There's nothing better than showing your buddy a movie and having him freak out.

Wait till he watched Once Upon A Time in the West.

It's actually Mr. Plinkett's childhood Mike is just a character that Mr. Plinkett plays

Ha! Mike, Rich and I are roughly the same age...1967 really isn't that long ago in the grand scheme of things.

Well Man Childhood he was over 20 at the time.

@@xp8969 nah Mike is ancient

@@Null94 he also justified

The thing is you don't have to go full boomer to watch any of these old classics, all people have to do is just put them on they're really that good. especially if people are still wowed by them 40-70 years after they drop.

I have not seen that movie but from seeing the clips in this video it looks like the story might be the copy of the Japanese film made by kurosawa, the name I think is yojimbo I'm not sure.

@@amitmeena2961 yeah I'm pretty sure it is, that happened with a lot of kurosawa movies

​@@amitmeena2961 The first movie of the "trilogy", A Fistful of Dollars, is a remake of Yojimbo. A Few Dollars More and GBU aren't remakes. You should definitely watch them, they are all amazing, especially GBU.

@@beam5655 I have seen those two but I have seen yojimbo so I'm not watching the western remake anymore

That is how it do be. You kinda just need someone to tell you it's a deconstruction of something to realize it is worth watching.

Weird how you take pop culture references of a classic film for surface value of the whole film your whole life, but when you actually watch the movie you realize it's meme holds up so long because the movie itself is amazing and more than the reference you took for granted. I'm just as guilty, but I was surprised to find out Jay, a well known picky film snob that enjoys good and bad Italian knock offs, NEVER SAW The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly. Everyone has their flaws, he just corrected one of his on (KZfaq) camera.

It's as good as they say. The other ones (Fistful of Dollars & A Few Dollars More) are great too. The recent HD versions look fantastic too, including MGM's 2014 restoration made from the original camera negative. Can't go wrong with these suckers!

@@jamesgreenwood5185 I should've said it in my original comment - but I'm actually excited to see this whole trilogy. Had to catch up on some other films before I could jump in so I still haven't - top of my list though.

@@GdotHost let us know what you think

I am from Mexican decent and many of my family members that i have are Mexicans, also agree Elli Wallach gets a pass

That is what you call great acting, if anybody can play as anybody e.g. Robert Downey Jr. as Kirk Lazarus: An Australian method actor and five-time Academy Award winner, Lazarus had a controversial "pigmentation alteration" surgery to temporarily darken his skin for his portrayal of the black character, Staff Sergeant Lincoln Osiris, in Tropic Thunder a really funny movie.

@@jedi_drifter2988 that movie sucks! It's not funny at all! I kind of laughed ONE TIME at Tom Cruise telling the kidnappers to "go fuck yourself"! Stupid bullshit for the braindead masses!... kind of like Star Wars now

Tuco gets a pass. El es un hombre muy chingon.

Yo también le doy el mexican pass. Se lleva la película. Saludos de Puebla.

That is unfortunate

Not sure why all of them are so afraid of analytical engagement with media

I love their dynamic. Rich is philosophical, Jay is technical, Mike is cynical

He is our every-man, carpenter philosopher & we love him for that.

AAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIDDDDDDDSSSSSSS!!!!!!!

Lol, same here. I remember thinking that westerns were lame, but when I watched this at the age of 16 or so, it really kicked off my love of westerns. I went on a HUGE western binge after watching this.

I never appreciated westerns until I played through the 1st red dead redemption. After that I fell in love with the genre. Good bad ugly is in my top 3 fave movies.

@@TrempBoy2It’s a film that WILL convert the haters. Also UNFORGIVEN (another Eastwood masterpiece)… I know nothing about the early westerns other than the fact that they seemed boring as sh*t when I caught them on late night television as a child. I had no interest in westerns until I saw Once Upon A Time In The West in my early 20s. I was instantly drawn in and I’ve become a Leone fan ever since. Every film I watched blew me away, and the ones I didn’t immediately connect with became some of my favorites upon a second viewing (Once Upon A Time In America!!!)….

If you had this movie in your life and then you were lucky enough to play LucasArts FPS Outlaws.. yeaaa

It's pretty much top 3 films of all time if you understand the art of film making and the scope and talent. Maybe number 2. Possibly #1. It's potentially the greatest film art ever made but their are films with better scores so it loses an infinitesimal point. To top 2 or 3.

It also allows the two armies to disperse, as there's nothing left to fight for. Which means there won't be anyone else going to the cemetery when they go to look for the gold.

