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I like how Bill was a shitty carpenter, and William was a shitty farmer. Violence was really the only thing they were good at .

Throughout the whole movie, William Muny answered every question with “Maybe” or “I suppose so” or other vague answer, until Little Bill says “I’ll see you in hell.” He responds “Yeah” bc it’s the only thing he could be sure about.

“It’s a hell of a thing, killin’ a man. You take away all he has, and all he’s ever gonna have” that line and whole scene is soooo good gives me chills.

I read that Eastwood bought and held onto the script for twenty years because he didn’t think he was old enough to play the part. He has vision for sure.

"The morality is all over the place in this." Exactly- that's what makes Unforgiven such a great movie in my opinion. There are no simple good guys vs. bad guys- even some of the men who were in the group that cut the woman had a change of heart and felt bad. And of course, we have a main character who has apparently committed atrocious crimes in the past but is full of remorse. Note: Jaimz Woolvett as The Shofield Kid was such a good actor who played flawlessly alongside the greats and never starred in any other big movies.

This film is a masterpiece. Its like an anti western as far as the genre goes. Instead of all the flashy shoot outs and killing you see in normal westerns...this one focuses on the consequences and reasons of pulling the trigger. Definitely one of my favorite movies of all time and a well deserved Oscar for Best Film.

I know a lot of people love Tombstone and so do I. But for me THIS is the true classic 90's western and I think the difference is Clint in front of AND behind the camera. One of the few alive who knows how to get the tone right because he's been doing them forever. Even an anagram of his name is Old West Action

From your comments after the movie, it's obvious that you "get" it. Unforgiven is definitely a story about morality, right and wrong, overcoming past deeds, forgiving yourself -- or not. So much in this film to think about. I think it's a masterpiece. I'm one of those people who sees Unforgiven as sort of an unofficial sequel -- and ending -- to all of Eastwood's prior westerns.

Contains my favorite line of any movie, in response to "I guess he had it coming". Munny: "We've all got it coming Kid." He's a Hollywood legend, and the king of the western in my opinion, and this movie is his best one.

You can also see Clint in the Outlaw Josey Wales and Pale Rider. Both are excellent westerns.

This was a great film to see on the big screen. The final scene with Gene Hackman was very intense.

“It’s a hell of a thing killing a man. You take away all he’s got… and all he’s ever going to have.” One of the greatest lines ever. Executed perfectly. It gives me chills every time.

This film is such a perfect masterpiece. The dialogue is so well written. It’s all so powerful and subtle at the same time.

it is always a compliment to the movie when it makes people think

The two key parts to the point of this movie: (1) Do people ever really change? Or are they just the same people, behaving differently in different situations? (2) English Bob, Little Bill, and William Munny are all dangerous killers, but each has his own radically different take on killing. English Bob is focused on building his reputation. Little Bill thinks he has the whole thing down to a science. And William Munny just feels like he's always been lucky.

This movie is an absolute masterpiece. My other two favourite Eastwood westerns are Pale Rider and The Outlaw Josey Wales. I recommend 🙂

This movie is "said" to be Eastwood's farewell movie to his cowboy, western genre. Eastwood won the Academy Award for Best Picture & Best Director. Gene Hackman won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. I see Unforgiven as Eastwood's finale tribute to all the cowboy characters he portrayed throughout his career. Eastwood was our era's John Wayne. I enjoyed watching Unforgiven with you. I loved your reactions. Thank you, Jen!

Clint's masterpiece. Great reaction, as usual. You should watch Eastwood's other westerns (High Plains Drifter, Joe Kidd, Outlaw Josie Wales, Pale Rider), as well as his Dirty Harry movies.

