A Fistful of Dollars
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Movie Reviews of A Fistful of Dollars
Movie Review: "See my mule don't like people laughin'"
Summary: 5 Stars
For any Spag-western fan it's a hard choice between the best film in the Leone/Eastwood trilogy. Most casual fans go for the epic final chapter, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, but I for one would choose this classic. Though it's pretty much the same story as Yojimbo, I think the border-town of the wild west is a much better setting. This movie is so great for a few reasons:
1. The cinematography is awesome, it pioneered the close-up, making each face a western landscape in itself.
2. Eastwood. This movie made him an international star, and for good reason. He puts a lot of humor into the character with his few lines, the opening scene where Clint references his mule is so weird that is's one of the funniest scenes in cinema.
3. The action is fast and furious, and the gun-slinging is unrivled, this is also the first appearence of Clint's famous poncho, which really makes him mysterious and menacing in the final gundown.
*Gian Maria Volonte is outstanding as the villain, although he's even better as the pot smoking lunatic in For A Few Dollars More
Movie Review: An atmospheric classic!
Summary: 5 Stars
Sergio Leone gives us an atmospheric, unflinchingly graphic update of the Akira Kurosawa classic Yojimbo. This time, on the other hand, the backdrop is the Old West and not feudal Japan. Clint Eastwood stars as the infamous "man with no name," a gun-for-hire who arrives into a town being ripped apart by two feuding families-the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of leaving like the local bartender suggests, Eastwood sets up a plan to destroy both families with the help of his .45 pistol. The realism of this film is astounding, no death-defying heroism is shown, no one taking a bullet and surviving(there is one exception to this, but I don't want to give anything away). Eastwood creates an unforgettable image in his first collaboration with director Leone, who later directed classic westerns such as The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, and Once Upon a Time in the West. The amazing fact is that this movie was rumored to have only cost two-hundred thousand dollars to make!
Movie Review: Buy the UK Special Edition if you can play PAL DVD's
Summary: 5 Stars
If you know this film , I would advise going to Amazon.co.uk and looking at the Special Edition of this film to see what you are missing out on , features wise .
It is worth waiting for it to come out in the US if you really like the film . Both this film and FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE are out in Special Editions in the UK .
Let the buyer choose - it may be worth looking at buying a Multi Region DVD player .
The main character is shown as an opportunist , but then most people around him are too .
It is entertaining and shows where a lot of camera cliches first began - that is not director Sergio Leone's fault however .
Sometimes I think other newer filmmakers think that if they use his style their films will somehow become better , but it doesn't work like that .
Watch the master at work and see how Clint learned his trade .
Movie Review: The one that started it all
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the best westerns of all time. It is in my personal top five with For a few dollars more, Good bad and the ugly, Tombstone, and Unforgiven. Eastwoods' breakthrough role was perfect for him. An icon to men. I'm sure all of us have daydreamed about being an invincible, unshaven, cigar smoking gunslinger when we were younger, and this image stays with us.
The quality of the DVD is good. A widescreen image sharper than any VHS I have seen of this film, and regrettably, the best possible audio track. No surround, only the original low budget sound. The voice dubbing has been cleaned up from previous cuts, the beating of the man with no name is restored as well as the whiskey barrel killing that was cut previously.
This disc is a must have. Get all 3 in the series. Pick up the box set.
Movie Review: I Like the Movie, what of the seller and media?
Summary: 5 Stars
One of my favorite movies (along the the others in the set). And others have voiced their praise better than I could. So my review is about my seller and the media.
I bought it from SourceMedia.
SourceMedia sent me a disk that looks like a copy. It came in a non-shrink wrapped box, and the DVD has no label on it which makes me think that the disc was copied from another one. DVD played fine though and the price was good and shipping was good, (3 days from order placement to product in my DVD player).
The movie itself is slightly grainy and has voice synch issues in many spots with sound to lips being a bit off.
But all in all, an enjoyable experience and I can live with the dollar savings for what I received.
Hail Flavius!