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Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966)
infinite/10, Please watch it
I've chosen to review a very amazing movie whose directors, players and music artists are pure legends, I am talking about the Sergio Leone, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Clef, Clint Eastwood and Ennio Morricone and the movie "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" (Italian: Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo, lit. '"The good, the ugly, the bad"').
First, I would like to stress out the movie setting and its history. In the 1960's Western movies were becoming very popular, the Hollywood Westerns included heroes that were often well groomed, had nice clothing, had charismatic voices and shiny new guns, often times very good gunslingers that fought the bad guys and always won. The Spaghetti Western on the other hand was usually a low budget movie recorded in Italy, most often in Sicily, hence the name. Spaghetti Westerns were usually very violent and included not heroes but anti-heroes who usually worked for their own personal gain, this made the movies appear way more realistic. It is also noteworthy to say that that the music in the Hollywood Westerns was much simpler, chilling and relaxing, the music of the Spaghetti Westerns was almost always really energetic, took a lot of effort and increased in tone and frequency as the time went by. The last thing I would like to add is that we often think that the US Civil war was an entirely moral war, with the North being the good guys and the south the bad ones but even though most Hollywood Westerns' timeline happened in 1860's, the US Civil War was almost entirely ignored, this is contrasted by the Spaghetti Westerns who saw the neither side as good, they would show that both sides were bleeding each other dry and both sides committed atrocities, denying the enemy basic human rights. In this movie we find 3 main characters, the "Good", we do not know his name but he is often called "Blondie" by the "Ugly" who's known as "Tuco". The third character, "The Bad" is known by his alias "Angel Eyes". All of these 3 characters are excellent gunslingers and have 1 goal in life; personal gain. All the characters interact with each other in the movie, sometimes working together and sometimes trying to kill each other, often times by outwitting instead of using blunt force. The characters in the movie often don't use too much dialogue, but say more by saying less thus stressing out the important part. Lastly, I would like to talk about this movie's scenography and music. The music was mostly composed by 1 man; Ennio Morricone. The music rarely overlaps with the dialogue, which leaves the viewer to listen to what the characters say better. The director and the music artist had a talent of working together, there are scenes in the movie where the music is used primarily to build up tension and to incite action, for this reason the music is only used when the characters are or are acting silent for example: when characters are sneaking or are under threat.
Overall, the movie is widely recognised as a masterpiece and I agree, every single moment is either deeply embedded to the storyline or is action based, one can start watching this movie from any timeline and still find it interesting. For all these unique factors the movie offers I can do nothing but recommend it for everyone to watch.
U gori raste zelen bor (1971)
Quality 6/10, Acting 3/10, Plot 3/10, Trying 56/10, Comedy 74/10
This is a movie set in Yugoslavia during the second world war.The location is, i presume to be somewhere in Croatia as in the move they fight against the Ustasha-s.As the movie is from a communist country and as it is from 1971, you can't expect much in the terms of quality and acting compared to for exaplme Hollywood movies.
Acting is also poor because they didn't have the nessecary equipment and technology to make it look good, but it does add top the sense of realism.
The plot is also not that good, i would say that's it's more realistic than movie like.
The story goes that a partisan named "Dikan" was assigned or he himself wanted to kill a traitor, who was now serving in the enemy army.Not much of a plot but it does seem realistic when you think about all the things partisans were doing in WW2, no traitor was forgiven.
As i mentioned before, acting is kind of poor, but that does not mean that trying to accomplish it was also bad.The acting may not be the best but trying it sure is.Actors who don't try usually just look lazy on camera, not the case here.When they do record a scene, it may not look good but you'll know that it is.
Lastly i want to talk about comedy in this movie, IT'S FULL OF IT.The character "Dikan" was a poor farmer and still acts as such, he makes jokes now and then but even without jokes it's still funny when he says something, because even though he's meant to act serious, his accent and his way of thinking end up just sounding like a bufoonery, even in completely serious situations.
Dikan is not the only character that does this,many characters do it too but not to such a degree
Overall i find the movie really entertaining mostly because of it's comedy and people in 70's trying to act 10/10 would watch again
Who Killed Captain Alex? (2010)
It's so bad that it's actually good
It's so bad that it's actually good
Budget -1/10
Trying 13/10