No it isn't. It's a cheap ass Western filmed in Italy when it was a third world country. Cartoonish guilty pleasure at best. Unforgiven was a masterpiece.
Eli Wallach steals every scene he's in. The casting is brilliant. One of the most iconic movies ever made. Also one of the most iconic music scores. That whistling part is known worldwide.
Everything works, even things that shouldn't have. It's a classic. All the so-called flaws of it just add to its legend. It rides the edge of parody, and if you didn't "get" that, you missed it.
The proverbial proof of pudding? Rewatch a few years later and appreciate/enjoy it even more? Any movies in the past 10-15 years that can claim that? Pulp Fiction? Oh wait, that was 1994 - TWENTYNINE YEARS AGO (that's 29, for you Hollywood execs who apparently can't read)! Just sayin'.
The actor that he shoots in that scene later killed himself when they were filming Once Upon a Time in The West by jumping off the roof of the hotel the crew was staying in, legend has it that he was still in costume from shooting scenes that day and that Leone was in the parking lot where the guy hit the ground shouting "Save the costume!!! Save the costume!!!".
This was such an iconic and amazing film! The score by Ennio Moricone was legendary! Clint Eastwood and company had played their roles to the hilt! Thanks Minty for reviewing this awesome film!
When Clint Eastwood passes away, it’s gonna be a horrible time. It’s completely devastating whenever icons pass away… I was completely devastated when Sean Connery passed away. I watched a marathon of his movies to celebrate his life and career. I’m gonna do the same for Clint Eastwood when he passes, I’m gonna watch a marathon of his movies too
Fun Fact: The skeleton seen in the wooden coffin when Clint Eastwood kicked it open to reveal no gold to Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef was a REAL skeleton of a deceased Spanish actress, who literally wrote in her will that she would still like to act even after her death.
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly is one of the very few slow movies that cannot be enhanced by taking out unnecessary parts, because there are none. The pacing is just how it needs to be to set every mood. Between movies that were needlessly stretched out and movies that are rushed too hard, this movie stands proudly in the sweet spot of the goldilocks zone.
There were plenty of unnecessary parts taken out and that's why they took them out. Why they pointlessly restored them again with much older voices is a mystery though.
🙋🏾♂️ I saw this movie when I was six, I'm fifty five years old and this is my favorite movie to this day. This is a masterpiece that doesn't need to be remade. 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
"You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.” Blondie to Tuco after the great three-way duel at the end of the movie. Best quote from a movie full of great quotes and classic lines.
Yes. There are of course shitty critics but there are also many film buffs out there that are great at critiquing films. I’ll take their opinion over the masses who enjoy movies like fast and furious and superhero movies
12:40 Eastwood and Leone may have quarreled at one point, but Eastwood did have in the end credits of his 1992 film Unforgiven a credit which said I believe “Thanks to Sergio for showing me the way.” And also both Clint and Eli Wallach lent their voices for restoring some scenes to the Unrated Director’s Cut version of TGTBATU several years ago on Blu-Ray, so I like to think that Eastwood really came to appreciate Leone over time.
Thank you Minty!!! This movie is one of my fav movies ever!!! It makes me think of my dad who I first watched it with and was a massive Eastwood fan. I lost my dad last week, so to see this review really has warmed my heart. Cheers dude!
I’m sorry for your loss as well Bro… smh It’s crazy because I lost my dad on December 6th 2009 to cancer and I had a moment this morning before work where I almost broke down thinking about him and had to get myself together before I left the house smh… 🤦🏽♂️ Bro I don’t know how close you were with your Dad but I assume y’all were really close because it’s heavy on your heart and mind… So I’m a tell you what I wish someone would’ve told me before my dad passed… It NEVER gets easier and the pain never goes away… You just learn to soldier through it… I pray The Most High gives you comfort and some sense of peace while your going through it…. Cause since my Dad died, I’ve been walking around with a giant hole in my heart… Smh God bless you Bro. 🫡🤞🏾🫱🏾🫲🏽💪🏾🙏🏾💯💯💯
I arrived in England in October 1968, I was 8 years old and the song The Good The Bad and The Ugly by Hugo Montenegro was number 1 in Top of The Pops. It wasn't until the 80's that I found out the original version was of Ennio Morricone. Thanks Minty and "Carry On"
@@automaticninjaassaultcat3703 you are wrong sadly. I planned to watch the entire dollars trilogy with my friends and we ended up watching only fistful of dollars together because they said that it was so boring that they dont want to watch the other 2 so i ended up watching them alone. Generations nowadays have short attention spams and you cant prove me otherwise
@@automaticninjaassaultcat3703 your right . Eastwood is my favorite actor period. I have all the films on DVD. But the other way to view is just type the title on line and you can watch the films.
Had the soundtrack on cassette and it was one of prized possession for years when I was a teenager. 😂😂 The funny things we value! But it was hard to find and I enjoyed. Great movie, soundtrack and am glad Minty covered it!
A couple of things to add, the bridges, the first one the Spanish army blew it up, but it was the wrong bridge as well as the cameras were destroyed. They actually had to rebuild it so people could use it. Second, the cemetery that is rebuilt is open to the public, and you can visit it. In 2017 they had a reenactment of the duel, and Eastwood did a video conference with the audience.
this is the first I've read or head of the bridge mishap Leone, said, that it was a translation problem that caused the bridge to be blown up. The cameras weren't rolling. They were far from ready to shoot the shot. I believe the Spanish interpreted an Italian phrase wrong. can you please link that info. not saying you're wrong. I'm a fan who just wants knowledge is why i ask. my info comes from several special features from various special editions releases over the years as well as a couple of inteviews on youtube. not that you asked.lol
In order to generate funding for restoration and maintenance of Sad Hill Cemetery you can purchase a grave plot and marker. My wife got plots for my dad, brother, and I. They send you pictures of your grave marker with your name and a map of the location in the cemetery.
Just having gotten into westerns, as I'm completely done with modern woke Hollywood trash, I can say this is one hell of a flick! Can't recommend enough. Timeless is this movie. 👍👍
Yes, it’s my favorite movie of all time. I remember when I saw it when 10 years old and ever since it stuck in mind. A timeless classic Italian Western!!!
