The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

“falls asleep right when they start the union interrogation and wakes up when they destroy the bridge”

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“The ending is an absolute masterclass in tension, the camera bringing in the closeups on our players faces, darting between each of them, the actors conveying so much with just closeups of their eyes.”

dbe14▲ 101about 75–100% inread it ↗

“The revolver scene is one of the most bad ass parts of any western ever. The slow reveal through sound of how much better the gun is while also showing how absolutely crazy brilliant Tuco is, despite playing dumb throughout the movie is perfect.”

Hannibal_Rex▲ 92about 33–66% inread it ↗

“The scene in the shop where he's "buying" a new gun is just pure fucking gold.”

nethermead▲ 30about 33–66% inread it ↗

“So much runs through the viewer's mind during the climatic graveyard scene near the end The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly. Somehow, through all we've have been put through for the last 3 hours, the brutality of America's bloodiest war, the many, many twists and turns that we've been put through, the highs and lows of the truly epic journey across America's sun-scorched, anarchic, savage bastard child west, nothing else matters besides what is going right now at this very instance. Despite Morricone's heavenly "Ecstasy of Gold" drumming everything, meaning the scene, its characters, the action, and the audience along, it's really a moment of restrained triumph, as Tuco the Ugly frantically gallops across this massive graveyard which more closely resembles some great Roman coliseum in search of the one thing that he could ever mean something to someone like him, some arbitrary object of grat”

Sinewsabout 90–100% inread it ↗

“In the entire three hour runtime, there isn't a single expositionary dialogue, except for a total of 5 minutes. That's a very difficult task to do, and it does it with such an ease that we don't even notice it during the first viewing.”

MoviezNPabout 0–100% inread it ↗

“The opening credits rolled together with Morricone's score. Right there on I knew the film is going to be a classic.”

mcblancaflorabout 0–10% inread it ↗

“It's still a dull movie with non credible one dimensional characters who have no motivation for a single thing they do.”

drystyxabout 0–100% inread it ↗

“The opening scene, for example, juxtaposes closeups of anxious faces with vast panoramas of the Western landscape, and 10 minutes passes before a single word is said.”

CRCulverabout 0–10% inread it ↗

“The near 3hr run time is one of the reasons, though the pacing is actually pretty good in fairness.”

r96skabout 0–100% inread it ↗

“There is one word to define The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. And that word is “transcendent”. This movie is not only the pinnacle of the Spaghetti Western, but it transcended into the pinnacle of the Western genre in itself. It’s safe to say it transcends that too, and can be considered one of the greatest pieces of filmmaking ever. It counts with memorable performances by three different leads, a story that breaks the “black and white” concepts of morale, and an original score that can only be d”

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