Unforgiven on AMC

First a) I’m watching Dirty Harry right now, so what I’m about to say in b) is not to say that Clint Eastwood doesn’t make quality, re-watchable movies...

But B) Clint Eastwood has little to no acting range. He’s not on the acting Mt. Rushmore.

I agree with him having little to no acting range, but he would be on the acting Mt Rushmore, based on westerns alone.

I watched it earlier and I'm probably gonna set a M/TV downvote record but I've never gotten all that excited about Unforgiven. It's a solid movie but I've never been able to figure out what I'm missing that puts it on this damn near mythical pedestal of westerns. I love Eastwood as a film maker but his acting has always felt like the worst part of the movies he's in, at least once he got to a certain age

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I watched it earlier and I'm probably gonna set a M/TV downvote record but I've never gotten all that excited about Unforgiven. It's a solid movie but I've never been able to figure out what I'm missing that puts it on this damn near mythical pedestal of westerns. I love Eastwood as a film maker but his acting has always felt like the worst part of the movies he's in, at least once he got to a certain age

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No offense, but you don’t have a good grasp on the western genre. If you did, you’d know that Unforgiven is a masterful twist on the genre, while still honoring the ground rules.

Westerns allow the viewer to explore the struggles between good and bad, courage and cowardice, and many other human emotions, mythos, and archetypes, in a distilled way. In short, there’s no advanced civilization to get between the characters and distance them from the stark realities of our mortal and moral existence.

In Unforgiven, we are allowed to view the morality of the actions of men and women in various time spans and from various points of view.

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No offense, but you don’t have a good grasp on the western genre. If you did, you’d know that Unforgiven is a masterful twist on the genre, while still honoring the ground rules.

Westerns allow the viewer to explore the struggles between good and bad, courage and cowardice, and many other human emotions, mythos, and archetypes, in a distilled way. In short, there’s no advanced civilization to get between the characters and distance them from the stark realities of our mortal and moral existence.

In Unforgiven, we are allowed to view the morality of the actions of men and women in various time spans and from various points of view.

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No offense, but you don’t have a good grasp on the western genre. If you did, you’d know that Unforgiven is a masterful twist on the genre, while still honoring the ground rules.

Westerns allow the viewer to explore the struggles between good and bad, courage and cowardice, and many other human emotions, mythos, and archetypes, in a distilled way. In short, there’s no advanced civilization to get between the characters and distance them from the stark realities of our mortal and moral existence.

In Unforgiven, we are allowed to view the morality of the actions of men and women in various time spans and from various points of view.

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Have an up vote

My favorite western movie, since Lonesome Dove is really a mini series.

There’s a dark realistic feel to Unforgiven that I believe most westerns lack.

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It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.

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He shoulda armed himself.

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"Clint Eastwood has little to no acting range. He’s not on the acting Mt. Rushmore."

Uhhhhh?

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This is not exactly a “hot” take. Even if I spotted you 3 additional faces on the “acting Mount Rushmore,” Clint Eastwood would still not qualify.

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Killed Women And Children. I've Killed Everything That Walks Or Crawls At One Time Or Another.


Ive seen this movie about 20 times. While that line is epic, the line right before "Ive always been lucky killin' folks."

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That was a great line but I believe you refer to after the killing. (When the writer started asking him about the order of the men he killed.)

It was something like "I was lucky in the order. I've always been lucky when it comes to killing"

That quote in that circumstance was the culmination of the mythology laid low. And it took place immediately after the shootout in which he disposed of five men.

That arguably makes it the penultimate western and anti-western. His dismissal of the writer left William without a regal obituary. And the closing lines of the movie remark on that with the mention of his wife's tombstone