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Addams Family Values was better than the first one.
Bluemoon's Official Top 100 Films
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Godfather. Mad Max. Alien. Night of the living dead. Terminator. All better than the sequels for me. Only sequel that gets better I can think of is For a few dollars more, and Good, Bad, Ugly was even better. Evil dead 2 was better, but it was just a remake, like saying Heat was better than LA Takedown.
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15. Once Upon A Time In The West 7/95
Once Upon a Time in the West is a 1968 epic Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone, who co-wrote it with Sergio Donati based on a story by Dario Argento, Bernardo Bertolucci and Leone. It stars Henry Fonda, cast against type, as the villain, Charles Bronson as his nemesis, Jason Robards as a bandit and Claudia Cardinale as a newly widowed homesteader. The widescreen cinematography was by Tonino Delli Colli, and the acclaimed film score was by Ennio Morricone.
After directing The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Leone decided to retire from Westerns and desired to produce his film based on The Hoods, which eventually became Once Upon a Time in America. However, Leone accepted an offer from Paramount Pictures to provide access to Henry Fonda and to use a budget to produce another Western film. He recruited Bertolucci and Argento to devise the plot of the film in 1966, researching other Western films in the process. After Clint Eastwood turned down an offer to play the movie's protagonist, Bronson was offered the role. During production, Leone recruited Donati to rewrite the script due to concerns over time limitations.
The original version by the director was 166 minutes when it was first released on 21 December 1968. This was the version that was to be shown in European cinemas and was a box office success. For the US release on 28 May 1969, Once Upon a Time in the West was edited down to 145 minutes (2 hours and 25 minutes) by Paramount and was a financial flop. The film is the first installment in Leone's Once Upon a Time Trilogy, followed by Duck, You Sucker! and Once Upon a Time in America, though the films do not share any characters in common.
In 2009, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant"
Once Upon a Time in the West is a 1968 epic Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone, who co-wrote it with Sergio Donati based on a story by Dario Argento, Bernardo Bertolucci and Leone. It stars Henry Fonda, cast against type, as the villain, Charles Bronson as his nemesis, Jason Robards as a bandit and Claudia Cardinale as a newly widowed homesteader. The widescreen cinematography was by Tonino Delli Colli, and the acclaimed film score was by Ennio Morricone.
After directing The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Leone decided to retire from Westerns and desired to produce his film based on The Hoods, which eventually became Once Upon a Time in America. However, Leone accepted an offer from Paramount Pictures to provide access to Henry Fonda and to use a budget to produce another Western film. He recruited Bertolucci and Argento to devise the plot of the film in 1966, researching other Western films in the process. After Clint Eastwood turned down an offer to play the movie's protagonist, Bronson was offered the role. During production, Leone recruited Donati to rewrite the script due to concerns over time limitations.
The original version by the director was 166 minutes when it was first released on 21 December 1968. This was the version that was to be shown in European cinemas and was a box office success. For the US release on 28 May 1969, Once Upon a Time in the West was edited down to 145 minutes (2 hours and 25 minutes) by Paramount and was a financial flop. The film is the first installment in Leone's Once Upon a Time Trilogy, followed by Duck, You Sucker! and Once Upon a Time in America, though the films do not share any characters in common.
In 2009, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant"
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No.15 was not on my list but Claudia Cardinale certainly would be. My bedroom wall was full of pictures of that beauty.
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Should be higher.
Brilliant movie.
Best opening scene ever.
Great performances from Fonda,Bronson,Robards,Elam and Cardinale.
Elam fly scene brilliant.
Fonda as a baddie with those blue eyes.Brilliant.
Harmonica soundtrack.Brilliant.
In my top 20,gives me 7 in the 100.
Best opening scene ever.
Great performances from Fonda,Bronson,Robards,Elam and Cardinale.
Elam fly scene brilliant.
Fonda as a baddie with those blue eyes.Brilliant.
Harmonica soundtrack.Brilliant.
In my top 20,gives me 7 in the 100.
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I think I will have 14 films in top 100. Here is one that didn’t make it. For those that haven’t seen Pans Labyrinth please check it out. It should grace any top 100.
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Harmonica: I saw three of these dusters a short time ago, they were waiting for a train.
Inside the dusters, there were three men...
Inside the men, there were three bullets.
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Seriously?