For a Few Dollars More was pretty good
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errol1909 — 17 years ago(August 27, 2008 12:29 AM)
Fistful of Dollars is a great film. Very stylish, cool, and violent. A great way to introduce "The Man with No Name". I don't care if it's a remake. I've never seen Yojimbo and I have no desire to. This film is way, way better than the crappy and very overrated The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. However, Once Upon a Time in the West is by far the best of the three films. I've only seen these 3 Sergio Leone films. I can't wait to see more though.
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Klein_Returns — 16 years ago(November 02, 2009 09:26 AM)
"In your opinion. Me, I think The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is horrible. Not so long ago I bought it (after having seen it once on TV, as a kid), and I really wanted to love it. I could not; I found it abysmally bad.
I like A Few Dollars More best, but Fistful's quite nice, imo. It all comes down to taste.
(Apart, of course, from the fact that Yojimbo is superior to Fistful, which is fact, yea. ) "
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guaili — 15 years ago(February 21, 2011 08:17 PM)
I know I'm probably in a minority here but as much as I liked Yojimbo, I think Fistful is superior. Leone took the better parts of Yojimbo and cut the story better, going straight to the point and rearranging the separated family subplot so it doesn't come out of the blue in the middle of the movie as in Yojimbo. Plus, as great as Kurosawa is, Leone did a better directing job with Fistful.
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jt-hix2112 — 16 years ago(October 06, 2009 07:45 PM)
The fist time I watched this I thought it was okay. Then I saw it a few more times and thought it was pretty good. Just saw it again for the first time in a long time last night and right now it's my favorite of the three. It's so much darker than the other ones, I love it.
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oRRe_cheaton — 15 years ago(May 17, 2010 01:21 PM)
I agree with you! Allthough I don't think a fistful of dollars was bad. It was pretty good. The Good, The bad and the ugly was a masterpiece and one of the best movies ever made. Fistful of Dollars cannot top that. I haven't seen For a Few dollars yet though. I'm gonna try and do that tomorrow or something.
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Mr-Fusion — 15 years ago(June 15, 2010 03:58 PM)
But the first of the trilogy, Fistful of Dollars was pathetic.
Especially as compared to Yojimbo, the movie its based on.
Well, by that rationale, they should just stop the remake cycle. Because
Last Man Standing
(in comparison) was terrible.
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ghostly_host — 15 years ago(June 30, 2010 06:48 PM)
To me this is like the 'return of the jedi' of the trilogynot the best but still greatand instead of annoying ewoks you have an annoying whining little kid. Awesome movie though. I saw an Ennio Morricone interview recently (it's on the Compaeros DVD by Blue Underground) where he actually says that Fistful is the "worst spaghetti western music he made." I would strongly disagree, it has a great soundtrack that, to me at least, stands out ahead of many of his later spaghetti western compositions (but still, in my opinion, overshadowed by the other two films in the Dollars trilogy).
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scott_uk88 — 15 years ago(August 07, 2010 08:14 PM)
It's just opinions. I think For A Few Dollars More the weakest as I find the pace gets slack on occassion and the baddie isn't dynamic enough for me. I also don't feel the ending has the same power as the other two films or Once Upon A Time West. Most people would probably disagree with me on every count. But like I said, it's all opinions
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xdiesp — 15 years ago(August 10, 2010 08:56 AM)
You have to learn to look beyond the money.
It's not as polished as GBU because it's the prototype. Everything was being done before, for the first time. Wherein GBU just adds baroqisms in established territory.
Inventing the Man with Non Name and all the tropes of italian western is no small feat. It feels riskier than GBU as well and has all those original prototype details which are ported to following movies but truly belong only to the first. -
shotgun_mcguffin — 15 years ago(December 30, 2010 02:22 PM)
I agree, I am actually surprised that people would find this the weakest. I found For a Few Dollars more the weakest by far, actually pretty boring at times, while A Fistful of Dollars and The Good The Bad and The Ugly is really fantastic films.
Yeah, okay, so maybe a Fistful of Dollars is a ripoff from Yojimbo, but I dont really care, I love both movies.
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hnt_dnl — 15 years ago(August 18, 2010 01:07 PM)
Well, this film is my preference of the trilogy and the one that I think holds up more on repeated viewing. It is spare and has a depth and ambiguity that the successors lacks. I feel like FAFDM drags out for about 30 minutes unnecessarily and TGTBATU is a bit too operatic for it's own good!