Clint Eastwood at his very best along with a fantastic performance by gene Hackman 👌 no green screen just fantastic acting , great scenery , great music and an engaging story I love this movie cheers for reacting to it Jen 🙌 hope one day you watch pale rider too 🤞

Hi Jen! You’re 100% right this is a morality play. Eastwood’s character is purposely a contradiction to the swaggering, macho tough guys in past Westerns. He’s shown to be nothing special when sober, but a cruel vicious killer when drunk. He doesn’t start drinking here until he finds out that Ned has been killed. Little Bill’s monologue about not necessarily being the fastest, but being the most cool headed in a life or death situation is what separates these killers from everyone else. Little Bill had that, while all his deputies were afraid. That’s why in the final scene after Little Bill is wounded, you have a drunk William Munney calmly shooting down the deputies who are panicking and can’t hit anything. That fear is also why he’s allowed to ride out of town unopposed.

Really enjoy your western reactions, Jen. "Once upon a Time in the West" is a must see. 👍💯

Very cool outlook Jen. If you like Clint and like movies where who really is the bad guy, then you need to watch "The Outlaw Josey Wales" starring Clint. He is really good in this one and I think you will like it. Love your reaction to Unforgiven.

Unforgiven won an Oscar for best picture, best director by Clint Eastwood and best supporting actor by Gene Hackman. Thank you Jen great reaction 🙂🙂👍👍

Jen, I really enjoyed your thoughts about westerns and morality. I tend to believe that good guys and bad guys in the old West are more a creation of Hollywood than reality. I like in this film how the writer character and his simple view of gun fighters was in stark contrast to events around him. Your thoughtful analysis was, as usual, intelligent and goodhearted.

Jen, thanks so much. This is the kind of movie that challenges you in a good way. It tears down all the slick reliable cliches of a formula Western, but then at the end it affirms that Wild West spirit. Frances Fisher, the "sassy woman" who's the leader of the prostitutes, was Eastwood's girlfriend at the time and gave birth to his daughter Francesca Eastwood. Hackman would appear later as another villain in another Eastwood-directed movie, a murderous President in Absolute Power. This won the 1993 Academy Award for Best Picture. Damn straight it did.

Dumbledore like the kiddies have never seen him before. Top rate cast. Not your typical movie, much less your typical western. No white hats or black hats, no fancy gunplay or rope tricks from horseback. Just folks trying to get by and live their lives, and some good, old fashioned, honest murder-for-hire. I really enjoy this one.

“Hell of a thing killing a man, take away all he’s got and all he’s ever gonna have.” Pretty much sums up the movie for me at least. The Schofield kid was boasting about killing the entire movie and when he finally did it he was traumatized and revealed that that actually was his first kill while will who’s trying to leave it behind him he realized that it’s gonna follow him forever. He’ll be UNFORGIVEN for the crimes that he committed.

What a great, great film this is. It deconstructs Westerns in a stunningly insightful way, while at the same time telling a fantastic story. Can you imagine death riding out of nowhere, delivering devastation, and then disappearing back into the darkness, again? Man. Before this, my favorite Western of all time was "High Plains Drifter," and then I saw Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in the West," and that became my favorite. Then I saw this one. It's absolutely rich in metaphor, and filled with people who have a flawed understanding of the nature of morality and justice. I mean, Little Bill's response to a vicious assault was so ill-considered that it triggered the events of the rest of the film, and then he beats a man to almost death to set an example. To Little Bill, "justice" meant "order," even if his conception of "order" required brutal sadism. In that sense, Little Bill's terrible carpentry serves as a metaphor for his understanding of justice, and that meant the "house" he was building in Big Whiskey would never last. The outlaw gunfighters played by Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman were reflections in a dark mirror of the two-dimensional protagonists in the old Western films. The Scofield Kid represented all the fans of those old Western films who had no clue what life back then was really like. The whores, of course, represented all the women's stories from that time you never see. They had the choice to wear themselves out as wives and mothers, barely one step above chattel slavery and subjected to the whims of husbands, having child after child until their bodies gave out -- or selling those same bodies to sometimes terribly abusive men, because it was one of the few ways women in the Old West could achieve some sort of financial independence. A lot of American conceptions of the Old West are wrapped in veils of comfortable illusions about brave pioneers turning an untamed land into a great country. Some of that has truthfulness -- but that simple-mindedness ignores a lot of horribleness this film shows, unflinchingly.

