Unforgiven Reaction
Added 2025-01-29 19:06:50 +0000 UTC
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Gene Hackman that played the sheriff Little Bill was just found deceased in his home along with his wife and dog. Rest in Peace Gene and family.
Manospondylus
2025-02-27 14:49:35 +0000 UTCThis movie was filmed around the city I live, and really shows the beauty of Alberta, Canada and the Rocky Mountains! :)
Chris
2025-02-08 18:20:09 +0000 UTCLife isn't black & white and this movie wasn't black & white. Need to watch more movies where the lines are blurred. Hela did a 180, 90, 40, and two 360s. Heh heh heh😄 And F little Bill.
RichieBIV
2025-02-08 13:57:19 +0000 UTCLittle Bill didn't know how to build a house and he didn't know how to build a town.
Brian Tetrick
2025-02-08 00:15:41 +0000 UTCIt's great that you all felt conflicted about this movie. There are no purely good or purely bad characters in this movie. Everyone is flawed and everyone is lying to themselves in some way, and in that sense it is more real than a lot of films. I think it's interesting that in the final scene, Will is scared that one of the townspeople is going to shoot him, but the townspeople are all scared that he will kill them. The movie ends in everyone scared to death, and that is what violence does - it all ends in more fear. This is why we all have to try as hard as we can to get along with everyone.
Prometheus
2025-02-08 00:08:21 +0000 UTCI like Westerns and there are a lot of other great ones I could recommend (Outlaw Josey Wales, Fistful of Dollars, Pale Rider, Silverado, Open Range and many others), but this one hits different and was intended to. It’s sort of the last word on the violence and revenge killings glamorized in Westerns. This film says all the stuff you see celebrated in heroic tales of The Wild West is as fake as the stories told by English Bob and his biographer. That said, I hope you watch those other films. They’re all fun.
Guy Locksmith
2025-02-08 00:00:37 +0000 UTCGuess you don't remember smallpox. It was a viral infection that was declared eliminated in 1980 after an intensive vaccination campaign by the World Health Organization. It made Covid look like nothing with a 30% or higher death rate. Estimates are that it killed 500 million people worldwide in the hundred years before 1980. You girls probably never received the vaccine, but your parents probably did.
Mr Jackpots
2025-02-07 23:11:46 +0000 UTCNever wrong a woman, because their vengeance is fearsome!
Mr Jackpots
2025-02-07 23:10:58 +0000 UTCLittle Bill is the bad guy in Superman 1 and 2
SpunToTheLeft
2025-02-03 06:19:39 +0000 UTCMillion Dollar Baby is a good Clint Eastwood film.
Paul De'Armond
2025-02-01 00:09:13 +0000 UTCI think The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) would be a good choice. That was my fathers favorite western. Probably would have been better coming before Unforgiven but they aren't connected story wise.
Manospondylus
2025-01-31 07:27:42 +0000 UTCHela mentioned that Ned's wife looked asian; very observant. She is native american whose DNA can be traced back to Mongolia where it is thought that people crosses a land bridge from Mongolia and populated the Americas. If you're interested in learning more about native americans i highly recommend the movie "Dances with Wolves".
be frank
2025-01-31 06:06:38 +0000 UTCI'm glad you continued watching Western Movies. Nice job!
Grumpy Monk
2025-01-31 03:35:20 +0000 UTCGreat for you if you like it, for me its slow and dull
Imperial Mort
2025-01-30 23:23:12 +0000 UTCIt isn't an action movie. It's a moral drama. It's one of the best moral drama's I've ever seen.
