Talk:Pinkie Pride/@comment-7345250-20160714085908/@comment-7345250-20160722114800

Well, as part of my summer Western binge, I just finished viewing the Dollars Trilogy.

A Fistful of Dollars is good and decent. Clint Eastwood knocks it out of the ballpark, and some of the minor characters are entertaining too. The bad guys are nothing special, but they play off of the other characters well enough to make the film a well-rounded pleasure.

For a Few Dollars More is not so good. The premise and setup are spectacular, but around halfway through the run time it starts borrowing far too much from the first film. Lee Van Cleef plays a bounty hunter who is respectable until he gets himself and Eastwood captured. The ending is ridiculously convoluted, burdened by a new baddie ninety percent of the way through and several scenes that contribute nothing of any substance.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is certainly the bad of the trilogy. Its three-hour runtime is not because of any complexity but because multiple scenes drag on for what feels like forever. Van Cleef is better this time around, now playing the bad guy, but in contrast Eastwood is kinda pathetic. The story follows the whiny Ugly played by Eli Wallach at the expense of the general atmosphere.

But still...

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I would not mind seeing a little more of Cheese Sandwich's adventures along the frontier. Imagine if he'd gotten to Our Town or the Smokey Mountains first. Or maybe he did, and we just haven't heard about it. There are ways to do good short of fixing everything.