The pursuit of IMDb Top 10: Part III

O Telecine Play

Luís H. Delgado Santos
3 min readDec 12, 2020
Tuco Ramírez (Eli Wallach), o Homem sem Nome (Clint Eastwood) e Sentenza (Lee Van Cleef) em Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966) — United Artists. Foto: il Post

Escrito (e dirigido?) por Delgado. Que não é cinéfilo, não tá soltando spoiler, e acha que não tá fazendo review. Essa crônica é uma sequência de The pursuit of IMDb Top 10: Part II.

Chapter Nine

12 Angry Men

The year 2020 was different from what everybody wants. Coronavirus pandemic arrived and hit everyone without precedents. I have some privileges to work with development and can continue to work through the home office style.

Even so, the problems arrived here with reopens in July after some improvements in coronavirus cases because my Internet provider failed to keep its quality and a programmer without internet works very limitedly. After waiting patiently for a resolution and none results, I needed to change.

The new Internet provider package was so much better about cost by velocity. Besides that, some days after, my sister told me that we had a lot of channels on our plan, including Telecine Play. I was already so happy with the possibility of new films.

July 18

My mom asked me if I didn’t want to choose the day’s film. After fast research, I saw 12 Angry Men right in front of me! One of the last two of IMDb Top 10! It was fantastic! Sometime after, already in next day, I knew that I saw another great film with stars like Henry Fonda (Juror 8), Lee J. Cobb (Juror 3), Martin Balsam (Juror 1). Not a masterpiece, but a film with some details only seen here.

Chapter Ten

Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo

July 26

At the end of the last chapter, looking for the last film was the first thing to do and It was there: Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cattivo! This would be the program for next weekend. But, during the week, my friend tells me that this film was from Dollars Trilogy or Man with No Name Trilogy. So, that weekend I had a hard mission: watching these three films! I was in a hurry because I didn’t know how exactly worked this Telecine plan. And I imagined that in the worst case was a trial of 8 days.

Even on July 25 morning, I saw that the introduction of Per un pugno di dollari (1964) was one the best already made. But the film has a poor history, like the sequence: Per qualche dollaro in più (1965), although this is a little better. This second already on July 26 morning.

This moment of our last chapter looked like the tension before shot in a spaghetti western film — like as the film. It had a whole preparation, expectations and near 9:00 PM, Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo started! It was amazing! The history of Eli Wallach (Tuco), Clint Eastwood (Blondie/Man With No Name), and Lee Van Cleef (Sentenza/Angel Eyes) was better, although ironic with reality, but it was good. This is not a perfect film, but it was an excellent epic for the end of these chronicles.

Some days ago I discovered that Telecine Play always was paid for outside our Internet package by my sister. Thanks, sister.

The end.

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