Review of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) by Bill M — 16 Jul 2015

Greatest western ever made, and a massive influence on Tarantino's movies, this movie is a towering masterpiece, a western, a war epic and a treasure hunt movie all in one, it's bold, darkly hilarious and utterly thrilling but also, with it's civil war backdrop, mournful and bleakly poetic, The Ecstasy Of The Gold scene, with it's endless gravestones being ignored by Tuco's narrow minded foucus on where the gold is, is especially haunting and beautiful, as is the standout moment between a young dying soldier and Clint Eastwood's Blondie a tender and really sad scene, and the one where we realize that this is the first prequel ever.

This is an amazing movie, featuring one of the finest, richest, most chill inducing scores of all time thanks to the great Ennio Morricone.