Garbage


This movie was garbage. I take that back--to call this movie garbage is an insult to garbage itself. Whose idea was it to make a knockoff spaghetti western and fill it with as many obvious 3-D tricks as possible? I was an impressionable and easily impressed 14-year-old when I saw this origianally, and even then I wanted my money back. Straight up WACK.

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I thought it delivered on its promise on giving us non-stop 3d effects.
I can't think of many "3D movies" that do the same.

For that, it gets full stars from me.

"Whose idea was it to make a knockoff spaghetti western"

Your definition of a spaghetti western is curious.
A film directed by an Italian, shot in Spain with a crew that was primarily Italian is not an Italian western in what way?
This IS an Italian western.

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You are garbage

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This movie was garbage.


Some people think so -- no doubt because of the sadistic brutalities, the Spaghetti Western caricatures, the 3D-sploitation and horrific components (e.g. the rat attack) -- but there’s an undeniable artistic genius to the filmmaking. It was the first major release with 3D effects in 17 years and, being successful at the box office, paved the way for other 3D flicks of the early 80s. Even without 3D glasses, as long as you have a relatively large widescreen TV the movie still entertains on this level. For its DVD release (2016), the digital transfer was subjected to CGI alterations. The most obvious of these was the changing of some shots to B&W with one or two elements of color within the shot. I thought this improved the film, making it even more artistic.

Tarantino obviously ripped-off the plot for his “Kill Bill” (2003). The style & content are reminiscent of Leone’s “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” (1966), but "Comin' at Ya!" has better cinematography, superior colors, more action and doesn’t overstay its welcome. Unfortunately, like all Leone-styled Spaghetti Westerns, the characters are either caricatures (the slaver brothers) or cardboard thin (the hero & his wife), which makes ’em uninteresting. There’s barely any dialogue with no verbiage at all until almost the 13-minute mark.

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Yeah, the bride and groom looking up at the slavers in the church scene is so much like Kill Bill, that it would almost be impossible to think QT had not seen this.

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