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Hell yeah, I just bought the Arrow Complete Sartana boxset and it is crazy to see a non-Leone spaghetti western look as gorgeous as they do. The plots are still cartoon nonsense, but I'm glad that my spaghetti western collection is slowly moving away from Walmart multipack DVDs into something I can watch on my new TV.
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FreudianSlippers posted:How are the Sartana films? They're not good movies, but they're fun. Gianfranco Parolini and Giuliano Carnimeo both bring a weird superspy element to the typical spaghetti western. There are tons of gadgets and sharpshooting tricks along with the shootouts and punch-ups. If you want to try out the kind of over-the-top carnival style of Parolini before committing to the boxset, Sabata is a god place to start. It's got Lee Van Cleef, perennial spaghetti western scumbag William Berger and a baffling obsession with dudes jumping off trampolines. There's a pretty good version on YouTube if you search for it.
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Nov 19, 2018 22:20
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Stagecoach is basically the movie that set the standard for Hollywood westerns for decades to come.
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Open Range is probably the best Hollywood western made in the last 15 years. It makes me sad that more people haven't seen it.
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Nov 14, 2019 01:37
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I'm really stoked about the possibility of Criterion releasing Winchester 73 and (hopefully) the rest of Anthony Mann's westerns. I haven't seen them since my college days, but I remember both Winchester 73 and The Man From Laramie being amazing.
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Mar 10, 2020 20:51
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Jack B Nimble posted:I can confirm I've also been very disappointed in the Criterion Channel (for westerns). I think they’re putting a bunch of Anthony Mann westerns up next week, as well as Fritz Lang’s buckwild Rancho Notorious.
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Jul 2, 2020 22:05
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Prime also has the new Arrow transfers of the Sartana movies and they’re classic goofy spaghetti westerns.
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Jul 2, 2020 23:10
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Prime is really THE place for spaghetti westerns. I just found Run Man Run and Ace High up there with pretty good transfers for movies that I don't think made it to Blu Ray.
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Jul 8, 2020 19:51
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I've always liked El Dorado a bit more, but that's because I like Mitchum better than Martin. It also has a young Ed Asner as the main villain!
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Aug 10, 2020 20:14
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Yoooo I’ve been wanting to see Skin Game for ages.
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Mar 3, 2021 01:05
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Silverado is probably my favorite Hollywood-style western. The casting and the writing are so on point and everything that comes out of Kevin Kline's mouth is loving golden. Though I freely admit that I feel this way because it's my mom's comfort movie and I watched it a lot at a formative age 
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Mar 3, 2021 19:41
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Holy poo poo I can't believe there were TWO blaxploitation westerns with the n-word edited out of their title.
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Mar 8, 2021 18:01
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The sheer density of great lines in Silverado is hard to top. "How do I know this is your horse?" "Can't you see this horse loves me?" "I had a gal do that to me. It didn't make her my wife."
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Mar 18, 2021 14:14
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Mill Creek is putting out a Randolph Scott Western pack with all the classic Budd Boetticher/Scott movies. No clue as to the quality (Mill Creek, after all) but it’ll be cool to have these movies on Blu Ray.
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Mar 25, 2021 22:06
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X-Ray Pecs posted:It never really clicked before that the Mann/Stewart combo also made Winchester ‘73, which is an excellent movie. What was their third movie together? Man From Laramie, I think?
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The Terence Hill Django movie is also pretty fun and has one of my favorite themes in all of spaghetti westerns, so good that it’s the backbone of Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy.”
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