For a Few Dollars More was pretty good
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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.
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filthydeeds — 14 years ago(June 21, 2011 11:06 AM)
Indeed the 'A Fistfull of Dollars' is the worst, but not bad by a long shot, 'For a Few Dollars More' is my personaly favourite out of the 3,
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A_Fistful_of_Pennies — 13 years ago(September 19, 2012 09:07 PM)
It is the worst of the trilogy (despite my username), but it's still an all-time classic. It's probably the most purely enjoyable film of the 3. The other two are better movies and overall more rewarding experiences but you have to be in the right mood and they require some patience. This one you can throw in anytime.
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