Take a Hard Ride
Quite entertaining, but anti climax at the end.
Black Jack
Bleak, dark and violent with a nihilistic ending. That’s the way I want to have my Spaghetti Western served.
HALLELUJAH FOR DJANGO has been viewed.
I enjoy this one better each time I view even though I prefer other westerns more. Good roles for Hilton and Powers. Music O.K.
Barquero
Good enough LVC American western made in 1970. Pretty slow though.
Yeh does slow down a little this one, but nice to see LVC not sport a rug in a 70’s western.
And he had the worst rugs man. I was just waiting for it to crawl away in Return of Sabata.
Marchent: Seven Hours of Gunfire[url]http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Aventuras_del_Oeste[/url] (dvd-r)
-Buffalo Bill, cowboys and indians. Another early sw trying to look like a American western.
Watched a double feature of $10,000 FOR A MASSACRE/ $100,000 PER KILLING. Very enjoyable on both counts, but i definitely prefer $10,000. I liked Claudio much more as a Mexican bandit than as the dandy half-brother gone bad. Not to mention $100,00 suffered from a severe lack of masscara. I am definitely becoming quite the Gary Hudson fan.
All those easter celebration stuff was boring as hell, so i encouraged my grandma [who is responsible for my love for the westerns - she watched them with me when i was a kid] to watch Open Range. I liked the movie. It bas boring for the most part but the final gunfight is so great it makes up for it
[quote=“alk0, post:4768, topic:141”]All those easter celebration stuff was boring as hell, so i encouraged my grandma [who is responsible for my love for the westerns - she watched them with me when i was a kid] to watch Open Range. I liked the movie. It bas boring for the most part but the final gunfight is so great it makes up for it[/quote]am i the only one who didn’t like this film? i thought it slow and boring all the way through! average at best.
Corbucci: The Great Silence[url]http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Grande_silenzio%2C_Il[/url] (tv)
-I saw it for the first time with Italian audio. I think Italian suits better for this film but I’m just too used to watch it in english.
A couple of favorites for this weekend. both from 1985:
“Silverado”
“Pale Rider”
Grimaldi: Starblack[url]http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Starblack[/url] (dvd-r)
-Zorro style western with stupid plot. Entertaining film nevertheless with good amount of well made action scenes. Robert Woods sings the title song.
“The Assassination Of Jesse James”. long, slow, talky but not boring western which covers a story told many times. more character study than action, and helped by good performances from Brad Pitt, Sam Rockwell and especially Casey Affleck as Bob Ford.not quite a good film but watchable.
The Specialist
Not one of Sergi Corbuccis best westerns by far, but pretty good with some strange stuff thrown in, like a naked lady (! big surprice!), some dope smoking hippies and a whole town crawling around with their bare bottoms up.
Adios Hombre
Really trashy and low budget, very few horses and time spent outdoors, simple story, all actors familiar from other italian trash… what can i say, loved it!
El Topo, if you can call it a western…my thoughts on the associated topic.
Il figlio di Zorro aka Son of Zorro
My first Italian Zorro-movie. It was OK I guess, had expected more of a comedy but apart from a farting horse it turned out to be a decent action western. Alberto Dell’Acqua has the athletics to make an alright Zorro and it was nice yet again seeing William Berger starring in a western that weren’t complete crap. Would have been nicer if he had had a bigger role though. Recommended.
Giubbe rosse aka Red Coat
Another snow-western. Fabio Testi plays the red coat out to retrieve his kidnapped son. Lars Bloch has a rather big part in this one playing Testi’s sidekick Andy which was a great plus in my book. There is also a twist in the end which I won’t reveal here.
Very recommended and this being a Joe D’Amato-movie I guess there’s a decent chance that it will get a proper release some day.
And God Said to Cain
The atmosphere in the first half of the movie is incredible in my opinion, but it gets lost in the remainder of the movie. Could have been 9/10 and top 20 spot if it kept, but gets 8/10 from me because of it
Man Called Noon
Boring and ‘overdirected’ - it’s clear that director wanted to be ‘so gritty and spaghettiesque’ that he overdone that aspect. 4/10
Sartana Does Not Forgive - Stunning film, great direction & incredibly atmospheric… saw the sbs broadcast of it, much prefer this to the Clint the Stranger movies from the same director.
Ah, SBS.
My favourite TV channel when I was in Australia. Home of real football and foreign movies.
Yeah this was from a dvd-r, I noticed the MA rating at the start. They’ve shown a few SW’s with great prints in Italian that havent been released.