I've always been a bit delinquent about watching classic westerns. While I'd enjoyed High Noon, The Searchers, and Rio Bravo, something about their elemental morality is a snooze. But as part of my recent Clint Eastwood education (it started with Dirty Harry) I decided to do a triple feature of A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Talk about getting drunk on the movies! I couldn't get enough of the campy dubbing and Clint's squint, all wrapped in a spirit of cool irreverence. Why didn't I watch these sooner? Now my love for Kill Bill: Vol. 2 just seems recycled.
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I see a movie marathon in my future!
Wasn't Clint gorgeous back in the day? I've only seen The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly but definitely enjoyed it.
You are not alone! I just watched my first Dirty Harry movie this year. How did that get by me?
Ah yes, I know this trilogy well. We own these and more... Lucas loves the old spaghetti westerns. In general I'm not really into westerns but I do love the way these are filmed. It's never my idea to watch them but I always end up enjoying them when I do.
Also, speaking of classic westerns, have you ever seen the original 1957 version of "3:10 To Yuma"? That's another one I begrudgingly agreed to watch and was surprised by how much I got into it.
Ah yes, Kathleen, he was quite beautiful back then, actually...never really occurred to me watching him growl at John Malkovich in In The Line Of FIre ;) And Missa, I did not see the original 3:10 to Yuma, only the remake, although my parents have bugged me to see the original, they like it better! I'll have to check it out.
Loretta, is it a rumor that Tom is sometimes called "Blondie" because of the Man With No Name?
clint makes me swoon.
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