This is one loooooong movie. Good, but long.
Well, the fact that it is long is obviously either the Bad or the Ugly.
Great music, too!
I agree. That one tune with the twanging guitar is stuck in my head!
i love the good, the bad, and the ugly!! it's my favorite western. the director could have cut out the scene where blondie and tuco blow up the bridge i saw no purpose for it in the movie.
A pure nit pick-if you look closely at the extras you can see that they are native Italian and have darker complexions. It's an Italian made movie with all Italian made with all Italian production assistants. Also, you see cactuses all over the place. The movie is set during the U.S. civil war, I don't believe there was much (if any) action in New Mexico or Arizona in that time.
Hence the name "Spaghetti Western". But, you're right, as I told you elsewhere: "We're nitpickers. We don't deal in reality."
This was the first DVD I've bought and it looks great, even on my monitor, since my computer has my only DVD player. The thing that gets me in this film is the two times you see someone eating something in two separate locations it's the same meal, which looks to me to be green chunks of...I dunno what. Maybe bellpeppers, that's what it looks like. It's hard to tell but I guess it's some sort of vegetarian stew or whatever.
Also, you see cactuses all over the place. The movie is set during the U.S. civil war, I don't believe there was much (if any) action in New Mexico or Arizona in that time.
True. ("Dern, Jeb, guess we shouldn't'a took that there right turn at Albuquerque!")
The fine details might have been lost in the cultural swap, but you'd think that they could at least have come up with appropriate locations. Or, if that was too expensive, at least invented a different war - the Spanish-American, maybe? - for backdrop.
There was some fighting in the Southwest during the Civil War. It just wasn't as famous as the fighting in Virginia or along the Mississippi. I like that the war isn't the focus of the story, but an occasional complication.
By qttroassi on Monday, March 04, 2002 - 3:48 pm:
A pure nit pick-if you look closely at the extras you can see that they are native Italian and have darker complexions. It's an Italian made movie with all Italian made with all Italian production assistants. Also, you see cactuses all over the place. The movie is set during the U.S. civil war, I don't believe there was much (if any) action in New Mexico or Arizona in that time.
By ScottN on Monday, March 04, 2002 - 4:49 pm:
Hence the name "Spaghetti Western". But, you're right, as I told you elsewhere: "We're nitpickers. We don't deal in reality." 
The 'Spaghetti-westerns' were filmed for Italian cinema, however they were filmed in Spain. Many of the none-speaking extras in the film are, in fact Spanish. Specifically many of the soldiers in the large battles were Spanish troops, several of whom helped build the bridge, twice - the first bridge was blown up too early and had to be rebuilt.
Likewise the Cemetery in the film was built by the Spanish army for the film in two days.