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Summary: Make Sure You Buy It.
Review: These 3 films were the first 3 westerns I ever watched and boy was I impressed. I never even liked westerns before I watched the famous "Spaghetti Westerns". The acting is great, cinematography spectacular and the music is well-crafted. My only complaint is the clean-up on the pictures during the transfer to DVD but it has little impaact on the overall quality and enjoyability of the movies themselves. After watching these 3 excellent and well-written films I watched Hang Em High which was also another excellent western with Eastwood. So buy these 3 films in an affordable 3-pack. Well worth your time and money.
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Summary: Make Sure You Buy It.
Review: These 3 films were the first 3 westerns I ever watched and boy was I impressed. I never even liked westerns before I watched the famous "Spaghetti Westerns". The acting is great, cinematography spectacular and the music is well-crafted. My only complaint is the clean-up on the pictures during the transfer to DVD but it has little impaact on the overall quality and enjoyability of the movies themselves. After watching these 3 excellent and well-written films I watched Hang Em High which was also another excellent western with Eastwood. So buy these 3 films in an affordable 3-pack. Well worth your time and money.
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Summary: A Fistful of Praise With Only the Good, No Bad, No Ugly.
Review: These are my first Italian westerns I seen in the past and I admit these are my favorites. I have watched many times, read the biographies of the stars, director, listened to the composers music that sets the stage to this trilogy and have had numerous hours devoted to the Italian Western. These movies are timeless. The cult of the Man With No Name is growing still today, and these movies will never go out of style.
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Summary: Simply Amazing
Review: These three movies bring a completely new spin to the American west. No longer can you think of westerns as movies with the John Wayne like hero who always does what is right. In these movies, Clint Eastwood is nearly as bad as the men he fights. The camera work of Sergio Garcia provide for some tense moments and classic shots that you can't forget. Added with the music of composer Ennio Morricone, these movies began their own genre, the "spaghetti western" and launched Clint Eastwood's career. The shots of Clint squinting into the sunlight, the cut shots combined with the loud and unusual music of Morricone create some of the most memorable moments in film. For anyone that likes Clint Eastwood or just good, intelligent, and captivating action movies this box set is for you.
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Summary: The Ultimate Westen Package
Review: These three movies have to be the most reknowned westerns ever to be put on the Big screen. The "Spaghetti Westerns" as they were referred to, were all shot in Italy, dubbed in Italian, then released in America redubbed in English. But nothing is lost in the story or the action. The 3 low budget movies hands down beat any of those $100 million action wannabes. You want action, this is ACTION.
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Summary: The Man With No Name Trilogy
Review: This is a great boxset featuring the best spaghetti western films ever made. Clint Eastwood gives a great performance in all three films. However, these films are going to be re-released with better transfers. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly has been re-released already in a stunning two-disc set. This box set is great, but you should do yourself a favor and purchase the newer editions.
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Summary: Three of the best westerns ever.
Review: This is a great package with three incredible movies. They're all very good westerns. Although it is a trilogy, the movies aren't very connected plot-wise. However, each can stand on its own very well. The DVD package comes with deleted scenes and trailers, which is very nice. Some of the scenes from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly help explain other parts of the movie better. Overall a great deal for any Clint Eastwood or Western genre fan.
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Summary: The Man With No Name Trilogy - Simply brilliant!
Review: This is simply put, one of the best western trilogies to have ever graced the silver screen and the home theater system! If you're into westerns and are interested in viewing some of the best, these are the ones you want. These are the films that brought the genesis of the "spaghetti western" and set the tone for many westerns to come!A Fistful of Dollars - A true genre classic! A Fistful of Dollars is truly one of the big classics in the western genre and one that began a newer, better style of western films. First in a string of Clint Eastwood's "spaghetti" westerns, it has a style and cinematic class all to itself. This is where Clint Eastwood began his style of western hero who doesn't say much, but gets his point across through his facial expressions and of course his actions, more specifically with his six shooter at his side. The premise: Clint Eastwood plays "the man with no name" other than the name given to him by one of the characters in the film, Joe. In what is now a classic style, he rides into town on a mule and witnesses the brutality of the town bullies. Without saying a word to them, they harass him and he calmly goes into one of the town bars, has some food and listens to what the bar owner has to tell him about the town's situation. He casually decides to stay and do something about the entire situation, walks out and takes out four of the bad guys. What follows from there is such an outstanding film that is fraught with a certain degree of humor as he deftly plays both sides against his middle and walks away with "A Fistful of Dollars." If you're a fan of the western genre and haven't seen this classic, I highly suggest you pick this DVD up. Some might be put off by the age of this movie, that is simply not the case though as this movie is timeless. Despite the fact that it was made in Spain, with many European actors and in a foreign language, it's just pure fun! For A Few Dollars More - An outstanding sequel! For A Few Dollars More is, in my opinion, by far the best of the "Man With No Name" trilogy! In "A Fistful of Dollars," director Sergio Leone bowled the viewers over with Clint Eastwood's character being a gruff gunslinger of few words and lots of action. In this sequel Eastwood's character has a lot more depth and even a little bit of humor. I am highly impressed with the script and acting in this particular film, especially in comparison with its predecessor. One can even consider it funny but useful that a few of the villains from the first film that were quite dead at the end of that one, are back now with new names! Magnificent performances by both Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef serve to enhance this movie's style. The premise: This movie has a wonderful beginning as we are introduced to Lee Van Cleef's character while he's in the performance of his role of a bounty killer. We are then treated to the reintroduction of Clint Eastwood's character, which actually does have the name of Monco, while he is taking care of his business as a bounty killer as well. Once the director has shown these two acts, he deftly shows how they end up on the same path as they both find out that they can score it big by killing Gian Maria Volonte's character, Indio and his gang. From there, we're taken to El Paso where the film's intrigue and suspense kick into high gear as both Eastwood and Van Cleef's characters meet. