You can’t go wrong with Lee Van Cleef.
I’m kidding. He was a great actor but he was in some shitty movies.
Technically a Spaghetti Western was made by Italians, mostly shot on location in Spain, with mostly European actors and one or Two Americans. Most of the good ones have already been mentioned. I would add Sabata and it’s sequels to the list. The ones with Lee Van Cleef were the best, the later ones with Yul Brynner were ok.
You google Ennio Morricone.
If he wrote the music to it, you can probably watch it.
What exactly is the spaghetti western genre all about? What separates it from a normal western (other than it’s origin which I assume was in Italy)?
[quote]setto222 wrote:
What exactly is the spaghetti western genre all about? What separates it from a normal western (other than it’s origin which I assume was in Italy)?[/quote]
As far as I know the budget is dropped considerably and there’s much less cheesy American nationalism present. I saw one earlier, comparing it to True Grit and Unforgiven at least, it seems to be somewhat the case.
Of course I’m not so much an authority on that yet, as I’m woefully inexperienced with the genre and will be for at least a week or so until I’ve run through these lists.
[quote]setto222 wrote:
What exactly is the spaghetti western genre all about? What separates it from a normal western (other than it’s origin which I assume was in Italy)?[/quote]
There were Westerns being made in Europe and they were utter shite.
The Spaghetti Westerns were towering above the rest.
Also, they were free of the Ra-Ra- USA stuff, they are full of amoral psychopaths, no white hat to be seen.
Awesome, thanks BK and Orion
[quote]drunkpig wrote:
Lonesome Dove was adapted from a novel by Larry McMurtry. He also wrote Brokeback Mountain, and The Last Picture Show.
My top picks:
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I’ve read three of the four Lonesome Dove books and they are such a pleasure to read. Like a long letter from old friends.
I mentioned this here before too that I’ve never seen any of the spaghetti Westerns. I’d like to, but don’t want to download or whatever and can’t find them on DVD near me.
[quote]Nards wrote:
I’d like to, but don’t want to download or whatever and can’t find them on DVD near me.[/quote]
There is no way that you would install Bittorrent and visit some torrent sites to get what you want?
[quote]orion wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
I’d like to, but don’t want to download or whatever and can’t find them on DVD near me.[/quote]
There is no way that you would install Bittorrent and visit some torrent sites to get what you want?
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I don’t even have a computer anymore…I use the one at work.
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]drunkpig wrote:
Lonesome Dove was adapted from a novel by Larry McMurtry. He also wrote Brokeback Mountain, and The Last Picture Show.
My top picks:
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I’ve read three of the four Lonesome Dove books and they are such a pleasure to read. Like a long letter from old friends.
I mentioned this here before too that I’ve never seen any of the spaghetti Westerns. I’d like to, but don’t want to download or whatever and can’t find them on DVD near me.[/quote]
Can you steam them through Amazon? I know Good, Bad, Ugly is available for streaming through Amazon
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]orion wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
I’d like to, but don’t want to download or whatever and can’t find them on DVD near me.[/quote]
There is no way that you would install Bittorrent and visit some torrent sites to get what you want?
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I don’t even have a computer anymore…I use the one at work.[/quote]
Does not compute…
Mwuah…
I have cable TV and I’m hoping one of the HBOs will have them sometime.
Cinemax had the original True Grit yesterday. That’s great.
[quote]Nards wrote:
I have cable TV and I’m hoping one of the HBOs will have them sometime.
Cinemax had the original True Grit yesterday. That’s great.[/quote]
You have HBO where you are at?
I could not get it if I sucked some mean dick !
Y u can get HBO?
I like John Wayne but I really wish he hadn’t pandered to younger audiences by having singin sensation Justin Bieber in the film.
[quote]orion wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
I have cable TV and I’m hoping one of the HBOs will have them sometime.
Cinemax had the original True Grit yesterday. That’s great.[/quote]
You have HBO where you are at?
I could not get it if I sucked some mean dick !
Y u can get HBO?[/quote]
I even get SyFy…the original Star Trek and Twilight Zone every night!
[quote]Nards wrote:
I have cable TV and I’m hoping one of the HBOs will have them sometime.
Cinemax had the original True Grit yesterday. That’s great.[/quote]
I love the original True Grit, that’s one of the only ones I can really comment on at the time being. John Wayne was incredibly good in that, I can’t wait to see more of his films that I’ve missed out on by my own distractions.
Fill your hand, you son of a bitch!
For all I know it may be blasphemy, but I adore Jeff Bridges’ Rooster Cogburn, I think it was a good choice for something that had to stand so close to John Wayne with the risk of feeling like a broken fuck up.
Cat Ballou with Lee Marvin
Navajo Joe with Burt Reynolds
Once Upon a Time in the West. stars Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Jason Robards, and Claudia Cardinale
you gotta watch The Magnificent Seven. stars Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, Horst Buchholz, and Eli Wallach. based on Akira Kurosawa’s film Seven Samurai
not spaghetti westerns but some good ones are Shane, High Noon, Red River, The Searchers, and of course Unforgiven.
don’t know what your local library system is like but here all these movies are free to check out on dvd for a week or get with an intralibrary loan.
oh yeah, can’t forget Blazing Saddles!
[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
I have cable TV and I’m hoping one of the HBOs will have them sometime.
Cinemax had the original True Grit yesterday. That’s great.[/quote]
I love the original True Grit, that’s one of the only ones I can really comment on at the time being. John Wayne was incredibly good in that, I can’t wait to see more of his films that I’ve missed out on by my own distractions.
Fill your hand, you son of a bitch!
For all I know it may be blasphemy, but I adore Jeff Bridges’ Rooster Cogburn, I think it was a good choice for something that had to stand so close to John Wayne with the risk of feeling like a broken fuck up.[/quote]
Yeah, Wayne was great, but Bridges’ Cogburn certainly seemed more drunk. I love both of them when they make fun of the Texas Ranger all the time.
And it’s funny that the character of Ned Pepper is played by Barry Pepper in the remake.
[quote]silverblood wrote:
Cat Ballou with Lee Marvin
Navajo Joe with Burt Reynolds
Once Upon a Time in the West. stars Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Jason Robards, and Claudia Cardinale
you gotta watch The Magnificent Seven. stars Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, Horst Buchholz, and Eli Wallach. based on Akira Kurosawa’s film Seven Samurai
not spaghetti westerns but some good ones are Shane, High Noon, Red River, The Searchers, and of course Unforgiven.
don’t know what your local library system is like but here all these movies are free to check out on dvd for a week or get with an intralibrary loan.
oh yeah, can’t forget Blazing Saddles!
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or the Three Amigos…
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean was a pretty good. Paul Newman’s good in everything.