Yeah...UNFORGIVEN is awesome | First Time Watching

New to the AFI updated Top 100 list for great reason #68 Unforgiven has got to be one of the best movies I have ever seen! I can't wait to get into more and more Westerns to truly appreciate what Clint Eastwood means to the genre and what he achieved in this movie! Great cast, story and cinematography! I loved the Thunder over top of Eastwood! He was the storm!!!
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Original Movie: Unforgiven (1992)
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[@coldflamebluedragon196]

Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman. Three absolute gods of American cinema. Such a fantastic cast and film

[@willwilliamson9580]

all three still kicking it too. very long lived gentlemen.

[@markhawes6000]

...and Richard Harris.

[@marcuscato9083]

@@markhawes6000Three American giants and one English giant. 😂

[@domainmojo2162]

And Richard Harris. A legend.

[@colmobrien1739]

Richard Harris is Irish.

[@technofilejr3401]

One thing to notice is that Will’s horse is constantly being unruly when he is sober and trying to be a nice guy. Almost like the horse doesn’t recognize him. However, once he becomes his murderous drunken self, the horse is calm. It knows its true master has returned. Will is Death and his steed is the pale horse.

[@joemamma137]

Battered horse syndrome?

[@markc.7984]

that's interesting. I read it as the farm horse resisting being drawn down the road toward Wil's return to murder - the way animals always seem to know when evil is near. But by the time Will fully becomes his old self, the horse has been transformed into his pale horse along with him. Both lose the humble character they had had on the farm.

[@BattleMatt]

Pale Rider, another of Eastwood's films.

[@T3MUwU]

@@BattleMatt Phenomenal film. Paint your wagon, Josey wales, and many others as well.

[@rafaelpena3280]

The scene of Clint appearing in the darkness inside the bar is iconic. A Masterpiece

[@holddowna]

UNREAL!

[@Anon54387]

@@holddowna I'm not saying it was right, not defending the guy who slashed that woman's cheeks, but it does highlight the risk of being a prostitute. That's a notoriously danger line of work to get into, now as then. It's a bit odd, though, to call a prostitute a lady.

[@Anon54387]

@@holddowna I think that "rifle" was actually a shotgun.

[@Anon54387]

@@holddowna No time like the present, if you want to ride horses, there are places that give lessons. Not something to wait on.

[@Anon54387]

@@holddowna When Eastwood's character talked about shooting that drover, it reminded me of Wyatt Earp in Tombstone saying I already have a guilty conscience, may as well have the money to go along with it.

[@chrispittman8854]

We can debate which Western has the best single scene, but rather than do that, let's just acknowledge this Western contains one of the best... ever.

[@GeorgeTropicana]

Nah, Josey Wales bounty hunter scene > anything else and you can go cry about it

[@michaelhoward142]

@@GeorgeTropicana "One of the best..."

[@argentokaos2629]

This was the LAST GREAT Western... (... Hopefully not ever.)

[@chrispittman8854]

@@GeorgeTropicana Actually, I was attempting not to spoil that one. Ix nay on the istols pay. 😂 It's pretty sweet. "Endeavor to preserver..." I have NO idea how many times I've watched "JW."

[@brettmuir5679]

​@@chrispittman8854I use that line in my day to day

[@THOMMGB]

Clint Eastwood bought the rights to the screenplay and held onto it for 10 years until he looked older and more believable. Now, that's someone who takes filmmaking seriously. Unforgiven won the Best Picture Oscar and Best Director (Clint Eastwood).

[@davidhutchinson5233]

Actors have said that he is an awesome director as well. One, two or three takes and that's it.

[@THOMMGB]

@@davidhutchinson5233 Close, but never just one, and that’s only for safety reasons.

[@michaelwainscott2633]

Clint Eastwood made it clear: William Muny was no hero nor was he a sympathetic figure. That's why it was mentioned several times he's killed women and children. NO ONE who kills women and children is a good person on any level. He was a hired gunman who got paid $ to kill and he also killed for vengeance after his friend Ned was killed. Clint wanted to draw back the curtain on this role.

[@joeberger3441]

This was the grand finale for Clint Eastwood's westerns. This story was essentially the conclusion of the western gunslinger archetype that he portrayed in all his previous Westerns. Its why he purposely waited over 20 years after writing a script, just to give the character the age necessary for such a story. Btw, one thing i really love about your reactions is that you don't talk over key lines. You have excellent attention to detail and seem to pause for commentary rather than talking over the next line or scene. Its a mistake so many other reactors make that you've avoided.

[@welcometothemovies9157]

He didn't write the script. The guy who wrote Blade Runner did but yeah Eastwood waited to he was right age when he read and bought script

[@joeberger3441]

@@welcometothemovies9157 ah, gotcha

[@clarkness77]

I like how it deals with legacy and history. Like how true is it really? Is it just someone's perspective of the events?

[@joeberger3441]

@@welcometothemovies9157 good point!

