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Decent, low budget Western of the spaghetti era but it takes a while to grow on you and realize that the idle indirection was necessary to establish the reason of the path of the story. Lots of gun play and brutality and a surprise of how things turned out well before the movie finished. The watching setting of my ranch house helps a lot. A 6.0.
It's stupid humor, I know, but sometimes I am entertained by that.
Ricky Bobby: Well, Dick, here's the deal: I'm the best there is - plain and simple. I mean, I wake up in the morning and I pi$$ excellence. You know, nobody can hang with my stuff. I'm just a--just a big, hairy, American winning machine. "If you ain't first, you're last!" You know? You know what I mean?
Watched this one over the weekend in honor of the almost coup in Russia. Haven't seen it completely since it was in theatres and overall it really holds up. The special effects still look good, Connery is...Connery, Alec Baldwin wasn't a complete tool yet (at least that wasn't public knowledge), and it only feels a little dated.
My biggest issue with it was the sound mix. I've never heard the surrounds in my system driven so hard, and the volume I had to watch it at to make the dialog intelligible was ear splitting. The original sound mix was part of the problem, going from silence to screaming machines, and wailing alarms to silence quite frequently...a conscious choice by the filmmakers. I originally saw this in a small auditorium with a modest analog Dolby system and don't remember it being this way. This is a disc that I'll probably never spin again.
Pretty decent, a flick pretty much like the mythology I learned. One thing that I missed on, all those years, of hearing of "Achilles brooding in his tent", one must keep in mind the leader's tent was quite an affair back then, very big, almost like a house........and not like a tent in the Civil War. An epic (where did they get that many horses?) with lots of fighting, good "turkey shoots", and a little romance. A 8.7.......if one can go in for sandal and sword flicks.
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Sometimes I read the bios of the actors. I was surprised to learn Sebastian Stan was born & lived in Romania through age 8, when his mother relocated them to Vienna. He didn't come to the US until he was a pre-teen. I would have guessed he was born & raised in Brooklyn.
I had never seen it before (and got it confused with that Morocco one, was waiting for them to take off for that country). Pretty darn good....including seeing some tactics that have been used in the current times, both in the movies and in reality. A 10.0.
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