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Once Upon a Time in the West


Once Upon The Time In The West -


I was so excited that I finally got to see this tonight, I've been wanting to see it for about 2 months now. I do have to say that the first hour is just really slow to me, nothing really happens and there really is barely any talking in the first hour too. It's basically just people walking around, for some reason though, I really love watching that in westerns, I do think this one overdid it a little. I mean most of the movie was basically just people walking around, after the first hour though, the movie really picked up leading to an insanely awesome ending. The overall tone of this really felt like The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly to me, especially two of the leading characters. I mean Frank reminded me so much of Angeleyes, and Harmonica reminded me so much of Blondie. I do have to admit that Bronson actually did a pretty good job being like Eastwood, I mean Eastwood will always be the best at it, but Bronson still did a pretty good job at it. Fonda does really great as the villian though, between this and 12 Angry Men I can really see him becoming one of my favorite actors.

Personally I'd rank this as my fourth favorite western so far, right after Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, and Unforgiven. I think with a rewatch of this that it has a chance of moving ahead of Unforgiven though. Westerns is slowly becoming my all-time favorite movie genre, I said that the other night after I watched Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, but the more westerns I see, the more it's moving up. I actually remember when I didn't even really like westerns at all, I have no idea why I didn't like it for so much. Any western fan really needs to check this out, I'm sure you won't be disappointed.