Clint Eastwood Westerns/Westerns in general...
ChefChiTown
The secret ingredient? MY BALLS
I don't remember. It's a great movie though. Be warned though...
- It's black and white
- It's grainy looking
- It's all subtitles (which I personally like)
- It's long; so long, in fact, that it has an INTERMISSION on the DVD
Good film certainly, but better than the Dollar Trilogy?
I'd say it's on par with A Fistful of Dollars and certainly better than For A Few Dollars More. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly though is in a league of its own.
One thing I've always felt though - Leone's films were good, but Morricone's scores made them masterpieces.
impossible to separate the music from the movie. one of the reasons why Morricone's score was so spectacularly successful was because Leone would discuss with him the scene beforehand, tell him what mood he was trying to achieve, and the music was then custom written/composed to fit that.
Skyraider22
The One and Only Big Daddy
His best was Outlaw Joise Wales.Western in general are great the beat Big Jake.:glugglug:
A Fistful of Dollars is the single greatest Western ever made. It's stylish, it's got a great, simple story. It is a masterpiece. **** I own it and watch it alot.
For A Few Dollars More -- is about a ** story and film. It seemed cheap-looking and Clint is really just a 3rd banana. It's Lee van Cleef's film.
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly is a *** film. It's as BROAD a canvass as Lawrence of Arabia. The story is complex, but it's closer to the magical iconic kickassery badassness of Fistful of Dollars....
For A Few Dollars More -- is about a ** story and film. It seemed cheap-looking and Clint is really just a 3rd banana. It's Lee van Cleef's film.
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly is a *** film. It's as BROAD a canvass as Lawrence of Arabia. The story is complex, but it's closer to the magical iconic kickassery badassness of Fistful of Dollars....
I think Clint Eastwood is in the Top 5 American Cinema Artists of ALL TIME. He is equally as solid an actor as director. He is a jazz music fan. He is simply a great American.
My favorite Eastwood film is "Where Eagles Dare" where he basically steals the film from Richard Burton, one of the greatest actors of all time.
My favorite Eastwood film is "Where Eagles Dare" where he basically steals the film from Richard Burton, one of the greatest actors of all time.
Violator79
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You forgot to add Tombstone. How can anyone not have that on their Best Westerns list?
My favorite Eastwood Westerns are The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and The Outlaw Josey Wales.
My favorite Eastwood movie is "Kelly's Heroes".
"The Good The Bad and the Ugly" is good entertainment, but imo Eli Wallach's performance is far better than Eastwood's.
Favorite line from that film: "When it's time to shoot, shoot. Don't talk." :1orglaugh
"The Good The Bad and the Ugly" is good entertainment, but imo Eli Wallach's performance is far better than Eastwood's.
Favorite line from that film: "When it's time to shoot, shoot. Don't talk." :1orglaugh
:rofl2:
That brings back memories.
My Dad and I used to watch this film all the time. He's more into John Wayne though - True Grit, Rio Bravo, The Train Robbers...
I am a big fan of John Wayne myself, he epitomized the tough "good guy" in westerns, but I think that's what makes me like Clints roles more, a lot of the times even when playing a "good guy" his characters are little more morally ambivilent.
You know they have a darker side, you never saw with John Wayne.
Exactly.
In the Trilogy Clint's character is pretty much just in it for the money. In Fistful he's practically a devious, double-crossing merchant of death with little regard for human life. But damn does he look cool
Exactly.
In the Trilogy Clint's character is pretty much just in it for the money. In Fistful he's practically a devious, double-crossing merchant of death with little regard for human life. But damn does he look cool
No doubt.
Certainly having a Hollywood budget, a couple of classic Hollywood actors and actual American shooting locations helped the tone of the film. One of the best looking films I have ever seen on a big screen-especially the opening sequence with Bronson. I am not sure Eastwood would have been very good in the role-he was better off doing Hang Em High and High Plains Drifter which are also really good films.
I can not believe anyone has not mentioned The Searchers, Rio Bravo, Shane, or Red River. For sure the early Westerns are rife with inaccuracies, but they have a certain charm unto themselves.
For the Euro Spaghetti Westerns, I like the Dollars trilogy and Once Upon a Time in the West, but Sergio Corbucci made a few really great films of this genre as well (Companeros and The Great Silence being my favorites)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Corbucci
Actually I mentioned "Shane" earlier and agree with your others as being good ones especially "the Searchers".Also not mentioned yet is "High Noon".
But I have to say that while I have enjoyed most of the spaghetti westerns I really don't think they are in the class of the classic american made ones.The "Good the bad and the ugly" I like best of them but must say I always found "once upon a time in the west" is spite of the fairly good cast just awful.
Sometimes I speed read, so excuse me for missing your mention of Shane. High Noon is also classic as well, with Stagecoach and Hud should also get a mention as well.
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly is a tighter story, but for pure cinematography, I love Once Upon In The West. Leone had never worked in Hollywood before, so I am sure these concerns influenced the movie as well. Though it is a long film, I have the feeling that Leone had to leave some footage on the cutting room floor which could have influenced the movie's storyline adversely.
i liked pale rider cuz of the different take on westerns (unforgiven too for that matter). i'm always a fan of people doing something different with a genre, as long as it's done well. pale rider was a trip cuz of all the religious overtones for me. it made for a different western.
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