I know the trilogy is looked on as a masterpiece, but fuck me didn't Leone drag some of those sequences out.For example, the bit in Fistful where the mexican army gets betrayed while trying to swap rifles for gold. It's like the They Live alley fight.
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Mon 14 Dec 2020, 12:32,
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I thought that was the pointI love the audacity of how long he keeps that final showdown going in The G/B/U.
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Mon 14 Dec 2020, 17:59,
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Fair enough that sort of thing for a finale.But not scattered all over the movies. Like what feels like five solid minutes of the main villain laughing over and over while one of the protagonists gets punched and kicked all round the place, picked up and then punched again, each time falling over or through yet another piece of furniture. A filmmaker tried that shit now, all the reviewers would roast them for unnecessary padding.
I can forgive Cleef's hat getting shot along the ground, because it's funny.
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Mon 14 Dec 2020, 18:48,
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I can forgive Cleef's hat getting shot along the ground, because it's funny.