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Nope, I've NEVER seen this film in any fashion over all these years. I remember hearing the theme for 'The Good, The Bad & The Ugly' all the time on the radio, it was extremely popular and was seemingly constantly played over the airwaves of Southern California when the film came out. I (think) it was a version by Hugo Montenegro, but I could be wrong. I never quite understood how a film theme played all the time over the radio could not have even been nominated for an Oscar for it's music. (In L.A., I listened to 93 KHJ and KFWB which may both be gone now?) I should get the Blu-ray (3 hours, really?) from Netflix this weekend. In the meantime, what are YOUR memories of first seeing this film?
Edit, 10/21, I viewed the film and commented further in.
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Vastly overrated film and director. I've never seen a Sergei Leone film which I liked.
Doug, I've only seen ONE Sergio Leone film in my lifetime and that was 'Once Upon a Time in America' with Robert Deniro in the early 80's. Really DISLIKED that film!
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one of my all time favs,stylish,humorous ,violent(less so today tho')and attention to details(I have that hard back book that came out full of pics and you wouldn't believe the efforts to get stuff right)
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Nev-ver herdovit!
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I love it! Saw it as a kid in the early 80s had already seen the first two. It always showed with the Italian title, if I recall right, which stuck in my head. Like TG, I give it a 10/10. It looks ace, is funny and memorable and the score is immense. It's also a prequel done right!
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It sucks.
Big time.
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Vastly overrated film and director. I've never seen a Sergei Leone film which I liked.
Doug, I've only seen ONE Sergio Leone film in my lifetime and that was 'Once Upon a Time in America' with Robert Deniro in the early 80's. Really DISLIKED that film!
It WOULD have been a terrible film then, butchered as it was for the US market. You might like the full version better.
GBU - 10/10.
No. The short version is BETTER!
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My first exposure to GBU was in the mid 1970s. Roof antenna, local station, the late movie. My Dad and I sitting there in the dimly lit living room.
The main title bowled me over, captivated me, and I would NOT let the next re-run go by without audio taping it.
But I couldn't get into the film at all. The pacing was too slow, and this was decades before the Internet would demolish my attention span. Also, it seemed like there were long stretches with no dialogue, or at best snippets of awkward dialogue that was probably losing something in the translation. And the characters were not drawing me in at all. And I couldn't even tell what was happening, who was who, or why it mattered. I don't think I've ever sat through the whole film.
I like Westerns and I like spaghetti, but put them together and it just doesn't work.
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Idi...idi....?
...idiots!
Eh?
It's for you.
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There are two kinds of people in this world...those who get GBU...and those who dig... 
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No argument from me that ennio and wallach stole the show and ran off with the spoils. But that still dont mean the rest isnt crackin, eastwood at his coolest, the endless, quotable dialogue, van cleef at his most evil, the great hanging scam sequences of eastwood turning in wallach and shooting the hats, the desert sequence, the prison camp scenes, Wallach and sergeant wallace taking the train, leone finally given a budget to make an epic, the set piece at the bridge, and the last 20 mins is just sublime, edda and the graveyard, the triangular gunfight...you lot are just bloody unbelievers...the movie is too good to defend. It should speak for itself.
"When you have to shoot...shoot, don't talk! "
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The Kino sdvd of the US version is the one to get. Played on a bluray machine it looks great
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