[@warriorpitbull1170]

'English Bob' is played by the inimitable Richard Harris. He played the Emperor Marcus Aurelius in Gladiator and the first Professor Dumbledore in Harry Potter. One of the best actors ever.

[@LordOfAllusion]

It’s movies like this that I really see his son, Jared Harris in him. They are both fantastic actors.

And "A Man Called Horse", another astounding movie, filmed on an era of westerns, when they depicted very badly the native americans. He also played Abbe Faria on "The Count of Monte Cristo" (2002). He was an incredible actor.

[@powerpointpaladin6911]

As soon as I heard him, I recognized him from Tarzan the Ape Man back in the day: "where's my cannon!"

[@powerpointpaladin6911]

He was also King Arthur, in Camelot ... twice

[@Rocket1377]

​@@LordOfAllusionI hope they cast Jared as Dumbledore in the upcoming Harry Potter tv series. He would be the perfect choice.

[@JasonMoir]

This is one of those movies that if it's on, you always watch...even though you've seen it 100 times. Love this movie.

[@holddowna]

Totally!

[@Zgenzayan007]

Clint Eastwood's masterpiece. One of the few films I've seen in a theater where the audience stood and applauded as the credits rolled.

[@karlmortoniv2951]

Audiences freaked out when the first trailer started playing in cinemas. Everyone was keen to see this. 😊

[@realBkay]

Saul Rubinek (Beauchamp) was interviewed and said Clint bought the script and held onto it for 10 yrs. Saul said when a script is re-written, colored pages indicate the re-writes. Saul said when he received the script, all script pages were white - no re-writes. It was that good.

[@DubyaDaLastRepugPrez]

I was completely blown away the first time I saw this movie. A total masterpiece. Amazing performances by actors at the top of their game, particularly Gene Hackman. It's a very unusual Western, the way the whole topic of killing a man and how difficult it is becomes the primary focus of the movie. The ending is just so powerful! It's got to be a candidate for the greatest Western movie ever made. I was never a big Clint Eastwood fan growing up, but I became one after seeing this movie.

[@dmb7403]

To me this is the best western of all time. Its like an amalgamation of all the gunslinger characters that Clint ever played just trying to redeem themselves and have some kind of good life after all of the killing. His speech at the end, that whole scene in my opinion is one of the best in film history. A masterpiece.

[@tbmike23]

This script floated around for a long time. It's writer cried at the premier, when Clint had been 100% faithful to it, in his movie adaptation.

[@jamesbolling6681]

In an interview , Clint Eastwood said he called Richard Harris at his home in the Bahamas to ask if he wanted to play English Bob in the movie. Richard Harris was watching High Plains Drifter and thought it was a crank call.

[@stephendavis6267]

"Deserve's got nothin' to do with it."

[@domainmojo2162]

Coldest line this side of heaven!

[@lolmao500]

Karma : the biggest lie ever told so people dont do anything about evil people, especially those in power... ``they gonna get whats coming to them/theyre going to go to hell``... all bullcrap excuses to not do anything real about scumbags.

[@Ravenstrike721]

Life lesson

[@Stranglethroat]

"We all got it comin'"

[@chrissmith3103]

So many great lines. My favorite "It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. Take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have."

[@SmokeyNades]

He shoulda armed himself if he’s gonna decorate his saloon with my friend

[@lolmao500]

In todays america, cops decorate their police station with the bodies of many innocent people and its even on video to laugh at ... and no murdering cop ever end up in the morgue or in prison for it.

[@SmokeyNades]

@@lolmao500 don’t cut yourself on all that edge, princess

[@knightheaven8992]

@@lolmao500 sure sure...

[@zingamaxkettlesteinjudaism6069]

@@lolmao500”innocent people” So that was a lie.

[@randymccloud5743]

Soooo many great lines in this movie.

[@jasonvulgamore7414]

Clint Eastwood is synonymous with Westerns. High Plains Drifter, Pale Rider, The Good The Bad and The Ugly... all legendary films. Eastwood wanted to keep the sets pristine so all camera equipment and such had to be brought to the set on horse drawn cart to keep from making modern tire tracks in the streets of the town.

[@chrispittman8854]

"Well? Are you gonna pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?" If you get a chance check out Jay Mohr's bit about working with Eastwood.

[@Anon54387]

I don't remember if it is an Eastwood movie, but there's that one movie where they are on a train station platform at the beginning and the windmill water pump has a squeaky bearing in it. That was a mood.

[@GeorgeTropicana]

Doesn't even name his best western

[@nordboya1656]

@@Anon54387 Not an Eastwood, but it is from a (very great) Sergio Leone movie: Once Upon a Time in the West.

[@rare_wulf9358]

You did not mentioned my favorite movie of Clint Eastwood “ The Outlaw Josey Wales”

[@shannonkohl68]

I saw this movie when it first came out. Was totally blown away by it. I love the fact that even the minor characters are well-developed and well-acted. This is one of those movies I've watched over and over and it never gets old.

[@dereknolin5986]

"It's a hell of a thing, killin' a man. You take away all he's got, and all he's ever gonna have." That's one of my favorite movie lines ever!

