A Fistful of Dollars (1964) Full Length Reaction
Added 2023-08-09 00:07:31 +0000 UTCWhen a man's got money in his pocket he begins to appreciate peace.
My first Spaghetti Western! For some reason I forgot I watched Butch & Sundance so I'm sure I said I havent watched any older westerns, only newer but in any case-- I really liked this one! Clint was gruff and the music was awesome! Are the other 2 movies in this trilogy as good?
Movie runtime: 1:40:39
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I personally love A Fistful of Dollars but can certainly agree that it is not a great Bond film, lacking all essential elements, up to and including James Bond himself. I'm curious as to what Bond film you thought you were critiquing because none of them have ever lost money at the box office.
John Adams
2023-08-25 09:48:47 +0000 UTCIt's not a Bond movie, stupid, it's a Clint Eastwood movie.
Matthew Zoeller
2023-08-23 00:13:27 +0000 UTC2 mules for sister sara starring Clint Eastwood and Shirly McClain where Clint rescues a nun in an old Mexican western
zynjams
2023-08-18 23:04:48 +0000 UTCClint Eastwood wasn't dubbed, neither was Lee Van Cleef, since they both spoke fluent English. And it wasn't just filmed in Italian, basically from what I understand everybody just spoke in their native language during filming, Italian, French, English, etc, and then they dubbed it into other languages in post
Astraeos
2023-08-13 13:01:34 +0000 UTCThis film was shit, this film was the only Bond movie to lose money, to the tune of ~ 100 million.
Benjamin Gerrald
2023-08-13 05:10:27 +0000 UTCI never realized this was originally filmed in Italian and it was dubbed into English.
Andy Bodkin
2023-08-12 21:36:03 +0000 UTCGreat reaction, it had heart. 💜🤠 The trilogy gets better as it continues. 15:36 That gunfire technique is called fanning. Westerns I'd recommend; The Wild Bunch (1969) Reservoir Dogs on horses. Was hugely controversial on release for the violence. It's a revisionist Western. Dances With Wolves (1990) Epic, oscar winning masterpiece. Deeply emotionally engaging. Standard version is 3 hrs, director's cut is 4 hours. I'd go for director cut. Dir. by Kevin Costner. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) Classic Clint. Bronco Billy (1980) Classic Clint, a modern-day Western drama/comedy. Clint plays against type in this role. The Missing (2003) A mother and her estranged father attempt to track down the former's two daughters, who have been kidnapped to be sold into slavery. Great cast. Westworld (1973) Based on the Michael Crichton novel, he also wrote Jurassic Park. Yul Brynner plays The Terminator gunslinger who just keeps coming back. "Welcome to Westworld, where nothing can go wrongg." 3:10 To Yuma (2007) The Long Riders (1980) Follows the Jesse James gang. Bone Tomahawk (2015) Western/horror. Cannibalistic natives. El Mariachi (1992) Hell or High Water (2016) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) HBO's Deadwood (2004 - 2006 and one film) The greatest tv Western ever. Ian McShane plays the Tony Soprano of the lawless town Deadwood, giving a performance of a lifetime. Stellar ensemble cast. Loosely based on real history and features real historical Old West figures, Buffalo Bill, Calamity Jane, Marshall Seth Bullock, etc. Gold was discovered in the mountains near Deadwood and practically overnight a small mining camp exploded into a thriving town, attracting all kinds of people... HBO's Westworld (four seasons) From Christopher Nolan. The source material is brought into the 21st century. Absolutely outstanding sci-fi / Western / drama / action. Mind-bending mysteries and twists. Stellar ensemble cast again.
Jason Scade
2023-08-12 01:27:04 +0000 UTCTechnically, these movies are not a trilogy. When Sergio Leone made them, he intended them to be three separate, unrelated movies. It was the American marketeers who retroactively declared them to be "The Man with No Name" trilogy (even though Clint Eastwood's character has a (different) name in each movie....).
Chris Gronau
2023-08-11 07:35:44 +0000 UTCEnnio Morricone was the composer and he's amazing..soundtracks just keep getting better..especially the next two in the Eastwood series and Once Upon a Time in the West & the gangster flick Once Upon a time in America. He did the score t "The Thing" the John Carpenter one and "The Untouchables".