I love the tone of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Sometimes, I play Red Dead Redemption while playing its soundtrack. The cinematography is absolutely amazing, fingers-crossed for an iMax or Dolby theatrical re-release. 🤞
I loved that quirky game from 2005 called, "Oddworld - Stranger's Wrath" with the main character "Stranger" having an Eastwood-esque persona. That game was hilarious!! 🤣
I watch this movie every January 10th for my grandpa. He loved this movie and he died when I was 8 on January 10th, and he showed me this movie for valor, humor, and overall American reason probably. I miss him but I still have this movie and I love you sharing these facts!! It means more than you could know.
There is so much not said about this movie, that 20 things would still not be enough. Here's some I'd like to mention 1. there is a scene when Tuco arrives in a town after walking through the desert and being abandoned by Blondie. Tuco goes to a gun shop and while harassing the gun owner, disassembles some guns and builds his own custom frankenstein gun with parts from others. That whole scene with him fiddling with the guns was entirely improvised. Sergio told Eli (Tuco) to do something, what he didn't know. Eli had no idea what he was doing but went along with it. In the end, I've watched that scene so many times as I've watched the movie, and for me it looks like Tuco knows exactly what he is doing 2. "the good, the bad & the ugly" movie did for Westerns what star wars did for sci-fy. Before this movie, the popular westerns of american origin had a clean, vibrant, pretty look (the aesthetics of 60s TV if you want to think about it), with uplifting jolly orchestral music. "the good, the bad & the ugly" then became popular in the USA but presented a compeltly different aesthetic of a dirty, grimy, lived-in environment, where the characters look dirty, smelly and sweaty. Sergio had multiple shots close up to the characters faces where you see the dirt, the sweat, the wrinkles, the facial hair. The music was eerie, gloomy and sad (like the whistle of the main theme). And this might be why the film became so popular, because the aesthetic of it is just so compelling. Just like how Star Wars had an aesthetic that was more compelling and realistic 3. Continuing from 2, this movie's style of photography was also quite "innovative". The long wide shots showing the environment, followed by the close ups right in the characters face, helped so much to setup the environment and world. This is something I've seen in movies meanwhile, most recently Dune 2021, where Denis Villeneuve used the same technique of the wide shots to setup the local aesthetic of the world he was creating. And that movie looks incredible. Dune 2021 is a masterpiece for me. 4. If you watched this movie as a non-english speaking child, prepare to have your mind blown: you didn't notice the out of sync lips. And only later in life realized the sound was entirely dubbed. Now you cannot unsee it.
This is a great comment and the comp to star wars and the dirty aesthetic is an outstanding point - this is a gentlemen who understands movies and movie history
Problem with your first example point number one is that it is not possible to do what tuco did in that gun shop. You cannot take parts from various guns made by various people and make a Franken gun. But if you don't know this it isn't a problem and is a cool scene.
This movie is a perfect example of why critics are useless and I never listen to them. Most people I talk to don't even know this movie is a comedy. The humour is done so well, it mimics everyday life. (drama drama drama bam! comedy gem, drama drama bam! comedy gem) Comedy in a western can be tough to pull off. Over done you get The Appledumpling Gang. Done right, you get Blazing Saddles and done to perfection you get The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
Of the dollars trilogy i think that "For a few dollars more" is actually my favorite of the three. But GBU is nearly tied with it. What's fun is that GBU is actually a prequel to the first two dollars films as the civil war period was earlier than the time when the dollars films take place which is evidenced by the guns and technology seen in the films (a surprising continuity detail that even modern directors would probably flub) and you can see how the Man with No Name obtained his iconic look throughout the GBU film which would be his main attire for the dollars films. Furthermore, Lee Van Cleef's character in For a few dollars more is a civil war veteran making the film obviously post civil war. Lastly, a Fistful of Dollars occurs chronologically after For a few dollars more going off some dates shown in each film (1872 on a newspaper in dollars more, and 1873 on a gravestone in fistful of dollars).
A Fistful of Dollars caused a suit with Akita Kurosawa as it was a scene by scene rip off of Yojimbo. The settlement was that Kurosawa would receive the profits from the Asian release of it
WRT to Civil War guns... While I am not a gun expert, while six-shooting revolvers were known, during the civil war, weren't they all "cap and ball", not more modern cartridge style bullets? This meant, when reloading, the shooter had to place both a separate bullet, and propellant, in each chamber of the cylinder.
Yes, when Clint Eastwood passes away it’s gonna be a horrible day. I’m gonna watch a marathon of his movies to honor him and celebrate his life and career
What a great classic movie!!! I was just ten years old when this epic came out and I was riveted on it. I never tire of watching it and will usually drop everything whenever I see it on TV.
And this is how I ended up named Archibald with my surname Stanton. My closest family calls me Arch but I go by my nickname that I gave myself when I was 18 mos. old. (Long story). But yes, parents being huge fans brought me much teasing as a kid but it did teach me to fight well. And the "Ecstasy of Gold" is THE only song that brings me a tear or 2. The strings vs. the horns, the piano intro, all of it, just a beautiful BEAUTIFUL song. Great JOB MINTY, I hope to see more westerns on your channel.
The Good The Bald & the Minty!! Great "review" of such a classic film. I really loved all three movies - especially For a Few Dollars More. My ringtone was the good the bad and the ugly for almost 10 years!! Good old Nokia Phones back in the day.
Top 5 westerns of all time. "Upon a Time in The West" "Unforgiven" are right up there too. I like "How the West Was Won" and the original "True Grit" also
MY FAV MOVIE EVER!!!!!! WOW!!!! You are coming up with all my favs latley!..... I love the scene where Tuci pulls all the guns apart to make a decent gun. So incredible! Every single take!!!
Actually the original Navy would have been perfectly fine. This came about as Leone told him to basically look busy. Anyone who knows weapons of the period would know this was absolute rubbish but hey it worked in the overall scene.