[@jdc7923]

Clint is a very special director. His movies are completed on time and under budget. He shoots most of his scenes in one take, because he knows that a quality movie is about storytelling and atmosphere, not about getting the "perfect" performance of each individual scene.

[@OverlandOne]

I have been watching your film reaction videos for a while now and just wanted to say, your analysis is spot on. I am old now, but it is great to see a younger person with the intellect to understand the events unfolding in a film. It has been a real pleasure watching. Thank you.

[@StarShipGray]

My favorite western. I just love how much this film challenges your senses of morality and justice. There is no clear hero or villain. Everyone is just a different shade of gray.

[@hollishamilton3943]

Came here to say this. It's definitely not a white hat vs. black hat kind of movie.

[@Mike-wr7om]

To fully appreciate this movie, you have to understand how it is responding to the tradition of westerns in cinema. Westerns had celebrated violence and killing, as long as it was done by the "good guy." This movie deconstructs the Western Myth. It says, "Killing is never heroic, never glorious; it is always an ugly, disgusting thing." In classic movie westerns, the good guy shot the bad guy, and he fell down dead in an instant. When they shoot Davy in this movie, his death is a slow and ugly thing, which is, in fact, the way it happens with death by gunshot. As Gene Hackman's character explains, the myth of the quick draw is just that, a myth. In reality, a lot of it comes down to luck, and the rest of it has to do with how steady a man's nerves are, which has more to do with how much alcohol he has consumed than anything else. Like Will says, in the days when he did all his killing, he was drunk the whole time. There's nothing heroic or glorious about that. William Munny says it all in his perfect line, which summarizes the theme of the whole movie, "It's a hell of a thing, killing a man; you take away all he has, and all he's ever gonna have."

[@HrWisch]

This movie should be the last Western you watch after having watched the classics like John Wayne, then the Spaghetti Westerns (which Clint Eastwood was a big part of with the Dollar Trilogy), then the modern Westerns (again with Eastwood in movies like The Outlaw Josey Wales or Pale Rider). As said in the above comment, Unforgiven is Eastwood's deconstruction of the myth of a genre he himself was a huge part of. The same goes for Gran Torino which is Eastwood's deconstruction of the lone wolf / lone hero myth which he also was a big part of with movies like the Dirty Harry series. To fully appreciate Gran Torino, you should be familiar with characters / movies like Dirty Harry, Death Wish up to the bigger than life one man armies like Schwarzenegger or Stallone in their prime.

[@Freedom_Half_Off]

The gut shot scene and the begging for water is often overlooked but would have been very familiar for veterans of the Civil War like William and Ned . It recalls the story of the Angel of Marye's Heights ...

[@dagfincarp1113]

So happy you viewed this. Excellent movie. Turns the Western gunfighter trope on it's head. "We all have it comin', kid". Haunting

[@john195223]

For an actor that made his bones in westerns, this is Eastwood's best film ever! Not only was it perfect in every way, but he also directed it as well. Not to many players in the Wood that can act and director as well as he does. Great cast as well. 10/10

[@holddowna]

He’s amazing!

[@john195223]

@@holddowna He did a movie called The Mule and directed that as well. Richard Jewell is another great Eastwood directed film. Both would make a excellent reaction videos

[@fozzy1004]

Agreed. "He should of armed himself if he is going to decorate his salon with my friend" - Best line ever.

[@GeorgePalmer-m8m]

This film excoriates violence. I loved that one comment when sheriff "Little" Bill Dagget comments on gunfighters: "They've got no sand, no character, not even bad character."

[@RenfrewPrume]

I loved how engaged you were with this movie, especially in the suspenseful scenes. This is my favorite western, because of the way it subverts standard western tropes. It has more impact, however, for those who have seen Eastwood's earlier westerns, where he was the perfect gunfighter. Really happy to hear your excitement about exploring more westerns; it's a rich genre of fine films.

[@dblshotz75]

As you get older this film hits harder. Watch it again in 10 years and then 10 after that. I cant get through it without a couple of tears. The depth of this film goes beyond just a western. That was a great reaction. Definitely got my sub.

[@BigMike246]

Clint Eastwood was involved in a lot of movies. Most of them good. But Unforgiven is a stand alone for me. Brilliant, I never get tired of watching it again and again. This is a film I'd love to be in the room with you when you watch it again. It just gets better every time you watch it.

[@skyttyl]

That's the beauty of this movie- no one is the "good guy." They're all egotistical, they're ruffling feathers, they're creating issues that could have been settled with calmer heads, just like how we do in life.

[@Ozai75]

This is late, but the Scene where Bill gives Mr. Beauchamp and by extension English Bob a chance to shoot, the last click was the first Cylinder of the gun (The one that he'd cocked to line up with the barrel) And nothing dropped out, which is why Bob looked up quickly. That chamber was empty, so even though it was cocked when he would've pulled the trigger it would of fired nothing. And in that space of time Bob could of shot and killed them both with absolutely no one even remotely questioning it.

