ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA
Man, I love Italian Cinema!It's a shame they didn't enter Morricone's music into the Oscars race...I'm sure he would have won.This film is an odd duck imo.Take THE GODFATHER and add a much bigger dose...
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I love Italian cinema too! Unfortunately OUATIA did not do for me what I had hoped it would. Not one of my favorite DeNiro pixs. Morricone was at least honored with a lifetime achievement award by the...
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I understand, Hombre as I thought it was too sentimental for a long time.Only this past year have I changed my mind and now love this film.It's SO different from the GODFATHER TRILOGY which I now...
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I picked up the old DVD to listen to the commentary & also got the BD last year. I no longer see the ending as ambiguous at all, and my affection for this one has slowly advanced over the years to...
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I love this movie. Plain and simple. I have seen the different versions over the years, and have a bootleg VHS of the director's cut that raked over 4 hours (though the quality was a bit poor for the...
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" I no longer see the ending as ambiguous at all, "I think it was him too but watching the new BD extra Leone told Wood's that it was meant it to be be ambiguous which is why we can't make him out.I...
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"Technically perfect, but loses the true spirit of what made the Leone/Morricone collaborations such a success, and becomes just a technically well made film with no soul. AT LEAST in certain...
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