@Jai Pritchett By the 1840s, Colt manufactured his firearms on an assembly line basis, all using exactly the same specification, giving a better weapon than most of those turned out by hand. His weapons all had matching serial numbers on all major parts, including the cylinder that Tuco removes. Some people acquired extra cylinders and loaded them as well, as replacing the cylinder was faster than reloading one. We saw that here among bushrangers for example. Nevertheless under normal circumstances, the original parts all stayed together even if any of the percussion cap nipples became damaged. With the introduction of the bored-through cylinder, the brass centreline cartridge and the ejector rod including on percussion conversions, this no longer was necessary.
Nearly all Italian films of the 50's and 60's were post dubbed. Fellini did this because it gave him complete control of the sound as well as the image. On location, he didn't have to worry about background noise, plus he could shout direction during the take, like an old silent director. As a consequence, he became a master of post dubbing not only the voices, but fully integrated sound effects. This extended to all the other filmmakers, like Leone, who used the Cinecitta studio in Rome.
The movie , the songs and the casts were absolutely masterpieces.. No wonder if this movie would be most greatest ever made and maybe it's fans will be increasing time to time..
Also I believe in the second film of this trilogy(Few Dollars More) there is a scene where Colonel Mortimer (Lee VanCleef) is talking to a sheriff about bounties. The sheriff tells Mortimer that he is the second bounty killer to show interest in the same bounty in just a few days.He then tells Mortimer that the other bounty killers name is Mancoe. To which they immediately switch to a scene with Eastwood. So the man with no name is actually named in the series.
Hold up a second. In Spanish manco means 'one armed'. This was likely a nickname referring to Eastwood's character keeping his shooting arm covered with his iconic poncho.
My Grandad bought me the trilogy box set on VHS the last Christmas that he was alive. So every Christmas i watch The Good the Bad and the Ugly to remember him. Plus its also one of my all time favourite movies.
Anyone worried about lip sync is clearly not a fan of kung fu movies. To really get over it they need to watch Kung Pow Enter the Fist which deliberately makes the sync off.
The best Western even, made by Italian crew and shot in Italy and Spain. And with the best soundtrack (obviously by legendary Maestro Morricone). PS: I'm probably nitpicky, but English-speaking people just ALWAYS mipronounce Leone. It's read "L-ay-oh-nay". And the movie was not shot in "a studio". It was shot in Cinecittà, the most important film studio in Italy (where Fellini, Visconti, Bertolucci, Coppola, Scorsese shot their movies). During the 60s it was called "Hollywood on the Tiber".
I really never cared much for westerns until I saw The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. It also drew me to other westerns that Eastwood was in such as The Outlaw Josey Wales, Pale Rider, and Unforgiven as well as other Leone westerns.
This and the Magnificent Seven are the two most iconic westerns ever. Still to this day I watch them every now and then. As far as stars, topics, visuals and movie scores go, those two films do stand out. Great content, dude, as always!!!
The line how's your digestion now still hear it from time to time now or in excavation trades or two kinds of peaple those with shovels and those who run equipment
Epic movie, epic list. Thanks once again for taking the time to compile these lists and posting your videos. The movie really is a great example of how some things can be timeless.
I have read that Sergio Leone said, while appraising Clint Eastwood's acting, that he had two facial expressions on set; "With hat" and "without hat". Love it.
Tim Stacey;should be award for best character actor.ie:Brad Pitt "Pikey Mickey", Uma Thurman "Kill Bill",among many others.Peter Sellers" Inspector clousuo".just a thought.
Love this move! I do however feel that Leone's absolute best is Once Upon A Time In The West (1968). The "Dollars" Trilogy is great, especially FAFDM and TGTBATU. Who can forget Tuco giving his lines about "the world is divided into two parts" and how Blondie also spins them for his own use. And the final showdown...YEAH, amazing music and cinematography.
My first spaghetti western... so it always has that place in my heart.... however Lee van cleef and clint eastwood teamed up in for a few dollars more is just awesome
Absolute classic movie. And that bridge explosion really looked huge and more real than other movies with huge explosions. In Japan they call them "Macaroni Westerns".
That bridge explosion almost cut Clint Eastwood's career short. If you look closely you can see a chunk of rock strike a sandbag less than a foot from his head. Close call.
Eli Wallach played such an iconic bad guy as Tuco. Pretty much the only bad guy that gave Clint Eastwood a run for his money. Tuco nearly got the best of Blondie. I'm only 42 years old but I grew up watching old westerns. Just love em
There is two types of people in the world those with guns and those who dig. You dig. Love this movie. Was my dads favorite movie. And my favorite movie and now my daughters favorite movie.
This. This was the movie that my dad got me into because he was a fan of Clint Eastwood. And became my intro to Spaghetti Westerns and the Italian cinema.👏👏👏🎉🎉💯
You missed the biggest fact you never knew about this movie. The Good The Bad and The Ugly is actually the prequel to Fistful Of Dollars. Its only after crossing the blown up bridge that Clint offers his jacket to a dying soldier. and when the soldier dies instead of taking his jacket back he picks up a poncho and when he puts it on you realize its the iconic poncho worn in the beginning of Fistful of Dollars.
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly is a prequel to the Dollars movies. Don't believe me? During most of GB&U Eastwood is wearing a coat or a jacket of some form. It's only towards the end of the film that he finds a badly wounded soldier, takes off his coat to put over him and gives him a cheroot to smoke, then the soldier dies. Eastwood is about to take his coat back when he spots a poncho on a nearby bench. He checks it out and puts it on leaving his coat behind, that poncho is the same one he wore in the Dollars movies (evidenced by the darned up bullet holes from the second(?) movie. Probably the best western ever made.
