Spaghetti Westerns

[Animal Boything]

Originally Posted by b.miller

Personally, I appreciate the sheer size of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, but think Once Upon A Time stands as the exact definition of the genre. Especially considering that Fistfull is basically a remake of Kurosawa's Yojimbo and Few Dollars More is basically a remake of Fistfull.

Yeah, I thought that whole trilogy came across as practice once I saw Once Upon a Time in the West... It's a hell of a lot more focused than The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, and it has such a great cast and such a great score. That flashback scene at the end is so intense...

By the way, I still haven't seen Yojimbo OR Seven Samurai, for some dumb reason. I've seen a couple of Kurosawa movies, and I have more than one friend who worships the dude, but somehow I just keep not getting around to it. I'm aware of the whole influence of that stuff on Leone etc., but I'm just lame about watching stuff sometimes. I guess it would make sense to go back and see those before watching any more Westerns... anyway, thanks all of you for your input.