Eric Muirhead
2025-01-30 22:15:25 +0000 UTCA lot of good commentary here. I will just add a little context as to why Clint Eastwood made this movie: the western movie genre was incredibly popular from the 1950s to around the early to mid 1970s. Those movies idealized the "Wild West" of late 1800s America in the South Western part of the United States. They made heroes of gunslingers, who could kill men with one shot and would often kill dozens of men and be celebrated for it and seemingly have no reaction at all. As you already know, Clint Eastwood was a big part of this genre, probably the most popular (his only real competitor would be the much older John Wayne). This movie was made 20 years after the Western movie genre died out to more contemporary action themes like detective movies, war movies, etc. Clint Eastwood wanted to show this time period through a different lense, showing that murder wasn't something to be glorified or easy, that the morals weren't black and white, and that in real life there is usuy not a strong dividing line between the good guys and the bad guys. The depressing nature of this story is the point. Murder shouldn't be celebrated even when the victim "had it coming" and revenge takes a toll on everyone.
Joel Purvis
2025-01-30 19:49:16 +0000 UTCHis wife died of smallpox. It's a disease that causes sores on the skin and attacks internal organs. It was common back then.
Eric Muirhead
2025-01-30 19:15:02 +0000 UTCThe best line in the movie, "Deserves got nothing to do with it."
SpunToTheLeft
2025-01-30 14:11:25 +0000 UTCHela is so right with her analysis at the end, Little Bill bit off more than he could chew, ruling with an iron fist and not letting anyone carry their firearms
SlavicGold
2025-01-30 08:33:54 +0000 UTCGreat reaction Munchies - my request is: The Homesman ( 2014 ) thanks
Ervin Cortez
2025-01-30 05:44:35 +0000 UTCIn the beginning they kept mentioning the pigs were sick and it was spreading to the other pigs. He wasn't going to be able to sell them and make money for his family. This is why he changed his mind to leave and go after the money. He used the money to move his family to San Francisco at the end.
KD
2025-01-30 04:32:35 +0000 UTCYou ladies always impress me with your thoughtful and insightful commentary on these movies. Hella, you were spot on with the contradictions in the characters and that is the thing that is hard to grapple with. You end up cheering for Will, who was the worst of the lot, as to the way he was in the past. The complexity of these characters was the point that Eastwood wanted to make with this story. The title Unforgiven is appropriate, as all of them don't deserve forgiveness. Davey is the most unfortunate character and the one who didn't deserve what he got. I think that is why they focused so much on his death and how it affected Ned and Will even though they were hardened killers in the past. Someone else mentioned Open Range and that is another great western movie with Kevin Costner and Robert Duval. I hope you all had an awesome lunar new year and, Chi, I hope the year of the snake doesn't scare you too bad!😏
Jeffrey Roberts
2025-01-30 04:03:18 +0000 UTCChi got it right. In real life, generally, there are no good guys and bad guys. Life is more complicated than that.
K
2025-01-30 03:44:48 +0000 UTCJust keep visiting them 🙂
Duncan
2025-01-30 02:49:01 +0000 UTC“It’s a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he’s got, and all he’s ever gonna have...” ~
Proto Type
2025-01-30 02:42:23 +0000 UTCThis movie is overrated, its slow and dull. You can't see half of the action due to darkness.
Imperial Mort
2025-01-30 02:24:04 +0000 UTCEnglish Bob might not be completely wrong to be honest. lol Recent history being what it is.
Manospondylus
2025-01-30 02:14:07 +0000 UTCThat sucks.During the pandemic a few great cinemas closed here and haven't reopened.
Steven Roy
2025-01-30 02:10:04 +0000 UTChttps://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/prince-charles-cinema-leicester-square-b2687623.html# This news kills me, though. Awful news. I saw Christian Slater ruin Drexyl there a few months ago. Can’t be shut down!
Duncan
2025-01-30 01:15:21 +0000 UTCA suggestion for the ladies to consider: if Hella is up to rewatching it (as it can be emotionally grueling), perhaps she could host Chi and Katie in getting their chance to react to Gran Torino.
S_Vive
2025-01-30 01:10:31 +0000 UTCYep. Them’s the best movies; when it takes a few hours and then you go “oh, f*ck, that was good.” *starred out the swear word for the Munchies channel.
Duncan
2025-01-30 01:08:17 +0000 UTCYep, Duncan; it's always in my lists (relatedly along with Big Jake, Sons of Katie Elder, and The Comancheros)... but seemingly only rarely in others' indexes.