The war timeliness makes that point too. In a fistful of dollars and a few dollars more, they are both post civil war.... hence the retired colonel finding work bounty hunting
It's not a prequel. Joe, Manco and Blondie are different characters. Just like Colonel Mortimer and Angel Eyes are different characters, and El Indio and Ramón are different characters as well as many of the henchmen in Indios gang who's actors are also in Ramóns gang. Leone originally wanted Gian Maria Volonté (Ramón) to also play Tuco, in which case that would also have been another character. Sergio Leone didn't have an easy time of finding Hollywood actors to agree on starring in his films. But he did find a good group of actors that worked well on screen and he kept using those as long as he could to make some great stories, without thinking about continuity in the modern sense of a trilogy. Because it was not a trilogy, just a bunch of good films being made one after another.
@@phil8821 it is entirely possible he Intentionally added some crossover things as a kind of easter egg.. you know like, "I wonder if anyone will notice", and of course could be that he entertained the idea of a bit of continuity of that character being the same, even if the casting was different for some of the others.
"The Man With The Harmonica" (better known as " Once Upon a Time In The West") is, in my opinion, still THE Western that set the bar. The standard. The movie all other Westerns had to complete with. It was also the best thing that ever happened to Charles Bronson. Clint Eastwood must have regretted his decision to drop out for decades. It's ironic how the Italians made Westerns look and feel so much more realistic than the Americans.
One of my favorites. If you ask me, it's right up there with Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. If you haven't made a video on that one yet, that would be awesome. Always really enjoy your videos.
The Magnificent Seven is the westernized version of Seven Samurai. Big fan of Kurosawa films too. I watched 'Throne of Blood' (Japanese inspired from Shakespeare's Macbeth) every Halloween.
@@beskarman38 I believe Fistful of Dollars is at least loosely based on Kurosawa’s Yojimbo. Definitely intrigued by the similarities in the Western and Samurai genres.
I've always liked the bad dubbing of Italian actors in Sergio Leone's films. I could watch a "100 Things You Didn't Know About Good, Bad, & The Ugly" video.
Back in the day - This Movie played at the local Theater for Six Months - maybe closer to a year. I never get tired of watching it. Great dialogue ! Eli Wallach is brilliant.
The story. The Plot. The genius of Ennio Morricone's music score. The cinematography. The timelessness. This is one of the greatest movies ever made.
No it isn't. It's a cheap ass Western filmed in Italy when it was a third world country. Cartoonish guilty pleasure at best.
Unforgiven was a masterpiece.
@@tcorourke2007 Even parodies can be masterpieces.
Don't leave out the cast! Especially Eli Wallach, in the role he was born to play.
@@ColonelFredPuntridge Of course!
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Filmed in Spain, dullard.
Eli Wallach steals every scene he's in. The casting is brilliant. One of the most iconic movies ever made. Also one of the most iconic music scores. That whistling part is known worldwide.
Eli Wallach should have won an Academy award for that movie he was brilliant😎
It's my ringtone.
Mr.Wallach should have received many awards for his many performances.. just another unsung hero from Hollywood.. too bad..
One of the few movies I've seen hundreds of times and never tire of. A real masterpiece.
Everything works, even things that shouldn't have. It's a classic. All the so-called flaws of it just add to its legend. It rides the edge of parody, and if you didn't "get" that, you missed it.
EXAGGERATE much...(Hundreds of times).LOL
there are two kinds of people in the world .... those that like it, and those that su##
Well there's only thing to say about that.
"When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk!"
The proverbial proof of pudding? Rewatch a few years later and appreciate/enjoy it even more? Any movies in the past 10-15 years that can claim that? Pulp Fiction? Oh wait, that was 1994 - TWENTYNINE YEARS AGO (that's 29, for you Hollywood execs who apparently can't read)! Just sayin'.
The Best Western ever. I never get bored with it and have seen it dozens of times. If your gonna shoot shoot don't talk. Perfect life lesson.
"If you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk." One of the great movie quotes ever.
I knew someone would say this. Was that line improvised?
It was in fact, ad- libbed by Eli Wallach.
Unfortunely its a line that many movie villians fail to listen lol
The actor that he shoots in that scene later killed himself when they were filming Once Upon a Time in The West by jumping off the roof of the hotel the crew was staying in, legend has it that he was still in costume from shooting scenes that day and that Leone was in the parking lot where the guy hit the ground shouting "Save the costume!!! Save the costume!!!".
If you work for a living.Why do you kill yourself working?
Saying this film is a "classic" is a severe understatement... It set the standard! Doesn't get much better than Eastwood and Westerns ❤️
This was such an iconic and amazing film! The score by Ennio Moricone was legendary! Clint Eastwood and company had played their roles to the hilt! Thanks Minty for reviewing this awesome film!
When Clint Eastwood passes away, it’s gonna be a horrible time. It’s completely devastating whenever icons pass away… I was completely devastated when Sean Connery passed away. I watched a marathon of his movies to celebrate his life and career. I’m gonna do the same for Clint Eastwood when he passes, I’m gonna watch a marathon of his movies too
How many times have you used the "flute" sound in making some reference!
@@T_bone Quite a lot! That's what makes the score so iconic!
@@T_bone how many times do people use the word “underrated” on RUclips?
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Fun Fact:
The skeleton seen in the wooden coffin when Clint Eastwood kicked it open
to reveal no gold to Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef was a REAL skeleton of a deceased Spanish actress, who literally wrote in her will that she would still like to act even after her death.
wow thats a nice fact to know, i always thought the skeleton looked damn real. is she credited?
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Nope, nothing on the uncredited cast list on IMDB either. Not even the trivia spoiler facts mentioned her name.
@@JOSH-lw2jv thats a shame.
YES! I'd forgotten that. That should've been mentioned in this video.
Learn something new everyday 🤔👍
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly is one of the very few slow movies that cannot be enhanced by taking out unnecessary parts, because there are none. The pacing is just how it needs to be to set every mood.
Between movies that were needlessly stretched out and movies that are rushed too hard, this movie stands proudly in the sweet spot of the goldilocks zone.
That movie 🎬 that will never have a remake - for good.
There were plenty of unnecessary parts taken out and that's why they took them out. Why they pointlessly restored them again with much older voices is a mystery though.
🙋🏾♂️ I saw this movie when I was six, I'm fifty five years old and this is my favorite movie to this day. This is a masterpiece that doesn't need to be remade. 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
It's free to watch on RUclips too
So does Minty have a review of the dirty dozen or once upon a time in the West? These have got to be done.
