[quote=“alk0, post:4777, topic:141”]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[/quote]
I rewatched this one tonight…very good revenge movie, good cinema.
Finally caught up with Nevada Smith, with Steve McQueen as an implacable, embittered avenger on the trail of three miscreants who murdered his parents. McQueen, then a craggy 35, is miscast in the early stages, when he’s supposed to be playing a callow youth, but grows into the role as his character gets angrier and more embittered.
Gorgeous-looking (it was shot by Lucien Ballard), it’s largely satisfying stuff, but throws it away with one of those compromised Hollywood endings that makes little to no sense in the context of the rest of the film.
Which I enjoyed. PLL does a decent job in this. The film as a whole is nothing special but it has enough to keep me entertained in a revenge / trouble with town boss type of thing.
One question that came out of it for me though was this. Is there any music score used more often in Spaghettis than this one from Bruno Nicolai? It’s the one from Have a Good Funeral Friend…Sartana Will Pay and also used in Fighting Fists of Shanghai Joe. Maybe Morricone’s from Hellbenders gets used more? Not sure.
Coriolano Gori’s music was also frequently recycled - his score for Black Jack, for example, and much of the music he composed for Demofilo Fidani (Fidani always made he got his money’s worth).
[quote=“Phil H, post:4785, topic:141”]God in Heaven…Arizona on Earth
Which I enjoyed. PLL does a decent job in this. The film as a whole is nothing special but it has enough to keep me entertained in a revenge / trouble with town boss type of thing.
One question that came out of it for me though was this. Is there any music score used more often in Spaghettis than this one from Bruno Nicolai? It’s the one from Have a Good Funeral Friend…Sartana Will Pay and also used in Fighting Fists of Shanghai Joe. Maybe Morricone’s from Hellbenders gets used more? Not sure.[/quote]
" The Relentless Four" (1965)unremarkable SW with a bland leading man in Adam West a year away from t.v stardom in “Batman”. film also contains some unintentionally amusing fistfights where punches are thrown a good few inches short of the intended target and yet the person yells and falls down :D.main villian Robert Hundar doesn’t shoot anybody once, he shoots them three or four times. i’m proberly making it sound like a dud, it’s not the worst of the genre, it’s just a long way from the best and it is so predictable.
El Rojo
I wasn’t blown away by that one. There was too many awkward moments in this one. Watchable anyway and had some nice touches from time to time [guy in the mask]. 5/10
Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Cominghttp://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Nuvola_di_polvere…_un_grido_di_morte…_arriva_Sartana%2C_Una demands one’s undivided attention to have any hope of keepng track of the goings on. A complicated but enjoyable entry in the series. 3/5
The Price of Power
My second viewing of this intelligent Spaghetti. Although I didn’t dislike it the first time, it was much better this time. The first half is pretty boring but by the end, its a great one.
The hole premise and execution is a little on the cheesy side but a little cheese never hurt anybody. Save for those who are lactos intolerent. It hurts them.
[quote=“Bill san Antonio, post:4796, topic:141”]Moroni: Mallory must not diehttp://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Mio_nome_è_Mallory…_M_come_morte%2C_Il (dvd-r)
-well that was pretty awful…[/quote]
Anyone watching this film will surely think that “Moroni must die”
[quote=“Silver Wolf, post:4799, topic:141”]Anyone watching this film will surely think that “Moroni must die”[/quote]haha!
Simonelli: 2 Sons of Ringo[url]http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Due_figli_di_Ringo%2C_I[/url] (dvd-r)
-First Franco & Ciccio film I’ve seen and it wasn’t that bad. It’s a parody of For a Few Dollars More and at times it’s pretty funny, at least much funnier than For a Few Dollars Less. Co-stars George Hilton and Pedro Sanches as well as some other sw regulars.