Spaghetti Westerns

[eepie]

i just checked out the DJANGO IN THE JUNGLE thread, and tend to agree with Morthoron's assessment of Tarantino's flick.   i much prefer the original DJANGO from 1966 with Franco Nero!



for those unfamiliar, from imdb:    A coffin-dragging gunslinger enters a town caught between two feuding factions, the KKK and a gang of Mexican Bandits. That man is Django, and he is caught up in a struggle against both parties.


anyone else like spaghetti westerns?

[cleet]

I agree the original is so much better and love the Elvis sound song in the beginning. Love Spaghetti Westerns, but there are a million spaghetti westerns with Django in the title 

[eepie]

YES, the Django theme song is so great!
and all those other Djangos are imposters!   i think there was only one official sequel, the others were just cashing in on the name.  

another good one by the same director as Django - Sergio Corbucci - is THE GREAT SILENCE.   a western that takes place in the snow!   the story is set in utah during the great blizzard of 1898.   due to extremely harsh conditions, outlaws hiding in the surrounding mountains are forced to descend into the village to steal and rob to survive, therefore becoming easy targets for bounty hunters to collect on.   "silence" of the title is a mute gunman hired by a widow to exact revenge on the bounty hunters for the death of her husband, one of the outlaws.   klaus kinski plays the bounty-hunter villain (as if that needs to be said) in it, which is always a bonus.   scored by Ennio Morricone.   it's a pretty grim story, right to the bloody end.

i am actually snowed in and have a day out of work today - we've gotten about 8 inches of snow so far where i am, with more on the way - i may just watch this tonight, as it fits my surroundings!