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Unforgiven Watch Along (Patreon)

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2024-02-13 15:00:07
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Loved this Movie! I can't wait to get into more Westerns!!! Clint Eastwood is amazing! You guys never let me down on Polls!

Can't wait to read all your comments !!

xx

ames

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Unforgiven Watch Along

Loved this one!!

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RFK Fan

I cant think of this film without the GREAT Gene Hackman as lil Bill... Watching him and Richard Harris chew up the scenery as two GIANTS of the silver screen NEVER gets old....

Erwin Quiachon

About a year after this movie came out, my uncle had a heart attack. When I wen to visit him in the hospital, the nurse was telling me that Gene Hackman stayed in the same hospital room after his heart attack. I asked her when this happened in terms of pre or post Unforgiven. She said before he made Unforgiven. We used that to pump up my uncle to recover and get an Oscar.

Catchermag

Ha! My spin movie ended up getting watched anyway! This is a great film. Others suggested that you watch his Man with no Name trilogy first, but I disagree. Those movies aren’t for the newly initiated IMO. But they are fantastic and you should definitely watch them at some point.

Erwin Quiachon

Clint Eastwood gets credit for writing the guitar melody at the end and beginning of the film, "Claudia's Theme". I don't think he's playing the guitar in the film. I'm pretty sure it's played by a professional guitarist.

Erwin Quiachon

The theme of morality is central to this film. That's why people started taking Clint Eastwood so seriously after this. Before this, he was just an action star. After Unforgiven, Eastwood was accepted as a serous artist. The title, Unforgiven, refers to Will's guilt. He can't escape his past or forgive himself because his sins were too evil to forgive. He carries that guilt and those emotional scars for the rest of his life.

Shawn Goforth

What to say about this? My favorite line I've read about Unforgiven is it is a film about the sun setting on a man and the era he represents. Clint Eastwood was in his 60s, and, I like to think he chose this era of transition in the west deliberately. He says repeatedly he is not that man anymore. "My wife, she cured me of that, cured me of drink and wickedness." It's set at a time that gunfighters have become the subject of pulp fiction, and they are building their own houses, rather than riding trails and sleeping under prairie stars. Eastwood even dedicated this film to Sergio Leone and Don Siegel, with whom he had worked so many times. They had both died within the last 3 years of the movie being filmed. The title Unforgiven says a lot about how he feels at this moment in life. He says he thinks about the people he's killed from time to time, but I get the feeling, when he's aiming the rifle at Little Bill, that this will be the first he won't regret. Clint Eastwood tackled guilt and vengeance again 10 years later with Mystic River, which I would still call his best.

Erwin Quiachon

"I guess he had it coming." "We all have it coming." "I don't deserve this." "Deserve has nothing to do with it." Those are the lines that separate Unforgiving from other action films. There is no such thing as a feel good kill, unless you are a sociopath. Any decent human being will feel the guilt of any kill, regardless of if that person had it coming to them. Before Unforgiven, Eastwood was criticized for glorifying the lie of how good it feels to kill the "bad guys". Most people miss the point of this film when Eastwood tries to clarify that lie.

John Courtright

Looking forward to watching this one again with you , Ames. Work beckons. Later.

Catchermag

Thank you for doing this one, I just finished the watch along. There’s a lot to unpack about this movie, but definitely worth it’s place in the pantheon of Westerns. What I will say is this cemented Gene Hackman as my favorite actor ever. When he gets close to Morgan Freeman and says what he says I feel it in my bones. Gene retire at a much earlier age than most do and he was still a very popular actor when he did. Hard to list all his great movies, but The French Connection and The Conversation are American classics, and Crimson Tide and Hoosiers are just awesome. I’ll bet if you did a poll for favorite Gene Hackman films you’d get a ton of responses.

Bubba Fett

This is probably my second favorite of his, behind Outlaw Josey Wales. I believe this was his last western, that he felt doing anything more would be just rehashing an old story, and not original.

John Courtright

When Will finds out about Ned and grabs the whiskey bottle and takes a drink, it's a truly frightening moment. "He was making him answer questions and beating him up, and then Ned just died. They got a sign on him, says he was a killer." "They got a sign on him?" "In front of Greely's" "A sign on him in front of Greely's?" For the entire movie, Will has seemed old, weak and frail, but with every slug of whisky he seems stronger, more alert and focused. Will transforms right before our eyes. By the time he rides into town, he is a decisive and capable killer. “Any man takes a shot at me, I'll kill him, then I'll kill all his friends, and burn his damn house down!" What an amazing performance by Clint Eastwood!

Greg Nelson

Maybe consider Gran Torino if you want to see any more with Clint Eastwood—if you haven’t already. One of his best ever. Enjoyed your passion about how beautifully this one was filmed.

Clay F

You notice so many cool details about the movie. Makes me think. I always like your comments about lighting. "It's a hell of a thing killing a man." Excellent movie. The Unforgiven is awesome. I like the gray and the complexity. Dark, as you say. At the opposite end of the "western" spectrum from the comedy Maverick (1994) ("It isn't terribly deep, but it's witty and undeniably charming, and the cast is obviously having fun."). Little Bill should have brought the guy who cut up the prostitute's face before a judge, but I guess that's too simple and would defeat a theme of the movie, and may not have amounted to anything anyway. So many quotable lines in this movie. "I've always been lucky when it comes to killing." At the risk of sounding like a broken record, my favorite Eastwood western is: THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES (1976). Runner-ups: Pale Rider (1985) High Plains Drifter (1973) Honorable mention: Hang 'Em High (1968) However, Eastwood westerns [other than Unforgiven or maybe "The Good The Bad and The Ugly" (1966)] are not likely to win a general western poll - would likely lose to movies such as Open Range (2003), 3:10 to Yuma (2007), True Grit (2010), Dances With Wolves (1990), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), and Maverick (1994). One of my favorite non-western movies starring Eastwood is: Escape from Alcatraz (1979) (Rotten Tomatoes = 97%, IMDb = 7.6).

pickupthepieces

What a movie, great reaction. Cast is insane. Gene Hackman is my favorite actor. But Clint is the quintessential cowboy. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West remain my favorite westerns. Truly film masterclasses by the late great Sergio Leone and epic music by the legendary Ennio Morricone. Somehow these don't top the polls, but hopefully you'll get to them one day.

Andrew Roach

To second another comment another great Eastwood film, non western, is Gran Torino. One of my other favorite westerns is the remake of 3:10 to Yuma with star power butting heads.

John Brennan

And all because some dude had a tincy little pecker!

Justtired

I recommend you watch the Dollars Trilogy (Fistful of Dollars, A Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly). The Outlaw Josey Wales as well. There’s a few fun westerns out there too. Silverado, The Quick and the Dead (more Gene Hackman as a bad guy), Rio Bravo and Maverick, just to name a few. Wonderful reaction!

Hold Down A
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hi!!! thanks for being here JT! A lot of those where on the pool and or nominated on the last Western Poll! Def have so many to watch!

Jayson Phillips

I love this movie! Never gets old! Great reaction too!!

Jayson Phillips

Josey Wales and Pale rider are the 2 best westerns of the day!