General Chit-Chat Thread - No Spoilers

[Bobby Barrows]

The Dollars trilogy is pretty popular, including Good Bad and the Ugly, but I think his outright best work is the Once Upon a Time trilogy.

 

[Kiffy Lube]

I WANT BLAKE BORTLES TO SHOW UP AND RUIN SHIT

 

[Kiffy Lube]

Exactly, Blaze, we believe in Bortles

 

[Death By Looch]

Okay

 

[Bobby Barrows]

Once Upon A Time in the West is a grand sweeping celebration and eulogy for not only the Western as a genre of film, but as an "idea". The whole movie sees the "Wild" in "Wild West" dying from the rise of civilization, and characters like Harmonica, Frank, and Cheyenne know that this is not their world anymore

 

[Bobby Barrows]

Men who tamed the Wild West now no longer needed by society as a whole.

 

[Hidden Blaze]

 

[Kiffy Lube]

Cheyanne doesn't deserve to be apart of this trash

 

[Bobby Barrows]

Giu La Testa, or as a probably more apt title, "Once Upon a Time... The Revolution" is an allegory for revolutions in general. People romanticize them, but real revolutions are bloody, dirty affairs where even relatively good people must do horrible things to achieve their goals. People die, and in the end, nothing truly changes save for who is at the top. The people on the bottom continue to suffer.

 

[Kiffy Lube]

I'm done trustin' Grim

 

[Bobby Barrows]

Once Upon in America told a gripping, gritty, and dirty story of the Mob life, even more so than any films like The Godfather or even Goodfellas. It is a beautiful film, but all the characters are vile people who kill, rape, and steal to survive. There is no truly "good" person in a MLB

 

[Bobby Barrows]

I feel like people choose not to watch then because they really can't handle movies longer than 2 hours.

 

[Kiffy Lube]

Yeah like there are good people in the Mob. They just put up with the shit rest do

 

[Kiffy Lube]

Grim, you own me a damn hug

 

[Bobby Barrows]

West is nearly 3 hours, Giu La Testa is 2:37, and America is 4 hours long.