The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

[Jimmy Carter]

Awesome movie but ... that syncing. What the heck happened? I know it was made by Italians but it was still filmed in English.

But if you can get past that problem (as I did), an amazing movie awaits you. I'm really getting to be an Eastwood fan. My question: when will a game come along with the sense of adventure that great movies have given us (LOTR, Indy, The Good/Bad/Ugly, etc)?

[sleeve]

*waits for Dacaz to find this thread*

Originally posted by Jimmy Carter
Awesome movie but ... that syncing. What the heck happened? I know it was made by Italians but it was still filmed in English.

That's not quite true. It was filmed with a multilingual cast, and all the actors spoke their native language. So Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach all speak English, the Italian actors spoke Italian, and so on.

But if you can get past that problem (as I did), an amazing movie awaits you. I'm really getting to be an Eastwood fan. My question: when will a game come along with the sense of adventure that great movies have given us (LOTR, Indy, The Good/Bad/Ugly, etc)?

Red Dead Revolver is on the way, but I don't think that'll be the one. In the meantime, I suggest playing the Wild West levels in Timesplitters 2.

[Jimmy Carter]

Yeah, but even Clint's speech isn't synced right. I think they they must've re-recorded even the English speaker's roles afterward.

[Megatron]

The movie is very enjoyable, one of my favorite westerns.

[Zenigata]

Fantastic movie.. one of the best westerns ever. Check out A Fist Full of Dollars/For a Few Dollars More. Those are some good Eastwood westerns too. Actually, check out Yojimbo/Sanjuro first- both excellent Kurosawa films that were the basis (basic plot idea wise) for the Dollars movies.

Hrm.. as for the games... maybe Wild Arms? It's a great game, it has the adventure aspect, plus it's in a Wild West setting. I don’t think any game captures an actual western movie though.

[DacaZ]

While my Avatar comes from the lobby card of Outlaw Josey Wales, TGTB&TU is easily my favorite Western, and definately one of my top 5 favorite movies of all time. I wonder how many times I've seen it, but the actual number would probably frighten me into some kind of 12-step program.

Obviously, Clint and Cleef are both great, but for me the unsung hero of this movie always centered around the marvelous job done by Eli Wallach. Tuco Benidicto Pacifico Ramirez (aka The Rat) is one of my favorite characters in American movies. He's got an amazing number of layers. He's a bastard, no doubt about it, but he's still not "The Bad" and he has some redeeming qualities.

I've often wondered what happened to him at the end of the movie. Blondie spared him from hanging, but left him in the middle of the desert with his hands tied. I wonder if he made it back to civilization, or some bastards came along, took his gold, and shot him.

As for the story itself... it covers so much ground. The chaos of the frontier, the futility of war, the evils of greed, the bonds of friendship, betrayal... it addresses the horrors of the prison war camps, the idiocy of officers, gah... I could go on and on.

The synching never really bothered me. I always thought that was one of the charms of the spaghetti westerns. BTW: If you haven't picked up the last DVD release, you should do so. It's dirt cheap, and it has a few genuinely great deleted scenes. Granted, these scenes aren't voiced in english as they were taken out before the localization of the US release, but great to watch nonetheless.