Unforgiven (1992) Uncut Reaction!

1883 & Yellowstone are amazing tbf

Kieran Ellis

Awesome! :)

James Adams

Meek's Cutoff (2010). That's a western.

Tetley

By the way, one of the best westerns recently to checkout is the miniseries 1883. The writing is phenomenal in this show (written and created by Taylor Sheridan). It is a prequel to Yellowstone, but you don’t have to watch Yellowstone to watch this. It is just as much it’s own story. If nobody told you it was prequel to Yellowstone you would never know. What the show feels like is they took the educational video game, Oregon Trail, adapted it to how that was in 1883 to its R rated reality. Does not try to romanticize the old West. Just shows the what it was just like Unforgiven. Also, great cast: Sam Elliott (won Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series at the Screen Actor’s Guild Awards for this performance), Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Isabel May, and LaMonica Garrett. Also, has some A-list Film and television Actor cameos in this series, as well.

Cody Price

Also, the actor that played English Bob, Richard Harris, is the same actor that played Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter films before he was recast due to passing before the filming of the third Harry Potter film.

Cody Price

By the way, this was Gene Hackman’s 2nd Academy Award winning performance. First was The French Connection.

Cody Price

Also, just want to say that I hope you get a chance to get into some classic westerns from the 40's and 50's. There is such a rich well of amazing westerns from that era.

J. Arlo Mullinix

The character of W.W. Beauchamp, the writer who immortalized the Duck of Death, is kind of the thematic linchpin of the movie. He represents the mythologizing of the gunslinger of the old west. The false romance of it. His dime store novels are the kind of books the Schofield Kid would read and with stories from his uncle, envisioned a romantic life as an outlaw and gunslinger for himself. English Bob, a narcissist, used the gullible Beauchamp to turn himself into one of the mythologized heroes of the west. Little Bill Dagget, strips the BS away to the cold hard truth of it for Beauchamp, exposing the noble gunslinger as nothing more than a drunken murderer. However, Little Bill does keep up his own facade of a noble lawman when he is nothing more than a sadistic authoritarian. Little Bill then fills Beauchamp with how he sees the west and how gunfights work. However, William Munny exposes Little Bill's BS after the climatic gunfight by telling Beauchamp that he was just lucky in the order, and that he was always lucky when it came to killing. That's what it comes down to really, luck. Unforgiven is the best of the revisionist westerns without a doubt. It's not an anti-violence film I think, but it is incredibly honest about violence. It's not about trying to get across a certain message, its only concern is being honest and direct about its subject. That's why this is a masterpiece.

J. Arlo Mullinix

Great series.

Tetley

Not sure if you've ever seen it or even heard of it, but Deadwood is a really great western series that was on HBO in the mid 2000s. Really exceptional writing and dialogue especially. Definitely captures a lot of the weight and morality themes you seemed to like in this. Not sure if there would be enough demand for it to make it worth reacting to, but definitely check out and episode or two if you like this kind of more grounded western.

The word most often used to describe this film is MASTERPIECE. Because, dayum! 🔥

Linda

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Cody Price