I consider Mille dollari an okay spagh with pretty good death scene by Garko, but Kidnapping and Wrath Of God, although quite flawed at times, are both lesser favorites of mine. I actually still can’t believe that he would make such an eponymous shitfilm as you are suggesting. Maybe you’re just pulling my leg again and I’ll ram right into a gem!
On the other hand, I also don’t believe you would spend your time to compile these long paragraphs just to trick me!
That’s actually a good question, since, for example, I quite enjoyed Execution (but only the second time around, first time I didn’t think much of it), while you rated it only 3/10. On the other hand, you rate IMO superturkey Quintana generous 4/10 (for me more like 1/10) to give the same rating to Il ritorno Clint Solitario is almost blasphemous, sigh, which is certainly a lot more enjoyable spagh in my eyes. But, I’d would say half of the listed spaghs I would rate similarly like you did - Arriva Durango, El Macho, 15 forche, Sugar Colt …
I couldn’t get into it at all, it’s been some time since I watched it, but overall, I didn’t like it that much, thought the execution (no pun intended) was rather poor.
Maybe not a superturkey, but it was pretty mediocre and disappointing after seeing neat Chiedi perdono a Dio… non a me, it didn’t piss me off enough to get a 3/10 though.
Thought it was not constructed all that well. Kinski’s part is both the best element of the movie and the most superfluous component of the script. George Martin’s motive of gunfighter’s redemption is well-intentioned, however, it reeks of an old-fashioned American western, which is not remedied by the rather irritating English dubbing and the annoying role of his ungrateful brat of a son. It feels like a incongruous hybrid of an old-school American western and a gritty, but also unbalanced spaghetti vehicle. It has its moments, but it could’ve used a redraft or something. I would have to re-watch it to be more specific.
I was very positively surprised by this one, genuinely enjoyable. Heavily flawed and sort of peters out towards the end, but there is a lot to enjoy, especially in the first half. It’s also very twilight-ish and deserves to be mentioned alongside other Twilight Spaghettis. Definitely not on the same level as the others, but still very enjoyable in my book. Didn’t expect that at all.
That leading dude, Brad Harris, is plain terrible in that one, he makes Steffen look like freaking Robert De Niro.
Cardone’s Spags are for me also generally more disappointimg than entertaining, he is a rather mediocre and mostly unimaginative director, and Mille dollari sul nero (3/10) was surprisingly even worse on a 2nd watch. Sette dollari sul rosso (4/10) was for most of its runtime similarily boring, but it then managed to have a good ending. Better as a whole was Kidnapping (5/10), and maybe you should give this one a try.
But 20.000 dollari sul 7 is one I have not watched so far (at least I think so), and it seems its better to leave it at that.
Overall my ratings are btw not that much different from your Spagvember list, mostly only differing by one number.
And here are 3 which I have more fun with than you, mainly for a certain enthusiasm in the directing:
Testa t’ammazzo, croce… sei morto - Mi chiamano Alleluja (1971) - Director: Giuliano Carnimeo - 7/10 15 forche per un assassino (1967) - Director: Nunzio Malasomma - 6/10 Django spara per primo (1966) - Director: Alberto De Martino - 7/10
And also the 3rd Sabata, which I still prefer to the first one, albeit only slightly.
Very uneven movie, yet it somehow reached to me with the magic of some of its scenes. I dunno, it probably falls into guilty pleasure category.
That dude. And the absolutely unnecessary shirtless scene just to know us that he works out. I liked first half though, but second was just horrible. Not sure about Tores sporting Tuco like persona, I thought he was quite good in some scenes, but annoying in others.
A great story, a so-so execution. The directing seems heavy-handed and very old-fashioned, something you would see in a peplum movie or something, the score didn’t disabuse me of that impression either. I think it’s decent, but I didn’t really find it to be that fascinating to be honest. Considering the potential dormant in the story, it should’ve been much better.
I know you like that one a lot, I thought it was mostly routine stuff executed in a pretty tasteful fashion with some welcome scripting elaboration and well written characters. I prefer Corbucci’s Johnny Oro and Guerrieri’s Johnny Yuma as far as the earlier period of the genre goes.
It’s weird because I found Paolella’s direction in Odio per odio to be just fine, maybe a little too standardized and American, but still perfectly fine. In Execution, he doesn’t appear to give a damn, it’s much closer to a Baldanello’s western in its cheapness and crude appearance. I’m not sure whether the inadequate budget is to be blamed for this or something else, the qualitative difference is pretty stark between both movies. Weird.
Yeah, nice abs. The issue is that both the execution and the story are extremely formulaic and when you combine that technical featurelessness with Harris’s terrible acting skills, the movie just becomes awful. Torres is okay, but the rest is toast.
So this is the end. I expected to watch 10 flick maximum and I managed to watch 30.
Tonight I’m turning towards German westerns, a path I tend to avoid. Great locations and cinematography. Definitely worth.
So we produced about 240 posts in this topic, do we have an easy way to count the movies watched, at least a rough estimate, and how many of us were festing, can someone help me count? I wanna put some statistics into the december newsletter
Goodlooking film, the main dish here of course Nicoletta Machiavelli as Lulu, but honourable mention also to Marisa Solinas as Rosie, doing all the haystack scenes and, not to forget, Piero Gherardi…
So here is my final tally, and a poor one at that, managed only six viewings… But at least I have now seen all westerns directed by Sergio Garrone for sure. I’ve made some notes on Se vuoi vivere… spara* which I’l post on the films thread later.
I know that many of the users can’t read a word in Portuguese but I’ll leave here a link to the post I’ve just published on my blog related to this subject. See you next year.
Ps. You might try blog’s automatic translate button.
