One Upon a Time in the West. Sergio Leone. 1968. ⚃
I’ve seen all the Eastwood Leone movies… but I may never have seen this one? I probably have, though, on third-generation VHS back in the 80s.
Oh wow. Argento and Bertolucci? Well, the first sounds good, but not the second…
OH WOW! This is the movie where Colourbox sampled that line from! I’ve listened to that song a million times, but I’ve never known where it was from. Hearing it now was just surreal.
This movie is just amazing. Henry Fonda as the bad guy! He’s brilliant! He’s the most evil villain ever!
I bet you the biggest part of the budget on this movie was having people standing just outside the frame with spray bottles filled with water to spritz onto the actors’ faces whenever there was a cut. To give everybody that sweaty look.
[time passes]
I was all in on this movie being the best movie, ever, until… like… 50 minutes in? But now it starts to drag…
[another hour passes]
I’m still really bored! This is a hard movie to grade: The first 45 minutes were perfect cinema, but since then it’s been just occasional flashes of fun. But mostly one turgid scene after another. It’s not even that this movie goes on for too long (even thought it’s almost three hours long), but that it’s just consistently dull and uninteresting after the opening.
It’s like the first bit was written by Argento and the rest by Bertolucci.
So… I give the first 45 minutes a seven (on a scale of six), and then the rest a two. So that’s a four?
This blog post is part of the Officially The Best series.