UNFORGIVEN (1992) First Time Watching! Movie Reaction! 2 Filmmakers React!

Hey Guys, we're reacting and breaking down the amazing film "Unforgiven" starring THE LEGEND himself Clint Eastwood. This film won 5 oscars including Best Picture, Best director, and Best Supporting Actor for Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman also plays an amazing role in this pitch perfect western masterpiece.... Peace!
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Major and Richard are two filmmakers and Cinematographers. Richard also directs
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[@jumpcutreviews1545]

"It's a hell of a thing killing a man." "You take away all he's got, ...and all he's ever goanna have." -That line gives me goose bumps every time.

[@robbob5302]

Take a drink, kid.

[@kevinsmith4429]

That & "OR I'LL COME BACK & KILL EVERYONE OF YOU SON'S OF BITCHES!" Kind of think he meant it. That & WE ALL GOT IT COMIN' KID!🥶

[@iggtastic]

Someone's probably already mentioned this, but I love the bit of English Bob characterization when he's beat to hell, riding out of town in the carriage and cursing everyone. He drops his high brow King's English accent and reverts to his low brow blue collar accent. His whole life is a pose, a mask he wears. Such a cool expansion of the character with so little effort.

[@dikluegert6658]

Roger Ebert said this in his review way back when. Took me a few years before I finally noticed it myself. Great movie

[@mhlevy]

Another fantastic movie by Clint Eastwood is "Gran Torino," which he directed and produced. It's not a western, but a contemporary story about a retired auto worker and Korean war vet, and the movie begins with Clint after his wife's funeral. It's all about how he's the same, but everything around him has changed. All of his neighbors have died or moved away, and he doesn't know anything about, or even want to get to know his new neighbors. But then he learns that he has more in common with his immigrant, Hmong neighbors than he does with his own family.

[@michaelmonthey5974]

I love that movie! Another great Clint Eastwood movie!

[@floretionguru2977]

It's claimed one of the main reasons that female action heroine movies generally flop is not because they're worse at it than men, but because they always make them into general role model characters with hardly any imperfections. One of the great things about this movie is that it puts the viewer in a conundrum where he really wants to root for Clint Eastwood's character, but may also feel a lot of inner conflict in doing so because he's done so many bad things in the past.

[@peterpaul666]

I've watched about 15 different movie review channels and approximately 6 or so of your reviews. For what it is worth, you have real potential. One thing NO ONE seems to be doing in the reaction videos is explaining WHAT people are seeing in terms of the camera - what causes it to move in that way, why do the colors look like they do, what equipment is used, why did the director choose to frame it in this manner? Ya'll are uniquely qualified of all reviewers I have seen to comment on movies in that manner and I believe if you would focus a bit more on these types of comments (possibly done in post viewing comments edited in to describe the shot or simply added in via text on the screen) your reaction channel can grow to truly be one of the greats.

[@adrianfuegoscuro6308]

"We All Have It Comin,' Kid." What a line!!

[@billtmarchi4320]

The one chamber was empty. It wouldn't have fired had he taken the gun.

[@arconeagain]

I love the closing scene as he rides off into the darkness on his white pinto. It's like the horse is a ghost, a memory that will go on through the ages of story telling. For me, it's possibly homage to one of his earlier films.

[@chrisbullard5901]

The part I love about this movie is the beginning and ending scrolling text bookends. Initially, it doesn’t make sense, but by the end of the film, you realize this story is the gunfighter novel written by Beauchamp. Instead of trying to find a source to tell him how the wild west actually was, he witnessed it, and based on the ending text, implies Beauchamp based his novel on his own research rather than the heresay of “credible sources”. In a way, this story is more about Beauchamp as a stand-in for the western genre audience, going through the disillusionment in real time.

[@rxtsec1]

Interesting will have to look up if that was Eastwoods intent

[@rxtsec1]

Be cool if it was

[@pamnicklas5536]

Well goddamn....the beginning and ending text being written by Beauchamp never ever occurred to me. Hats off gentlemen!

[@joesanchez9811]

Wow! Great perspective never thought that. My mind is blown, You just made this better for me I gotta tell my wife!

[@joshua43214]

Just rewatched this a few weeks. one of the absolute best of the genre

[@MrMice...]

...of any genre 😊

[@insanitypepper1740]

Clint Eastwood is a national treasure.

