Got done watching And God Said to Cain. My favorite film from Arrow’s Vengeance Trails boxset.
Love Kinski’s performance, the music and sounds. Simple story to follow. Reminded me alot of Django the Bastard. 0
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Yesterday I saw Return of Sabata and, to be honest, I didn´t think it was that much worse than Sabata
Night of the Serpent - It’s a bit slow, but I’ll give it a second chance. Think it’s the kind of movie that needs a few views.
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I just finished watching Bone Tomahawk. If you’re a horror fan, this is a good crossover of genres. Almost like Italian cannibal film meets western.
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Red River, Hawkes, 16 B.L.
The Professionals, Brooks, 2 A.L.
(B.L. = Before Leone, A.L. = Anno Leone)
Both well-made with soft-centred, sentimental, redemption of selfish tough guys (played by John Wayne and Burt Lancasrer). In the former, native Americans are murderous savages, of course, whilst in the latter, Mexican bandits are misunderstood, oppressed outcasts.
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Seen some more spaghettis, checking some more off the list.
-God Forgives… I Don’t (1967).
Very good spaghetti western. Absolute classic.
-Crazy Westerners(1967)
It’s interesting just for existing, a pre-Trinity pop rock musical comedy spaghetti western parody, but I have no strong feelings about it either way. Although the Django parody is the best part, obviously.
-Compañeros (1970)
Pretty fun follow up to the The Mercenary, which now I feel I should rewatch. When I made my initial ratings of these films I was still a bit of a greenhorn to the genre, so I only gave The Mercenary three stars, since I didn’t quite comprehend the ironic political aspect of Zapata westerns at that time. I’ve seen it a few more times since but next time I watch it imma bump up it’s rating.
-…Then a Time for Killing! (1968)
I feel this is one of those hidden gems like Hate is my God, or El Puro. I gave this a 4 star rating which is probably a bit much, similar to how I did the same for And the Crows Will Dig Your Grave, but I just loved this film. Ghidra is a great actor and definitely needs more widespread recognition in the spaghetti western canon, and the soundtrack by Francesco De Masi is just a delight.
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‘A Time for Killing’ is a 1967 Glenn Ford flick … this one is known as ‘A Time and a Place for Killing!’ or ‘Tequila Joe’ … there are so many alternate titles for many of these films, that it does get confusing at times.
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The Ride Back. Pretty impressive
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I just saw The great train robbery from 1903 and was really impressed by it. Incredibly fascinating and well made, and also surprisingly violent. Absolutely reccomended for anyone who has not seen it.
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Finally got around to watching “Django il Bastardo”. I enjoyed the film, despite it being no masterpiece.
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So. I ended up watching another lot of spaghetti westerns. Started with rewatches of Gatling Gun and For a Few Dollars More, followed by what basically was a marathon of Karl May films (three of the Winnetou films and the first “Mexico” film), and then today I saw The Specialist followed by The Great Silence. Yeah took me a while to finally get around to watching that film but I finally got around to seeing it.
Edit: also between the Karl May films and the Corbucci films I also saw The Man From Canyon City.
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Wow, you saw a bunch of spaghettis. I´m assuming FAFDM and Silenzio were rewatches, or were they first-time watches?
FAFDM was a rewatch, Silence was a first time watch. Yeah I tend be to slower to watch “the big boys” it’s mainly because I have to be in the right mindset to see them
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FAFDM is, of the SWs that I´ve seen, the most rewatchable. Have you seen “The Big Gundown” yet? My favorite non-Leone Spaghetti.
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Just watched El Puro tonight from a not so great source. Not sure this needs to be in spoiler tags but just incase. So the guy at the end, was that El Puro’s Mexican friend or the guy from Gypsy’s camp you left? Had a hard time telling.
It was Specs, the one who was like “the reward’s yours, the man’s mine”
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Yesterday night I opened my Vengeance Trails box and watched Tempo di Massacro and really enjoyed it. As a matter of fact, I want to rewatch it now.
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Watched
The Big Gundown blu-ray, the Italian version (haven’t seen it since the early 90’s on bootleg VHS)… Absolute masterpiece
May God Forgive You I Won’t… Bit mediocre, but some enjoyable shootouts
And I finally watched Gunfight at Red Sands… Wasn’t expecting much… But ended up thoroughly enjoying it
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Yesterday I saw My name is Pecos and today I saw Se sei vivo spara. Pecos was a solid spaghetti with good elements and some cool reverting genre tropes, but the film was not all that memorable. TBH, I was expecting Django Kill to be a trashy movie, so I was surprised by the quality of the film. Sure, it was no masterpiece, but it kept me engaged from start to finish.
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The Bravados. Damn, that was good. The BluRay even has a 5.0 track, too…
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