magnificent seven - despite it being a remake of seven samurai, i loved this more! the characteristics/mannerisms/idiosyncracies of the actors made the characters more real for me

- charles bronson rattling off previous jobs and how much he was paid as he chops wood... when he was told the job was only going to pay $20, the reaction on his face is priceless

- robert vaughn's steely cool exterior in turmoil with his fearful/'lost it' interior was cool

- steve mcqueen continously trying to upstage yul brynner with his fiddling of the hat, the fingers counting how many gunslingers they recruited so far, the shaking/checking of the shotgun shell when he rides shotgun with yul brynner in the beginning... all great acting

- classic line/scene from james coburn - horst bruckholz says 'that's the greatest shot i ever saw' after coburn was tracking a desperado riding a horse trying to get away and coburn kills him with a shot from his six-shooter - coburn's reply, "the worst!! i was aiming at the horse!'

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the combo of clint eastwood, sergio leone and ennio morricone in the man with no name trilogy is awesome!

once upon a time in the west is just as good

tombstone

the wild bunch (peckinpah was a huge inspiration to john woo)

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silverado - i liked, but not as much as the others