[@PetarSon]

My favorite part of the movie was when William Manny at the end told everyone in town: "You better bury Ned right or i'll come back and kill every single one of you sons of bitches!"

[@EricAKATheBelgianGuy]

I love how somebody finally mentioned the great camera angle on Little Bill's line of "I'll have that .32, Bob."

[@Captally]

Great choice lads and looking forward to "The Wild Bunch". Hoping "Hombre" might be on the horizon or "Escape From Fort Bravo".

[@simonsmith-jg6wl]

People underestimate the performance of the kid , when bill and the kid we’re waiting for the money and the kid was talking about the cowboy he killed tears welled up in my eyes great acting

[@zackstoner4523]

Exactly. Everything that need be said or debated was done, with a simple look.

[@Curraghmore]

Another modern western film that I always liked and that I think is often overlooked is 'Open Range' from 2003, directed by and starring Kevin Costner, with Robert Duvall and Annette Bening. Cool film.

[@joesanchez9811]

Have you seen Hell or High Water with Chris pine and Jeff Bridges? if not get ready to watch a modern day western in texas about 2 bank robbing brothers, this was very good.

[@drcornelius8275]

I love movies with realism or are at least somewhat real to life. I was particularly impressed when Ned realizes he can't just kill that cowboy in cold blood now. So true to the feelings you get as you grow older and appreciate life more as opposed to a younger man.

[@LoSconosciuto57179]

I have seen this film several times in Italy and I like it every time. I've been following your channel from Milan for some time and you are really nice. Ciao

[@3YearsApart1613]

nice job guys. such a great movie

[@Klaital1]

That thing in the end when he is coming out of the saloon and theatens to kill the whole family of whoever tries to shoot at him always reminds me of that line from Usual Suspects 'How do you shoot the devil in the back? What if you miss?' I feel like that was totally what that guy was thinking about who was aiming the rifle at him.

[@gryndyl]

It ties in with English Bob's bit earlier about being unable to shoot royalty.

[@bugvswindshield]

best damned western ever. black and white the first of the "anti-hero" "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence" John Wayne portrays an epic hero, with morals galore.

[@BV-nx6vq]

Great reaction to one of my favorite films of all time...the 9 out of 5 "Ducks of Death" award was awesome 👍🔥🔥🔥🔥🌋🌋🌋🌋

[@pamnicklas5536]

"I love Little Bill...he's a badass" hehe just wait a bit!

[@surfingtothestars]

one thing about this western compared to the other westerns is that it is not as simple as a black and white world, right and wrong, and good vs evil. The "good guy" isn't really a good guy and the hero doesn't ride off into the sunset with happiness. It's definitely a more gritty and realistic western approach

[@MajorProgress]

Great point!

[@PhenomProductions23]

You can't mention, Clint, Wayne without including The Late Great James Garner who was also one of the best actors and western cowb9ys of all time. Must watch his Westerns.

[@st0n3p0ny]

If that's a 9/10, I really don't know what a 10 is. Not just my favorite Western, but it's on my short list for best movies period. You should definitely do Dances With Wolves.

[@MoreIrrelevantTwaddle]

They didn't rate it a 9/10, they gave it a 9/5, more specifically they both gave it a 9 out of 5 ducks of death lol. You are spot on about Dances with Wolves, I'm partial to the extended cut as it adds so much understory, but a gorgeous movie.

[@robbob5302]

Or do Avatar. (aka Dances with Thanotars.)

[@oyvey6869]

Maybe my ATF of any genre. I love the way he alludes to his past with reluctance bc he's trying to escape it. How they leave what he did in the past to our own imaginations. He's trying to be a diff man and honor his wife's memory. He shows his frailty and rust. Until he hears about Ned and then his decade long struggle to escape his real self is over. I love Little Bill. He's the most interesting character to me. Neither villain nor hero but a mix of both, like Muny. He doesn't fight fair and why should he, it's not a game. He's sadistic and hard but for a purpose. He is trying to protect his town and discourage would be assassins from all over the West from destroying Big Whiskey. Because he always puts the odds heavily in his favor, he does a great job of breaking down the "heroic" mythology of the old West.

[@oldcdog91]

“Open Range” and “Silverado” should also be added to your list of modern westerns. 😉

[@derianjones1730]

Another classic from my youth would have to be "Burt Lancaster" in "Valdez is coming".

