Extended cut is worth it, as long as you don't mind a few scenes where Clint and Eli sound close to death, and Van Cleef sounds like some lame gruff cowboy caricature

El Protoolio wrote:

anarchyinthebronx wrote:Great film, the best Western of the 60's, bar none.

There I fixed it for you.

Nice try sir.

Open Range is on AMC this month, also a kick ass western movie

Another brainless C/NC. It's pretty obvious to anyone with either ears or eyes (or both) that this movie is one of the best 'American' movies ever made. F it - it's a film. One of the best 'American' films ever made. Not crap for about a million reasons.

anarchyinthebronx wrote:Great film but The Wild Bunch still blows this away as the best Western of the 60's, bar none.

Although it is hard to choose between these two films, I'm inclined to go with The Wild Bunch. It resonates on a deeper level as an elegic tribute to the dying west. The story and characterizations are more complex and involving. Eastwood plays a great persona but the characters in The Wild Bunch are more fully realized. You also have the acting heavy weights of the likes of William Holden, Robert Ryan and Warren Oates to compete with.

some of the salient points for me:

wild bunch: modernization of america, etc.

good,bad & ugly: the inclusion of the civil war in the movie.

to my mind, westerns have always been fantasy, kind of a like a revisionist history of how the west was won, by grit and bravery as opposed to terror and betrayal. Hence the best western ever made is the one that destroys it: HIGH NOON. The most American movie ever made.

Of 60s westerns, I'm partial to Once Upon a Time in the West.

Tuco makes me giggle, laugh, then belly laugh. He's hilarious.

Got this from netfilx today. Looking forward to it.

Is it one of this trilogy where Eastwood comes in to town and says if the people don't give his friend a proper burial he's going to come back and kill the whole town?

Which one is that?

garble wrote:Got this from netfilx today. Looking forward to it.

Is it one of this trilogy where Eastwood comes in to town and says if the people don't give his friend a proper burial he's going to come back and kill the whole town?

Which one is that?

That's either A Fistfull of Dollars or more likely High Plains Drifter which isn't a Leone film. It's been awhile. Either way it's not G,B and U.

El Protoolio wrote:

garble wrote:Got this from netfilx today. Looking forward to it.

Is it one of this trilogy where Eastwood comes in to town and says if the people don't give his friend a proper burial he's going to come back and kill the whole town?

Which one is that?

That's either A Fistfull of Dollars or more likely High Plains Drifter which isn't a Leone film. It's been awhile. Either way it's not G,B and U.

That's Unforgiven.