Interesting list! I always love seeing The Forgotten Pistolero on someone’s list…to the point that I think that any list that doesn’t include it shouldn’t be counted. 
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Wow, that’s a really interesting list . . . kind of refreshing though. Good stuff!
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Yes, interesting and unusual list indeed.
After some searching I found this Lucky Luke (I’m an admirer of the comic books as long as they were written by Rene Goscinny), but being an episode from a TV show it can’t be counted for our forum’s top 20. Could you please just add another SW as 21th, which I then can use for the counting?
And seeing your admiration for Terence Hill, I’m just curious why you don’t like Boot Hill and My Name Is Nobody as much as the other 2 Collizi and the 2 Trinity films?
Imo Collizi is a quite underrated director, and I personally am a big fan of Boot Hill, a film many here absolutely don’t like.
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Okay, I changed my no. 14 to My Name is Nobody. I originally intended to put it on the list but forgot when I thought of my other favorite Spaghs. My Name is Nobody is a great film and I want to watch it again soon.
When I saw Boot Hill for the first time, I was disappointed and didn’t like it that much, but now I’ve learned to appreciate it. I still think the plot is a little messy and my boys Cat and Hutch don’t have enough screen time, but the circus thingy was a really original idea and I like it. Also, Baby Doll is probably my favorite character in the film 
I think I would put Boot Hill in my top 30 though.
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Both are not flawless films, but Nobody is a definite favourite of mine (top 10 actually) and Boot Hill is a top 20 Spag.
If one likes Boot Hill stays or falls with the circus stuff. I love these scenes, so I love Boot Hill. If the showdown would have been greater (good, but far from great), it would be a top 10 film.
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01 Great Silence
02 For A Few Dollars More
03 The Big Gundown
04 I Am Sartana Your Angel Of Death
05 Once Upon A Time In The West
06 The Mercenary
07 Johnny Hamlet
08 Matalo (Kill)
09 Companeros!
10 Requiem For A Gringo
11 If You Live… Shoot!
12 Django
13 Light The Fuse… Sartana Is Coming
14 Massacre Time
15 If You Meet Sartana… Pray For Your Death
16 Yankee
17 Sabata
18 Run Man Run
19 And God Said To Cain
20 The Specialists
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No GBU? Interesting!
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I said it in the other thread where a the person asked me to post only the top 20 of my letterboxd ranked spag list in this thread here… GBU is nr 21… and im gonna get some flack for it.
But i find it somewhat sluggishly paced and Blondie and Angel Eyes such uninteresting characters.
Colonel Mortimer is one of my favorite characters. But i find Angel Eyes such a downgrade from the proto Sartana that was Mortimer.
Other as Tuco, Tuco’s revolver assembley scene and the meta thought that lies behind the part where tuco and blondie are pretending to be soldiers. There is not much for me here. Also not Morricone’s best soundtrack… people recognize it for sure, but i find it hard pressed to call it my favorite.
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Good list overall.
I just recently rewatched all 5 Sartana films, and for me its the other way round, with Have a Good Funeral the best, and Angel of Death the weakest of the ones with Garko. But the differences are not that big and I enjoyed them all.
Hmm, what does your forum name mean?
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The grand duel is my favorite on that list. Of course excluding the heavy weights like once upon a time in the west, and the good the bad and the ugly .
I will never understand why so many people rank “the big gundown” so high up on their list. It’s quite weak IMO, the story is weak, the action is weak, it’s poorly paced, and it’s carried by Lee Van Cleef’s acting which is the only remarkable aspect of the whole movie. I would be very interested to hear why you, and others, like that movie so much.
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The music, LVC, the funny but emotional Cuchillo, plenty of humor and, of course, Morricone.
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You could read these comments
For me personally it just has that certain SW je ne sais quoi … the atmosphere to these films is the key … there’s a mood of uncertainty as to who’s who and what’s what, which was almost never the case with American western films. It’s all the more enjoyable for the fact that we can’t figure out what’s going happen in the first few minutes, which is the case with most John Wayne or Randolph Scott style productions … Hero kills the baddie, and gets the girl 
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Look at the end shoot out and you’ll thank me later. Then what you call slow paced is irrelevant in the judgment of the movie. The manner in which the movie is played matters most.
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Are you sure you have watched the un-cut version and not the monstrosity that was released in the U.S.? If you watched the U.S. release, that would explain many of your complaints about the film.
Yes, but those aspects are also part of most spaghetti western films which arguably do those things way better. “The Grand Duel”, for example, does those aspects way better imho.
I called it poorly paced, not slow paced. I have no problem with slow pacing if done well.
I have only seen the U.S. cut yeah. I have the 1hr 50 min version too, might watch that but I doubt a longer runtime would make it much better.
Tastes will always be individual and different, even within a group in the same niche. “The Grand Duel” never clicked with me, for example. I prefer TBG by a lot over TGD in just about every category, even though TBG imho is far from perfect, even in the much better longer version.
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I also think that TBG is kinda overrated by SW fans, I also see there a big pacing problem in the film middle, but overrated is relative, and it is otherwise a fine film and still one of the 30 best Spags for me. While The Grand Duel would barely make my top 100.
But tastes can differ considerably of course, so why don’t you post your top 20 here? I’m curious …