Oh yeah. It's character building for Blondie. After he almost dies from thirst and exposure, he starts doing little nice things, here and there, the first of which is sharing his cigar with Tuco as they leave the mission.

It's almost like this movie was ...well written? All the characters have layers and even growth(well..maybe aside from Angel Eyes, he is pretty much an horrible pos the entire movie, but he also has a couple of interesting moments). Another scene is the one between Tuco and his brother. While it's true that the brother is disappointed in Tuco, what Tuco says is the truth: the only way to escape poverty for them was either being a bandit or donning the cloth. It just so happens Tuco was the tougher and meanest of their family, so he left to be a bandit and not burden the others. He made difficult choices, at a very young age. The brother had the easiest path. It's also the moment Tuco discovers his mother died, now he is TRULY alone. There's no home to go back, no one will be waiting for him. We see under his tough skin a little glimpse of what was a little mexican boy from a poor village, still ashamed to tell Blondie his brother wasn't pleased to meet him. Still sad about what happened. Tuco is a terrible man, but also has an heart. It's a scene that grounds him and makes him " real". He isn't just a "cigar smoking bandito" that is convenient to the plot, he actually has a place in the world. Like i said, good writing.

I also think it's a very ironic scene, that these two lowlife bandits end up saving the lives of thousands of men. For me, it's all part of the epic character of this film. Vast landscapes cut with extreme close-ups, soaring operatic music interjected by long silences, a sweeping civil war punctuated by the petty rivalry and squabbling of the characters... This movie isn't just pure cinema, it's the entire human condition, grand and yet trivial, tragic and absurd.

@@ravecrab brilliantly said

My grandfather gave me a dress and made me sit on his lap

@@reek4062 no I didn't!

My aunt did me the same why when It came to Star Wars back in 99…. She lost her shit and ran straight to blockbuster and got all the OT… I was only 6 ma’am calm down 😂…. But because of her I love movies

@@BrentWalker999 I wish you did

You had an awesome grandfather.

Hearing Jay say that he’d never seen it until recently and then hearing he loved it… Might be my single favourite RLM moment

I first saw this on my little 14" bedroom black and white TV in 1988 when I was 13 - it was the Sunday matinee on a local TV station, and it's been in my top 10 ever since. I had it playing in the background on a projector at my bachelor party in 2006 and everyone stopped drinking and talking and sat down to watch the whole thing & we had to get the sound going. My boys are 14 and 12 now, wondering if I show it to them, will they just be bored, or will it capture them like it did me?

@@DoctorDewgong Agreed. TGBU is actually my least favorite of the three, mainly because it's so much less focused

Yeah that was really awesome! Basically how i felt

@@Beer_Dad1975 don’t spoil it or build it up, let them watch it fresh. They only get that once.

Similar concept with a lot of modern firearms, ie the AR-15. There are many forms of it with different interchangable parts, ie barrels, receivers, grips, stocks, etc. Take ten of them that all look different, and you can make one amalgamation of them because they're the same underlying system.

Fun fact: Wallach didn't know anything about guns. Leone just told him to improvise and they'd edit whatever they got. Assembling Tuco's pistol was a complete accident - thankfully because the prop guy had selected a bunch of Colt knockoffs. If you look, the worried looks on his face were 100% genuine - he thought he was messing up a bunch of props and they wouldn't even be able to use it.

Love the awesome homage to it in John Wick 3 as well!

Did I see correctly that the final 'FrankenColt' is a ball and cap revolver converted to handle cartridges?

Paused right after they mentioned the comments section cause I knew someone MUST have answered the question.

Also did wonders for showing that as scruffy and goofy as he is compared to the other two, he is sharper than is given credit for. Has some real madcap ideas when he gets the drop on someone like getting some guys together just to see them all get killed while he came from the window or how he had a gun good and ready while he was bathing hiding under some bubbles. Takes the most punishment out of the 3 and still ends up in better shape than....well, bad.

@@motherplayer There's a word for that type of person: ..."ornery."

See, I was gonna say Clint Eastwood's introduction where it shows him talking shit to a guy before sending him to his death (or so he thinks) once he's no longer profitable, and then having the entire movie freeze to label him "the good" is perfect for setting the tone for the world this movie exists in

I hold Tuco as the greatest movie character of all time!

@@motherplayer pretty sure that's exactly the point Leone was making with the whole movie-"it may not be pretty, but it gets the job done". Tuco is unrefined and clueless, but he pulls through every single time because he's got no illusions of being above shit. He'll cheat, he'll fight, he'll grovel, he'll beg-but he won't accept defeat. He's not good, he's not bad, and he certainly isn't handsome-but in the end, he's alive and no worse-off than he started.