Was so excited to see you get to this one. The beautiful countryside where the film was shot was mostly Southern Alberta. Longview is where Big Whiskey was set up, with other filming in Brooks, High River and Calgary, while the train sequence was shot in Sonora, California.

Love all of Eastwoods movies. Not sure he ever made a really bad movie. Personally, I think " The Outlaw Josey Wales" is his best western, and hopefully you will get around to it. You should also check out "Pale Rider" and all of the Harry Callahan "Dirty Harry" movies. Such a great actor.

Clint Eastwood is the GOAT. Such a great actor and director. This movie is definitely one of his masterpieces. Would love to see Jen react to some of his other good westerns like The Outlaw Josey Wales, and High Plains Drifter. The Dirty Harry movies are also highly entertaining.

Don't miss out on High Plains Drifter for Clints ultimate role for cruel retribution, A true, true classic.

20:55 "Nobody's abidin by ordinance 14" 😂😂😂 This movie always gets me in the mood for playing the game Red Dead Redemption 2. Both are visually stunning. GREAT reaction 🖒🖒

I think that even Little Bill wasn't a one-sided evil character. He simply took seriously his responsibility for maintaining law and order in his city. So he viewed troublesome gunslingers and headhunters as his enemies and treated them accordingly, like English Bob. But he wasn't a psychopathic madman, as seen when he refused to whip the cowboys because he simply thought they were foolish, not evil. I love it when the characters aren't just black and white, but are nuanced in shades of gray.

When Eastwood gets the news that Ned has been killed, for what he and the kid did, the anger and guilt in his voice, and the way he just takes the bottle and starts drinking like a switch has been flipped. That’s my favorite scene. Up until then he’s been a man with a past who kept trying to convince everyone else (and maybe himself too) that he’s changed. “I ain’t like that no more.” But after Ned’s killed, he lets the mask he’s been adjusting for the whole film just fall away and lets his true nature out there for the world to see. “I’ve killed women and children. I guess I’ve killed just about everything that walks or crawls at one time or another. And I’m here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you done to Ned.”

You're fun to watch, Jen. You really do deserve your status as one of the respected, well known reactors.

Dear Jen; I recommend the Outlaw Joey Wales; imo just as great as this is. Btw: a good horse in 1870 cost $150 and today that’s $3373. I thought the ladies were stupid not to accept that offer

Oh yea, so excited to watch this. Freaking love Unforgiven!

'... the forebearance of reptiles'. English Bob is claiming he relies upon rattlesnakes showing restraint rather than trying to bite when he meets them.

Jen, for sharp, insightful and witty comments, you are the girl to watch movies with. My favorite scene is when Bill is in the bar, confident and prideful, exulting in the praise of all the beta males and suddenly we see a double barrel shotgun enter the frame. We know the real power has made his entrance.

This movie is a multilevel masterpiece

You got it exactly right by thinking of his characters from past Westerns when watching this. Eastwood considered this as a sort of atonement for the depiction of violence that he took part in through the Western genre and meant to show the Old West for what it was instead of how Hollywood depicted it over the years.

"Unforgiven" won Eastwood his very first Academy Award for Best Director in 1993 and it also won for Best Picture-very well deserved. Gene Hackman also won Best Supporting Actor (Eastwood was nominated for Best Actor but lost to Al Pacino for "Scent Of A Woman"). Many say this is Eastwood's masterpiece. Another Eastwood directed film I highly recommend reacting to is the 1995 romantic drama "Bridges Of Madison County" based off the novel of the same name. Meryl Streep gives a beautiful performance in this film and she and Eastwood have great chemistry. The scenery is also very pretty. It's not as well known as his other films but well worth a watch and is quite good. Great reaction Jen!!!!!

