![]() ![]() He becomes apprentice to a gunfighter (Lee Van Cleef, who you know from “Dollars” installments For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) and helps him as he takes on an old foe (who’s also a former partner). This one came to mind, although the young companion here is hardly a kid (the character is played by Giuliano Gemma, who was nearly 30 at the time). In the movie, the Gunslinger has a young companion, and I tried to think of a Western with a similar situation. It’s not just about a Gunslinger modeled after Clint Eastwood’s Man With No Name. I also choose Day of Anger because The Dark Tower is not the same as its source material. Valerii had been the AD on the first installment of the”Dollars Trilogy,” A Fistful of Dollars, and he clearly learned from the master of the genre, Sergio Leone. That’s one reason that, if I’m trying to avoid the most obvious pick for an obligatory Spaghetti Western to recommend, I choose Tonino Valerii’s sophomore feature. ![]() Today, it’s recognized as one of the standout great Italian Westerns in a sea of mediocrity. The same month The Good, the Bad and the Ugly made its way to the US, this lesser-known Spaghetti Western debuted in Italy and was another huge hit for the genre. So here are selections that sprung to my mind while watching the new movie, as I wished I was watching them instead. And I didn’t want to just fall back on the known influences on King’s source material ( The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and The Lord of the Rings, in particular). This week’s Movies to Watch will probably seem rather superficial and repetitive in its curation, but The Dark Towerisn’t interesting enough to inspire a variety of recommendations. There’s so little substance to the adaptinuation (that’s adaption + continuation) that you need to fill the void with something else. And it probably has made you feel rather empty inside. ![]() A movie based on Stephen King’s “The Dark Tower” series is here. ![]()
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