S_Vive
2025-01-30 01:07:05 +0000 UTCIt's still good. I remember seeing this one in the cinema, and that was an experience. It was dead silent in the theatre full of people when that movie ended.
Steven Roy
2025-01-30 00:44:39 +0000 UTCIntelligent commentary as always! I haven’t seen this movie in years, so I won’t comment until I’ve reacquainted 👍🏻
Duncan
2025-01-30 00:40:39 +0000 UTCSuch a great film, this is why we love Clint Eastwood
SlavicGold
2025-01-30 00:36:53 +0000 UTCHi Munchies. I notice Hela really liked William Munny's horse. That type of horse is called an Appaloosas. They were originally bred by Native Americans. We had two on the farm I grew up on, and they have a good temperament compared to other horses. I would say this is a good horse for beginners, but they are really just good horses. Speaking of horses, Little Bill made the guys who assaulted the women pay Skinny in "Ponies". But, that's not the way you use the word "Pony" today. Today, when we say Pony we mean something like a Shetland Pony which is clearly not a horse, but back then I think they meant a small, nible horse. Our first mail system was called The Pony Express which used small, fast horses to deliver the mail. William Munny's wife died from Small Pox. This disease was very common in the United States. It was actually the first disease for which someone developed a vaccine. I think the disease is mostly eradicated now. So, Ned's wife is Native American, not Asian. Ned refers to her as an "Injun"(not a good thing to say), but that's just a mispronunciation of the word Indian. But, Native Americans and East Asians share some genetics and ancestry because about 15,000 years ago some folks from Siberia walked on over to North America. I love this movie. It really takes the typical Western film about righteous vengeance and gives us a more realistic look at violence. "Hell of a thing to kill a man." I do think Little Bill is the real bad guy. He talks a big game about the law, but enforces it kind of to his mood. If he would have just treated the working-women like people and gave them justice, everything could have been avoided. The women were denied justice so all they had left was revenge. But, William going to kill little Bill isn't justice either, just a continuation of the violence.
Steven Roy
2025-01-30 00:24:37 +0000 UTCAlso, El Dorado (1966). I really don’t think it gets the appreciation it deserves. Very good.
Duncan
2025-01-29 23:33:35 +0000 UTCGreat reaction ladies. This is one of the most thought provoking movies ever. So many conflicting emotions and the interconnection of characters is very well done. My favorite scene is when the girl tells William that Ned is dead and he immediately starts drinking. Simple but obvious: "it was on" at that point. You guys definitely got it as illustrated by your final thoughts at the end. Another great western from that era is "Open Range" with Kevin Costner and an especially wonderful performance by Robert Duvall.
David Collins
2025-01-29 22:59:23 +0000 UTCEyes are the window to the soul, as they say
Bezoar
2025-01-29 21:53:44 +0000 UTCKatie, thanks for another reaction without the contacts! So much nicer. Chi, isn’t that the same beautiful blue dress you wore in a recent IG post? Hella, don’t change anything.
Noal McInnis
2025-01-29 21:45:44 +0000 UTCThis Saturday morning’s options *solved*. Thanks, Munchies! 😀👍🏻
Duncan
2025-01-29 20:22:24 +0000 UTCMy favorite western of all time.
Chase
2025-01-29 19:57:20 +0000 UTCThis is in my opinion the best western or (anti-western) ever made. Completely subverts the traditional Western mythos and hero/villain dichotomy. Looking forward to watching this again after work because I haven't seen it in a few years.
Henry N.
2025-01-29 19:12:38 +0000 UTC"Woof Woof" Thats my other dog impression.
Imperial Mort
2025-01-29 19:11:08 +0000 UTCYes! One of Clint’s best roles ever. Hopefully this means you are going to continue with other Clint Eastwood movies. Looking forward to the next Dirty Harry movie!
Noal McInnis
2025-01-29 19:08:57 +0000 UTCKelly's Heroes
Imperial Mort
2025-01-29 19:08:30 +0000 UTC