Tuco: Hurrah! Hurrah for the Confederacy! HURRAH! Down with General Grant! Hurrah for General... What's his name? Lee! LEE! Ha ha. God is with us because he hates the Yanks too. HURRAH! Blondie: God is not on our side because he hates idiots also.

All these people who watched these movies as kids, it makes you wonder why George Lucas tried to water the OT down, seeing that the original take of the Han vs. Greedo scene was based on these movies, but for some reason Lucas thinks that kids only watch babies' movies.

​@@white-dragon4424 It has nothing to do with movies, remember George own the rights to the toys, until a point where the toys profit probably exceeded his box office profits. In the original trilogy he collaborated with many talented because he's making a movie, but for the prequels he's making toys. It's probably the reason he started to call Star Wars a kids movie.

That is the most wholesome story.... until you realize that somehow a dollhouse set was dangerous enough to take a man's finger off during assembly. They don't make children's toys like they used to I guess.

@@The0spetsnaz0 be probably built it from scratch with hardware lol I don't think it was from an assembly kit

@@The0spetsnaz0 It wasn't a plastic kit from WalMart. He was building it from raw material, which means hammers, saws and lathes were involved. This is the standard practice (and danger) of building any object that requires skill and craft, and not just assembling some shit you got from Amazon.

He was also one of those bygone-era gentlemen, who couldn't even feign hitting a woman...so they had to put a man in a dress for him to finish the scene where Angel Eyes roughs up a prostitute.

@@TheGoodChap classic

Folding chables are overrated

Mike crushed their table with a chair, Rich had no choice!

chable*

It makes his penis cry. Its special to him.

It think it was less cynical and more sad.

Really interesting how it doesn't take sides either, it shows suffering from both sides.

Because war doesnt do much for the people fighting in it. Only those back home, just a reality of war

@@illseeyaonthedarksideofthemoon - Well yeah but in the case of the civil war one side went out of their way to start the war specifically to uphold the institution of slavery so like fuck em

⁠​⁠​⁠@@851852093114208513no, the Corwin Amendment was meant to stop that. It wasn’t solely to preserve the institution. The north still had 5 slave states during the war and even after the emancipation proclamation. The largest hanging event was in New York when the people of NYC heard that the war was about freeing blacks… it was a war of grievances than actual humanitarian cause. Look up Charles Adams’s book “When in the Course of Human Events: Making the Case for Southern Succession”. The book discusses tax history coming from the author who majors in the topic and shows the US aggression via tariffs. The only thing the North did was further create a divide in the south. Because of Sherman hatred was brewed, because of the removal of citizenship from everyone in the south the statues were built, carpetbaggers stole land, and even the kkk came about as militia groups in protest of the north later turned into a racially focused white supremacist group that even Nathan Bedford Forest protest and left. I have no skin in the Civil War game as I have no ancestors here, but to treat the war like a football match, dehumanizing the opposite side to fit one’s own narrative is quite bizarre. If the 3% were the only people in the CSA to hold slaves then they must’ve had the dumbest civilians to convince them that preservation of slavery is a valid war. Robert E Lee even freed his own at the start of the war… you know the guy whose 5 family members signed the Declaration of Independence and whose father was Virginia’s governor? I don’t like erecting false idols but the statues are reminders of the hatred and yet it is seen as offensive… History will repeat itself with the current divide of the modern peoples as you hear the new anti-Semite, anti-Ukraine, anti-black rhetoric being talked about on controlled opposition media. It’s clear we are seen as sheep to be herded off of cliffs of party affiliations and social political opinions. First world problems that have no relevance to the famine, wars, and tensions of quarreling nations. Goodbye

When I first saw this film I honestly believed that Eli was in fact a Mexican actor. I don't know how he does it but he was a lovable bandit in this film. He's a total degenerate but for some reason you love him.

Phenomenal actor. 😊

Especially now that Rich Evans is undergoing his own glow-up arc, similar to how Jay transformed from an Amish werewolf into Manlet Chris Evans over the course of like a single year.

Rich: "You're the good. Mike is the bad" Jay: "yeah" lol no arguments from Jay there

I would also like to add he was given no direction or education on the weapons. He was just told to do some stuff and he made it all up.