[@georgelucas3835]

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance should be your next western. It is not Clint Eastwood but it is John Wayne. It also depicts the myth of the west versus reality.

[@brandonflorida1092]

It is a great movie, as is "Rio Bravo" also with John Wayne.

[@paulp9274]

Also 'The Shootist', John Wayne's last movie, filmed as he was dying of cancer.

[@patrickwarring9091]

Jimmy Stewart was a waist of film

[@charlie53echo]

The film is the opposite of the stereotype. It absolutely refuses to glorify the killing. Will becomes the Will Munny of old when he receives the news that Little Bill killed Ned and he takes that first sip of whiskey in a decade. He was terrible until he drank, because his muscle memory was tied to being drunk. Great reaction, a real joy to rewatch it with good company like you.

[@Theomite]

I really like how all reactors notice when Will starts drinking again because they know that was his murder juice.

[@Martin.Wilson]

I live in Southern Alberta about 20 miles from where Unforgiven was filmed. The cinematography was amazing as it captured the raw beauty of the rolling foothills. Not a day goes by that I don't give thanks for living in such an amazing part of the world. Out here, you just hear it referred to as God's Country. Great reaction to this movie. It was like watching it again with an old friend. Look forward to many more.

[@monsterrigs8104]

What I love most about the ending is look at Will’s horse and how he responds to him. The horse was terrified of him and was shaking. That horse knew exactly who was riding him.

[@robertbunting3117]

From when the kid starts admitting he'd never killed anyone until Clint says "I aint gonna kill ya kid, you're the only friend I got." is one the greatest scenes in an Eastwood western ever.

[@tomstanziola1982]

This movie won a well deserved Oscar for best picture, Ames, and Clint Eastwood won an Oscar for best director. Fantastic reaction to an outstanding movie!!! Well done!!!! 👏👏👏👏❤️

[@aMulliganStew]

I've heard Gene Hackman won as well?

[@tomstanziola1982]

@@aMulliganStew Correct! Best Supporting Actor.

[@williamjamesrapp7356]

I am a retired police officer. As a child I grew up in the south west ( Actually South EAST NEW MEXICO ) Along the Rio Grande River between Las Cruses NM and El Paso Texas. I remember seeing Indian Tribes at POWWOWs wearing their full indian garb and dancing. We had older members of our church who were real life cow boys back in their day. One old man ( A old Rancher ) at out church was 21 in 1900 Died in 1976 when I was in 6th grade. We moved Back to the area where my parents were from THE MID WEST. I became a police officer and for 3 years on the department I was on the Mounted Horse Patrol ( the last 3 years we had the patrol out of 25 ). I told everyone I WAS A PAID PROFESSIONAL COW BOY as I rode a horse for work every day. Best Job I ever Had.

[@hanng1242]

Even though you didn't guard, herd or drive cattle? 😜

[@johannesvalterdivizzini1523]

I don't mean to be rude, but why are you going on and on about your life story? Tooting your own horn. What does that have to do with this film?

[@williamjamesrapp7356]

@@hanng1242 well, when I lived in New Mexico I actually had been on one cattle drive where we drove the cattle into the ranch to brand cattle that had not yet been branded . But as a Mounted Police officer we sometimes had to heard and drive large crowds at special events so it kinda the same principal. But mostly daily as a mounted patrol officer we patrolled in parks and went to schools and day cares and showed the kids the horses and some times gave them rides and spoke to kids about different types of safety issues . We patrolled down town events university home football game events ( tailgate areas ) and such. Mostly it was a form of public relations where police in a car driving around and pass people people don’t get a sense of being able to just talk to the police where we are sitting on a horse people and children always come to pet the horses and talk to the police

[@bbmcrae]

@@johannesvalterdivizzini1523 This is the real question.

[@RoadDoug]

Wow! Just Wow! What a great reaction. This is one of my favorite movies. Clint is my generation’s John Wayne.

[@johncarzello]

It was fun hanging out with you. Your commentary and charisma was appreciated

[@haydenlindquist7006]

One detail that often goes unnoticed is throughout the movie Clint’s responses are often ambiguous. “I don’t know” “I reckon so” etc. But when Gene Hackman says he’ll see him in hell the response is a simple and absolute “yeah.” Also, that final gunfight is the epitome of a Wyatt Earp quote. “Fast is fine, but accuracy is final. You have to be slow in a hurry.”

[@holddowna]

Thanks for watching!!

[@ThomasWilliamsMusik]

He gives a straight answer when the girl asks him about his wife too - "Is she back in Kansas?" "Yeah, she's looking over my young ones".

[@ajb7615]

I've watched many reactions to this iconic film, which I saw in the theater when it was first released. Your reaction was the very best I've seen, and your editing did the film justice because, unlike others that I've viewed, you maintained the continuity. I really liked how you appreciated the film's nuances and structure as well as its realistic and sometimes humorous portrayal of this period. Great job!! Thank you!❤❤❤😊😊😊

[@davidyoung745]

Eastwood bought the rights to the script and sat on it for over a decade because he didn’t think he was old enough yet to play Will Munney. But when he did……Man, the bench was so deep with great talent on this one. I you haven’t seen him in Gran Torino, you’ve got to watch that as well. It’s not a western but Eastwood delivers another amazing performance.

