This Is How to Spend Your Holiday
Watch The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, A Fistful of Dollars, and For A Few Dollars More streaming on YouTube. Of the three movies in the astonishing Sergio Leon-Clint Eastwood Man With No Name trilogy, only The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly is streamable on Netflix. Putting them up on YouTube is a genius move for MGM. It's a way to make use of--and I'm sure make some substantial money off of, given the big flashy ads that are airing before the movie and studded around the screen--a part of their back catalogue that everyone ought to have seen, but that not everybody has, and that may not be generating a huge amount of revenue on DVD. It invites casual viewing: stuck in an airport with a laptop or a smart phone? Now you're all set. Seriously. Fantastic idea by MGM. I hope more studios follow suit. It would be great to see trilogies, or movies that fit together like this, put out there for a set period of time, and made into mini-events.