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post #1 of 15
2/26/10 at 6:08pm
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They hired a German, a Jew and a Russian to play Mexicans. They remade one of the greatest films of all time and barely understood how great the original is.

Why the fuck would the bad guy give them their guns? MAKES NO SENSE.

A hodgepodge of actors, and that foreign dude from that dancing movie from a couple years back costars with a TV star, and some foreign kid they're trying to launch in the Toshiro Mifune role. Um, yeah, no.

HOLLYWOOD: Stop remaking great foreign films from a couple years ago. Then again, it's been five years since John Sturges did anything good, and I'm starting to think BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK was an accident.

I will say this, though he can't compare with the original character, James Coburn (who was just in Boetticher's RIDE LONESOME) kills it as the silent knife thrower.
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post #2 of 15
2/26/10 at 6:20pm
Yeah, Hollywood slashed a movie that was perfectly paced at 207 minutes into 128 minutes. EPIC FAIL!
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post #3 of 15
2/26/10 at 6:20pm
Well played
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post #4 of 15
2/26/10 at 6:21pm
I see what you did.
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post #5 of 15
2/26/10 at 6:26pm
I get this.
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post #6 of 15
2/26/10 at 6:42pm
I thought it was kind of fun, if incredibly inferior to the original.
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post #7 of 15
2/26/10 at 6:45pm
Man, nobody's going to remember that score in a few years.
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post #8 of 15
2/26/10 at 6:48pm
This movie would have been so much better if all the human characters were insects.
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post #9 of 15
2/26/10 at 6:54pm
If this came out today, I'd be the one complaining about how bland Brad Dexter is. And I would be the one vindicated fifty years later. So believe me when I say that Heath Ledger's crappy Steve Urkel performance in THE DARK KNIGHT sucked.
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post #10 of 15
2/27/10 at 4:39am
Way to kill the joke, Paulie.
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post #11 of 15
2/27/10 at 7:25am
A rare miss from Macca!
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post #12 of 15
2/27/10 at 1:11pm
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Originally Posted by Luca S. View Post
A rare miss from Macca!
To be fair, this wasn't really that funny to begin with. And I honestly don't think Paul is kidding.

I can't wait for the inevitable knock-off thread about A Fistful of Dollars post-release...
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post #13 of 15
2/27/10 at 4:43pm
http://chud.com/forum/showthread.php?t=59239
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post #14 of 15
2/27/10 at 5:05pm
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This movie would have been so much better if all the human characters were insects.
Or if they were in outer space.
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post #15 of 15
5/4/11 at 10:11am

This is the only thread (and a joke one at that) here dedicated to such a great flick? Well, shit.

 

Such an economical film, and yet everyone gets their moment to shine. Lots of competition behind the scenes apparently between all of these macho types. Awesome to see so many actors together just on the cusp of stardom. Amazing theme music and the ending is certainly not as uplifting as you might imagine. Reminiscent of NO COUNTRY's themes. I thought the Mexican censorship trivia was interesting... as I noticed that all the farmers in their bright white clothes were without a spec of dirt. In hindight, you can see the transition this films marks between classic American Westerns and the Spaghetti subgenre that was to follow.

 

I've never seen the 3 sequels, so I'll have to dive into those soon.

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