[@sca88]

His first Western, Fistful of Dollars changed the Western genre forever. It was a Spaghetti Western, Italian directors, filmed in Spain with mostly Italian and Spaniard actors but a few German, French and of course Americans as well.

[@poman1976]

Clint starred in Rawhide for years before the Dollars Trilogy.

[@Xorgrim]

@@poman1976 That's TV. I guess, @sca88 was talking about movies.

[@torbjornkvist]

UNFORGIVEN is among my 5 favorite movies. It was Eastwood's last Western, and he sat on the script for 20+ years until he made it. It's shot in Canada and all the smaller supporting characters were Canadian actors.

[@franchk8372]

Richard Harris, one of my favourite actors ever. He utterly broke my heart in 'Camelot.' Just tried to recall some of his other movies and found 'A Man Called Horse.' I remember loving that too and surprised after all these years to find Dame Judy Dench starred in it. Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman, great actors. Great cast, great movie. Clint Eastwood sure knows how to make a movie.

[@johnscott4196]

The Outlaw Josey Wales is Eastwood's best Western imo this is a close second.

[@zx2781]

High Plains Drifter for me.

[@MrBananagrab]

I agree, The Outlaw Josey Wales is a fine Clint Eastwood western, but Unforgiven is without a doubt his best western.

[@godtfredlea6610]

It's sad that governments are chiefed by the double tongues. There is iron in your words of death for all Comanche to see and so there is iron in your words of life. No signed paper can hold the iron. It must come from men. The words of Ten Bears carries the same iron of life and death. It is good that warriors such as we meet in the struggle of life... or death. It shall be life.

[@evolutionizer15]

Joe Kidd

[@GeorgeTropicana]

Not just his best but the best ever made. An absolute masterpiece and just a fraction over Unforgiven

[@craigtalbott731]

Much N'joyed your reaction. The Mrs and I caught this (gr8) one upon its release in the theaters. CE was my late wife's very favorite and really loved all of his pix. My Auntie Gloria was a film/TV actress from the early-50s to the mid-60s and worked w/ Eastwood a couple of times on the "Rawhide" television western series. (She may have been the one to give him his first on-screen kiss; that can't be too bad.)

[@EllisThings]

What a picture! A tremedous story on it's own and also such a great commentary on the history of the genre, expertly made. Mad that this is 30+yrs old already

[@Timeisaflat_O]

I love westerns, and this one is really special because of the way that it deconstructs a lot of the mythology around the Old West. It's not just a fun shoot-em-up - we see the real effects of this sort of life on the characters. Another fantastic western that is similar in the way it deconstructs the mythology and stereotypes is The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Amazing film that slid under the radar for a lot of folks.

[@andynewman1320]

"Deserve's got nothing to do with it" (49:28)... one of the best lines in the whole movie.

[@kenkatie]

Filmed in southern Alberta, I remember there was a lot of buzz around at the time about Clint Eastwood filming a western just south of Calgary.

[@TheCrazyCanuck420]

I wonder if Clint Eastwood thought: "why didn't we film the spagetti westerns up here?" 😂

[@dnish6673]

A woman I knew pretty well was a riding double in it. When you see the cut up girl riding out to see Clint in the distance it’s her.

[@aMulliganStew]

Having lived in Wyoming for 25 years and knowing Mr. Eastwood's reputation for authenticity, I was convinced it was in my old home state -- central and east. I'm very very surprised to learn otherwise. Great job.

[@ThistleAndSea]

Good one, Ames! Yeah, Clint and John Wayne pretty much defined the genre back in the day. Westerns were the big thing in both film and tv for many, many years before finally petering out in maybe the early 70's or so? They were pretty much forgotten until Silverado hit the theaters in the mid-80's and brought westerns back to life. You have a LOT of great westerns to catch up with, the old ones and several of the new ones as well. As for Clint, he is an American treasure, and he is still making some great movies. Have you seen Gran Torino yet? Or Mystic River? Or Million Dollar Baby? He often composes and performs some of the music in his films now too. Good stuff. Thanks for sharing this one with us. 🙂 Looking forward to seeing what western you decide to watch next.

[@justsmashing4628]

GRAN TORINO next…another Eastwood absolute banging movie

[@Tampahop]

Clint Eastwood has been doing westerns going back to starring in Rawhide, a black and white tv show about cattle drives in the late 50's and early 60's. He is probably most noted for his work on "spaghetti westerns" as the man with no name. I felt like Unforgiven was a ground breaking western because it did not glorify the western traditions or the violence as most westerns did. It seemed very raw an realistic in its portrayal of western life.