If they remade it nobody would watch it
Yes I watch it biweekly on RUclips.
It's even my sixteen year old daughter's absolute favorite movie! DEFINITELY one of the BEST classics of film history!!😁👍
"You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.” Blondie to Tuco after the great three-way duel at the end of the movie. Best quote from a movie full of great quotes and classic lines.
That was a great line.
Does anyone really care what paid critics think about a movie?
Yes. There are of course shitty critics but there are also many film buffs out there that are great at critiquing films.
I’ll take their opinion over the masses who enjoy movies like fast and furious and superhero movies
Great film and Tuco is one of the best characters, ever!
12:40 Eastwood and Leone may have quarreled at one point, but Eastwood did have in the end credits of his 1992 film Unforgiven a credit which said I believe “Thanks to Sergio for showing me the way.”
And also both Clint and Eli Wallach lent their voices for restoring some scenes to the Unrated Director’s Cut version of TGTBATU several years ago on Blu-Ray, so I like to think that Eastwood really came to appreciate Leone over time.
That's very cool. And apt.
Unfortunately, Eli Wallach's voice was frail by then and it just didn't have the spark of the original recordings. Still worth having though.
Thank you Minty!!! This movie is one of my fav movies ever!!! It makes me think of my dad who I first watched it with and was a massive Eastwood fan. I lost my dad last week, so to see this review really has warmed my heart. Cheers dude!
Sorry for you loss brother.
I’m sorry for your loss as well Bro… smh It’s crazy because I lost my dad on December 6th 2009 to cancer and I had a moment this morning before work where I almost broke down thinking about him and had to get myself together before I left the house smh… 🤦🏽♂️ Bro I don’t know how close you were with your Dad but I assume y’all were really close because it’s heavy on your heart and mind… So I’m a tell you what I wish someone would’ve told me before my dad passed… It NEVER gets easier and the pain never goes away… You just learn to soldier through it… I pray The Most High gives you comfort and some sense of peace while your going through it…. Cause since my Dad died, I’ve been walking around with a giant hole in my heart… Smh God bless you Bro. 🫡🤞🏾🫱🏾🫲🏽💪🏾🙏🏾💯💯💯
My condolences for your loss.
🙋🏾♂️ I too watched this film with my dad I was six! Condolences
Sorry for your loss. This is also the first western I ever watched with my dad.
The set are not abandoned, is a open museum in Almeria
I arrived in England in October 1968, I was 8 years old and the song The Good The Bad and The Ugly by Hugo Montenegro was number 1 in Top of The Pops. It wasn't until the 80's that I found out the original version was of Ennio Morricone. Thanks Minty and "Carry On"
Definitely the best western ever made. Such a shame that todays audiences usually wont watch a movie that takes its time
@@automaticninjaassaultcat3703 you are wrong sadly. I planned to watch the entire dollars trilogy with my friends and we ended up watching only fistful of dollars together because they said that it was so boring that they dont want to watch the other 2 so i ended up watching them alone. Generations nowadays have short attention spams and you cant prove me otherwise
@@automaticninjaassaultcat3703 your right . Eastwood is my favorite actor period. I have all the films on DVD. But the other way to view is just type the title on line and you can watch the films.
Today's movies that take there time suck. Like Gods and generals for example. major drag. And dont forget the pc.
Serio Leone never heard of pc.
No one has made a better , more intense , or fierce a Western movie since this masterful piece of cinema.
Had the soundtrack on cassette and it was one of prized possession for years when I was a teenager. 😂😂 The funny things we value! But it was hard to find and I enjoyed. Great movie, soundtrack and am glad Minty covered it!
A couple of things to add, the bridges, the first one the Spanish army blew it up, but it was the wrong bridge as well as the cameras were destroyed. They actually had to rebuild it so people could use it. Second, the cemetery that is rebuilt is open to the public, and you can visit it. In 2017 they had a reenactment of the duel, and Eastwood did a video conference with the audience.
this is the first I've read or head of the bridge mishap Leone, said, that it was a translation problem that caused the bridge to be blown up. The cameras weren't rolling. They were far from ready to shoot the shot. I believe the Spanish interpreted an Italian phrase wrong. can you please link that info. not saying you're wrong. I'm a fan who just wants knowledge is why i ask. my info comes from several special features from various special editions releases over the years as well as a couple of inteviews on youtube. not that you asked.lol
@@hughgevainey3181 I will have to look for it. It’s been a few years ago when I found out
In order to generate funding for restoration and maintenance of Sad Hill Cemetery you can purchase a grave plot and marker. My wife got plots for my dad, brother, and I. They send you pictures of your grave marker with your name and a map of the location in the cemetery.
Just having gotten into westerns, as I'm completely done with modern woke Hollywood trash, I can say this is one hell of a flick! Can't recommend enough. Timeless is this movie. 👍👍
I kind of liked that drunk Union Captain....He got his dying wish....That damn bridge was blown up .
Yes, it’s my favorite movie of all time. I remember when I saw it when 10 years old and ever since it stuck in mind. A timeless classic Italian Western!!!
"There are two types of people in this world. Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig."
One of my top favorite Westerns to this day. Lee Van Cleef's presence on screen was the anchor the film revolved around.
I love the tone of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Sometimes, I play Red Dead Redemption while playing its soundtrack. The cinematography is absolutely amazing, fingers-crossed for an iMax or Dolby theatrical re-release. 🤞
That’s a good idea. I think I will try that.
That's a great idea. i'll have to try that
@@skippepper3168 LOL! I typed my comment without even reading yours!
I hope they give RDO an update, I want to try playing to the soundtrack!
I loved that quirky game from 2005 called, "Oddworld - Stranger's Wrath" with the main character "Stranger" having an Eastwood-esque persona. That game was hilarious!! 🤣
I watch this movie every January 10th for my grandpa. He loved this movie and he died when I was 8 on January 10th, and he showed me this movie for valor, humor, and overall American reason probably. I miss him but I still have this movie and I love you sharing these facts!! It means more than you could know.