[@YoureMrLebowski]

Congratulations 1000 subscribers! you're welcome 🤗. could you do The Big Lebowski. 🙏🏼

[@tjsogmc]

Nice piece of fan fiction: William Munny is actually the "man with no name" from the spaghetti westerns of the 60s. Older, and retired now.

[@spacesergeant101]

This movie spends the whole time deconstructing the crazy gunfight western movie, then rebuilds it all back up again in one scene. I love the meaning behind Little Bill being "no carpenter" when he thinks he's the good guy. Also everyone was using single action revolvers. As they all panicked in the saloon they had to pull back with their thumb and in their hurry all probably shot high. All Bill Munny did is duck and he was safe.

[@speedracer1945]

They were amateurs and really were never in a real gunfight like the fat guy and the idiot with 2 guns only Hackman had experience.

[@kurtb8474]

The scariest character Eastwood has ever played.

[@jackthomas6952]

This one and Marshal Duncan

[@kevinsmith4429]

Who knew the real Will Monney was hiding all the time in that bottle all that time? Little Bill underestimated him at his own peril!

[@MrMice...]

The demon was always within. Hearing that his oldest friend was killed and had a sign hung on him... that lit the fuse. The beast was back, with or without that bottle. He was just thirsty 😊

[@UncleCharlie111]

You guys have great taste!!

[@thebackyardbear]

Would LOVE to see you guys tackle the "Lonesome Dove" series.

[@keithbrown8490]

You need to check out the Hollywood westerns of the real classic western era. The 1940's thru early 1970's. When John Wayne died the ones after that are the Italian westerns and the anti westerns.

[@speedracer1945]

Wayne did some good ones and his last western. I also liked some Randolph Scott Westerns . I love Westerns since on Television they only show cop shows and superhero films .

[@claudettesmith8328]

If you go back & rewatch the whole scene (Clint drinking again), while the girl is talking;watch his face change. There is a vein in the center of his forehead that pops out when she told about a sign put on Ned/Freman.

[@joemummerth8340]

clint eastwood , richard harris, morgan freeman , and gene hackman ! what more could you ask for ?

[@btm111111]

Loving this series. Not sure if you've done it yet but it would be great to see you do 'The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford' an insanley well made film!

[@derianjones1730]

"Shane...................Shane.....................Shane.........come back Shane............ An absolute classic in cinema history.

[@majormoviemadness9927]

Yes we have so many to do

[@artursandwich1974]

I'd like to see you react to Lonesome Dove, which to me is the western;the epitome, the embodiment, the depiction with at least seven great roles wonderfully played.

[@erikhoxsey8186]

William Munny is legend!

[@joemummerth8340]

like the original film , but this one is better in many ways ! it`s definitely darker !

[@etpelle72]

Master class in character development.

[@st0n3p0ny]

Gene turned the movie down because he was tired of glorifying violence. Clint had to meet with him and explain that's exactly why he should take the part.

[@RD-lt3ht]

This movie shows you that "Post Modern" is not something to be feared, and that even a political conservative like Eastwood can see the shear creative potential of such an intellectual stance, meaning it doesn't have to be "white hats" vs "black hats" to be compelling -- GREY hats vs GREY hats is just as, if not MORE compelling. LONG LIVE these re-examinations of treasured myths and illusions!

[@michaelmonthey5974]

That other guy was holding her so his friend can cut her up. He did it reluctantly, but that’s still a deal breaker for the women in Big Whiskey.

[@BenB-yk7kd]

Unforgiven the title alone is so deep in one word

[@BigGator5]

"What I've felt, What I've known Never shined through in what I've shown. Never free. Never me. So I dub thee unforgiven." Fun Fact: Clint Eastwood's mother Ruth Wood toiled through an uncomfortable day (wearing a heavy dress) as an extra, filming a scene where she boards a train. However, the scene was eventually cut, with her son apologizing. All was forgiven when he brought her to the Academy Awards and thanked her prominently in his acceptance speech.

[@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t]

Fun fact, that song was written 2 years before the movie came out and is completely unrelated.

[@thunderstruck5484]

Great acting by everyone, I haven’t seen the kid in anything else but he sure did a good job holding his own with Clint and Morgan, great movie, my favorite part at the end when the town is terrified was the girl coming out a smile on her face as the Demon of Vengeance slowly rides into the blackness back to hell

[@pamnicklas5536]

I call Munny the Angel of Death! 😈

[@t0dd000]

Modern western. Does Bone Tomahawk count? It's a horror western and so good. Also so disturbing.

