Alternative Top 20

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710

Thanks both.
Duly noted and updated.

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711

I’ve updated the Alt Top 20 page.
No major changes and no new entries. Just some minor place reshuffling this year.

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712

I just noticed blindman is in both the essential top 20 and alternative top 20 now…

713

Thanks for pointing it out! We need to fix this :slight_smile: maybe with whatever title got kicked out by Blindman

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Phil

My understanding is that the top 18 of the essential list is excluded here. So, on that basis, here is my alternative 20.

  1. God Forgives… I Don’t - Colizzi
  2. Run Man Run - Sollima
  3. Johnny Yuma - Guerrieri
  4. The Forgotten Pistolero - Baldi
  5. The Bounty Killer - Martin
  6. The Hellbenders - Corbucci
  7. Tepepa - Petroni
  8. Ace High - Colizzi
  9. Bandidos - Dallamano
  10. Django the Bastard - Garrone
  11. Cut-Throats Nine - J. Marchent
  12. The Price of Power - Valerii
  13. Red Sun - Young
  14. Blindman - Baldi
  15. A Pistol for Ringo - Tessari
  16. California - Lupo
  17. Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead - Vari
  18. Four of the Apocalypse - Fulci
  19. Matalo! - Canevari
  20. Kill the Wicked! - Boccia

If, as Seb points out above, we don’t want Blindman in the alternative top 20 now that it has replaced Run Man Run in the essential top 20 then remove my vote for Blindman here and add a vote for Requiem for a Gringo - Merino which is next on my personal ranked list.

Cheers!

715

The marked are so “underrated” by the SW fans IMO.

The music and style of Requiem of a Gringo is just beautiful…

And Johnny Yuma is a top class directed SW with the best “antihero” performance by Mark Damon (i e not including the character Mr Ferguson which I dare not call an “anti hero” :wink: ) and of course Rosalba Nero in top shape…

The Forgotten Pistolero the perfect “soap opera” SW version…and the main musical theme and Pilar Velázquez !

Kill the Wicked! with exceptional moody music by Lavagnino wins over Matalo! which is not as perfect with its exaggerated style, but I will by the Bluray separately if it is possible without the “box”.

716

I think we have similar tastes. Johnny Yuma and The Forgotten Pistolero are the two real gems I’ve found as I’ve explored beyond the Official Top 20 and both sit comfortably in my own top 20.

Kill the Wicked! I watched after I had seen Matalo! I was five minutes into the film and was like … “this storyline seems familiar”. I wasn’t aware of the link between the two at the time. Obviously it became apparent. I like both and agonised over which to rank higher. Interestingly, it was Matalo!'s uniqueness (or “exaggerated style” as you better describe it) that won out for me. I think both these films will grow on me.

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717

Blindman now taken out of Alt Top 20 and replaced by A Stranger in Town.

Folk can still vote for Blindman going forward if they want to as it may drop out of the official T20 in future. The scores are close. I will mark the score in case I need to put it back some time.

718

I have added your scores to the list too, Ian. :slightly_smiling_face: