Watched Acquasanta Joe. guess I liked it better than most of you guys couse I can’t imagine calling it as bad as Shobary. It was pretty damn good IMO. More in the film’s thread.
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I would call those films, the “Twilight” trilogy. Yes, they both have mud and blood and I know your not being too serious. Twilight.
Watchin Texas Adios right now.
Saw Moment to Kill and really liked it, similar feel to I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death, nice unusual ending as well… i’ll have to see it again as I didn’t catch all the details in the middle.
Watched the first 13 minutes of Finders Killers. I stopped beause I was just skimming. It wasn’t because I didn’t like it. It is too early to judge. It is, however, very overly dramatic. Having that big music while O’Brien running up the hill. Great use of handheld camera but the opening crdeits is one of the most ridiculously overlong credit sequence I remember in a spaghetti western.
To be continued…
Watched Bandidos yesterday
Cjamango. ;D
I’m gonna post in the thread.
Adios Sabata, last night.
[font=Verdana]The Hills run RED [/font]
Heehee.
What did you think? I am always put off by Thomas Hunter’s over the top performance.
But I do kinda like it.
It was a time for Long Live Your Death today!
[quote=“Romaine Fielding, post:4068, topic:141”]Heehee.
What did you think? I am always put off by Thomas Hunter’s over the top performance.
But I do kinda like it.[/quote]
I like it too. Thomas Hunter acting is between hot temper and controlled. 
I was somehow confused about the composer credited as Leo Nichols until I found out it’s Ennio Morricone. 
Henry Silva was terrific as Villain and I wished he would have made more SW in his career.
Ditto…some find that laugh of his annoying but I really liked his character in this movie.
Finders Killers. What can I say. I really find it hard t dislike spaghettis or think of them so bad their good. So this one was jut boring. ood camera and recycled score. What I find hilarious about these B spaghettis is Dean Stratford. Whoever thought this gooey, balding, weirdo could pass wearing leather and dressed up like a cowboy must have been doing something he shouldn’t have. I usually like O’Brien but he seemed bored here and like he didn’t care. Gordon Mitchell basically plays Gordon Mitchell. Why did he and O’rien get ito a fight if they are…conected in that way. (Not gay) 2/5 for the occasional gunfight and recycled score. What can I say, it’s Gianni Crea. :-\
Jonathan of the bears
been on a Lash LaRue kick here lately-this time it was Return of the Lash.
Just saw 800 Bullets/800 Balas. Good film until the last 15 minutes or so when the script falls apart. Why did the mother have a change of heart? What motivated the friend to kill the grandfather? The fake eastwood was hilarious.
I like the film but what disturbs me is the way it tries be a tribute to the golden era of spaghetti westerns. All they talk is Clint Eastwood this and Clint Eastwood that, some dollars trilogy stuff and in one scene we see Sabata poster on the background. Iglesia was a big film freak and had his own zine before making his directorial debut so I’m surprised that his idea of the spaghetti western genre is limited to most obvious films. ??? There are good non-Leone films also, Alex!
Another thing: that reworking of GBU theme during opening credits in simply unbearable.
[quote=“Silver Wolf, post:4076, topic:141”]I like the film but what disturbs me is the way it tries be a tribute to the golden era of spaghetti westerns. All they talk is Clint Eastwood this and Clint Eastwood that, some dollars trilogy stuff and in one scene we see Sabata poster on the background. Iglesia was a big film freak and had his own zine before making his directorial debut so I’m surprised that his idea of the spaghetti western genre is limited to most obvious films. ??? There are good non-Leone films also, Alex!
Another thing: that reworking of GBU theme during opening credits in simply unbearable.[/quote]
I think Iglesia knows the genre is not limited to Leone alone, but he was probably thinking about the average filmgoer. That’s always a dilemma if one wishes to refer to the world of the spaghetti western in a non-western. Leone, Eastwood, Van Cleef and Django are the names most people are familiar with, or at least have heard of, but that’s about it.
It seems I liked most things other hate about this movie: I thought both the reworking of the GBU theme and the fake Eastwood were fun
Nothing beats the original version of the original The Good, the Bad and the Ugly theme as used in the film for me. I am not even very fond of the version Morricone performs at concerts:
Not as exciting to me as miss the ; whistling at the beginning , guitar and of course the coyote style vocals.
The problem is that if you announce the film to be a tribute to certain genre and pay homage only to the most obvious classics it gives the impression that there are no other remarkable movies in the genre. What “serious” critics have been saying for decades is that there are no great SWs outside Leone’s work and Iglesias movie, in my opinion, gives out the same message. So what we have is a tribute to spaghetti westerns that ends up downplaying the genre…!
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want this film to have 100 references to “cult” spaghettis either, that would be even worse. Films like that usually look as if director just wanted to show off his knowledge about genre(s) in question. Tributes are mostly just pastiches and do not have that charm the originals have. Iglesia’s film at least stands on it’s own since the story and characters are so damn good. Maybe they should have dropped spaghetti references altogether…
You’re right about this