[@BenB-yk7kd]

Guess he don't want it, mr beauchamp. Very few people on KZbin ever see that it was a revolver that appeared fully loaded but the chamber was empty which is why Clint shows 5 bullets hit the floor and if you saw Magnum Force and then this 20 years later it would blow your mind so bad that you give oscars to an outsider. Clint Eastwood is so good they can't deny him even in Hollywood

[@keithbrown8490]

By Classic Westerns I don't mean the just John Wayne's. There are so many great stars and Directors to do a series of movies on ! Randolph Scott, James Stewart, Glenn Ford. Directors John Ford, Howard Hawks, Henry Hathaway and Anthony Mann are just a few of many more !

[@jb8280]

Apologies if I didn’t see it, but have you guys reacted to McCabe & Mrs. Miller? Altman’s very Altmanesque western. The Criterion version is so much cleaner and less muddy. He purposely shot in that way, but some of it has not aged well. But, the movie is still one of my favorite westerns.

[@HaveMonkeyWillDance]

Cracking movie, shot through with decency concealed behind hard reality. Little Bill is the most fascinating character for me; so determined to keep Big Whiskey decent by being indecently violent, and while English Bob is a bit on the nose anti-Redcoat bullshit, their interaction is masterful, the jail scene especially. Oh Richard Harris, how we mourn thee! A special film and a comment on Westerns that made Westerns viable again. Nice reaction. Love the enthusiasm. Onward, ever onward! Subscribed!

[@eddiecollison]

New subscriber, great review fellas. I always felt the only innocent people in the movie are the deputies. Interesting that people always cheer their deaths too. Poor Will, "I ain't like that no more".

[@Fishmorph]

If you have not already seen it, check out “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.”

[@diamondtom9516]

Thanks for your great western reactions! Please consider Lonesome Dove. Novel written by Larry McMurtry, and Was a 4 part tv series, loaded with stars from that time. Robert Duval, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover, Diane Lane,to name just a few.

[@BenB-yk7kd]

The talent of Eastwood is so great that it can't be denied, even in Hollywood, where they hate everything about him. He's a strong smart independent free free free Man and so damn charismatic and brilliant that feminists and the progressive academy and the foriegn press hate to love him but they do love him

[@rxtsec1]

Lol he trotted out of town slowly daring them to shoot him knowing he put a fair of you know what in them

[@innercircle341]

My favourite classic Western is Gunfight At The OK Corral 1957. Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas. Cinematographic masterpiece. Way better than Tombstone.

[@sneaksz1]

Tombstone! Also for a newer western Open Range. Then if you want the best western ever filmed Lonesome Dove!! Love the channel and your knowledge on filming. Gives a whole other perspective to these films.

[@diamondtom9516]

Yes! Lonesome Dove best ever!

[@niteowlsongs]

Unforgiven or One Old Man and A Child. u guys rock. One o me fav films. 🤟

[@KyleS3m3noff]

He takes his first swig right on her saying "He said you was really William Munny...". Right on queue.

[@highstimulation2497]

btw: I've said this on other reactions to this movie, but 1,000 dollars at that time is about 29,000 today.

[@myflatlineconstruct]

Tied with Once upon a time in the west. I waffle

[@TTM9691]

Yo! You guys are four away from 1000 subscribers! Congratulations!/ LOVE what you said about Gene Hackman in the beginning, man. Someone should write a script for Jack Nicholson and Gene Hackman to play. Like two brothers or something. Do a film version of Mamet's "The Duck Variations". I completely agree with you 100%. Miss that guy. You know a few years after he quit acting, they were shooting a movie on location near where he lives. Curious, he decided to walk up to the set and see what was cooking. The P.A. assistants didn't recognize him.....they wouldn't let him on set. Oof! Some "Sunset Boulevard" s**t right there!/PS Yeah, "Dance With Wolves" won the Oscar for 1990......and "Goodfellas" didn't! So f**k the Oscars! lol. It's funny Scorsese didn't get the Oscar for "Raging Bull" and lost it to actor-turned-director Robert Redford's "Ordinary People"....and ten years later exactly he loses to actor-turned-director Kevin Costner. That's gotta hurt! :P

[@oyvey6869]

He was AWESOME with Denzel in Crimson Tide, another of my ATF's.