[@axr7149]

Fun fact: The theme song you hear in the credits was co-composed by Clint Eastwood himself (alongside Lennie Niehaus). At the very least, he is involved in the composition of the theme song of most of the films he has directed. He has in fact also composed the scores of a couple of the movies himself (MYSTIC RIVER and MILLION DOLLAR BABY are a couple of examples). Another fun trivia: The Wolverine character in X-MEN (comics and movies alike) is actually based on Clint Eastwood. Hugh Jackman himself admitted that his performance in LOGAN was inspired by Eastwood in UNFORGIVEN.

[@Tershula]

I always thought that Jackman was Eastwood's love child.LOL.

[@charlotex1]

Claudia's Theme is the name of the song.

[@davidwilkins5932]

Great reaction to a modern classic! I highly recommend the Eastwood western prior to this one called ‘Pale Rider’. He directed that one too, and it’s also a classic. The more modern productions like these two, portray a lot more authenticity than those of the 1970’s and earlier, but I do have great love for ‘The Outlaw Josey Wales’, though he didn’t direct it.

[@raulguadalupe3489]

Eastwood's melancholy masterpiece. His doctoral thesis on the Western genre.

[@davescurry69]

That closing line is absolutely chilling. The superb score only adds to the tension. Magnificent.

[@DR_DOOM_3298]

Definitely add The Outlaw Josey Wales, High Plains Drifter, The Good The Bad & The Ugly, A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More & Pale Rider to your must watch Clint Eastwood westerns. Some great non western Clint to watch, Dirty Harry, Magnum Force, The Enforcer, Sudden Impact, Play Misty For Me, The Gauntlet, Escape From Alcatraz, Gran Tarino, Million Dollar Baby, Trouble With The Curve, A Perfect World, Heartbreak Ridge, Every Which Way But Loose, The Beguiled.

[@marloncherry1277]

It was cool watching your reaction, I grew up watching Clint Eastwood, my stepdad and I watched them, myself my mom and my stepdad even went to the Drive- in watching Clint Eastwood Spaghetti Westerns they were made in Italy by a famous Italian director. The Good, the bad, and the ugly is a great classic. Good to see you enjoyed Unforgiven.

[@DelightLovesMovies]

The best western ever made and the only one that made me cry for real. All those actors are so good in this.

[@marwood1969]

The anti-western. A complete demolition of the glamour and mystique of the genre. The cast, the writing, the direction, the cinematography, the score are all outstanding. A truly magnificent film.

[@paulkingartwerks7981]

Best classic western ever: "The Seachers" with John Wayne. His best performance ever; he should have received and Oscar.

[@VonBlade]

Not sure if it would survive modern sensibilities. Wayne is 100% an anti-hero in that. Hell he's almost a villain. Tough to root for a racist antagonist, even if it is The Duke.

@@VonBlade He WAS a racist antagonist. J.W. was a POS

[@dasx2gra]

@@Marco-vw3mv for me, its Red River!!!!

[@MrSmithOriginal]

@@VonBlade What is racist about the Comanche kidnapping a female member John Wayne's character's family and them going after her in an attempt to rescue her from slavery? The Comanche were brutal adversaries and slave traders. They warred against the Apache, Wichita and Tonkawa to gain dominance in their region and also had conflict with the Osage, Ute, and Navajo. In no way was John's character "Racist" and the word didn't even appear in English until the 1930s and wasn't really even used until the 1960s. It's a political construct meant to divide people but I digress.

[@johnrussell6620]

Star Wars ep4 is a retelling of "The Searchers" ... in space.

[@noone1704]

My favorite thing about this movie is how they took out the glamor in taking another person's life, makes it feel so real

[@johnathanstruble1064]

One of the finest Westerns ever filmed! It began the trifecta , Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, and Gran Torino.. ❤

[@gregnowak6450]

You’ve done a great job of editing and your observations were intelligent and insightful. You chose all the correct dialogue to include and didn’t over yap it up. I’ve watched a lot of reactions to this movie and this on with out a doubt is the best

[@rogermorris9696]

I think one of most honest parts of the story is the writers story arc, who turns the stories of evil men into heroic ones, The is a spin doctor of his time, crafting a public image the gunmen want to see themselves as, not simple killers.

[@mattholland8966]

Great cast. Beautiful photography and music. Clint knows how to make a movie!!!! Excellent review, great job.

[@holddowna]

Thanks for watching!

[@9Ballr]

Unforgiven is my favorite movie of all time.

[@holddowna]

Pretty good fave of all time choice!

[@_nauticaldisaster_]

Since you're watching The Pacific mini-series you might want to check out Clint Eastwood's companion films Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima. Both quite powerful and moving.

[@holddowna]

I will for sure! In due time!

[@ericlencher2356]

You said "he's old" referring to English Bob. What I find funny is that Gene Hackman is actually 9 months older than Richard Harris. Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, and Richard Harris were all born in 1930.

[@danrieke9988]

My vote this is the absolute best western movie Hollywood ever made. There are many greats. But this one.... damn! The actors, the writing, the directing, the editing, the costumes, makeup, editing. Just untouchable is Unforgiven.

