Director: Clint Eastwood
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Emily says:I enjoyed "Unforgiven," but I thought it lacked a lot of the elements that I usually enjoy in Westerns. It was an interesting film, because it had the kind of moral ambiguity that you don't usually find in westerns.
I thought that what made the film good was the quality of the acting - Gene Hackman as the sheriff v. Clint Eastwood's outlaw. Paul thought seeing Morgan Freeman in a western was weird (see below) but I thought he was excellent. I'm not much of a western connoisseur, but as a fresh take on the style, I thought this film was pretty good.
Paul says:
This movie makes me kinda sad, not because it's not a good movie - it is - but because the best of Clint Eastwood's Westerns (and the best Westerns period) are the ones directed by Sergio Leone and they won't be eligible for this list because they're not American films (there's some irony here). The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Fistful of Dollar, For a Few Dollars More, and Once Upon a Time in the West. No matter, this film is a classic to be sure, with some great larger-than-life Western characters from the stilted English Bob to Gene Hackman's braggart sheriff to Clint Eastwood's Clint Eastwood (let's be honest, that's the only character he plays). It's a little weird seeing Morgan Freeman in a Western, but that's fine. It's epic, it's violent, it has some funny moments, it's a Western, but it's just missing something, maybe if Ennio Morricone had written the soundtrack it would be ok...
Rating: 8/10
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I REALLY liked this movie!
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