Unforgiven is a lot about reputation, about getting a reputation, about forgetting a reputation, and the need to kill reputation.

Outstanding! 💜 Clint's 2nd best film, imo. After 'Gran Torino' (2008). "Well, he should have armed himself if he's going to decorate his saloon with my friend."

Richard Harris is actually Irish, and probably thought it hilarious to be going on about the British Crown with such reverential zeal as English Bob. Harris was a screen star, big in the 60s, and 70s. He was nominated for two Oscars and was quite the character in real life. I was very happy to see Harris turn up in Unforgiven when it first hit theatres. I just knew Eastwood was in a new western. Hackman, Freeman, and Harris were all a huge bonus. Skinny Dubois was also played by a familiar face - Anthony James. James was the ultimate creeper/ villain playing character actor at one time. He pops up everywhere in old movies. His face is crazy awesome, and he’s a very good actor. Thanks for making videos eh.

What many ppl miss about this film, is that it’s a subtle deconstruction of the American Western Outlaw archetype… especially the image of the “lone outlaw”. And from start to end, as the film progresses, the story is filled with revelations about the myths and notorious legends of the different characters-- but ultimately displaying their very real human condition and nature, that brings the audience back to reality. Eastwood, very skillfully used his own main character to illustrate the reality of being an Outlaw, apart from the American mythology that usually surrounds the greatest figures of that time and type, which go to show how these tall tales, are in fact just that--at least for the most part, based on exaggerated stories, assumed stereotypes, misconceptions, second hand experiences, or even outright lies; however, for many of these stories and the figures in them, lie a dark and twisted, often tragic tale that came from just how really brutal the Wild West was, and even more, how morally questionable, if not absent many of these great figures’ actions were, and the very real human cost paid for those very actions.

Winner of 4 Oscars including Best Picture. It was the third and final film in the Western genre to win.

One of my favorite bits of this “reluctant anti-hero” story is that Eastwood didn’t take the cut up woman with him at the end. That would’ve been too Hollywood to me. Great movie.

It is a masterpiece. So many scenes can be poured over but I think that look at Ned in the coffin is my favorite. The realization of a man who is haunted by his past that the image of Ned is now been added to all the others. And we all have it coming kid might be the one best single line in all of moviedom. Mesmerizing.

It wasn't that he wasn't used to riding anymore but that his horse wasn't used to being ridden. It had been used for plowing probably almost exclusively.

English Bob, was played by Richard Harris. He also played Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter movies. He died before #3 started filming.

It was Jen Murray's reactions that cured me of evil and wickedness

23:24 Mark! "Angel of Death"! To those of us that saw "Pale Rider" first, that's a funny irony! 😉

Wonderful reactions from Jen, to this powerful and superb Eastwood western.

This was talked about as being Clint’s “final western,” and I always see it as almost his reply or even “apology” for some of his earlier films, where he’s the cool gunslinger, and violence is action packed and fun. While his Man with No Name is usually not some terrible person, I think Will is to show you someone known for being a gunfighter but was really just a killer. And scenes like the long, painful death for the first cowboy they shot and the second one where it’s a chaotic scene and the guy’s shot on the toilet… it’s showing what a life of violence and murder is really like. Not some quick clean bloodless shooting where the guy instantly drops dead.

Westerns usually deal with American myths, honor, and heroism. This nuanced masterpiece breaks all those western tropes. Clint Eastwood has given us incredible movies from many different genres. Some I highly recommend include: The Outlaw Josey Wales - Western Pale Rider - Western Million Dollar Baby - Sports Drama (Female Boxing) Gran Torino - Drama Heartbreak Ridge - War Drama

24:30 "You ain't ugly like me" - He's talking about character. William Munny knows he was a bad, bad man.