[@Ceractucus]

Just discovered this channel, (and subbed) so sorry if you've seen these. To me, the best two western movies are The Searchers, and Once Upon a Time in the West. The latter of these movies is by Sergio Leone and better than any of the dollars trilogy. If you're looking for something more off beat, try Ride the High Country which is such a great movie.

[@BenB-yk7kd]

Clint rocks

[@65cj55]

Have you watched Quigley Down Under with Tom Selleck? it's pretty good..

[@javintut]

watch Hang 'Em High (1968) for more Eastwood westerns

[@kadathsmith]

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

[@lucasingram4583]

Ned wasn’t picked up and killed cuz he’s black it’s cuz he was a bounty hunter looking for the “wh*re’s gold”. Whipping’s a form of punishment in that town if you recall the beginning the two men were gonna get whipped too

[@scottperry8354]

Great reaction! Love to see you react to Open Range and The Outlaw Josie Wales. 👍

[@majormoviemadness9927]

Outlaw josey wales was done about 6 weeks ago check our catalog

[@scottperry8354]

@@majormoviemadness9927 thanks.

[@jcarlovitch]

22:36 sums up my time in the navy.

[@robertjonsson797]

I take this character as a send off to Clint's man without name.... from the Dollar series etc. Great movie. Respect.

[@highstimulation2497]

"The forbearance of reptiles" likely means that they rely on reptiles not threatening them.

[@Coolrockndad]

"Unforgiven" won the OSCAR for best movie in 1993.

[@evhleppard]

Love this movie

[@robertknuist9754]

U need to do A Perfect World by Clint

[@adamshepard5977]

Don't leave out Silverado.

[@zenhaelcero8481]

Hope to see you guys react to a Peckinpah western on here! Ride the High Country is a great one.

[@matthewfaigle6237]

Um, where’d you get that ‘We Working” shirt?

[@MajorProgress]

I've worked a few hip-hop festivals/events as a cam op. At one of them, a sponsor gave the crew shirts and hats. It's one of my favorite shirts/designs. I don't even know if they make it anymore.

[@YoureMrLebowski]

do you still have your unedited footage for Unforgiven? i do compilations and would like to include you.

[@majormoviemadness9927]

I dont

[@YoureMrLebowski]

if you did i would have been shocked.

[@majormoviemadness9927]

Why is that?

[@paulhewes7333]

Little Bill was a true warrior, but he was also an authoritarian and capable of brutality almost equal to that of Will as long as it was cloaked under the guise of "the law" as he sees it.

[@robbob5302]

Bill went on and on about how much he hated people who turned into cowards, with a gun pointed at them. At the end, he finally got a gun pointed at him, and found out what it was like.

[@vinniemoran7362]

"God cursed the day Gene Hackman decided to stop acting" Could not agree more. He could make a bad movie good, that's how great he was.

[@JohnNoZ35]

9 out of 5 ducks of death! Excellent!

[@HaveMonkeyWillDance]

USA! USA!

[@tekay44]

True Grit, either version.

[@majormoviemadness9927]

We did it it got blocked

[@tekay44]

@@majormoviemadness9927 ahh, bummer. great cowboy movies both.

[@highstimulation2497]

re: an amazing gorgeous ash tree.... I think they shot this in Canada? not sure.

[@danielchapman6032]

Any plans to watch Little Big Man? One of the source material that changed the Western forever.

[@KellyHilgerRealtor]

“Forbearance of reptiles” I assume Bob means something along the lines of having a gun on him at all times in case of rattlesnakes…. Not 100% though

[@Just-Saiyan]

🤙

[@speedracer1945]

This film shown character over action that killing has PTD over time even in Westerns. He settled down married and had kids though his wife died . In order for him again to kill again is anger and booze like he used to .

[@65cj55]

In a Tombstone there's a scene with the Blonde Women and her Face is all cut up as well, is she real in History i wonder.

[@joedirt688]

Great show , a little to much talking by the one guy though...

[@brettschacht4183]

If you want to check out a seriously underappreciated Eastwood film, track down a copy of 'The Beguiled'. Quite the dark little tale.

[@chiefsteps-in-poo8447]

I'm not a racist but it's hard for me living down south where we pretty much have racism bred into us. I respect a person's right to express himself however he feels. I just didn't care for the way that black guy got all pumped whenever Morgan Freeman was even mentioned in the movie. There were a couple of times when I actually thought he orgasmed right there beside his friend. You didn't see the white guy getting all emotional when Gene Hackman died.