The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
by Sergio Leone
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Actor: Aldo Giuffr?, Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Luigi PistilliDirector: Sergio Leone
Brand: LEONE,SERGIO
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, HiFi Sound, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 179 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-06-05
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
DVD Review: One of my favorite movies of the saga
Summary: 5 Stars
This Clint Eastwood movie is my favorite of the 'saga' of spaghetti westerns starring Clint Eastwood. Everything from the engaging music, to the intense almost agonizing suspenseful long moments before a fight scene. The overacting of Eli to the sublime acting of Clint. Every element combined makes this movie one of a kind.DVD Review: A Perfect Western
Summary: 5 Stars
This film is like a perfect picture,a legendary director,three great actors made for their roles,the well written screenplay,the distinctive music score,the bold scenery,and the cinematography,rounding it off to an Italian western like no other,here is,The Good,the Bad,and the Ugly.DVD Review: the good
Summary: 4 Stars
love this western have seen it so many times never get tired of wacthing thisDVD Review: As it was meant to be seen
Summary: 5 Stars
Four decades after it's release the FULL version of Sergio Leone's epic THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY is finally being seen in North America. Because the film was cut before it's U.S. release none of the footage was ever dubbed into English. MGM/UA was able to secure the services of Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach and someone to dub the late Lee Van Cleef so this saga is seen as it was meant to be seen. Missing scenes include Tucco's meeting the three bandits, Blondie and Angel Eyes when the latter's gang appear, and several others. Many of these scenes make up for gaps in the edited version. A once terrific film is now truly great!Extra features include documentaries on Leone, the film and have interviews with Eastwood, Wallach and others.DVD Review: " Sorry, Tuco."
Summary: 5 Stars
WOW! I've always loved this flick & this Special Edition made me appreciate it all the more. Sergio Leone took all of our American, safe, comforting & familiar Western conventions, blew them all to hell & then thrust a jarring, jagged, grotesque epic in our faces. Even the landscape itself is alien-looking to us: sun-blasted & disturbingly weird, as though its from another world. The sets are all weathered, battered & awful-looking. Most of the people are striking in the strangeness of their appearance. Characters are unshaven, filthy, wear dirty clothes & look like they smell terrible. That's all just part of the foundation of this film, the characterizations are the biggest shock. Clint's Blondie is The Good (!!!???). What the hell? He could only possibly be considered as even remotely good in comparison to the other two & even then his "goodness" is strictly a matter of degree. Towards the end, he briefly comforts two dying soldiers & those are the only acts of human kindness in the whole movie. Also, he pets a small kitten instead of making a meal out of it or something. But its hard to imagine a story where a character like Tuco is comic relief. Also, Angel Eyes is truly an all-time great villain. Clint, Eli Wallach & Lee Van Cleef are uniformly fantastic in their parts. Imagine a Brooklyn Jew making the best cinematic bandito ever!
Now for the script - almost every scene is the height of absurdity & impossible events & unbelievable coincidences are strictly routine. There's an extremely fine-tuned, bizarre, subtle sense of humor at work here & the viewer gets a constant feeling of disbelief & unreality throughout the entire film. Leone perfectly balances the sublime with the ridiculous every step of the way & creates a unique moviegoing experience. The vast themes of war & all its tragedies are mixed in with some utter craziness as he goes along.
The extras are very enjoyable. First is the added footage. It felt like a new experience to me & I've seen this flick I don't know how many times. Kudos to Eastwood & Wallach for dubbing their parts so these extra scenes could be added. I was unaware that both Lee Van Cleef & Sergio Leone had died in 1989. It'd be interesting to have their participation & hear their observations. The interviews are quite good as well. Most telling to me was Clint's observation that Leone was so extravagant & meandering while he, Clint, was more economical & direct & that this was the major difference between the two of them.
I was careful not to include any spoilers for those lucky people who haven't seen GBU yet. To see it for the first time is a wonderful experience. I can't recommend it highly enough - even those who are sure that they'll despise it just may be pleasantly surprised. Like I said, all the machismo is offset by a truly wild, intelligent & unusual sense of humor. Buy this Special Edition - its well worth it!
Description of The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
During the American Civil War, three men search for a buried fortune.Genre: Westerns
Rating: NR
Release Date: 5-JUN-2007
Media Type: DVD
If you think of A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More as the tasty appetizers in Sergio Leone's celebrated "Dollars" trilogy of Italian "Spaghetti" Westerns, then The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is a lavish full-course feast. Readily identified by the popular themes of its innovative score by Ennio Morricone (one of the bestselling soundtracks of all time), this cinematic milestone eclipsed its influential predecessors with a $1.2 million budget (considered extravagant in the mid-1960s), greater production values to accommodate Leone's epic vision of greed and betrayal, and a three-hour running time for its wide-ranging plot about the titular trio of mercenaries ("Good" Blondie played by rising star Clint Eastwood, "Bad" Angel Eyes played by Lee Van Cleef, and "Ugly" Tuco played by Eli Wallach) in a ruthless Civil War-era quest for $200,000 worth of buried Confederate gold. Virtually all of Leone's stylistic attributes can be found here in full fruition, from the constant inclusion of Roman Catholic iconography to a climactic circular shoot-out, along with Leone's trademark use of surreal landscapes, brilliant widescreen compositions and extreme close-ups of actors so intimate that they burn into the viewer's memory. And while some Leone fans may favor the more scaled-down action of For a Few Dollars More or the masterful grandiosity of Once Upon a Time in the West, it was The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly that cemented Leone's reputation as a world-class director with a singular vision. --Jeff Shannon
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