I finally watched the two movies that come before The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. I loved them. They were exciting and dramatic and had some decent storytelling.
What I liked most was they don’t spoon feed you everything. If you’re not paying attention and are on your phone you’re not going to know what’s going on. For example, I was on my phone, looked up, and saw that the hero was doing terribly at target practice. I had to rewind to see that they broke his right hand and was learning to shoot with his left. I swear modern movies just have actors narrating and renarrating what they’re doing because they know you’re on your phone not really paying attention.
Also, I realized that when a cowboy does a super quick draw and shoots 3 men before they can draw it’s just like an anime when there is a flash and the hero sheathes their sword, with enemies falling over dead.
Fully agree on the modern movies spoon feeding (or at least, most mainstream ones.)
I’m lucky, there’s a little indie theatre about a joints’ walk away from my place so I’ve caught a few great Westerns there. As much as I loves them, I know if I’d been at home, the distractions/phone/cat/anything else etc would’ve been overwhelming on hour 2 or 3 of slow panning across a desert vista…