[@Usurper123]

I love how they called back to the guy who keeps his head is liable to win in a gunfight over the faster or better shot. Will was a horrible shot with a pistol but he was the only one who didn't panic in the saloon.

[@jt-ph1ox]

Love your respect for this film and others. One of my favorite Eastwood films is "In the Line of Fire". It's not a western, but it is fantastic Clint Eastwood. Good Luck. Thanks. JT

[@kmvoss]

17:52 Never noticed English Bob's posh English faltering until watching this reaction. Subtle! Great reaction to a classic film.

[@jrd33]

Yes. "English Bob" is just a persona of an upper-class Englishman, I think you need to know something about English class accents to pick up on it. Definitely fits with him having a "biographer" for publicity.

[@DavidAntrobus]

@kmvoss Yes, it's a great little detail, and now I know where Tarantino got the idea for Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth) in _The Hateful Eight_ , who does the exact same thing, going from an upper class accent to working-class cockney. I love how we can go back to older movies and realize how often they influence subsequent filmmakers.

[@Rodzilla5332]

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly is the spaghetti western of all sppaghetti westerns. They are called that because they were filmed in Italy. You will have to look up why that all started but it did. I loved this reaction. Thank you for doing it.5

[@holddowna]

Can’t wait to see these spaghetti westerns!

[@moose2577]

"We all have it coming, kid".

[@domainmojo2162]

That's my favorite, followed by "Deserve's got nuttin to do wit it.", and "H3ll of a thing k* a man, you take away all his got..." Then there's the delivery of - "Well sir, you are a c_w_rdly s*!", "I'll see you in h*, William Munny" and "Yeah." - and others. This movie had so many iconic shots, deliveries and lines! CLASSIC!

[@DeterminedJellyfish]

One thing Im so glad you picked up on as it is often overlooked by how casually its done, was his taking the bottle and drinking again. It was at that moment he knew he had to become Death riding his pale horse once more. The whiskey was the key to the door he locked that part of himself behind.

[@ronniereyes4632]

Pale Rider is another Clint Eastwood Western I highly recommend

[@holddowna]

Cool!

[@ThistleAndSea]

Pale Rider is a good one! 🤠

[@paulweber686]

Having seen this film many times I found your commentary grating at first, for the first third of the film in fact; but once I thought of it as the Greek chorus in ancient plays, I warmed up to it and began to appreciate it! Well done!

[@matthewstroud4294]

Of all the genres of cinema, the Western is where some of the most thematic content lives. The "myth of the old West" that is used in Westerns is about people in a place where they are on the frontier of civilized life, where whomever enforces the law is either ineffective or too far away to count upon. As such, it takes in the whole realm of the politics of government, self-defense and a changing, modernizing world. Important Westerns to watch other than Unforgiven: The Searchers. Once Upon a Time in the West. Shane. High Noon. The Dollars Trilogy. The Big Country. The Magnificent Seven. Gunfight at the OK Coral. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The Wild Bunch. The Outlaw Josey Wales. High Plains Drifter. I also have a personal favourite: El Dorado. I really hope you do some more Westerns, they are full of content - unlike many films today.

[@hulkingwarmachine3]

Outlaw Josey Wales and Pale Rider. Two of Eastwoods best movies

[@holddowna]

Can’t wait to see those!

[@GSErnie]

Glad you are exploring westerns. This movie was a deconstruction of the classic western and the myth of the lone gunfighter. I hope to see your reaction to some spaghetti westerns. The Good , The Bad and the Ugly is both peak spaghetti western and peak prime Eastwood. Enjoy!

[@hanng1242]

Indeed. One could perhaps divide the genre into two types - the orthodox Western and the revisionist Western. "Unforgiven" is a great example of the latter. Almost everything with John Wayne is in the former category ("almost" because "The Searchers," by John Ford, is a bit revisionist). There is a story about the time when Clint Eastwood first met John Wayne and expressed how inspiring Wayne was to him, but got coldly rebuffed by Wayne for "ruining" Westerns with anti-heroes or morally grey characters. One good Western that plays with the tropes is "Once Upon a Time in the West" by Sergio Leone; in it, Leone has Henry Fonda look like the sort of hero character in which he was usually typecast, but act like the villain by having his character do one of the most terrible things portrayed in movies at the time. For a really fun Western-comedy, check out Richard Donner's "Maverick," starring Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster and James Garner. There are also some Western-adjacent movies you might also want to check out. There is the blaxspliotation Western "Boss [n-word]" (which has been re-named to "The Boss" on streaming services for obvious reasons), written and produced by former NFL player Fred Williamson. There is Michael Mann's "Last of the Mohicans," which is set during the French and Indian War (early August 1759 to be more precise) which isn't as Western but nevertheless has many Western elements such as taking place in the American frontier, interactions between the Native Americans and the white settlers, &c. On the other side of the timeline (WWI) is "Legends of the Fall" starring Brad Pitt, Julia Ormand and Anthony Hopkins, which isn't really a Western, but takes place in rural Montana so it *looks* like one. Finally, if you like Westerns, you might also be interested in Japanese samurai films. These films borrowed from, and in turn inspired Westerns. "A Fistful of Dollars" is a remake of Akira Kurosawa's "Yojimbo" (as was the Prohibition-era-set film "Last Man Standing, starring Bruce Willis; "The Magnificent Seven" is a remake of Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" (the former was itself remade in 2016). George Lucas borrowed the basic plot of Star Wars (Episide IV: A New Hope) from Kurosawa's "The Hidden Fortress." If you want good Samurai films, anything by Akira Kurosawa is worth watching, as is the Samurai trilogy (Samurai I: Miyamoto Musashi, Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple, and Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island) by Hiroshi Inagaki and starring Toshiro Mifune. Finally, there is the super-weird Samurai-Western hybrid, "Sukiyaki Western Django" (2007) by Takashi Miike; is stars Japanese actors (except for Quintin Taratino's cameo) speaking English, fighting with both revolver and katana, and put into a Western setting that nevertheless has Japanese architecture, telling a story based both on the Heike Monogatari and the War of the Roses.

