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Summary: The more I watch, the better it gets
Review: I finally started to get an idea about why I liked this movie since childhood. It has got its roots deeply in the great classical Italian operas. But it brings a new dimension to them; the capabilities of cinema. It puts together the musical score and the screenplay so good that they become one. Only a movie like this one gives you a taste of the power of cinema and it brings cinema to its deserved place; the highest form of art.
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Summary: Best Of The Three!
Review: The best out of the "man with no name" trilogy, Clint gave his best performance up to the time. Great music score, with good action, rarely back in the 1960's did you see such a good supporting cast. This is one of those times. Plus a good director it's no wonder why this was the best one! Grade:B+
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Summary: Great film but....
Review: Sorry, but I'm going to have to add the usual 'one of the greatest Westerns ever made' phrase to my review. Not only because I generally hate Westerns and this is the only one I like, but because it's one of the best films in any genre.The DVD itself is a good quality in both vision & sound. The only annoying thing is that it is in mono Dolby, which although its the clearest I've ever heard it (fantastic score etc..). Watching the extra Italian scenes, you realise that they are actually played in Dolby surround. ps Pity there wasn't a running commentary by Eli or Clint. Perhaps that'll be in a 35th or 40th Annivesary edition? One can only hope.
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Summary: Excellent resolution and sound on this DVD!
Review: Excellent resolution and sound on this DVD! The gorgeous widescreen composition is outstanding. Clint Eastwood is the Man with No Name with Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach starring in the final and best chapter of Sergio Leone's trilogy. This is the ultimate spaghetti western and no wonder it is so famous. 3 hours long with a fantastic finish. A must for any DVD collection.
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Summary: The Good, the Bad, and the Immortal
Review: I believe that this is one of the finest achievements in wide-screen filmmaking ever. Sergio Leone shows his masterfull directing in this Western Epic. With great performances by Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, and Lee Van Cleef, this is hands down one of my top 10 favorite movies. The juxtapositioning of the camera from a wide shot to close-up brings energy to usually static westerns. A true classic.
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Summary: THREE IS A CROWD
Review: What a difference between FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE and THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY in Sergio Leone's career. It's the difference between the movie of an average director who has some good ideas to renew an old dying genre, the Western, and the movie of an authentic author-director able to present a 3 hours long story without annoying his audience. You will find in THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY the germs of Leone's three last movies and, already, some references to his precedents films like Ennio Morricone's musical score during the final duel, about ten seconds of the clock music heard in A FEW DOLLARS MORE. The opening sequence of THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY is terrific : a man is waiting for what it seems to be his duel adversaries and the music, the cinematography make us believe that we will admire a pure Sergio Leone's duel when the director finally decides to change his mind and to refuse us the duel we have waited for. That is pure cinema, a pleasure no other art is able to give us. One of the aspect announcing ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST is the use of Ennio Morricone's music. More lyrical, the notes follow the director's long travellings and give another dimension to certain scenes. When image and sound meet and match perfectly, it's one of the sign of a great movie. THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY is not perfect but it is always a pleasure to watch this movie full of scenes of anthology. A DVD not to be forgotten.
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Summary: Better than I remember!
Review: I've always loved this film, but I hadn't seen it for a long time. I recalled the action, the interesting use of music, and the acting performances by Eastwood and Wallach. Seeing it again, and on DVD, showed me that this is an excellent film, not just a spaghetti western. The part I find fascinating is how very bad the character played by Van Cleef truly is! I didn't recall the scenes where he slapped around a woman, tortured the rat Tucco, nor did I remember him shooting the old man near the beginning! Van Cleef is one BAD dude! This film has excellent cinematography and the story moves you through an exciting Civil War battle. You get all the action here, but you also get a film very artistically put together. Wallach really plays a great rat, and Eastwood is Eastwood... he may not say much, but his actions do tell quite a story! The dvd has some scenes cut out of the original screen version. The sound quality of the DVD is not great, that is my only complaint. I find the film better than I remember! The final showdown is a classic sequence!
