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gcw watched it again in the cinema this week. DDL is immense. Dont think it gets better than this.

    A Fistful of Dollars (1964). I’m a big fan of For a Few Dollars More and the Good, the Bad and the Ugly (and Once Upon a Time in the West is his best movie), yet somehow I’ve never watched this one before. And what a way to do so. The new Arrow Video 4K remaster. With the original theatrical mono audio. Looked amazing, and sounded like a really old movie, as it should.

    Compared to those two other Clint Eastwood Leone-films this is much smaller in story and theme (and a complete rip off of Kurosawa’s Yojimbo (Kurosawa famously sued, and won), which I’ve yet to also watch), but man so good.

    • Amps replied to this.

      Homegrove Looked amazing

      It looks super krusty even compared to the sequels which were only released a year later.

      West / Dynamite / America are decent, but I think Good, the Bad and the Ugly is his best. All six in a day could be a good option.

          Homegrove I confess to having little interest in ‘reference quality’ transfers, but this i would actually have a look at; as mentioned, the quality of the original is poor for any movie of that era. Has it been ‘enhanced’ in any way before it was digitised?

              Amps Arrow did a whole new scan restoration from the original 2-perf Techniscope negative in Italy, and used a 35 mm Imbition Technicolor print they sourced from The Cinema Museum in London for color reference. The 4K Blu ray has HDR10 and Dolby Vision. It looked like seeing it at a really good cinema, of course just a smaller screen. If they made this look this good I can’t wait for For a Few Dollars More and TGTBATU done the same way. I’ve ordered those too, will be getting them at the end of June.

                What a time to be alive! Glad they have done a good job. Enjoy!

                  Amps For a Few Dollars More looks just as good apparently, even though Youtube is not the best indicator.

                    Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975). Peter Weir’s early Australian film, set in 1900. Three girls and their matron gets lost at a volcanic rock formation. People start searcing for them. Nothing much happens, and the whole thing is very dream like (the idea for the novel it’s based on came to the author in her dream). But I liked it. The Guardian gave it five stars when it was briefly back in theatres earlier this year for it’s 50th anniversary. A Letterboxd-review put it nicely by saying that it’s like Sofia Coppola and David Lynch having a love child.

                      Homegrove I loved this film. Demonstrates you can make a great horror movie by what you don’t show as opposed to what you do.

                        Mission: Impossible - Final Reckoning (2025.

                        First hour was actually bad, and could have been cut to 15 minutes, the middle wasn’t the best either, but jesus the final stunt was amazing. Still a bit of a dud to end an franchise with. M:I ranked according to me:

                        1. Fall Out
                        2. Rogue Nation
                        3. Ghost Protocol
                        4. Mission: Impossible
                        5. Mission: Impossible III
                        6. Dead Reckoning
                        7. Final Reckoning
                        8. Mission: Impossible 2

                          I think I watched the first one and it was shit, so haven’t watched one since.

                          On another note, I’ve got tickets for fear and loathing in imax on Saturday. There’s something to be said for for a small theatre with no one in it, I think they’ve sold a dozen tickets.

                          Homegrove They’re such odd movies; devoid of any of the character seen in the TV show (bar maybe the first film), and otherwise essentially just B movies that you think Cruise would normally avoid like the plague.

                              Amps it’s US James Bond basically. And they are not B movies, they are huge blockbusters. B movie is straight to DVD stuff Bruce Willis used to churn out before his diagnosis. I don’t think a B movie is a bad movie, more of a cheap bad movie.

                              • Amps replied to this.

                                  I tried to do a couple of Mission Impossibles (Fall Out and the first one) recently, to warm up for this last one. Couldn’t do it, will be swerving this franchise.

                                  Will do Lilo & Stitch with the daughter instead.

                                  Enjoyed the “Smile” horror movie series, good fun. Second one is a banger actually.

                                  Homegrove you can be a blockbuster and a B movie at the same time. See Independence Day etc.