Clint Eastwood's 'Unforgiven' - what do you think?

June 16, 2008 | Apollo 13

[tumblindice]

There was a line about that in the movie: “No one’s innocent” or something like that.
The scene where he’s counseling the kid to take his time in a gunfight mirrors John Wayne’s advice in the `The Shootist.’ And of course, Little Bill’s comment about hell and Nebraska.
Great movie, but no orangutans! Welcome to FR new guy.

[avacado]

I think so.

[LS]

As we know with "global warming," a "consensus" is usually wrong :)

I love the movie. A little long, but very much a harder, more graphic version of one of Eastwood's old "Spaghetti Westerns." The "Little Bill" character is one of the worst villains in the movies, exceeded only by Daniel Day Lewis as "The Butcher" in "Gangs of NY" and by his Plainview character in "There Will Be Blood."

[martin_fierro]

One of the bounty hunters tat he guns down is Uncle Leo for Seinfeld.

Did that guy have dramatic range or what.

[DCPatriot]

The Unforgiven is one of my favorite westerns...right up there with Tombstone [with Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer], Outlaw Josey Wales, and The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

[Vaquero]

Open Range does have a great gun fight near the end.

Charley: “You the one killed our friend?” Butler: “That’s right. I shot the boy, too. And I enjoyed it”.

BANG!!! Charley draws, and shoots Butler right between the eyes.

Of course like all Costner films he drags it on for another 15 minutes after the climax fight scene. Costner needs a good film editor.

[Tolkien]

there wasn’t an innocent adult in the whole movie. There was a wrong, evil streak in everyone. a great DARK western.

I agree that no one was innocent. But there is a difference between an evil streak and the embodiment of evil. Little Bill ran that town with ruthless abandon.

He told the whores essentially, "Too Bad".

He tormented the writer Beauchamp.

He beat the s**t out of Munny and English Bob.

Hell, he beat Ned to death. What do you call that?

Little Bill was a Nazi before there were Nazi's.

That is why we all enjoyed Munny killing him and his minions at the end.

[OKIEDOC]

Blazing Saddles doomed to the Liberal No Common Sense Politically Correct trash dump.

One of my favorite movies of all times.

On my last trip down to South America the local theater showed the old version subtitled that contained all of the politically incorrect words now doomed by liberals to have the wrong flavor.

[kc2theline]

Like your list but no Open Range?

Also +1 on Unforgiven

[Vaquero]

You left off the greatest western of all time, Blazing Saddles!!

yeah I suppose....but it is a comedy and I include it my top ten comedy’s

[andy58-in-nh]

It's a terrific movie and one of the last great Westerns: a stark portrait of dark and fatally flawed characters, where in the end there is no moral ambiguity behind which any of them can hide. It is a very different film from The Outlaw Josey Wales or any of the Sergio Leone westerns, as much as I love all of them.

[bolobaby]

My favorite line from the movie:

Gene Hackman (Daggett): I was building a house...

Unforgiven is a fantastic movie. One of the best ever.

[dblshot]

From the title,”Clint Eastwood's ‘Unforgiven’ - what do you think?’ I figured this would be about Spike Lee's not forgiving Clint for failure to include enough brothers in Band of Brothers etc.

I like just about all of Clint's movie's. My pick for best is the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. epic, wide sweeping but with character development that was perfect.

[conservativeharleyguy]

“Unforgiven” is good. I’ve always felt that “The Outlaw Josey Wales” is by far his all-time best movie, but I really did enjoy “Unforgiven”.

But,... I am sort of a Western junkie. I even love the bad ones, so maybe my perspective is a bit skewed.

[Mr. Pumblechook]

In movies women of low standing are ALWAYS heroes, or at the very least, highly sympathetic characters, and the “hooker with a heart of gold” (this movie’s full of them) is just about the oldest chiche in the world.

[Clint N. Suhks]

I forgot that one too.

[KenHorse]

What? No Silverado?

Maybe not the most accurate western but I always thought it was pretty good nevertheless!

[Non-Sequitur]

The parts were better than the whole. IMHO, of course.

[AngryCapitalist]

Funny... I dint view Daniel Plainview from “There Will Be Blood” as a villain. I saw him as more of a sympathetic character, felt a little sorry for him, but loved his determination.

“Unforgiven” is a very good movie, but I thought “Open Range” was GREAT!!! A very beautifully filmed picture... lots of landscapes and wide shots. Very pleasing in HD.

[Alberta's Child]

I gotta add The Good, The Bad & The Ugly to that list. Great story line, and the cinematography in that movie was amazing. The way they switched from close-up views of the characters to panoramic views of open country was considered a remarkable, novel approach in film-making at the time.