Once Upon a Time in the West

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I just watched it. I had high expectations, since it’s ranked #24 on IMDB’s top 250. Awesome movie, I couldn’t stop watching. It had one of the best scores I’ve ever heard.

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The so-called spaghetti Western achieved its apotheosis in Sergio Leone's magnificently mythic (and utterly outlandish) Once upon a Time in the West. After a series of international hits starring Clint Eastwood (from A Fistful of Dollars to The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly), Leone outdid himself with this spectacular, larger-than-life, horse-operatic epic about how the West was won. (And make no mistake: this is the wide, wide West, folks--so the widescreen/letterboxed version is strongly recommended.) The unholy trinity of Italian cinema--Leone, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Dario Argento--concocted the story about a woman (Claudia Cardinale) hanging onto her land in hopes that the transcontinental railroad would reach her before a steely-eyed, black-hearted killer (Fonda) does. (The film's advertising slogan was: "There were three men in her life. One to take her ... one to love her ... and one to kill her.") Meanwhile, Leone shoots his stars' faces as if they were expansive Western landscapes, and their towering bodies as if they were looming rock formations in John Ford's Monument Valley. --Jim Emerson
 

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Is that a Enico Moriconne (sp?)score? That guy is awsome. I have the a CD of his western scores and it's a lot of fun to listen to, if not a little goofy.
 

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Why are you watching all of these great movies for the first time?? How old are you??
 

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Been ages since I saw this film...should probably watch it again as I know my wife hasn't seen it.
 
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NEZCardsfan said:
Why are you watching all of these great movies for the first time?? How old are you??

I know, I know, I used to think old movies were boring. A few years ago I realized the error of my ways.
 

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