Thnx

It was totally inaccurate though. It 100% wouldn’t work. That scene is fantastic as a piece of cinema, but not realistic at all, and absolutely would not work. Tuco supposedly loads brass cartridges in a cap-and-ball (Colt Navy) Pistol that he swaps cylinders with a Smith & Wesson. You can’t do that. A Colt Navy, being cap-and-ball, loads from the front. The movie is set in 1862-64. Colt pistols wouldn’t fire metallic cartridges until Smith & Wesson’s patent expired in 1869, and they didn’t sell a conversion of the Navy revolver until 1871, and those were factory guns, not just cylinder swaps.

@@PristineTX so there were actual conversion navy revolvers that would fire cartridges, so is the issue that the movie was set before those were in circulation? i totally get the whole ball n cap issue, it wouldnt work like that

Yup, and guns were often offered with customization from the manufacturer for an extra fee. Barrel length, finishes, and grips were all customizable.

Imma let you finish, but they cast a Jewish guy instead of a Mexican. And Mexicans (or at least Spaniards) weren't hard to find. So there's a reason people complain. He was still amazing.

I think Jay brought up a good point that all the extras in this are weird looking and I think the variety of actor genetics muddled together by suntans, sweat, and grime really contributes to that and enhances the look of the movie overall. Looking at all the characters together with their wildly contrasting builds, facial structures, ect. gives the film this sort of fantasy quality you that normally you only see in animation or effects heavy live action.

Confederates were all over the place ethnically, and Union conscripts were even worse. Look at some of the pictures from the period. Most of these folks weren't pretty. They looked like the dregs of humanity.

any makeup at this point is considered "______face"... Tim Curry was in clownface, etc

There is a reason. That reason is still stupid as shit.

same, i was thinking of this the whole time. yojimbo is great

Pretty sure the Sergio got sued by Kurosawa.

@@amircash And Kurosawa ripped of Red Harvest. Circle of life.

Jay has probably never seen any Kurosawa films before either, that fraud.

A fist full of travelers cheques is an amusing parody ;)

No way ! Rich doesn't look a day over 90, tops.

Was one of your parents conceived that night? I don’t think it’s possible to resist rich

I believe he mentioned in a Best of the Worst that he use to instal fire sprinkler systems.

@@jayjaydeth No wonder he's so cool about fire safety.

That was really nice and I agree.

Can even go a step further and say, all of the RLM cast can bring different stuff into a re:View, that's why they're fun. It's a different format.

​@@jayjaydeth , yep, went to high school with Mike, then Mike went to film school and Rich entered a trade. But Rich was the one out of the job when the recession hit, so he went to Mike in desperation.

What impresses me about Rich recently is his genuine humility. He came across as a pure narcissist early-on (to me), he'd always blatantly steal Jack's ideas (after having already stolen Mike's long ago), but his reactions in quiet moments belie this first impression. He basks in attention towards himself, but he enjoys when others have their moments too.

The Rich/Jay dyad is by far the most wholesome, except for maybe Jay and his Canadian dad

I came to the comments section for that exact reason!

I'm shocked but also jealous that Jay could experience this masterpiece for the first time in his life just now. Boy is he in for a treat with the Dollar films and I would also recommend Once upon a time in the west.

He literally only watches shitty horror movies from the 1980s

Jay only watches horror trash for perverts

Better late than never

that same scene was replicated in John Wick number 2 (or 3... I've only seen parts or 1, but know of this scene), and it actually is grounded in reality, he's in a museum and has to interchange the cylinder and did it as an homage to the classic scene.

He was basically taking the best parts from different revolvers to make Best Revolver ™️ say like a revolver has a good trigger but the cylinder might lock up sometimes or doesn't have very good sights, stuff like that.

I never really read it as them blowing up the bridge to 'help'. Their goal was to stop the fighting because the armies were in the way. But I think, yes, you can argue it was intended still to suggest a humanising moral moment for Eastwood's character too. Layered characters, they can fit more than one motivation or goal in their head. Whodathunkit.

@Blisterdude123 absolutely! I agree that The Man With No Name saw the opportunity to advance his agenda, but I believe that he had at least a sliver of decency to blow up the bridge to prevent more unnecessary deaths.

Interesting

It was the dawn of replaceable parts, most of the designs were heavily based off one set of parts that could be replaced and repurposed on-demand. We didn't have pipelines for stupid shit like we do now.

Due to industrialisation during the Indian wars (pre civil war) the us army began weaponry with stanardizind weaponry parts so guns could be broken down and repaired in the field.