Alberto Blanco
2023-08-10 15:56:39 +0000 UTCanother great anti western western is Little Big Man starring Dustin Hoffman
zynjams
2023-08-09 22:00:06 +0000 UTCGreat film and I loved your review and witty commentary. Each film in the trilogy gets better and better. The music too. Thank you and your crew for all the hard work and bringing so much joy to us all down here in Florida.
Clifton Owens
2023-08-09 15:23:06 +0000 UTCOnce Upon a Time in America is the great epic…. but the classic American Westerns are pure gold. My favorites: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance… 40 Guns… The Ox Bow Incident… My Darling Clementine… Wagon Master. All mostly free of problematic depictions of First Nations which is an issue in so many Westerns including great must-sees like Stagecoach… And then there’s The Searchers which depicts racism critically and brutally. It took me years to develop the taste for Westerns… but once I got hooked, it was like a world opening. Final note: Sergio Leone produced a parody of his own films called My Name Is Nobody and it’s an over the top bast!
Jeff Preiss
2023-08-09 14:36:54 +0000 UTCThey are a trilogy mainly because Clint Eastwood is the main character. There are other details that will probably spoil the other 2 movies, so we'll save them for after you are done 😁
Carlos Perez
2023-08-09 14:24:31 +0000 UTCIt's a great series, with For a Few Dollars More being my joint favourite western of all time, alongside Once Upon a Time in the West. i think the whole series is worth watching just for the score.
Patrick
2023-08-09 14:07:02 +0000 UTCHi, Jen, just finished watching this with you this morning. Glad you did catch that Back to the Future II & III referenced this scene! 😊 To answer one of your questions, this certainly apart of a trilogy unofficially titled “The Man with No Name”. You can guess why. The blu-ray box set I bought had that title branded on it. The voices don’t exactly match the lips for a couple reasons. One, audio recording on set was not an ideal quality in these westerns, so they’d go back into a recording studio and record their lines then add them in the film. I also agree it does appear some of the actors are either speaking another language or in some cases the re-recorded lines were slightly changed in the recording studio. Also, the first Red Dead Redemption game was heavily influenced by these westerns. You can even obtain clothes to look like Clint Eastwood’s characters.
Todd Preble
2023-08-09 10:03:44 +0000 UTCthe swiping action they use to fire the guns is called 'fanning'. Most revolvers at the time need you to pull back the hammer till it clicks and then pull the trigger to fire. Swiping the hammer with the opposite hand allows you to do this much more quickly. it take a lot of practice to do though.
Mark T
2023-08-09 09:40:19 +0000 UTCHowdy Jen. Great reaction. You will love this trilogy. Add Once upon a time in the west(1968),The Searchers(1956),High noon(1952),True Grit(1969),The Magnificent Seven(1960) and you will see the main themes that make up the western genre.
Mark T
2023-08-09 09:33:14 +0000 UTCAgreed. And, hopefully we'll get "Unforgiven" soon after that. It makes a perfect unofficial "end" to the series for me.
Thomas Yanez
2023-08-09 04:14:05 +0000 UTCFun Facts about this movie Jen, Clint Eastwood is a Non-smoker, and this movie was filmed in Spain; thats all I know. Also the third movie TGTBATU of the series is my favorite.
