Slog - Comments on The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly at NWFF http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/the_good_the_bad_and_the_ugly_at_nwff Stranger film editor Annie Wagner suggested it yesterday, and Slog commenter Fnarf seconded her suggestion in the comments thread: No movie ever made, not even "Lawrence of Arabia", loses more when transferred to TV than "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly". While I prefer the absurd minimalism of "For A Few Dollars More", GBU is better cinematically. A stone cold masterpiece. Maybe THE stone cold masterpiece. The desert fires of hell will burn you into your seat. I don't always agree with Fnarf, who for some reason believes Magical Mystery Tour is the best Beatles album, but his... Copyright 2008 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:12:13 -0800 Sun, 25 Feb 2007 12:34:10 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by elswinger The finale is the greatest gunfight in cinematic history!

]]> elswinger http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/the_good_the_bad_and_the_ugly_at_nwff#c645166 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/the_good_the_bad_and_the_ugly_at_nwff#c645166 Arts Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:52:35 -0800 Comment by Fnarf What's wrong with Magical Mystery Tour C'mon, "I Am The Walrus" and "Strawberry Fields Forever"? Loads better than that piece of crap Sgt. Pepper's. Don't tell me you're one of those "not a real album" people. Of COURSE it's a real album.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/the_good_the_bad_and_the_ugly_at_nwff#c645171 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/the_good_the_bad_and_the_ugly_at_nwff#c645171 Arts Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:03:52 -0800 Comment by David Schmader Oh, I know it's a "real album," and "Strawberry Fields Forever" is my favorite Beatles song of all. But if I never heard half of the tracks again--"Blue Jay Way," "Baby You're a Rich Man," "Flying," "Your Mother Should Know"--I'd be okay with that.

]]> David Schmader http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/the_good_the_bad_and_the_ugly_at_nwff#c645175 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/the_good_the_bad_and_the_ugly_at_nwff#c645175 Arts Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:09:05 -0800 Comment by Matt from Denver I saw this 6 years ago at the Egyptian - the entire "dollars" trilogy - and the sound was way too fucking loud. But yes, it's a visual masterpiece.

]]> Matt from Denver http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/the_good_the_bad_and_the_ugly_at_nwff#c645176 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/the_good_the_bad_and_the_ugly_at_nwff#c645176 Arts Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:10:07 -0800 Comment by Fnarf You're crazy, Schmazy. "Baby You're a Rich Man" is brilliant. Weird trumpety proto-synth (clavoline, whatever the hell that is), wonderful bass, wonderful singing, mental lyric, the whole thing skidding around the corner like it's on ice-skates and about to crash.... "You're Mother Should Know" is a great pastiche, and one of Paul's finest wide-stepping melodies. "Flying", what a heavy, chunky, thunky weirdness that is. They played it on NPR last night during a segment about airplanes. "Blue Jay Way" -- OK, "Blue Jay Way"'s pretty shitty. but even it's got some really cool sounding string bits. Come on, "Penny Lane"?

The TV movie's a bit much, I grant you, but was an insane, inspired thing to successfully bombard the TV audience with at the height of their powers, and you have to like the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's bit, "Death Cab for Cutie", right? Maybe not. I thought you people took drugs?

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/the_good_the_bad_and_the_ugly_at_nwff#c645497 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/the_good_the_bad_and_the_ugly_at_nwff#c645497 Arts Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:21:56 -0800 Comment by Jensen Interceptor FNARF, my goodness, what a reaction from the chlidren re GBU. Perhaps you might want to next introduce them to
Russ Meyer's "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" It will be required viewing at
my funeral.

---Jensen

]]> Jensen Interceptor http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/the_good_the_bad_and_the_ugly_at_nwff#c645854 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/the_good_the_bad_and_the_ugly_at_nwff#c645854 Arts Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:26:15 -0800 Comment by segal I agree with Fnarf re: Magical Mystery Tour. It's way better (i.e., more psychedelic) than Sgt. Pepper's.

Also, MMT isn't a real album; it's a surreal album.

]]> segal http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/the_good_the_bad_and_the_ugly_at_nwff#c646028 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/the_good_the_bad_and_the_ugly_at_nwff#c646028 Arts Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:16:08 -0800 Comment by Visiting Prof Two things:

1) MMT is WAY better than Sgt. Pepper, but that's not really saying much, is it? After all, the quickest way to tell if someone is a wannabe Beatles fan is if they say "Sgt. Pepper" when you ask them what the best Beatles album is. Yes, MMT is better. That doesn't mean it's good. (When I was in college, vicious fights would break out between the "Revolver" camp and the "Abbey Road" camp. The "White Album" was usually the compromise.)

2) At said college I took an intro to film class. On the day we talked about editing, the prof showed us a clip of "Good, Bad, Ugly." I nearly wept; it blew my fucking mind. And I wasn't even stoned at the time (a rarity that year because Intro to Film was AWESOME when I was baked.)

]]> Visiting Prof http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/the_good_the_bad_and_the_ugly_at_nwff#c647292 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/the_good_the_bad_and_the_ugly_at_nwff#c647292 Arts Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:07:11 -0800 Comment by ztwqo jznygpuv ktrvseau iubk upqoh gosynv acnbdplfi lzmhkcda zahjt

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