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A Fistful of Dollars (1967)
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"This is the sixth feature length film I've seen by director Sergio Leone. I chose to watch this film based on previous good ratings I've given other films by this director and to better my favorite directors by algorithm listing. Giù la testa (Duck, You Sucker) (A Fistful of Dynamite) Sergio Leone is the author of my very favorite film, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. The similarly styled and A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More, both starring Clint Eastwood as essentially the same character were highly enjoyable lead ups. You could see Leone's style developing and improving along the same path. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly was the perfect climax of that style. You could say every single one of his films took place at an era in history bit later than his previous one. His next fil "
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"This is the seventh feature length film I've seen by director Quentin Tarantino. I chose to watch this film based on previous good ratings I've given other films by this director and to better my favorite directors by algorithm listing. Inglourious Basterds I've seen all of Tarantino's films. And since I've become a fan I've made to sure to see all of them in the theatre. There are a lot of things that irk me about his style. Some of them irk me while giving me delight at the same time. But I always find the films entertaining. This film starts right out with a scene that was clearly modeled off of one of the very first scenes of my favorite film of all time The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. I know this to be Tarantino's favorite film of all time as well, so I wasn't too surprised. But Tarantino really has me being pulled back and forth violently regarding my admiration for this scene. My joy at wanting to call it a delightful homage and my disgust at what seems almos "
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"What if ultra-modern, samurai sword wielding Japanese cowboys had participated in the Gold Rush of the mid 19th century in the United States? Sukiyaki Western Django is an anachronistic mishmash that attempts to answer this question by infusing the spaghetti western with traditional Japanese cinema to create a sumptuous feast of the senses made all the more delicious by the random dashes of uncouth American sensibilities thanks in large part to Quentin Tarantino. A story of murder, revenge and redemption; the Japanese love child of A Fistful of Dollars and Monty Python and the Holy Grail. "
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"I saw 800 Bullets a couple years ago at the Philadelphia International Film Festival. It was one of those movies that you will either see at a festival or have to seek out on Netflix. The movie is about these out of work actors who had all been stuntmen on the Clint Eastwood spaghetti Westerns of the 60s and 70s. (A Fistful of Dollars (1964) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)) When the movies stopped filming there, they all lost their careers. They are now left with entertaing ever dwindling numbers of tourists to see them re-enact their old scenes. When they discover that an out of town business is buying the property to turn it into a family amusment park; they decide that this is one injustice too many. Tey buy all the bullets they can afford (800) to hold off the police and save their homes and careers. This movie is funny and touching. Seek it out "
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"Per un pugno di dollari (A Fistful of Dollars)What can I say? This movie started a pretty huge avalanche. Both for Leone's and Eastwood's careers, the budding Spaghetti Western genre, and probably for for European genre movies in full.As probably anyone reading this is already well aware, it's pretty much a close remake of Yojimbo. But some characters are changed both reflecting the time of the American Southwest western where it's set, and Italian film for who it was intended.The movie is enjoyable, with a few quite memorable moments (the gigantic barrel exploding into the bad guys may be my favorite). But it's impossible for me not to think about it as just being the testing waters for the perfection that would eventually come with The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. In fact the second movie in this series of sorts, For a Few Dollars More, takes many sequences and styles of this movie and gets them to a more finalized state that are basically rehashed again ... "
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"This blog entry is part of my “movie year countdown”. To read more about that check out my first Spout filmblog entry.YojimboIt's the second time I've seen this movie, and hey it's a lot of fun. Listening to discussion of this film fits you into a whole back and forth history of different directors from all around the globe inspiring each other. This film was inspired by American film-noir and westerns and was both a tribute and a subversion of the genres while also addressing many Japanese traditions and modern conundrums. And then of course was itself the inspiration for A Fistful of Dollars which was another movie inspired by and a subversion of American westerns while playing up what was a very Italian viewpoint.And then of course you can see how the spaghetti westerns further influenced more Japanese and American cinema and it has all gone back and forth. Well I kind of see this movie as being a pivotal point in the history of sort of a whole genre ... "
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"DjangoSince The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is my favorite movie of all time, I try to occasionally seek out more spaghetti westerns, but other than Leone's other movies I haven't been able to find anything that comes close.I suppose that is because it's ultimately an exploitation genre. Not that I can't enjoy movies of those genres, but because they were usually made to pump out with low budgets in such short time periods it is more rare to find a talented filmmaker who can create some really phenomenal.Django is known as one of the best or at least better of the genre I believe. So it definitely is good and enjoyable, but I'm just afraid that even though I recognize that, deep down I am always disappointed that it doesn't seem I'll ever find any new Spaghetti Westerns up to par with GBU.It was good to see the iconic coffin dragging. And the famous ear cutting scene. I really found the gatling gun to be ridiculous and a bit of a disappointment thoug ... "
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