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Thread #137421 Message #3151463
Posted By: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
10-May-11 - 11:31 AM
Thread Name: BS: Inspirational Films
Subject: RE: BS: Inspirational Films
All Quiet on the Western Front
We do appear to be in the doldrums rather, do we not? But I didn't really get The Unforgiven; and in any case one film does not a genre make, much less revive. Give me a good old Spag-West any day - like Django, in which the eponymous hero (Franco Nero) drags his unlikely Gatling gun through the mud in a coffin... Thrills & spills you see, just like the best of the Ballads. Hell, in that context even the flashbacks of Duck You Sucker (AKA Fistful of Dynamite) become justified - not forgetting Morricone's sublime soundtrack, which more than makes up for the ending about which the less said the better. Less message, more story!