34:52 Mark! It's a popular misnomer to refer to gunslingers as "cowboys"! Even diplomats and critics misuse the term. Captains Piken, Kirk & Picard are equestrians, but they never wrangled cattle. Some NYC slicker came up with the oxymoronic term "cowboy" just because he couldn't tell the differences between "cattle wranglers" and "cattle rustlers" and he came up with "cowboy" for both. Now, because of him, people refer to all bovine cattel as "cows"! ☹️

One thing I love about English Bob is how he's ruthless, but not at all honest. Even his accent is not honest. Very high and mighty when all is well, but then when he finally gets run out of town, the cockney accent slips in there, showing that even his air of nobility is a put-on - he's probably just some London street crook who just got on a ship to America one day. Great performance by Richard Harris.

I like that Eastwood dedicated the film to Don & Sergio, referring to Don Siegel (Dirty Harry) and Sergio Leone (Dollars trilogy). Gracious classy nod.

I like the progression of the writer. He goes from tailing behind a glorified bag of hot air to meeting an actual hard ass SOB who tells it how it is, to meeting the real deal, a stone cold killer that nobody back East has ever heard of.

Jen, 'Pale Rider" and "the Outlaw Josey Wales" are probably Clint Eastwood's best western films.

Yes, This is *absolutely* a story about morality. Eastwood definitely wanted you to ask these questions. By this time, for decades -- as long as there's been movies -- we'd been trained to pick a winner and a loser, a bad guy and a good guy. But, of course, that's a fantasy. I could be the bad guy and so could you. I'm grateful I've never been pressed by circumstance to find out how bad I could be.

5:16 Mark! Howdy, Jen! 🤠 That tall balding guy! He's a funny hermit-like character in "Mork " Mindy" and if I recall right, a villainous cyborg in "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century". 🤔 I'm glad that you're not shocked to see the actress that played Rose's mother in role outside of "Titanic"! Here she plays the brothel madam. In reality at one time, Frances Fisher and Clint were domestic partners. (1990 to 1995.) That would be after Sondra Locke from 1975 to 1989. He's married twice too! 😊

Saw this one in the theater. During the showdown, only one person in the audience didn't get it and cheered. He stopped very quickly when everyone else was dead silent. From the moment William took a drink from the Kid's bottle after hearing about Ned, to the rolling of the credits .. it makes you think.

30:30 Ah, THAT was the pivitol moment in the movie. William Munny had given up drinking along with killing people. That was the big thing he was advertising about himself for most of the movie--that he was a changed man. Then he hears that Ned was killed, and... he takes that swig of whiskey. From that moment on, you know he's now back to traveling that dark path.

The kid didn't have a change of heart, he simply stopped ignoring it.

One of my favorite movies. Clint Eastwood actually wrote that nylon guitar piece that plays throughout.

You and I had the same theory that the narrative text at the beginning and end is actually the writing of W.W. Beauchamp, the writer character in the movie! It makes sense as he finally witnessed a "real" Western showdown instead of just hearing about it from liars and braggarts. A friend of mine knows the screenwriter, David Peoples (who also wrote or co-wrote "Blade Runner" and "12 Monkeys!",) and one night over dinner he put that theory to Peoples and said that Peoples replied "I never thought of that! But it's an interesting idea." Eastwood did hold onto it for over a decade, at one point it was called "The William Munny Killings" or, before that, "The Cut-Wh*re Killings." But this is a much grander title. Eastwood said that it summed up everything he felt about the Western genre, and he hasn't made another one since. As a director, he's famous in Hollywood for doing minimal meddling - whatever state the script was in when he comes aboard to direct, that's what he shoots. He hires people he trusts and sticks with them for decades, doesn't do unnecessary takes, and tries to finish early every day. So people love working for him.

I grew up on Eastwood spaghetti westerns. "Unforgiven" for me was the perfect epilogue to those films.

