The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)'s comments

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nicolaskrizan

a flawed treasure

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11 years 7 months ago

Sreviko

Mycket bra film, en av mina favoriter

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12 years 7 months ago

YuriBR

@Sreviko @escapistwit Plus I understood his comment, haha. Great film indeed.

11 years 12 months ago

criscoJovan

@Sreviko

Y'know, it's a great big breath of fresh air to see a post on here in a language that is not English :)

12 years 1 month ago

george4mon

it was perfect until the last 20 minutes which really pissed me off!!!!!

12 years 8 months ago

StigAnder

Quality film, holds up extremely well! I love the characters.

13 years ago

George Bailey

So I watched it on my computer and it's on my top 40 of all time! Great movie!

13 years 1 month ago

Great setting, great buildup in the story. The characters fit nicely; Huston is great as the prospector archetype (he was one of the first that sprouted the cliche probably). Bogart plays beautifully and the buildup in his character is perfect.

Awesome movie.

9 months 3 weeks ago

Siskoid

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre may dress itself up as a western adventure, but it's really a study in greed that's practically Shakespearean in its intensity. Humphrey Bogart has never had money, so the idea of striking it rich is no big deal to him at first, but once the gold dust starts pouring in, he gets more and more paranoid that he'll lose the first riches he's ever known. His dragon sickness is contrasted with his partners better dosed attitudes. But of course, it also works as an epic action western - it IS John Huston, after all - but not a predictable one. I did find that the theme of avarice and how one might succumb to it is at times overplayed. There's no real doubt the characters are headed down that dark road just from the thematic content (even if you can't guess the incidents). That said, still great. Walter Huston and Bogart are particularly strong. That's the thing with Bogie. He's so iconic as a hard private dick, you don't expect him to be able to act any other way. He shouldn't surprise me at this point, but totally does.

5 years 3 months ago

canaan

this is the first film that I have seen with Bogart as the villain and was drawn to watch it as I was in the mood for a western. Obviously there is some discussion about whether it's a western or not, however
even though it wasn't what I set out to watch, I really enjoyed it. The character of Dobbs was interesting, and I especially liked Howard as the old and wise goat. It was fairly obvious to me whilst watching it
what the general theme of the ending was going to be, but the story and message was well rounded out that it drew me in, rather than turned me off. I find the prevelance of the more gritty realism of Dobbs actions over older Hollywood's more traditional values to be much more satisfying which also helped me enjoy this one.

My only complaint being that I wish that the character of Cody had stuck around longer, so that the ending actions of Howard and Curtain were more fully justified.

5 years 10 months ago