Gun manufacturers would also sell proprietary ammo to makeup the loss e.g in Red Dead Redemption 2 each gun used its own custom made cartridge you couldn't swap between brands. Gun catalogs from the Old West had a wide variety of ammo loads and sizes fragmented even further by gun company. There was no effort for standardization until after WW1 with so much surplus.

Eli Whitney came up with the concept and mass produced muskets for the army. Samuel Colt cheated to get the government contract for revolvers. He didn't have the machinery accurate enough to make interchangeable parts. He went through his guns until he found several guns with parts that could be swapped out. He then took those guns as an example of his workmanship and won the government contract. He used the money from that contract to then build a new factory that had the accurate machinery necessary for interchangeable parts.

Great analysis, really. I'd dare say it's my fave, too. I knew it would be in Jay's wheelhouse.

sorry but that'd be "Once upon a time in the West": that's basically the opus magnum of all his Western works. Even by his own saying.

Fax.

My vote goes to A Serbian Film

Don't get carried away.

Used to be my favorite movie. I love it.

I really hope they do a review of once upon a time in the west, such an absolute great film.

I was curious if he saw this as well. I prefer it over The Good, the bad, and the ugly.

I used to think The Good The Bad The Ugly was peerless until I watched Once Upon a Time in the West. It’d be difficult for me to decide which is better.

Claudia Cardinale in 4K its a religious experience

@JamesMacPherson I am not surprised, there is a ton of movies that considered a classic, and it's hard to watch even half of them, despite how big of a cinephile you are

It is not the exact same film as Lucky Number Slevin sure there's a playing both sides against each other angle but the variations are so great and there's so much different about it, it can't be considered a remake of fistful at all.

you haven't seen for a fistful of dollars, sergio leone's western trilogy are the three most beautiful western films of all time.

​@@Mr.Goodkat31:38

Indio is epic bad guy

You can never forget that Chime music.

I also feel it has the most epic climax of the three films. FDM is my favorite of the 'trilogy'.

Yes. This movie is technically more perfected, but I think the story in FAFDM is more emotionally captivating, and as such the finale is more satisfactory.

Its my favorite of the three!

It's the third of the Dollars Trilogy ri8?

You sure it isnt the thing!? Haha

For a few dollars more is my preferred of the three

I was faster

mine too this i a fucking dream

Yeah the musical build & the editing first time I saw that - gob smacked

There’s so many great nuisances and emotional scenes to this film with the music and cinematography… Specially the lesser scenes and plots, like the Tuco and brother tension, the confederate general dying of gangrene, the alcoholic Union general who dies, and the dying confederate soldier Eastwood finds and without any dialogue comfort’s him in his final breaths by letting him take some puffs off his cigarillo and covers him with his jacket. All nice detail to a story.

Its when the trumpets come in and you get that epic "Bull fight" vibe and its like..... ok here we go!!!

Richard Evans is the person we all aspire to be.

Well this video's already over 300k views, so I get the hesitation. It's interesting thinking about his re:view appearances with that in mind, because he does usually take a support role on these, and they're always movies he's watched many times before (and has probably researched a bit), so he can speak with some authority about some aspects. As someone with a similar "don't talk or they'll know you don't know things" problem, I don't mind him admitting this.

Honestly he kind of impresses me about how much he knows and even when held against Rich and Mike. He seems like someone who watches as many movies as I do. Just maybe not always the same ones.

I am not interested in a re view unless it has at least Mike and Rich together , Jay and Mike together or Jay and Rich together .... No offense to the guest reviewers

Rich has more knowledge than these guys in so many areas. I still remember him pulling out the fact about Soviets experimenting with gorilla human hybrids, and because I already knew that one it was great watching the others on the table reacting with such incredulity.

I feel like as long as people can say what they like and what they don't like, they have somthing worth listening to.

He fuels his mighty intellect by gorging on the brains of murdered children

Chable

Yea Rich is very intelligent.

Yeah that caught me off guard. He has always come off to me a very bright and almost to the point that he may be smug about it in real life. Again just speculation based on people I have known. And surprise he’s a good person who constantly doubts himself as an over correction lol. You’re smart Rich!

its even more complicated, to cite wikipedia: The film was effectively an unofficial and unlicensed remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1961 film Yojimbo (written by Kurosawa and Ryūzō Kikushima); Kurosawa insisted that Leone had made "a fine movie, but it was my movie." This led to a lawsuit from Toho, Yojimbo's production company. Leone ignored the resulting lawsuit, but eventually settled out of court, reportedly for 15% of the worldwide receipts of A Fistful of Dollars and over $100,000.

