Django + Texas Adios Double Feature

I watched the Prime online version of this movie. This movie is great. I like spaghetti westerns and this one is filed with plenty of surprises and it's quite enjoyable for a spaghetti western fan. If you ever heard about the TOP TEN reasons you might be a spaghetti western fan joke which I read somewhere, a top ten list which mentioned you might be a fan and one of the reasons is . . "you're pulling a coffin through town" well this movie answers the question one might ask about that joke as to why you'd be pulling one through town. It's completely enjoyable as a fan of this style of movie and with enough surprises in it to be interesting my old man who is quite elderly.If you hate spaghetti westerns, well then you probably won't find this enjoyable, but this certainly although a budget movie is one of the great ones because it has enough dramatic surprises that will make a B-movie fan who likes this kind of stuff laugh or be surprised. This is certainly not a feel good western but doesn't leave the viewer with a down feeling. It's somewhat typical of this kind of style of C-movie budget film. Plenty of good drama in the script and surprises. And I'm not going to spoil it for you with spoilers as it's worth watching.

This is the original Django, Shot in Italy. One of the best spaghetti westerns of all time, this movie does not disappoint. (Unless you hate dubbed movies) Django is mysterious, compelling, and pretty violent for its time. Including the same theme song used in Quentin Tarantino's version, the movie automatically sucks you in as the vocalist tells his sad story as Django drags a coffin behind him.

It has the atmosphere of a spaghetti western. Most of the story takes place in a town that is almost deserted. The rivals here are a group of bigots who enjoy themselves killing Mexicans and a group of Mexican bandits. Django is between the two. Django seems also an interesting character made for a spaghetti western. The audience may see him carrying a coffin which keeps the suspense for almost the first half hour of the film. However, once the coffin was open, I was in for a great disappointment. I will not explain why to omit potential spoilers here. In spite of all this, this western provides moments of fun for the audience although tension is lacking most of the time. The conclusion recalls Sergio Leone's For A Fistful of Dollars, but it doesn't compare.

...makes a different Western. Where Sergio Leone gets all the recognition for films like FISTFUL OF DOLLARS, THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY and OUATITW, The "other" Sergio, Corbucci (not to be confused with the OTHER other Sergio, Sergio Sollima) made this important and influential entry in the Spaghetti Western pantheon. How influential? Well, there were literally dozens of films after this one that added the name "Django" to the tile, even though they had nothing whatsoever to do with this film.Where Leone's films are spectacular, surgical-tool clean masterpieces of pure design, pure STYLE and FEEL...this movie sees the muck and filth and blood and just puts out its arms and does the Nestea Plunge into it all. As a film, it shrieks out its low budget from the rooftops, it revels in its flawed script, and shamelessly declares itself as exploitation cinema. And because of all that, it makes you love it and never let it go. DJANGO's energy and excesses showcase its flaws, but its raw garage-punk sensibility simply sneers winningly and says "So?" It is no exaggeration to say there are images here that will haunt you - the bloody pistol grip propped on the grave marker, the coffin dragged through mud, a red scarf disappearing into quicksand - long after the DVD is back on your shelf. Where, btw, it probably won't gather much in the way of dust - this is one that earns repeat viewings. Bacalov's score is the perfect combination of ghost-town-revenge-western and nightmare circus music, and it fits DJANGO like a glove (a glove caked in mud and dried blood, with the fingertips cut off, natch).I guess you can tell I like this one. You will too. It's tough not to like. The DVD from Blue Underground gives us a good presentation of Corbucci's classic, along with some nice extras and even an Easter egg. If all you know of Spaghetti Westerns is Leone's work, this is a fantastic jumping off point for exploring the rest of the Euro-western universe. The English dub is...okay, but I recommend the Italian dub, which is fa bene. In the original Italian, Django himself comes across as more of a bastard and less of a Western Hero type, which makes the unfolding events even more satisfying.

Not a bad Italian Western, It is not as good as a Fist Full of Dollars, but better than most Spaghetti Westerns. When we first meet Django, he is dragging an old wood coffin behind him. He rescues a beautiful young woman from abuse and death and goes after a bunch of Bad guys. There are shoot outs, and a bunch of bad guys get shot. The D is silent in Django. Franco Nero does not do to bad as a Western mostly nice guy. The story moves along well. Of course Django just needs to shot his gun in the general direction of the bad guys to kill them. The theme song was reused by Quentin Tarantino in "Django Unchained." Don't expect any great acting, but you will enjoy the movie.

This is the "original" 1966 D'jango movie with actor Franco Nero. In my opinion, is not as interesting and so well made or executed or action packed as the 2nd version 2012 with Jamie Foxx (Oscar winner) and Cristoph Waltz (twice Oscar Winner), Kerry Washington and Leonardo DiCaprio.

The facial close ups and the hotel and deserted town scenes are simply terrific. Franco Nero as Django and Ángel Álvarez as Nathanial are both great. I wish the Gatling type gun was more believable (it never runs out of bullets), and the shoot-outs a little more realistic, but all-in-all, a really fun film that is full of action, and keeps you interested right up to the end. The sound is quite good as well (dubbing not so much). Great to realize how much was borrowed from this film by directors that saw the unique creativity in this truly original piece.

A beautifully restored and remastered HD print on Blu-Ray of this classic Italian Western which pre-dated the equally masterful Sergio Leone Western films and totally reinvented the genre.The director Sergio Corbucci is spoofed and seen briefly in Quentin Tarantino's homage - 'Once Upon A Time in Hollywood' which I also recommend highly.A fascinating extra on the DJANGO disc is an interview with the star, Franco Nero plus a critical view of the film by director Alex Cox.The Bluray is all region.

The recent theatrical release of Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained",gave me the impulse to buy the original "Django" film.I watched this on a 46" inch LCD screen, and I do not share the negativeexperience reported by other reviewers.I think that the image was sharp, but not sparkling.But this may have to do with the chosen color palette of the film.Similarities with Tarantino's film start with the name of the anti-hero,and end with the haunting theme song.This Django is not a redeemer. He is a grim, mirthless cynical man.There's a comic book quality in much of the film:In its drab, yellowish grey world little color stands out:The blazing blue eyes of Django, the red scarves and hoods of thewhite supremacists, the peacock colors of the whores, and the red of blood.Luis Bacalov's music is effective, but it doesn't drive the plot-in the way Ennio Morricone's music does for Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns.Please note that there are no English SDH in the interview with Franco Neroand the Alex Cox presentation of the film.

This is a fantastic cult spegetti western this for me is a thousand times better than the newest version starring Jamie fox.This is not going to be for everybody but I certainly liked it this is a very violent western that being the reason why it was band from the UK for so long before it was finally released.Many films have tryed to copy this film over the years but for me this will remain the best so far.

In my opinion the best spaghetti western along with the three Dollar (Clint Eastwood) movies. This 93 mins Italian DVD is probably the full uncut version. When Django was screened in the cinemas in 1967 everybody was completely stunned by the sheer never seen before brutality in westerns ( forget the boring John Wayne films). The action takes place in a muddy and shabby frontier town at the American/Mexican border. The characters mostly look mean and sweaty. The hero is Django (Franco Nero) dragging along a coffin with a machine gun killing dozends of bad guys with it.Super western!

Such a great Western, I prefered it in Italian over the English dub even though it's set in America, never been a fan of dubbed films. This film is a classic, the violence alone shows why it was banned in the UK for decades.