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« #30 : July 02, 2007, 04:44:47 PM »
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These are very good! Are there in COR any "Leone-ish" close-ups?

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Not that I noticed.

You missed it dave, the Leone-ish close-ups are of the Colossus.
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« #32 : July 03, 2007, 01:10:24 AM »
dave: more... more...  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

You see, Leone always was Leone. And the ants and the Colossus - he didn't steal it from Sam...  ;)
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« #33 : July 16, 2007, 05:44:24 PM »
Something funny i read about this movie...

it seems Leone's way of expressing his accomplishment was saying that he made the movie to .."pay for his honeymoon.."

i take it he wasn't very satisfied with it after all.


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« #34 : July 17, 2007, 04:17:28 PM »
I don't think he ever cared about Peplum films.


Plus, it doesn't have the Leone trademarks that made him great, except for the epic sweep.
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« #35 : July 18, 2007, 05:43:38 AM »
I rented it, never watched it, and returned it for some other movie.
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« #36 : July 19, 2007, 08:01:39 PM »
I bought this DVD just for the Leone name, I saw the movie for the first time and I couldn't relate it to Leone's future works, but then I turned on Sir Christopher Frayling commentary and I could appreciate the film in a different light, of course it's very hard to think that the person who directed Colossus, was the same who directed FOD 3 years later, but Mr. Frayling does a good job trying to establish some links between Colossus and Leone's future work. It's interesting, but still this is my 7th favorite Leone movie (the least favorite).
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« #37 : July 19, 2007, 08:47:11 PM »
yea I know what you mean.
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« #38 : July 22, 2007, 12:47:18 PM »
Well I watched my DVD last night and i gotta say that peplums are not my bag. The movie has beautiful sets, great photography but i couldn't get into the story...maybe next time.
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« #39 : July 22, 2007, 06:23:24 PM »
Its kind of bizzare that the two bookends to Leone's career are so different. :D
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« #40 : July 22, 2007, 11:14:56 PM »
Quote from: cigar joe on July 22, 2007, 06:23:24 PM
Its kind of bizzare that the two bookends to Leone's career are so different. :D

well, he had to start and end somewhere...

Interstingly enough, if Leone's lifetime work had been a book, people would've judged it harshly by its cover... kinds like they do already.  All his best work found are beyond the first one (the cover of the book).


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« #41 : August 14, 2007, 02:13:54 PM »
It's got some of Leone's trademarks: listen to Chris Frayling's commentary. It's great.
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« #42 : May 16, 2008, 04:48:30 PM »
Got no op on these. never seen em are they out ondisc?
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