Which yojimbo’s plot based on the hard boiled novel red harvest

@@caesarpizza1338 Which was set in the late 1920s. So a noir-era book became a samurai film then became a western.

Sergio Leone did most certainly later show that his success was not purely due to using strong source material when it came to "For A Few Dollars More" being great on it's own terms and worth it entirely to see Clint and Lee team up, and, well "The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly", which you could argue which is better between this and Few Dollars in content, but he did not have to go as hard as he did to make one of the most grandiose westerns ever, and all in the service of a simple story of 3 people looking for gold.

@@motherplayer Oh absolutely, I didn't mean to imply that Leone was somehow deficient in putting his own stamp on things. "Once Upon a Time in the West" is proof of that.

Can you name an example of a shitty movie or show made in the last years?

@Reek Good one, lad. Really.

So about three weeks ago, I finally watched The Godfather, and I felt like Jay watching The Good The Bad and The Ugly, like I would say to my friends and family eh I’ll get to it, thinking I knew what happened, but my gosh, after watching that I was blown away! One of the greatest things I’ve ever seen

@@anthonytrani1066 that happened to an old girlfriend, we were just sitting at home chilling I’m like wanna watch The Godfather? She was glued to the screen completely, it’s such a great movie.

@@MyMusicSosa the slow buildup of Michael taking over the family, thinking he would be some type of side character, but, turns out it’s his movie was wonderful. Still need to watch Part II, I will get it to it eventually

my understanding is the Spanish military was involved and were apparently apologetic enough to rebuild and re-explode it...or they just wanted to play with the explosives

I came to the comments before finishing the review to see if someone commented that they didn’t bring it up. I was sad to see it wasn’t mentioned by the guys but happy to see someone mentioned it in the comments

That’s a cool story. Imagine having to explain that to your boss. 😂 Leone must have had an aneurysm.

Lmao 😭😭😭

You can also see a brick almost kill Clint Eastwood when it blows up, it hits a sandbag about a foot away from his head

Important to note that due to location and the fact that it's during the civil war, a lot of the parts he was going through probably weren't colt (due to them being on the Union side geographically) and were more likely a huge variation of handmade confederate parts patterned off the colt navy that would be way out of spec. if assembled together with other confederate and colt parts.

I was looking for this comment.

IIRC, Eli Wallach said that he improvised the the gun assembly and that he had no knowledge of guns.

I knew the answer to Rich's question was "yes" but had no real knowledge further than that so thank you for the comment!

Scrolled down specifically to find someone pointing this out. Thanks

I want to see Metallica live because I love their music, but even more so to see their intro with that scene live.

And the song for a soldier i get goosebumps just hearing it again

That's such an intelligently edited sequence. Trying to capture the concept of being overwhelmed by all sides? I don't think I've ever seen it done as well in a film before this.

Not to mention the musical piece of the same name is like an orgasm in musical form.

I honestly didn't believe you when you said you wrote his biography, but having looked it up, I'm really impressed you managed to write an entire biography on Lee Fucking Van Cleef at 19. Props to you dude. Thinking of nabbing a copy.

@@Book_Of_Essence -- Grazie, fella. And I eventually went on to co-write the official DJANGO sequel for Franco Nero (only to be eventually replaced by John Sayles). I have amazing interview content from my archives that I'll put up on YT if you b*stards ever want to push me past 1K subs.

Document, document, document the Lee stories brother. Writing a bio at 19 is fairly damned cool too. Maybe we should send Jay a copy of your book to help him confirm or deny whether Mr. Van Cleef was indeed 'The Devil'.

me me me

He's such a great character. He's straight-laced at the beginning, but as we (and Manco) learn his backstory, his facade breaks down. Lee's face when he realizes that Eastwood has his pocket watch is heartbreaking

Even by the time The Searchers (1956) comes around, John Wayne's character is pretty much a piece of shit, as acknowledged by everyone in the film.

Yeah good point that - the white hat/black hat movies were part of the 'great' saturation (or boom time) of Westerns, where every studio was knocking them out thick and fast and cheap. Simple, straightforward morality to lead up to the inevitable showdown; give em what they want to see. Of the post-war Westerns from the later studio system, when good directors were working with great actors (the first Western renaissance, as you say so rightly), my favourite is not The Searchers (which is everyone's), but it's The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance; one of the first 'post-modern' westerns to my mind. Everything about it a meta reference to, or subversion of, the old tropes. Well, except maybe for Liberty himself, who's just an evil shit.