I've watched this masterpiece many,many times.. it never gets old.. likely my favourite western of all time.
There is so much not said about this movie, that 20 things would still not be enough. Here's some I'd like to mention
1. there is a scene when Tuco arrives in a town after walking through the desert and being abandoned by Blondie. Tuco goes to a gun shop and while harassing the gun owner, disassembles some guns and builds his own custom frankenstein gun with parts from others. That whole scene with him fiddling with the guns was entirely improvised. Sergio told Eli (Tuco) to do something, what he didn't know. Eli had no idea what he was doing but went along with it. In the end, I've watched that scene so many times as I've watched the movie, and for me it looks like Tuco knows exactly what he is doing
2. "the good, the bad & the ugly" movie did for Westerns what star wars did for sci-fy. Before this movie, the popular westerns of american origin had a clean, vibrant, pretty look (the aesthetics of 60s TV if you want to think about it), with uplifting jolly orchestral music. "the good, the bad & the ugly" then became popular in the USA but presented a compeltly different aesthetic of a dirty, grimy, lived-in environment, where the characters look dirty, smelly and sweaty. Sergio had multiple shots close up to the characters faces where you see the dirt, the sweat, the wrinkles, the facial hair. The music was eerie, gloomy and sad (like the whistle of the main theme). And this might be why the film became so popular, because the aesthetic of it is just so compelling. Just like how Star Wars had an aesthetic that was more compelling and realistic
3. Continuing from 2, this movie's style of photography was also quite "innovative". The long wide shots showing the environment, followed by the close ups right in the characters face, helped so much to setup the environment and world. This is something I've seen in movies meanwhile, most recently Dune 2021, where Denis Villeneuve used the same technique of the wide shots to setup the local aesthetic of the world he was creating. And that movie looks incredible. Dune 2021 is a masterpiece for me.
4. If you watched this movie as a non-english speaking child, prepare to have your mind blown: you didn't notice the out of sync lips. And only later in life realized the sound was entirely dubbed. Now you cannot unsee it.
Star wars? Realistic? lol
It’ll be horrible when Clint Eastwood passes away… I’m gonna watch a marathon of his movies to honor him and celebrate his life and career
This is a great comment and the comp to star wars and the dirty aesthetic is an outstanding point - this is a gentlemen who understands movies and movie history
Problem with your first example point number one is that it is not possible to do what tuco did in that gun shop. You cannot take parts from various guns made by various people and make a Franken gun. But if you don't know this it isn't a problem and is a cool scene.
Are you saying... Star Wars wasn't a documentary?!
The actors, the characters, the story, the music, the cinematography - this movie is a F-ing masterpiece.
This movie is a perfect example of why critics are useless and I never listen to them.
Most people I talk to don't even know this movie is a comedy. The humour is done so well, it mimics everyday life. (drama drama drama bam! comedy gem, drama drama bam! comedy gem)
Comedy in a western can be tough to pull off.
Over done you get The Appledumpling Gang. Done right, you get Blazing Saddles and done to perfection you get The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
When critics hate something I take it as a sign I'll like it.
Hard to pull off unless you are Mel Brookes. 👍
Of the dollars trilogy i think that "For a few dollars more" is actually my favorite of the three. But GBU is nearly tied with it. What's fun is that GBU is actually a prequel to the first two dollars films as the civil war period was earlier than the time when the dollars films take place which is evidenced by the guns and technology seen in the films (a surprising continuity detail that even modern directors would probably flub) and you can see how the Man with No Name obtained his iconic look throughout the GBU film which would be his main attire for the dollars films. Furthermore, Lee Van Cleef's character in For a few dollars more is a civil war veteran making the film obviously post civil war. Lastly, a Fistful of Dollars occurs chronologically after For a few dollars more going off some dates shown in each film (1872 on a newspaper in dollars more, and 1873 on a gravestone in fistful of dollars).
What hell is GBU?
@@malik87breakerThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Good finds his poncho after death of confederate soldier near end.
A Fistful of Dollars caused a suit with Akita Kurosawa as it was a scene by scene rip off of Yojimbo. The settlement was that Kurosawa would receive the profits from the Asian release of it
WRT to Civil War guns... While I am not a gun expert, while six-shooting revolvers were known, during the civil war, weren't they all "cap and ball", not more modern cartridge style bullets? This meant, when reloading, the shooter had to place both a separate bullet, and propellant, in each chamber of the cylinder.
Sat, through this twice the day it was Released. My favorite western
Classic Eastwood, the music alone is legendary. Got to love those spaghetti westerns, the man with no name.
Yes, when Clint Eastwood passes away it’s gonna be a horrible day.
I’m gonna watch a marathon of his movies to honor him and celebrate his life and career
What a great classic movie!!! I was just ten years old when this epic came out and I was riveted on it. I never tire of watching it and will usually drop everything whenever I see it on TV.
And this is how I ended up named Archibald with my surname Stanton. My closest family calls me Arch but I go by my nickname that I gave myself when I was 18 mos. old. (Long story). But yes, parents being huge fans brought me much teasing as a kid but it did teach me to fight well. And the "Ecstasy of Gold" is THE only song that brings me a tear or 2. The strings vs. the horns, the piano intro, all of it, just a beautiful BEAUTIFUL song. Great JOB MINTY, I hope to see more westerns on your channel.
Fun fact: the skeleton of AS was a real skeleton of spanish actress.
Although a skeleton, Arch Stanton still had an important role, and his stiff acting is excusable.
@@johnmcmullen456 lol I concur.
The Good The Bald & the Minty!! Great "review" of such a classic film. I really loved all three movies - especially For a Few Dollars More. My ringtone was the good the bad and the ugly for almost 10 years!! Good old Nokia Phones back in the day.
While you're on a roll, High Plains Drifter scared the hell outta me as a kid
I remember going to the theater to see this movie.. Back in the days when movies were fun!
Well done Minty, I love it when you do the older films. It's been too long since I've seen this fantastic classic.
