Recently I watched the other two films in the Dollars Trilogy (I've seen The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly a metric gorillion times) and I gotta say that this spiritual trilogy¹ is kinda meh. I don't get the hype.

Good, Bad, and Ugly is genuinely great and I love it. I understand why people gravitate towards it, but A Fistful of Dollars is merely okay. The only thing clever it does is have a western cowboy™️ hero win by being smart and using his noggin. I barely remember the rest because it's so generic.

For A Few Dollars More? Wtf is this movie?! There's literal looney toons sound effects. I'm not joking. Holy tonal whiplash, batman! At one point I thought there were going to bust off the set and into a Busby Berkley musical set. Except it wasn't supposed to be a Mel Brooks joke. I have no clue why anyone loves this movie

¹I still see people trying to justify the trilogy as a straightforward canon.....but the director literally said multiple times that they're not actually sequels in a literal sense but more in terms of motif. I really wish people would stop doing mental gymnastics over something that was never meant to be...but the heat death of the universe is more likely than that