Great reaction to one of Eastwood's best movies. Showing all the "moral" shades of gray are what makes this movie great. For example, the only way the women could get any sort of justice was by going outside the "law" and hiring gun fighters. My favorite line was Hackman saying he doesn't "deserve" this, and Eastwood's reply " Deserves has nothing to do with it". Glad you chose this Eastwood masterpiece.

6:10 One of my favorite little details about this film pertains to this question. There's a line in the scene around the 21:55 mark where Eastwood says that the powders wet in his pistol when Little Bill confronts him about his gun. For the western nerds like me, this is a fun little detail that further outlines how long its been since Munny has lived that kind of life. In the early 1870s cartridge ammunition had been introduced and by 1880 it would have been what any newer gun you'd own would use. Which you can see displayed in scenes like 11:58 & 19:26. But the earlier revolvers manufactured in the 1850s and 1860s used cap and ball ammunition. In which you'd have to fill each chamber with gun powder and ball shot and pack it down. So the line about being the powder wet lets us know he's using an old pistol that's at least 10 or so years old, if not older.

@07:24 "Sounds Nice!" is why Jen Murray is the Best movie commentator! Good movie, Great ending! THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES is Clint Eastwoods movie Directorial Debut and a Must Watch for any Eastwood fan! And as far as any Morality Tale to be told, William Munny out of Missouri said it all - "We all have it Come'n, kid."

Should have included the quote of the film - "we all got it coming kid" Eastwood frames it perfectly, it is the payoff, the takeaway, the lesson we should always keep in mind. How can you miss that? Even as he tells the writer there is no reason to how to win at gunfighting. It is not about right or wrong, or skill, that life makes very little sense when it comes to reason. Eastwood shows us a western that has no glory, no winners. No happy ending. His reward - Oscars, lots of Oscars.

One of my top 3 westerns! To me it seems through the whole movie as he’s telling ned and the kid he’s not like that anymore and that his wife changed him, he’s really trying to convince himself of that. In the end you can see that he really is that person. It’s like he’s been trying to deny his true nature. I love how this movie shows that nothing is black and white and there are no truly good or bad.

One of the only westerns where it shows how it really goes down , once bullets start flying by 99% of peoples first instinct is to cower and run away no matter if you have a gun or not. That fear of death and just wanting survive is no joke.

A lot of people like to consider this to be a sort of "spiritual epilogue" to the Dollars Trilogy and the Man with No Name. What happens to a notitious gunslinger who settled down and retired to reflect on his pasr. It's also sort of an analogy for the Western film genre in general.

I love Little Bill's character. A violent murderer with a holier than thou attitude. He fancies himself a lawman but he relishes in and constantly dispenses violence. I always thought the house he is building was a metaphor for his real persona. He fancies himself a carpenter, like Jesus, but the house he builds is all crooked and full of leaks.

You've basically bookended Eastwood's career in westerns. There's stuff in the middle, like "Pale Rider," "High Plains Drifter," "The Outlaw Josie Wales," "Two Mules for Sister Sara," and "Hang 'em High." For a different side of Eastwood in a western, there's "Paint Your Wagon," "Bronco Billy," and "Honky Tonk Man." There's also "Dirty Harry." The quality of the Dirty Harry movies is to me a bit uneven and dated, but it is an iconic role for Eastwood. People think Eastwood always played the hero, but IMO he tried to create more complex characters, and people expecting a straight up hero and trying to force it that way in their mind, sometimes don't know what to make of him and may be inclined to make a slur about older generations being stupid or unkind, because they don't understand what they're being presented with. "Gran Torino" is a great example of this.

The point where shes telling them about Ned being killed and he takes that bottle from the Kid is one of the most iconic moments in film history and there was zero action other than a bottle being turned up

Great, very serious, austere Western. My favorite western by far is *The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance* - it has John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart amongst others. Highly recommended! (And my two favorite modern westerns are the remakes of *True Grit* and of *3:10** To Yuma* .)