Top 5 westerns of all time. "Upon a Time in The West" "Unforgiven" are right up there too. I like "How the West Was Won" and the original "True Grit" also
MY FAV MOVIE EVER!!!!!! WOW!!!! You are coming up with all my favs latley!.....
I love the scene where Tuci pulls all the guns apart to make a decent gun. So incredible! Every single take!!!
Actually the original Navy would have been perfectly fine. This came about as Leone told him to basically look busy. Anyone who knows weapons of the period would know this was absolute rubbish but hey it worked in the overall scene.
@@andrewstackpool4911 The original Navy? What would of been fine?
@Jai Pritchett By the 1840s, Colt manufactured his firearms on an assembly line basis, all using exactly the same specification, giving a better weapon than most of those turned out by hand. His weapons all had matching serial numbers on all major parts, including the cylinder that Tuco removes. Some people acquired extra cylinders and loaded them as well, as replacing the cylinder was faster than reloading one. We saw that here among bushrangers for example. Nevertheless under normal circumstances, the original parts all stayed together even if any of the percussion cap nipples became damaged. With the introduction of the bored-through cylinder, the brass centreline cartridge and the ejector rod including on percussion conversions, this no longer was necessary.
Nearly all Italian films of the 50's and 60's were post dubbed. Fellini did this because it gave him complete control of the sound as well as the image. On location, he didn't have to worry about background noise, plus he could shout direction during the take, like an old silent director. As a consequence, he became a master of post dubbing not only the voices, but fully integrated sound effects. This extended to all the other filmmakers, like Leone, who used the Cinecitta studio in Rome.
The movie , the songs and the casts were absolutely masterpieces..
No wonder if this movie would be most greatest ever made and maybe it's fans will be increasing time to time..
Without a doubt the best western ever, just epic. Along with Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid and The Outlaw Josie Wales.
I seen in the Drive-In With My Dad... Great Memories.... A Smile on My Face and A Tear In My Eye.
STILL love these movies. Made Clint a SUPER star. I just bought "Once Upon A Time In The West". Cannot wait to watch it.
Also I believe in the second film of this trilogy(Few Dollars More) there is a scene where Colonel Mortimer (Lee VanCleef) is talking to a sheriff about bounties. The sheriff tells Mortimer that he is the second bounty killer to show interest in the same bounty in just a few days.He then tells Mortimer that the other bounty killers name is Mancoe. To which they immediately switch to a scene with Eastwood. So the man with no name is actually named in the series.
Hold up a second. In Spanish manco means 'one armed'. This was likely a nickname referring to Eastwood's character keeping his shooting arm covered with his iconic poncho.
@@stashmerkin9576, correct! "Manco" is just another alias like "Joe" and "Blondie".
@@JimElek I would not have known that if I wasn't watching it with my bilingual wife some years ago!
I remember reading that Henry Fonda was originally meant to be angel eyes …. And the name came from Henry Fonda’s bright blue eyes
😀 awesome @ dodging the shot. "When You Have To Shoot, Shoot. Don't Talk."
Love Tuco Ramirez.
My Grandad bought me the trilogy box set on VHS the last Christmas that he was alive. So every Christmas i watch The Good the Bad and the Ugly to remember him. Plus its also one of my all time favourite movies.
Wasn't the 'bad dubbing' of the movie just caused by the actors speaking in their native languages when filming? Or is that just an urban legend?
The set in Alemeria Spain is not abandoned. It is a theme park with shows and everything 😀
Thanks for that, One of my favorite western's. Amazing cast and an Amazing Director.
The skewed voiceovers are part of the charm of this movie. Personally, I think this particular problem makes it better, not worse.
Anyone worried about lip sync is clearly not a fan of kung fu movies. To really get over it they need to watch Kung Pow Enter the Fist which deliberately makes the sync off.
The best Western even, made by Italian crew and shot in Italy and Spain. And with the best soundtrack (obviously by legendary Maestro Morricone).
PS: I'm probably nitpicky, but English-speaking people just ALWAYS mipronounce Leone. It's read "L-ay-oh-nay".
And the movie was not shot in "a studio". It was shot in Cinecittà, the most important film studio in Italy (where Fellini, Visconti, Bertolucci, Coppola, Scorsese shot their movies). During the 60s it was called "Hollywood on the Tiber".
A movie studio in cinecetta :P
@@malik87breaker Cinecittà IS a movie studio. The largest in Europe, actually.
@@ilFanEditore "studio"?
Or a field?
Eastwood's westerns were some of the best movies of their time.
I really never cared much for westerns until I saw The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. It also drew me to other westerns that Eastwood was in such as The Outlaw Josey Wales, Pale Rider, and Unforgiven as well as other Leone westerns.
I'd love to visit Almeria, Spain, just to see the abandoned sets!!! Thank you for video on a classic!
This and the Magnificent Seven are the two most iconic westerns ever. Still to this day I watch them every now and then. As far as stars, topics, visuals and movie scores go, those two films do stand out. Great content, dude, as always!!!
With Eli Wallach stealing both films
The scores for both are classic, without a doubt.
The line how's your digestion now still hear it from time to time now or in excavation trades or two kinds of peaple those with shovels and those who run equipment
Epic movie, epic list. Thanks once again for taking the time to compile these lists and posting your videos. The movie really is a great example of how some things can be timeless.
I have read that Sergio Leone said, while appraising Clint Eastwood's acting, that he had two facial expressions on set; "With hat" and "without hat". Love it.
Eli Wallach should of received an Oscar for his outstanding performance.
Tim Stacey;should be award for best character actor.ie:Brad Pitt "Pikey Mickey", Uma Thurman "Kill Bill",among many others.Peter Sellers" Inspector clousuo".just a thought.
It had to come. Best western ever made.
"If you need to shoot, shoot. Don't talk." As a kid I took valuable lessons from this film.
It's good advice.
Love this move! I do however feel that Leone's absolute best is Once Upon A Time In The West (1968). The "Dollars" Trilogy is great, especially FAFDM and TGTBATU.
