I JUST DON'T GET IT
I thought I would start a forum devoted to those aspects of horrordom that you just don't understand (why such-n-such a film is considered a classic, etc...) I know I'm going to open a huge can or...
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drmedula wrote: I respect Ford, Hawks, and company ( grew up with a mother and brother who loved "old-school" westerns); but I think it's undeniable that Leone literally changed that genre almost...
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Yeah, I love Aldrich in general, and Leone openly acknowledged VERA CRUZ. (He ended up working with Aldrich on one of those big "Roman Empire" epics, and apparently it broke his heart to see his...
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drmedula wrote: I've actually been on a bit of a Spaghetti kick lately- can anyone reccomend anything beyond the obvious choices? (I already own everything Leone ever did, seen a bunch of Corbucci-...
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There's also a cheap boxset of the SARTANA films that was just released.(THE SARTANA SAGA) They seemed to be ripped off from foreign releases, some look good in widescreen and some look bad (vhs...
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I've been watching a lot of Spag Westerns myself, being a big fan. I can concur all that Pete and Koukol say. I've been watching the Sartanas recently. The Sabata films are fun, especially with Van...
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Thanks, guys. Obviously, Leone was THE MAN, and most of the hundreds of films that followed were just imitators trying to cash in... but that's not unlike all the slasher films being in the shadow of...
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It looks like nobody mentioned The Great Silence. I think this along with Death Rides a Horse is one of my two favorite Non-Leone Spaghetti westerns.
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Doc Dynamo wrote: It looks like nobody mentioned The Great Silence. I think this along with Death Rides a Horse is one of my two favorite Non-Leone Spaghetti westerns. Doc said he was already familiar...
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As much as I love Leone's westerns and many of the American ones influenced by them, these "revolutionary" westerns don't detract from my appreciation of the traditional western one bit.
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I just bought the German Koch release of A PISTOL FOR RINGO and RETURN OF RINGO. Can't wait to crack them open.
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As Alec Guinness playing a comical eccentric German said, " 'Sunkist.' To stamp on oranges is shtupid!"
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Sure, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD was a ground-breaker, but it was also a collaborative effort. This is true of all films but less true of NIGHT than most. Romero directed, photographed, edited the...
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lencandraw wrote: lencandraw wrote: I don't get how anyone can support or like Roman Polanski. Much less give him an Oscar. ... So? Look, I won't deny he has made some good films, I just won't be...
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...even the victim no longer has any interest in seeing him punished. Quite true. The woman has publicly stated this numerous times. And she wasn't bought off with $20 Million like the kid in that...
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Hollywood Gothique wrote: Sure, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD was a ground-breaker, but it was also a collaborative effort. This is true of all films but less true of NIGHT than most. Romero directed,...
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Omega, Forget comparing Jackson to Polanski- compare Jackson to R. Kelly. While Jackson was in fact never actually proven guilty (largely because the families of his accusers were unable to...
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