Is Once Upon a Time in the West as good as the Dollars Trilogy...

It is one of the final words on the Western. It should be watched after seeing all the classic. Butch Cassidy also should be a final watch.

Ford will always be the god of Westerns.
The film is more like Leone’s final and learned opinion on the Western, reconciling his own tastes with the American Classics. It’s a must-see if you’re interested to see Leone’s development as a director. What the movie actually says is nothing new.

>The long runtime is kinda intemidating
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i tried watching it with a bro once who liked the Dollars trilogy and he wanted me to turn it off and called me a faggot after the opening

Ennio's soundtrack is GOAT youtube.com/watch?v=i3Q8h-fDfEI

Watch High Plains Drifter. Eastwood directed it, it was heavily influenced by Leone, and is basically the 4th "Man With No Name" movie

This. BTW I prefer TGTBaTU but objectively speaking this user is right.

>long runtime is kinda intemidating

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worse than the good, the bad and the ugly but better than the other two

evil guitar in the mix
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It's worth seeing for two reasons:

1) Henry Fonda as a villain. Shocked everyone when it happened.
2) Claudia Cardinale in her prime.

It's my favourite, I place it above the Dollars Trilogy. It also has the GOAT soundtrack.

Is more of a farewell to western. O a meta level, and in the movie an end of an era is depicted.
Comparing it with classics is pointless.

It is definelty worth a watch from what I can recall the first hour or so is a bit slow but from then it is really fucking good and for sure earns it a spot as one of the best westerns

The Classics already said “farewell” to the era, and it was a very bitter one. And the movie deliberately evokes the classics so comparing it with them is not pointless.

Fistful and A Few Dollars More are great. The third one drags on like a mother fucker and could easily be an hour short since that extra hour is mostly unrelated to the plot. It still a fantastic movie, it just didn't need to be that long.

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Once upon a time is the definitive final boss of westerns.

Shane is the best western

The Searchers is the best western.

The Wild Bunch is the best western

it's not even the best john wayne western

Everyone in this thread is being retarded, every Leone film is better than the last (WITH NO EXCEPTIONS) and West is a great film absolutely worth watching.

once upon a time in america is a boring near incomprehensible mess

Absolutely true and based.

You're being ridiculous. That's by far his best movie. It's so powerful and complex immediately, by the time you get to the scene with "Yesterday" playing it's already his best movie. How is it boring I honestly don't understand.

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its good but it drags a bit in places.
the good the bad and the ugly is just as long but feels shorter

GBU is very good but its ending is anticlimactic in comparison and the imagery is less powerful. The story is also more fragmented and feels less cohesive.

lol, doesnt even get past Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

I'd rather watch Clint desu

But then again does anything?

pretty boring to be quite honest.

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For A Few Dollars More is my favorite western of all time for the final shootout alone.

Yeah i like Bring me the Head more than the Wild Bunch but for the sake of strictness I mentioned wild bunch earlier

>thematically shallow
by-the-numbers plots don't necessarily make a shallow film.
If you're an absolute beginner, watch Good, bad and Ugly again and pay close attention to Tuco and Blondie's relationship to one another. Also in the final duel Blondie gives a masterclass in not only how to win a duel, but how to create a scenario in which victory is the only possible outcome. Think about it.

Yeah I get you, I was thinking the same thing. I was gonna post Garcia but then was like nah that's not quite a western and Wild Bunch is great enough that I wouldn't refute it.

Real talk, I hate how much the beginning of Good Bad Ugly drags. I feel like the entire part of Tuco recruiting those bandits with the chicken could have been edited out.

I like Rio Bravo

i think you're spot on about blondie and tuco.

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It also probably has of the greatest soundtracks

Not the quoted user but what do you say is Wayne's best? True Grit? Stagecoach? The Cowboys?