The morality being all over the place is one of the important aspects of the movie. Everyone is unforgiven for their supposed sins whether they repent or not. Like the guilty cowboy's partner. He had nothing to do with it, and even tried to help, but he was judged and unforgiven. Ned refused to shoot him and left because he couldn't commit the deed, but was arrested and ends up dying. Unforgiven. Will is haunted by the ghosts of his past right up to the end. Unforgiven. "I don't deserve this. I was building a house." "Deserve's got nothing to do with it." Unforgiven.

At 13:00 . . Little Bill thought he was dead too , but he was just in Nebraska, This coming from a Nebraska boy, I saw this movie back in 1992 and I was the lone voice in the back theatre doing an L O L ! ; 8 - )

You are correct when you presume Eastwood connects to his former roles in Western movies. Unforgiven is his last Western, his "Magnum Opus". He took all the few worded killers he had done and put them into William Munny, the last, complete "monster". The last scene in this movie is the strongest I have ever seen in a Western, it's Eastwood making up with his past, just as William Munny.

33:50 Same. This pensioner was more frightening in this scene than Arnie was in the Terminator 😂

This is a movie that shows that change isn't forever and that what you are will always come through...no matter how much you try to deny your true nature, it will always prevail in the end.

Jen, you’re the first reviewer to catch on to the scrolling text “book ends” as being from Mr Beauchamp’s eventual novel about the killings in Big Whiskey. The entire movie is a deconstruction of the Western gunfighter myth, with Beauchamp as the stand-in for the audience. As a result, the story’s plot and main character arc is about Beauchamp discovering what to write his novel about, and his own disillusionment of the Western myth as a “city slicker” unexposed to the harsh, lawless realities of the western territories. William Munny is still the main character, but it’s like “The Neverending Story”, where Atreyo is the narrative device for Sebastian to complete his character journey.

It blows my mind that Clint Eastwood made such a good western that takes advantage of his long career in westerns. Back when he was making his Man with No Name trilogy I don't think this movie was on anyone's mind, yet this movie makes a great final statement on his westerns.

High Plains Drifter, Pale Rider, Outlaw Josey Wales… true classics

Love that you have a cat named Fatty. I used to have a 22-pound grey and white named Fatty a few years ago. I have a 20 pound black cat named Big Boy now. Other than that, this is a great western. Clint, who my mom named me after, is one of my favorite actors, playing any role or genre to the hilt.

I'm not sure if anyone has said it yet, but English Bob is the actor who was the original Dumbledore.

"I'll see you in Hell William Munny" gets a laconic 'yeah' because - *drum roll please* - they're already there

There are some movies that are undeniable, unforgettable masterpieces, absolutely perfect... but that you never want to watch again... Like Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket or Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs... This is one of them. Absolutely a work of art that doesn't leave you, but a heavy lift as entertainment.

I love seeing the different reactions to this film specifically because it is not the typical hero vs villain story, it has so many layers and nuances that everybody takes something different from it. Jen, if you want to do something that no other reactors (that I know of) have done, I would recommend you now go backwards through Eastwood's unofficial trilogy of westerns he has directed. Unforgiven was in 1992 Pale Rider was in 1985 The Outlaw Jose Wales was in 1976 It is so interesting to go back in time and see Clint get younger but also see how he developed as a story teller. BTW, Unforgiven was almost completely shot in Alberta 🇨🇦

28:00 Everyone talks, unless the torturer isn't good at his job and kills you by accident first. Or maybe you get rescued. But as a rule, it's when you talk, not if.

One of the best aspects of this movie is that everytime someone relates a story of Will's past ... its a different story. He's that prolific of a killer 😮

My absolute favourite western, so so SO goddamn good. Just a top to bottom masterpiece. For another fun unique western, I recommend Open Range (winter style) and Quigley Down Under

"Deserves got nothing to do with it"...Great metaphor for life. You can make all the high notes but don't get a seat in the choir or sometimes you can make a full house out of a shitty hand.