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Post by hi224 on May 27, 2018 18:12:55 GMT
Thoughts?
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on May 27, 2018 18:35:21 GMT
How can you trust a man that wears both a belt and suspenders? Man can't even trust his own pants.
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Post by politicidal on May 27, 2018 19:34:55 GMT
Screw Eastwood, this is Sergio Leone's best film.
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Post by wmcclain on May 27, 2018 19:54:58 GMT
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on May 27, 2018 20:24:36 GMT
Sorry, but I hated this movie
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Post by bravomailer on May 27, 2018 21:38:05 GMT
Wonderful beginning, tremendous ending. In-between lies a ponderous story that did not engage me, except when Ms Cardinale was in frame.
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Post by petrolino on May 27, 2018 23:50:06 GMT
Masterpiece.
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Post by Fox in the Snow on May 28, 2018 10:10:19 GMT
Love the measured pace, the grand scenery and operatic structure and tone. One of my favorite Westerns.
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Post by twothousandonemark on May 28, 2018 20:41:53 GMT
My #13 all time. I've always enjoyed the full circle aspect of Leone originally wanting Bronson for his Dollars trilogy, & then apparently offering Eastwood the lead role here. Hindsight of course clearly shows the 2nd choices for both worked out ideally. My fav western easily because while it mingles with the genre tropes, it never feels silly or exhibitionist. Monument Valley for instance, it's there & yet not in every other shot like The Searchers.
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Post by Captain Spencer on May 29, 2018 1:40:55 GMT
Leon's masterpiece.
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Post by telegonus on May 29, 2018 5:57:54 GMT
It's very good, and the ending is grand, yet its pace is often slow, languid, and there's little in the way of narrative drive due to the way it was made. Compelling central story, its telling isn't always to my taste. I like Leone, though, but this one is awfully fragmented. It has its virtues, but they come and go.
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Post by PreachCaleb on May 29, 2018 22:03:45 GMT
I don't know if any other movie perfectly conveyed the feel of living in the old west.
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Post by coldenhaulfield on May 30, 2018 15:04:14 GMT
I don't know if any other movie perfectly conveyed the feel of living in the old west. Nah, you lack context.
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Post by pimpinainteasy on May 31, 2018 6:25:08 GMT
Wonderful beginning, tremendous ending. In-between lies a ponderous story that did not engage me, except when Ms Cardinale was in frame. very well said. this is true for most of leone's work.
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Post by pimpinainteasy on May 31, 2018 6:25:38 GMT
morricone's score - just amazing.
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Post by deembastille on Jun 16, 2018 0:09:04 GMT
bam bada bam bam!
and the beginning: Imp particularly the train arriving is the greatest scene in all cinema. that noise the engine makes is mesmerizing. its kind of like it's breathing.
the last two seconds of the vid has the sound. at least one breath of the sound.
better on this one...
tell me that isn't the coolest thing ever,
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Post by teleadm on Jun 16, 2018 13:25:49 GMT
10/10
This movie is a masterpiece, but it took me several viewings to get it!
This is not the kind of movie one just throw in on the DVD recorder when the pal's is around, this is one of those movies, at least I think so, one have to watch alone.
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Jun 17, 2018 7:02:06 GMT
Wonderful beginning, tremendous ending. In-between lies a ponderous story that did not engage me, except when Ms Cardinale was in frame. ... that was basically my exact assessment when I first viewed Once Upon a Time in the West, in the summer when I was seventeen. When I watched the movie for the third time a year later, I thought that it was Sergio Leone's best Western. I have viewed Once Upon a Time in the West on six occasions overall (once on the big screen), and it is an incredibly powerful and potent movie that blends simplicity and sophistication. One cannot go wrong with Leone's three previous Westerns starring Eastwood, and one can make an argument for any of them being Leone's best. Indeed, seeing The Good, the Bad and the Ugly three times in the theater in March 2016 constituted a phenomenal experience, and the movie (along with its predecessors) was nothing short of revolutionary, both in terms of style and content. (I have viewed The Good, the Bad and the Ugly about fifteen times, four times in the theater.) But Once Upon a Time in the West is certainly Leone's most elaborate and poetic Western, and it becomes more remarkable and rewarding upon subsequent screenings.
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Jun 17, 2018 7:05:34 GMT
I don't know if any other movie perfectly conveyed the feel of living in the old west. I would cite Unforgiven in this regard. Conversely, like all of Leone's Westerns, Once Upon a Time in the West is more about surrealism than sheer realism.
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Jun 17, 2018 7:07:39 GMT
Love the measured pace, the grand scenery and operatic structure and tone. One of my favorite Westerns. Once Upon a Time in the West is the ultimate operatic Western.
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