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Malfumax

Get 3 coffins ready

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My mistake, 4 coffins

12 years 10 months ago

A Fistful of Dollars' low budget can be seen in its worse-than-usual dub and ridiculous day-for-night, but it made stars out of Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood, and Ennio Morricone. Rightly so. Leone manages to create a Wild West that is at once iconic and unique, using giant close-ups, violent action, and stark Spanish locations. Morricone's whistling score is the first of several that would become synonymous with the western. And Eastwood's poncho-wearing "Man with No Name" cuts a distinct figure and an ambiguous personality. In the first of a loose trilogy, he is a sort of trickster who plays two criminal factions against one another to make money, but also free a family enslaved by evil men. He's both selfish and altruistic, a con man and a gunfighter, a Coyote god and an arrogant man whose hubris will get him into trouble. There's something mythic about the story and the way it plays out, with strong action beats we haven't seen a hundred times. It's like Leone doesn't really know how thing are normally done, so his take remains fresh to this day.

5 years 11 months ago

frankqb

A ridiculous low-budget pulp that nonetheless manages to tell a somewhat coherent story - notwithstanding how the Rojos gang manages to hear the bullets being shot at the small house which is clearly at least a mile away over some mountains.

It’s fine, and maybe it was groundbreaking at the time, but it does nothing for me. Moreover, the weirdness of the American/Mexican dynamic just doesn’t play well in modern times.

It’s odd, but it’s fine.

3 stars

12 months ago

The_Comatorium

Hey guys, was it better than Yojimbo?

12 years 2 months ago

George Bailey

Ended the trilogy on this one :) Great movie, and yes Yojimbo is better!

13 years 3 months ago

Earring72

The one that started it all. Terrific Yojimbo remake as a western. Great fun

9 months 4 weeks ago

AlexDkad

Yes it's a complete ripoff of Yojimbo but discoreving these two back to back I must say that "Fistful of Dollars" is superior in a lot of way ! Faster pacing, spectacular directing, beautiful soundtrack, improved plot (yes it is !)
Yojimbo is still very good though !

4 years 10 months ago

DisneyStitch

Having never seen Yojimbo and it being very unlikely I'll ever have the chance to, I can't comment on any similarities. That being said, I really love the film. The plot is tight and the story moves along at a great clip. The one pet peeve I have regarding spaghetti westerns is the extensive use of dubbing. It distracts me quite a bit but maybe one just needs to be exposed to it a lot in order to get over it. Looking forward to the other two movies in the trilogy.

7 years 2 months ago

Dieguito

A pure copy of Kurosawa's Yôjinbô, but I'll still favorite it. Great movie with an amazing soundtrack.

11 years 8 months ago

J-Max

I knew it'd be similar to Yojimbo; didn't think it'd be that shameless about it.

12 years 5 months ago

Darkness_prevails

Yes. Yojimbo was a superior movie for sure.

12 years 10 months ago

Joris B.

Unfortunately not as good as ''Yojimbo''.

13 years 9 months ago

peterskb45

This prologue was added before the US network television premiere in 1975.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppZuqec9lq0

7 years 5 months ago

kzer_za

Yojimbo is better - like, way better in almost every way. The "almost" is that at least Morricone's soundtrack is good.

9 years 11 months ago

Big A2

Honestly, I think it's better than Yojimbo. I'll admit that the plot and characters aren't as fleshed out as they are in Yojimbo, but there's something about Leone's movie that grabs me more. It was faster, that's for sure.

12 years 8 months ago