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly - A great adventure! The Good, The Bad and the Ugly in my opinion is the best among the trilogy. Sporting the largest budget and the best script among "The Man With No Name" trilogy, this movie blazes across the screen brilliantly. Of course, Clint Eastwood is back and his name is Joe once again although I don't believe you ever hear him referred to as anything other than Blondie. Lee Van Cleef is back as well and he most definitely performs memorably as one of the bad guys. Eli Wallach's performance as the pseudo bad/good guy Tuco is nothing short of spectacular. The style and class of this movie is dead on with Sergio Leone's film making, making it a classic in the genre and one of the top films of the sixties. The entire film comes off as a box office success and a treasure for your home DVD collection! The premise: Clint Eastwood is back as Joe/Blondie - The Good guy. Eli Wallach shows up as Tuco - The Bad guy and Lee Van Cleef makes a return as Stenza the Ugly guy. The film starts wonderfully by deftly making the introductions of the three primary characters doing what they do best. Blondie ends up capturing Tuco and they make a comical deal. Stenza makes a dramatic first appearance as well. Blondie and Tuco have a dramatic parting of the ways that also brings them back together in classic Sergio Leone style. They literally stumble across some fortunate information which leads them down the path of the civil war in the hopes off retrieving a rather large sum of money. This also forces them to run across the path of Lee Van Cleef's character, Stenza and his quest for the same information and treasure. All of this combines to make this film a "must see" for those that are fans of this genre as it leads to the ultimate climatic ending and a classic Clint Eastwood shootout. I highly recommend this film and the entire trilogy to Eastwood and western fans. {ssintrepid}
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Summary: Unsung heroes, "unslung" guns
Review: This will be one of my shortest reviews,as most has been said already. I only wish to say that the TRUE wonder of the Spaghetti Westerns is that the real shining star is not CLINT, but the supporting actors.
Lee Van Cleef's determined sneer or Eli Wallach's comical over the top method acting (Mr. Wallach is from the same "school" as early Brando and Rod Steiger , delightfully nuts!). If your attention is not TOTALLY steered away from the enigmatic Clint performances to focus on the wonderful supporting cast who carry the movies, I think ya aint watching the movies in the "correct manner"! (smiles) Fans of the trilogy should also find the wonderful and overlooked "Giu la Testa", (also called "A Fist Full of Dynamite" or "Duck You Sucker"), - Clint is not in the film, and replaced with delicious performances by James Coburn as an exiled Irish republican Army refugee and Steiger as a complete boffo Mexican bandito (with an accent that wavers and falters, the worst Gringoloco Spanish accent since Al Pacino's ridiculously funny Tony Montana faux-Cubano in Scarface, hehehehehe!) The best thing about the movies is the beautiful Ennio Morricone soundtracks--without this special music, I dont think the full impact of these films would have been the same, Leone and Morricone were dead on gemios(twins), they were totally in one another's sphere of influence. Enough said, case closed, story told 10000 stars!
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Summary: Bang... peoooowwwwww!
Review: Three classic, genre-busting Westerns in a shiny box, which, despite being filmed in Spain, seem to capture the sense of time and place more effectively than a million and one Hollywood equivalents. The atmosphere of casual brutality and offhand killing was unique at the time, and although 'The Wild Bunch' was considerably more bloody, Sam Peckinpah was trying to turn his gunfighters into heroes with a capital 'H', and not the ambiguous anti-heroes presented here. Here, the main characters shoot first, the villains are nasty, and everybody is generally amoral and out for number one. 'Fistful of Dollars' borrows a plot from Akira Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' (recently re-borrowed as Bruce Willis' 'Last Man Standing'), and introduces Clint Eastwood as the coolest man in the world, one capable of shooting the cigarillo from the mouth of a man standing on top of a house, three hundred yards away, without flinching. 'A Few Dollars More' introduces Lee Van Cleef as a more traditional 'hero', and 'The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly' (a prequel to the other two films, although it is not obviously so) immediately subverts this by using Van Cleef, playing a different character, as 'The Bad', as well as Eli Wallach in an archetypally ratty role. Apart from the tone, the other thing that sets these films apart is the look. The constant, extreme close-ups of the faces of sweaty people are quite disturbing on a wide-screen television, although you'll need one for the alternating long-shots. Not to be overlooked is Ennio Morricone's astonishing music, a lovably over-the-top mixture of all kinds of orchestral and non-orchestral instruments, complete with operatic 'leitmotifs'. The tone of the films is one of extreme excess, both in terms of style and content - 'GBU' has an enormous civil war battle almost as set dressing, and a haunting, odd ending in a vast graveyard - and it works perfectly. The only shame is that they didn't go the whole hog and include 'Once Upon a Time in America' (or 'Fistful of Dynamite'), but then again it wouldn't be the 'Man with No Name' trilogy, would it? Also of note is the only other remotely famous Spaghetti western saga, the 'Django' films, which have a cult following. Note that the 'gunfire / ricochet' noise appears to be exactly the same all the way throughout each film. On DVD you get a bunch of extra things, most notable some more scenes to 'The Good...', and some amusing trailers - the one for 'Fistful of Dollars' reveals that Clint Eastwood used an assumed name, and plays up the violence as if it was the first ever film to include shooting.
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