For a Few Dollars More was pretty good
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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!
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MrJinx — 15 years ago(December 25, 2010 06:23 AM)
I do agree that the For a Few Dollars More and TGTBTU are better films (masterpieces), but that doesn't mean that Fistfull of Dollars isn't an excellent film itself. Leone eventually reached his peak with Once Upon a Time in the West
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pazuzu9 — 14 years ago(June 14, 2011 05:04 PM)
But the first of the trilogy, Fistful of Dollars was pathetic.
Hehe, what a childish thing to say.
I just watched this for the first time since probably the early 70s and I really enjoyed it much more than I thought I would.
I watched The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly a few days ago and liked it so much I felt I had to see the rest of the trilogy. I'm not disappointed so far.
Gonna watch all Clints early westernsit's been so many years, it's great to revisit them.
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hnow — 14 years ago(June 17, 2011 09:42 PM)
With each movie, the level of comedy goes up with GB&U being downright camp. Really, it's a mismatched buddy film. Fistful was the most brutal, especially with the slaughter scene of the entire Baxter camp. I think the overall story in Few Dollars More is better, but spending more money on GB&U to make it the biggest production of the three does not make it the best film of the three. Few Dollars More has a good balance between the humor and dramatic intensity and money spent. Then I would rank Fistful second. But I will watch either of the first two at any given time and save GB&U for the rare viewing.