Who can forget Tuco giving his lines about "the world is divided into two parts" and how Blondie also spins them for his own use. And the final showdown...YEAH, amazing music and cinematography.
The theme song has been my ring tone for over twenty years and dozens of phones.
My first spaghetti western... so it always has that place in my heart.... however Lee van cleef and clint eastwood teamed up in for a few dollars more is just awesome
Absolute classic movie.
And that bridge explosion really looked huge and more real than other movies with huge explosions.
In Japan they call them "Macaroni Westerns".
That bridge explosion almost cut Clint Eastwood's career short. If you look closely you can see a chunk of rock strike a sandbag less than a foot from his head. Close call.
Eli Wallach played such an iconic bad guy as Tuco. Pretty much the only bad guy that gave Clint Eastwood a run for his money. Tuco nearly got the best of Blondie. I'm only 42 years old but I grew up watching old westerns. Just love em
As a kid this was the pinnacle of a western for me , even now I remember it fondly 👏👏👏👏
One of my all time favorite movies. I even named my dogs Tuco and Blondie.
There is two types of people in the world those with guns and those who dig. You dig. Love this movie. Was my dads favorite movie. And my favorite movie and now my daughters favorite movie.
This. This was the movie that my dad got me into because he was a fan of Clint Eastwood. And became my intro to Spaghetti Westerns and the Italian cinema.👏👏👏🎉🎉💯
This is not just a great movie, but "the" great movie.
Hands down the best movie of all time.
Another great video Minty. Thanks and keep producing great content
I loved this Video Minty.
The good bad ugly, my Father's fav movie & 1 of my all time favs.
Thank you for this information.
Long time fan of your videos Minty thank you for the wonderful nostalgia and please keep on keeping on. 👊
Not just a great western. Also a Great War film
One of the greatest ensemble casts ever! I love this movie.
I went to Sad Hill cemetery before they restored it. Very hot , very quiet and peaceful. Fantastic place.
Thank you for your channel 🙏, I really appreciate your taking the time to put these short documentaries together, I enjoy them all.
You missed the biggest fact you never knew about this movie. The Good The Bad and The Ugly is actually the prequel to Fistful Of Dollars. Its only after crossing the blown up bridge that Clint offers his jacket to a dying soldier. and when the soldier dies instead of taking his jacket back he picks up a poncho and when he puts it on you realize its the iconic poncho worn in the beginning of Fistful of Dollars.
CANNONBALL RUN
One of the best movies ever made. First watched it in the early 70s and have watched it dozens of times since - I have it on DVD , of course.
This one and also Once upon a time in the west is the only 2 westerns on my top 10 favourite all time movies. Masterpieces.
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly is a prequel to the Dollars movies. Don't believe me? During most of GB&U Eastwood is wearing a coat or a jacket of some form. It's only towards the end of the film that he finds a badly wounded soldier, takes off his coat to put over him and gives him a cheroot to smoke, then the soldier dies. Eastwood is about to take his coat back when he spots a poncho on a nearby bench. He checks it out and puts it on leaving his coat behind, that poncho is the same one he wore in the Dollars movies (evidenced by the darned up bullet holes from the second(?) movie.
Probably the best western ever made.
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The war timeliness makes that point too. In a fistful of dollars and a few dollars more, they are both post civil war.... hence the retired colonel finding work bounty hunting
It's not a prequel. Joe, Manco and Blondie are different characters. Just like Colonel Mortimer and Angel Eyes are different characters, and El Indio and Ramón are different characters as well as many of the henchmen in Indios gang who's actors are also in Ramóns gang. Leone originally wanted Gian Maria Volonté (Ramón) to also play Tuco, in which case that would also have been another character.
Sergio Leone didn't have an easy time of finding Hollywood actors to agree on starring in his films. But he did find a good group of actors that worked well on screen and he kept using those as long as he could to make some great stories, without thinking about continuity in the modern sense of a trilogy. Because it was not a trilogy, just a bunch of good films being made one after another.
@@phil8821 it is entirely possible he Intentionally added some crossover things as a kind of easter egg.. you know like, "I wonder if anyone will notice", and of course could be that he entertained the idea of a bit of continuity of that character being the same, even if the casting was different for some of the others.
"The Man With The Harmonica" (better known as " Once Upon a Time In The West") is, in my opinion, still THE Western that set the bar. The standard. The movie all other Westerns had to complete with.
It was also the best thing that ever happened to Charles Bronson. Clint Eastwood must have regretted his decision to drop out for decades.
It's ironic how the Italians made Westerns look and feel so much more realistic than the Americans.
another great piece, Minty. You rock!
When I was in college, the campus movie house ran a triple bill of all three films. It was amazing.
One of my favorites. If you ask me, it's right up there with Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. If you haven't made a video on that one yet, that would be awesome. Always really enjoy your videos.
The Magnificent Seven is the westernized version of Seven Samurai. Big fan of Kurosawa films too. I watched 'Throne of Blood' (Japanese inspired from Shakespeare's Macbeth) every Halloween.
@@beskarman38 I believe Fistful of Dollars is at least loosely based on Kurosawa’s Yojimbo. Definitely intrigued by the similarities in the Western and Samurai genres.
@@lulakirby Yes, Leone admitted that his movie was inspired and westernized Yojimbo which their lawsuit went to a stalemate, if I recall.
I've always liked the bad dubbing of Italian actors in Sergio Leone's films. I could watch a "100 Things You Didn't Know About Good, Bad, & The Ugly" video.
THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER MADE! It kept the western genre going for another decade! Perfection!
Eli Wallach should have won an Oscar for his portrayal of Tuco.
One of my top 5 films and inspired my user name.
Awesome Work Bro, Thanks 👍👍👍 Greetings from Helsinki, Finland 🇫🇮
As a kid growing up in the 70s/80s I loved this , Kelly’s hero’s and Smokey and the bandit ( 3 vhs copies I had!)
"Oh man, don't hit me with them negative waves so early in the morning."
Back in the day - This Movie played at the local Theater for Six Months - maybe closer to a year. I never get tired of watching it. Great dialogue ! Eli Wallach is brilliant.