Searchers is a masterpiece that ending…like a painting with film…

The Big Country is definitely also an excellent subversive western

@@craiggabrysch260 That's a gross over-simplification.

You are spot on. People who don’t watch westerns have very strong opinions and incorrect information on them. Most no B-movie westerns have morally complex and are far from cliche driven crap that people think it is. Even the westerns of the silent era we’re doing everything the spaghetti westerns did in the 1910s-20s. The good the bad and the ugly is close to a remake of 3 Bad Men

I hated westerns when I was first getting into movies (even though I hadn’t seen basically any), then I watched fistful of dollars, the searchers and Johnny Guitar and my whole opinion changed. I mean I’m 21 so clearly young people can enjoy them, it just takes the right one.

High Noon, Shane and Pursued are also excellent, although despite the setting I don't know if one could put Pursued in the western category at least it is not a "pure" example of the genre.

Hell yeah, saw Searchers as a kid, and it's one of my father's all time favorite movies. Really excellent stuff that unfortunately few people see.

The Searchers is my favorite film of all time. Made Godard cry from his review, influenced Scorsese and Schrader in Taxi Driver. John Wayne’s character of Ethan really set up a lot of those dark characters!

And as Kojima wanted to emphasize Liquid Ocelot and Snake's "Brotherhood" Old Snake is also heavily Lee Van Cleef based.

Are you talking about his nose? I reckon it looks fine, even adds some definition if that makes sense.

Saw an interview where he said he did not do it because people will remember his face and nose. Great actor.

Back in a time when Koji hadn't fully disappeared up his own backside.

If it was good enough for a sidekick of Liberty Valance, it was good enough for Angel Eyes.

Similar experience for me - sans electrocution - I first saw this on my little 14" bedroom black and white TV in 1988 on a local station Sunday afternoon movie slot when I was 13. It was a National Electronics TV, which is what Panasonic called themselves before they became Panasonic. My boys are 14 and 12 now, wondering if I show it to them, will they just be bored, or will it capture them like it did me?

Child torso is a really weird unit of measurement, but also very accurate

"i got electrocuted launched back against a wall when i touched the cable by accident." Cable TV at home: XD

It's great to meet the inspiration for Poltergeist. The horror genre salutes you

"I don't need to know this, my character does." --Stewie relating the best advice from his acting teacher, Family Guy.

Keanu improvised it in John Wick 3, but he knew everything about the guns

Thanks for mentioning this scene. One of my favorite scenes in a movie full of favorite scenes.

No wonder it what he was doing was always kind of unclear to me.

@@Tunkkis I thought he was trying to see which pieces were the best crafted cause back in the day factory perfect guns didn't exist. Like him looking down the barrel was meant to see how straight they were, how narrow the barrel is, etc. Or him checking the cylinder to make sure it turns well and has no problems in it. IDK that's my guess.

Yojimbo got the sickest theme ever

Yeah I think the first film was so close to Yojimbo that they were sued. I'd love to see Japanese samurai films get talked about on the show.

I was surprised Jay (the film buff) didn't recognize this.

Kurosawas influence is really great on cinema in general

What's interesting is Westerns were influenced by Samurai films like Seven Samurai or Yoijmbo, those same Westerns also ended up influencing Japanese film makers and animators. As far as film goes there is a lot in common between Cowboys and Ronins. Hell they have a whole subculture in Japan of Western fans that dress up like cowboys for conventions.

They did a bad job on the historical accuracy regarding the revolvers though....our three protagonist carry cap & ball percussion revolvers, but have cartridge belts...and if you look closely, they haven't been converted to handle centerfire cartridges (they still have percussion cap nipples on them). Centerfire cartridge revolvers didn't become common until a few years after the US Civil War anyways.

Once cartridges came around, headspacing became critical. With cap and ball you just have to check timing and basic fit.

This was also an accident! Wallach had no clue about guns, and if you look he's terrified the whole scene that he's messing up the props. Leone had just told him to improvise. The fact that the prop guy was using a bunch of Colts with interchangeable parts was a total accident. The fact that the gun works means Wallach literally acted a gun into being.

Keep in mind we're discussing a movie prop that exists in a fictional movie where the actions and events of all things are dictated by the screenwriter. People constantly comparing movies to reality is always a disappointing assertion on the purpose of art.

@@mellusk9194 If you look closely they have cap and ball revolvers in scenes where they don't have to shoot, and cartridge conversions when they have to fire blanks.

That 4k release looks stunning, and makes it look even more epic.

I came here to say this, but thank you for succinctly saying it before I had a chance to butcher its essence.

