Pasta cowboys rule! (Fistful Of Dollars, A (DVD))

Member Name: moronboy

Product:	Fistful Of Dollars, A (DVD)
Date:	23/07/00 (15 review reads)
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Advantages: Lean and moody

Disadvantages: Terrible dubbing

The original spaghetti western, and despite the greater style and sound quality on show in 'The Good The Bad and the Ugly', a landmark in cinema history and well worth catching up with. It's all about the lean, hardass direction, the sparse landscapes and laconic performances: obviously, Eastwood would be a huge star from here on in by merely squinting and looking like a genuinely hard cowboy.

A lot more violent than American westerns of the time, and with a great whiff of amorality in the air, it's fast, cold and ruthless. It's all a ripoff of Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece 'Yojimbo', but none the worse for that, and if you can ignore the dubbing, every frame counts, and the title is the best in the history of the West.

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