[@jlb6]

The anti trope has been around since the fifties and actually is a trope

[@GeorgePalmer-m8m]

It's funny when the little girl asks "Did Pa used to kill folks?" She's not expressing dismay. She's expressing disbelief.

[@hemlock399]

You did a great job editing. So many reactors butcher the best scene in the movie (IMO), the conversation between Will & the Kid while they're waiting to get paid, and the best line in the movie (IMO), Will's "Deserve's got nothin' to do with it". Hats off to you for a great reaction!

[@DoerOfThings8]

If you are trying westerns, I have a suggestion. I haven't seen any reactors watch "Lonesome Dove" yet. It's a great western mini series with a much younger Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Duvall, Danny Glover, and many others. The long form storytelling of a mini series and the iconic performances of those great actors let's you really fall in love with the characters.

[@jackmessick2869]

Madison K Thames has reacted to Lonesome Dove. She's a good reactor and an author in the western genre.

[@montyweaver3196]

wonderful reaction. This movie was almost the "anti" western - where the total anti hero - Lots of westerns have a "checkered past" hero - but this one really took it to the limit. Hope you keep watching more of his movies. One great western he is not in "Once upon a time in the West" is well worth seeing as well. Keep up the great reactions!

[@johnathanstruble1064]

Outlaw Josey Wales....amazing film.

[@tomkelly8774]

This movie is not for everyone but it's an american masterpiece... It's in my top 5 .. I watched in the theater and to this day.I'm still captivated by it... I enjoy watching other people see it for the first time...✌️ Have you seen Grand Torino?,,, It's another,,, Eastwood masterpiece.. Or check out : high plains drifter

[@stallion78]

Glad you’re watching a good movie like this…..but missing your Pacific reactions….it gets crazy from where you left off

[@bozeeke]

Eastwood spent 30 years playing badass gunfighters who killed with no remorse. What was great about this movie is that he was now playing that type of character when he was older and had some regrets about what he'd done. But when the chips were down, the killer came out again.

[@ironman20740]

One of the greatest endings ever!!

[@samuraiwarriorsunite]

I'm really glad this film did so well. I grew up on Westerns and love the genre. It's nice to see younger people appreciate it as well.

[@thamoose2179]

UNFORGIVEN!!!!! Where basically Sheriff Little Bill Daggett is the "Hero: (but the Antagonist) and Outlaw William Munny is the "Villain" (but the Protagonist)

[@dustyblack1855]

"We all have it coming, kid...." One of the best delivered Iines to sum up his western movie career.

[@johnscott4196]

A young Richard Harris in "A Man Called Horse" is also a good Western

[@christophercurtis4131]

The one scene that always sticks with me whenever I watch this is Munney's reaction when he hears about Ned's death. Taking the bottle of whiskey from The Kid and starting to drink as he is told what happens to Ned. Just a very powerful scene. And I cannot help but notice that no one ever asks what Delilah is feeling or thinking about what is going on. And I love that one scene with Delilah and Will. It was beautiful. Speaking of Richard Harris, the first time I can remember seeing him in anything, I was a little boy in the 70's and the movie was The Guns of Navarone with Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn. He had one scene at the very beginning of the movie and it was a very memorable scene.

[@andreshernandez1180]

*Richard Harris* (English Bob) plays *Prof. Dumbledore* in the first 2 Harry Potter movies and the Emperor in *Gladiator.* PLEASE watch *Arlington Road* starring *Jeff Bridges* (The Big Leboswki) and *Tim Robbins* (The Shawshank Redemption); and for another good western watch *The Quick And The Dead* starring *Russell Crowe, Gene Hackman, Sharon Stone* and *Leonardo DiCaprio.*

[@jlb6]

And A Man Called Horse. From 67 I think. The sequel was a money grab though

[@hoya1178]

The Quick and the Dead is a terrible western

[@campion10]

If you liked Unforgiven then you will love The Outlaw Josey Wales. It’s my all time favorite western, watch it.