Bienvenido a la secta y preparate para sentir el terror cuando te hayas fumado todos los videos de RLM y tengas que esperar semanas a uno nuevo.

@@themoviedealers oh here I was thinking he was talking about missing Spain and wanting to watch videos about movies made there.

@@themoviedealers Yes, you are right. I usually make that kind of mistakes. But I won´t edit it. This would be my 'best of the worst homage' in a written way.

@@DistractedGlobeGuy Too convoluted. I meant sick at home, but my brain made a Rich Evans mix.

@@Nifava Ya me he visto el mismo 7 veces... Es raro verlos envejecer tan rápido. :D

Each of the characters gets their own variant of the theme to represent them. Particularly like Tuco's. Just *chef's kiss*.

Leitmotivs popping in and out at different times with odd instruments is one of my favourite things in movies and videogames. Another movie with an oft-repeated leitmotiv is the fantastic "THE LONG GOODBYE" by Robert Altman. Gould is so good in this movie, as well as every other actors.

@@DrummerDucky I think the best and clearest use of leitmotif by Morricone during that period was in Once Upon a Time in the West, where each major character has their own very different and distinctive them. Harmonica's and Frank's (both used in the same piece during the finale) are super-famous, but for me it's Jill's theme that stands above the others - it's lovely, grand and looks towards the later, more refined and lyrical, themes that Morricone would use in the 1980s.

One of its best uses was in Kelly's Heroes.

I heard Metallica starts their show (while they're walking out on stage) to this film's theme, at every concert they play.

Wow, no wonder Rocky Horror Picture Show got so popular with Gen X, you could take the piss out of what was wrong with old school cinema stuff growing up while still having a fun time with the musical side of things.

His score is a big reason why I love movies as much as I do. I listened to The Trio over and over after the movie ended and just got completely absorbed in how you don't even need visuals to see and feel exactly what's happening, it's the perfect climax. And that song comes *after* the song that many consider his greatest piece, just unbelievable how perfect the score is that supports this movie (and how unbelievably well the cinematography supports the score)

The score is very much a character in its own right in this movie. Still makes the hair raise on your neck when you hear it today.

@@connor4wilson me too mate, big impact on my life

I saw him love when he was close to his death. He sat the whole consert and was fucking amazing

please god please

I agree, although I think there are other Kurosawas I’d love them to review even more, namely High & Low and Ran

What they really need to watch is The Hidden Fortress seeing how massive an influence it was on GBU.

I think I've seen 3 Ninjas and The Benchwarmers that many times, and neither of those are close to my favorite movie

True story - Eastwood did the first Dollar movie cuz he liked Yojimbo ;)

funny how Eastwood became first a movie star in Europe with Leone's westerns, and later in USA with Dirty Harry.

same here, i always tell my niece and nephews to watch it but they just cant find the time

Once Upon A Time In The West is comfortably my favourite Leone too & I do believe it's his best work. All his films are very good though.

@@1977Suspiria all his movies are works of art!

Was that the one with the barrel scene (huge gigantic mega barrel he somehow supposedly set up a trap with whilst barely alive after being beaten by the baddies over and over?) And where he had the metal chestplate he somehow cut out of a boiler with no tools? 😅 I might be mistaking it for A Fistful of Dollars, but it was still excellent despite those niggles and was the inspiration for Marty McFly's chest plate in back to the future.

Never trust a man that doesn't trust his own pants.

I especially love his last masterpiece Once Upon A Time In America.

I love movie dubbing. It reminds me of those old Godzilla flicks. From what I've seen, Italians indeed do it better because the aforementioned are comical where as every spaghetti western I've seen it's seamless enough that I only know it because I know of that practice itself. Edit: the reason in particular I enjoy it is because typically things are dubbed to fix an audio error, maybe somebody flobbed a line and it's easier to dub than reshoot _everything_ , either way it's better to dub than it is to just leave mistakes and say fuck it.

There is a much bigger reason. These "italian" movies were actually "european" movies, the money usually came from West Germany and France. They dubbed them because Italian, German , French, etc. actors spoke their language and upon release everything else was dubbed.

Oh man and that car chase!

If they did a Thief (1981) Re:View I would die. Jay was just saying how much the movie ruled on Twitter after James Caan passed.

The French Connection is 99% people following other people and it's a masterpiece

@@thomasnaporano9822 made all the better when you know the lady with the stroller was not part of the plan!

Yeah if they did French Connection or like Across 110th Street, that'd be so great. Id be so hyped