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Originally Posted by adidasss
It's a slow burner for sure, but it's filled with an immense amount of tension (I'd say mostly with an ingenious use of sound) which makes the slow takes nail-bitingly exciting. Plus the cinematography...you won't find anything like it in any western. I still find it a bit odd (and amusing) that THE best western film is actually an Italian film...*giggles*
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...it didn't help that i was sleep deprived on viewing it, and charles bronson has(/had) a face like a horse's arse which is difficult to look at for long periods of time, tense or not!
re the Italian thing, another good western not shot (or set) in the wild west is '
the Proposition'. As stated there are actually tons of these that fit into neither the classical Hollywood nor spaghetti western categories, but my power of recollection is weak at this time
