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The Good, The Bad and The Ugly... by like a lot.
I watched the Dollars Trilogy in order and I love all those movies. A Fistful of Dollars feels very low budget at certain points, including one of the worst day for night edits I've ever seen, but overall it's a damn good 9/10 Yojimbo ripoff.
For a Few Dollars More is straigt up one of the best movies I have ever seen, an easy 10/10. It's a full blown high budget movie that just shocked me when I saw it for the first time, I was amazed how good it was, and it confused me too since EVERYONE said that The Good, The Bad and The Ugly is the best of the bunch, like how could something be better than this???
Well, how is it...? When I first saw The Good, The Bad and The Ugly I almost went catatonic. If For a Few Dollars More is 10/10 then this movie is 11/10, or 12/10 or even 13/10. EVERYTHING about this movie is amazing, if the previous one was made with an A24 budget then this one was made with the same production level as fucking Oppenheimer. Everything is bigger, the scale of the movie is breathtaking, the Morricone music is the best of all time, the characters are amazing, the action is amazing, the climax of the movie is the best ever put on screen, I just fucking love this movie so SO fucking much.
So yeah... watch The Good, The Bad and The Ugly if you haven't.
(Shout out to Duck, You Sucker. A movie that also blew my socks off, made by the same director.)
They are all great movies! Do you also think highly about What about Once Upon a Time in the West?
Absolutely! Both Once Upon a Time in the West and Once Upon a Time in America are pure masterpieces too!
If you haven't seen it, check out Kurosawa's Yojimbo.
The Dollars Trilogy is a great recommendation, and I think your analysis is spot on! The cinematography in the second and third installments is incredible.
I like to follow up with Tarantino's Hateful Eight (my personal favorite film to recommend, especially as a Christmas movie in place of Die Hard) to see how hugely influential the Trilogy was.
The Bruce Willis movie, Last Man Standing, is a good Fistful of Dollars redo set in 1920s I believe.