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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Cinema Discusso > The Western Thread: Let's Gut Shoot Alvin And Feed Him To The Hogs
 
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sean10mm
Jun 29, 2005

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, MAD-2R World
 The 2010 True Grit is really loving good.

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sean10mm
Jun 29, 2005

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DeimosRising posted:

90s and later western lists without Ravenous and Dead Man are bannable fyi

Also in ascending order of quality: the revenant, blueberry, big money rustlas

Hot take: The Revenant looks great but is overpoweringly dumb.

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sean10mm
Jun 29, 2005

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Jack B Nimble posted:

Saw Fistful of Dollars last weekend. Relevant: Yojimbo is my favorite Kurosawa action film (my heart must make room for Ikiru, regardless Yojimbo is certainly my favorite "fun" Kurosawa picture).
 
What a palette change from True Grit; this movie feels so, so much NEWER. Leone is something like 36 years younger than Ford and you can feel the generational shift between the two films. I'd never seen it, and compared to one of my all time favorites, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Fistful of Dollars is rougher, and I was surprised to realize they only came out, what 2 years apart? If that's the case, and there's another movie in between them, I think I want to know more about the circumstances of making this trilogy.
 
Still, compared to the previous Westerns in my list, this feels almost as dramatic as the change from silent to voiced (I think the first one was My Darling Clementine?) or the introduction in color (beautifully harnessed in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon); it's such a departure from what came before it in tone, style, aesthetic; in music and in the general attitude of the characters. It's just very, well, cool. Great movie, and now I can't wait to see the next one in the trilogy.

Yeah, the Leone movies are neat because they feel like they came from a different planet form American Westerns. It's like they're somehow more down to earth AND outright mythic at once, I dunno.

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