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Summary: A great Clint Eastwood movie!
Review: My friend let me borrowed this movie and I liked it! I thought it was the best western film ever made. I am not that much of a western fan but I thought this movie was pretty cool! I just didn't know it was rated R when I read the cover. I thought it was not rated but it's still a good movie though.
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Summary: Indomitable, Indefatiguable and Impossibly excellent.
Review: It's a good job Leone saved this mammoth for his third. 'Fistful...' was where he learned what he could do with his Euro-Western idea; 'For A Few...' allowed him to go one notch higher and discover that this formula was sustainable (as were the recyclable cast members) so Leone really had no excuse not to come up with this. The luscious earth tones of the [Iberian] desert, the crispness of Ennio Morricone's soundtrack and the tell-tale signs of an extremely high production value are the first things to strike you about this tape. The plot is astoundingly sound, betraying that the mind behind the writing of number three had matured leaps and bounds beyond the bank robber/ bounty hunter approach inherent to the first two movies. The nondescript cast that encircles Eastwood, Cleef and Wallach plays well off the strength and desolation of the landscape it inhabits. Leone, as he would likewise demonstrate in 'Once Upon A Time In The West', had discovered how to make the scenery into a character in its own right. 'The Good, The Bad & The Ugly' is a long, long string of visual impressions, sometimes stark, sometimes hypnotic, which flows in a fast, meandering stream of a plot. Inspired by sheer cartridge-fired-in-your-face cynical edge, the adult content in the movie catapults it to a precariously high entertainment level. Everything from Eastwood's coolness, through Cleef's slyness and Wallach's snide facial expressions, to the intensity of the grandiose battle sequence at the bridge near the end of the film is as essential to the film's existence as blood is to your body. The conclusion has a unique darkness to it that doesn't just pack a punch that has not been equalled since but also delivers much needed closure to a cinematic epic clocking in at three hours. It's possible to isolate and extoll the strong points of some smaller elements such as Eastwood's unbreakable spirit or the skill with which the Good and the Ugly infiltrate the Confederate military but why bother. It took me more than a year of hard reflection before I could dare to grapple with 'G.B.&U.' as a would-be critic. This film is loaded and human rights laws should dictate that it be distributed with every single VCR sold in the civilised world. To be here you've either seen the film and need a copy now by turning to Amazon or you're a hopeless case who's stumbled this far from listening to the myths. Get now, get soon or back down and suffer in ignorance. There; I did it.
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Summary: "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" "Il Buono, il Brutto, il "
Review: I have seen the "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" lots of times since I was ten years old and now since i am twelve years old and a half. I thought it was great and exciting. I learned it was rated R or M in the sixties because it had violence like Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" in 1960, but it had no graphic violence. Today it is not rated R but it is rated PG-13. Cool or what! The part I loved in the movie was where Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez a.k.a "The Rat" [Eli Wallach] was running in the Sanhill Cemetery in search of the $200,000 , I also loved the song the prisoners of war sang "The story of a solider " while Tuco was getting tortured by Wallace {Mario Brega} one of Angel Eyes's thugs in the torture chamber , Also I loved the trio showdown and when Angel Eyes {Lee Van Cleef,"High Noon"} the ruthless killer and bounty hunter got shot in the face by Blondie the other bounty hunter {Il Buono} , I also loved at the end when Blondie shot Tuco in the noose and Blondie rode away from the treacherous bandit while Tuco was swearing at Blondie.What would you do if you were trying to get away from a treacherous bandit like Tuco! the part that I almost fell down to was when the sheriff said that Tuco did for some other bad crimes was he hurt his wife and children and he sold off prostitutes and raped females . I also almost fell down to was when Tuco was in the desert while Blondie left all alone and Tuco yelled somthing nasty in Spanish which is not good.
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