Gunfighter wants to retire so goes back to his home town to his son and family he has not seen in many years. However, things are not that simple as another gunfighter wants to kill him for the glory and such like. Bit of an Indian backdrop to the film.
Reflective film on the whole. David Bowie and his men have modern trimmings in style and dress so a little out of place. Bowie is pretty annoying in one scene, but he is meant to be irritating though. The end gunfight that was coming was done a little different, so a surprise there. Could have done without the end song making reference to Morricone and Eastwood, as just comes across tacky and not a homage to me.
Wyatt Earp with Costner…only seen bits and parts of it until today…decent flick…the soundtrack was a little annoying at times…but i enjoyed this version of the Earp story
In afternoon I saw the documentary “Spaghetti western” inside the italian tv show “Stracult”. In this documentary there are many interviews to directors as Tessari, Castellari, Corbucci, Carnimeo and to actors as Gianni Garko, Giuliano Gemma, Klaus Kinski, Rick Boyd and others, plus some memories about the production of the movies, their direction, their characters and their titles (with a Castellari’s theory about them ;D).
Jim Brown - Lee Van Cleef - EL CONDOR - John Guillermin 1970
Warner Bros Archive Collection (made to order DVD-R) great anamorphic picture.
Lots of nudity, action and entertainment!
The Man Who Came Back (2008) … low budget revenge western, this is one of the best modern westerns i’ve seen… even with the cheap digital video look and some weird editing, it still packs a punch.
I also saw Stranger on the Run, Don Siegel directed tv movie starring Henry Fonda, its good but not as good as i’d hoped, the story is so silly when you think about it. Michael Parks is great.
Are you talking about the film with Eric Braeden (aka Hans Gudegast)?
If so…I have to confess that I am stunned you (and Ennioo) liked it.
Of course we are all entitled to our own opinions and we all have our own taste.
I thought THE MAN WHO CAME BACK was one of the worst films, regardless of genre, I have seen from the past few years and easily the worst of the more recent rash of “made-for-TV” or “direct-to-video” Westerns.
I understand it had a low budget and poor production values. I don’t have a problem with that aspect of the movie. My problem with the film is that there is little to no action and most of the acting is outrageously bland.
To me it doesn’t even feel like a Western in any way (the setting is too Southern, in my opinion).
Again…everyone is entitled to their own opinion and there is no telling why a certain film clicks with one viewer and not another.
Just wanted to voice my take on this one.
As for the last Western I watched…
I watched IF YOU MEET SARTANA—PRAY FOR YOUR DEATH with my 12-year old twin nephews, last night. It was their first time to see the film and they loved it.
As for me…this film is easily my favorite of the SARTANA films and probably my most favorite film by Parolini.
[quote=“Chris_Casey, post:7350, topic:141”]I watched IF YOU MEET SARTANA—PRAY FOR YOUR DEATH with my 12-year old twin nephews, last night. It was their first time to see the film and they loved it.
As for me…this film is easily my favorite of the SARTANA films and probably my most favorite film by Parolini.[/quote]
I need to find a print with the correct aspect ratio of 1.78:1 of this, I watched it again the other day from the WE disc and although I enjoyed it even more in this third viewing of mine, the 2.20:1 ratio made my eyes hurt.
Always been a fan of Glenn Ford and this was a pretty decent effort from his later years in the saddle and before he switched to mainly TV acting. Not up there with the best of his Delmer Daves directed oaters but passed the time well enough.
[quote=“Chris_Casey, post:7350, topic:141”]Are you talking about the film with Eric Braeden (aka Hans Gudegast)?
If so…I have to confess that I am stunned you (and Ennioo) liked it.
Of course we are all entitled to our own opinions and we all have our own taste.
I thought THE MAN WHO CAME BACK was one of the worst films, regardless of genre, I have seen from the past few years and easily the worst of the more recent rash of “made-for-TV” or “direct-to-video” Westerns.
I understand it had a low budget and poor production values. I don’t have a problem with that aspect of the movie. My problem with the film is that there is little to no action and most of the acting is outrageously bland.
To me it doesn’t even feel like a Western in any way (the setting is too Southern, in my opinion).
Again…everyone is entitled to their own opinion and there is no telling why a certain film clicks with one viewer and not another.
Just wanted to voice my take on this one.[/quote]
Yeah, thats the one. Funny that you disliked it so much, at least no one will have any expectations now. I think I was so disappointed with The Burrowers and other recent westerns this was like a breath of fresh air, as crazy as that must sound to you, lol.
If you can’t adjust the AR on you TV (I think the disc is encoded as a widescreen print while it’s not, so you have to change your TV to 4:3 mode manually), watch the disc on your PC; Install VLC player first: it has an option for all kind of aspect ratios, varying from 1:1, 4:3, 16:9 to 21:9
My TV is quite old and I can’t change the aspect ratio from there, I’ll try watching it thru my PC with VLC.
scherp, why on 4:3 mode? The correct one for this film is supposed to be 16:9.
What a strange movie. The first half hour seems to belong to a totally different movie (one that was never finished?) than the rest of it.
After some thirty minutes there’s a sort of theme song, telling us that Tinti is the song of Django and what he’s after - so far I had no idea who he was and what he was up to) and another song, falling out of the blue sky, performed in the saloon, and then, finally, the revenge story starts. And it’s not even that bad.
[quote=“ION BRITTON, post:7356, topic:141”]My TV is quite old and I can’t change the aspect ratio from there, I’ll try watching it thru my PC with VLC.
scherp, why on 4:3 mode? The correct one for this film is supposed to be 16:9.[/quote]
In VLC you can choose all kinds of formats, so look what format suits this DVD best
There are several formats (or ARs) important here: the one of your TV, the one of your DVD, and the aspect ratio of the print used (some DVD aren’t ‘enhanced’ for 16:9 televisions, they call those copies ‘letterboxed’)
16:9 is the ratio of your screen; a DVD shown on this screen (and adjusted to it) may show a film in a different format, for instance 2,35:1 (most spaghettis). You’ll have two black or grey bars (top and bottom), or in 1,66:1 (Django, The Great silence), you’ll have again two bars, but now left and right.
Normally a TV ‘recognizes’ the format of a disc, and shows the film with any deformed image, but sometimes a disc is encoded wrong; as a result the TV doesn’t recognize the format, and starts squeezing the image.
I think this film was shot in 1,66:1 (I’m not sure), but was encoded as a widescreen movie; as a result your TV ‘squeezes’ the image.
The screen on my TV is actually 4:3, the classic old squarish TV ratio.
I’ll experiment with the AR settings on my PC although I don’t like watching films this way. Thanks for the tips anyway.
Ion, first you should try to adjust your DVD player.
That’s the way I was able to watch this film in the correct aspect ratio.
My 4:3 TV is also too old. (It has a damn fine picture and sound quality, so I won’t give it up until our TV stations show everything in HD)
But I can’t adjust films which are squeezed from the sides, which also sometimes happens on cheap DVDs. Like e.g. the German Gentleman Jo DVD and funnily also the old German Sartana Pray for Your Death DVD (which is heavily cut and forgettable anyway).