FranciscoGios
2023-08-09 04:00:04 +0000 UTCFirst of all, for the record, this isn't a "cult classic." It's a "classic." In order to be a cult classic, it needs to basically be a box office bomb that later gets a cult following (Like, say "Rocky Horror" or "The Thing"). This movie was hot when it hit theaters. It's actually kind of funny how you talk about this as a "Classic Western" because technically, Spaghetti Westerns aren't really "Classic Westerns." They were the European reaction to the classic westerns (which are ones like the old John Wayne types, with the clearly defined heroes with the white hats, etc.). The Spaghetti Westerns were a lot "dirtier" in feel compared to the cleaner feel of the traditional western and they remade and revitalized the overall genre. Also, a lot of the looks that you describe as "classic" were mostly out of this particular style of westerns, not the traditional westerns. One of the reasons Clint Eastwood took this job was because he wasn't allowed, by contract, to make westerns in America (He was on the TV show Rawhide, and they didn't want their actor in another western). When Eastwood was making this, the original title was "The Magnificent Stranger" and that's what he thought the final title was going to be. When Variety raved about this new western that came out of Europe called "Fistful of Dollars" he figured he'd check it out, only to be shocked when he got there to find out that it was in fact his own movie. When he first took the job, his agent told him that it was a bad step career-wise, which was pretty much the opposite of what it ended up being. In honor of that awful prediction by his former agent, Eastwood ended up naming his malpaso, which means "Bad Step." The movie was filmed in Spain, and most of the cast was European and spoke their own language, hence the dubbing for most characters. In fact, Eastwood mentioned that he didn't speak Italian and Leone didn't speak English. They had to work through an interpreter. The music by Ennio Morricone, as you mentioned, is amazing. It just gets better through the trilogy (I guarantee that you will recognize a couple of the pieces from "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly." If you want to hear the use of a famous traditional classical piece with an interesting spin by Marricone, you should check out "My Name is Nobody." Marricone died in 2020, but he had a very long lasting legacy as a movie composer. You've heard some of his music before. He did the music for John Carpenter's "The Thing." Eastwood's character technically has no name and the characters for each movie are different, although they are played by the same actors (the actor who played Ramone plays the main bad guy in "For a Few Dollars More." And you were right with the Back to the Future reference. The scene in that movie was a direct reference to this movie (Remember he went by the name Clint Eastwood) and they had even shown Biff watching this particular scene from this movie on TV during the second Back to the Future movie.
Chris Biebel
2023-08-09 03:29:16 +0000 UTCFor some reason I thought you watched The Good The Bad and the Ugly, also Clint Eastwood and the best of the spaghetti westerns.
Derek Big D Garcia
2023-08-09 02:46:15 +0000 UTCYes! I thought I remembered that from BTTF!! Thank you so much Todd!! :)
Jen M
2023-08-09 02:05:35 +0000 UTCGlad you enjoyed my VIP request. I'm hopefully you'll enjoy the next one. Fun fact, a climactic scene in this film was referenced and reused in Back to the Futures II and III. Not only was Mary using the e alias, Clint Eastwood, but used this movie's bullet protection idea. 😎
Todd Preble
2023-08-09 01:38:23 +0000 UTCAll you need now Jenny is a John Wayne western to level the feild.♡
Celeste McAllister
2023-08-09 00:55:57 +0000 UTCplease watch 2 mules for sister sara, Clint Eastwood and Shirley McClain western. my favorite Clint Eastwood western. i think 1970
zynjams
2023-08-09 00:46:45 +0000 UTCAgreed with all compliments above. Jen's doing some truly quality stuff here :) It's also funny that I love South Park just as much. It's so funny how you can be in the mood for "The Godfather" one day and "Dumb and Dumber" the next. I love it all.
Mike Miner
2023-08-09 00:37:46 +0000 UTCHey Jen I'm new here on patreon already enjoying some of my favorite films and shows you've reacted to just wanted to give some recommendations.. Films CHILDREN OF MEN 2006 MOONRISE KINGDOM 2011 BIRDMAN 2014 ARRIVAL 2016 Shows MR ROBOT (45 episodes) SUCCESSION (39 episodes) STATION ELEVEN (10 episodes) Hope you have a great day, and I look forward to seeing more of your content 😁
Matt
2023-08-09 00:35:15 +0000 UTCFirst she starts the Craig/James Bond movies. Now she begins the "Man With No Name" trilogy. Cheers, Jen! [tearing up] 😭
Prof. Writhms
2023-08-09 00:23:34 +0000 UTCCan’t wait to watch this. All 3 are good… The Good, The Bad and the Ugly is a masterpiece!
Webwyrm
2023-08-09 00:12:39 +0000 UTCYES, they are awesome. With The Good, The Bad and the Ugly being the crown jewel. One thing i didnt know about the music, a person actually recorded all the whistling, so its not some special effect or anything, somebody was hired to do it (my favorite piece is in the movie The Mercenary, which i hope you check out some day since there are quite a few things Tarantino borrowed from it). I'm checking this out later today! So happy you liked it!! 😄🤓
Carlos Perez
2023-08-09 00:12:25 +0000 UTC
