as do my 11 and 13 year olds do.
2007-08-13 00:07:13 · answer #6 · answered by tercentenary98 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd say yes but I am too busy just looking mean and smoking a cigar! HA!
They are great movies!!!
2007-08-13 02:42:57 · answer #7 · answered by G Money 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes those are some great films, I wouldn't of even gave them a chance, but my dad made us watch them over & over, thanks for those memories!
2007-08-13 00:00:47 · answer #8 · answered by Sun R 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I'm in the mood for one!!
2007-08-13 09:38:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