Dead Celebrities aren't much fun

[Lindsay's Liver]

I'm not sure if it's still there, but "Once Upon a Time in the West" was on Netflix (US Netflix, at least) for awhile. It seemed to show up in my recommendations for years. Meanwhile, I'd already seen it and it's my favorite of the Leone westerns. No Clint Eastwood, but you've got Charles Bronson and an evil, cast-against-type Henry Fonda.

As for Ennio Morricone, he had a weird career. He did about a million film scores. He's easily on the shortlist of the most famous film score composers in the world. He worked on prestigioius movies and on some not-so-prestigious movies.

It's always been amusing to me, for example, that he composed the score for "Hundra", an early 80s low-budget "Conan the Barbarian" rip-off, except with a lady barbarian. Her all-female tribe gets slaughtered one day by a band of male thugs. Hundra survives and not only seeks revenge, but she's also looking for a worthy man to impregnate her so she can start the tribe over again. Many of the action scenes are in slow-motion, hiding that they couldn't afford decent fight choroegraphy. It's a dumb movie that I love and these losers got Ennio Morricone to score it.

[Guest]

Danny Elfman is alright.

Oingo Boingo is good, Donny Elfguy is not.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

Many of the action scenes are in slow-motion, hiding that they couldn't afford decent fight choroegraphy.

I much prefer the Hawk the Slayer trick of having the heroes use rapid-fire archery skills thanks to weird stock footage abuse.

[Guest]

Hans Zimmer might be only decent film composer still alive.

Morricone - gone.
Goldsmith - gone.
Horner - gone.
Poledouris - gone.

Uh, Williams?

I have The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly on DVD so I can still watch it after it's removed from streaming services because it's discovered the 2nd unit assistant camera operator once said "nigger" back in 1933.

It's a Civil War movie that never mentions slavery AND has sympathetic Confederates. It's seriously only a matter of time.

[Nobue]

Danny Elfman is alright.

Oingo Boingo is good, Donny Elfguy is not.

Little Girls is one of my top 20 songs ever.

[Tony Schiavone]

It's a Civil War movie that never mentions slavery AND has sympathetic Confederates. It's seriously only a matter of time.

So are a lot of Buster Keaton movies. A good chunk of films back in the day had sympathetic Confederates, to ensure the Southerners would line up to watch.
The Northerns at the time didnt care, since they knew they had won in the end. And they were pretty much the same on race and opinions of blacks

[Guest]

Speaking of which, watched Gone With The Wind today. There's literally nothing there worth getting upset about

[Guest]

There's literally nothing there worth getting upset about

Like that would stop them.

[Guest]

Like that would stop them.

I know. Merely pointing out that they're after it for not pushing their highly politicised view of history and nothing more. Same reason, I suspect, they've buried Song of the South, a film even Whoopi thinks people should see.

[Guest]

Some weird made up pony language.