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Unforgiven (1992)
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Winner of four Academy Awards, including best picture, director, supporting actor, and best editing, Clint Eastwood's 1992 masterpiece stands as one of the greatest and most thematically compelling Westerns ever made. "The movie summarized everything I feel about the Western," said Eastwood at the time of the film's release. "The moral is the concern with gunplay." To illustrate that theme, Eastwood stars as a retired, once-ruthless killer-turned-gentle-widower and hog farmer. He accepts one last bounty-hunter mission--to find the men who brutalized a prostitute--to help support his two motherless children. Joined by his former partner...
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| Unforgiven Movie Review by Thom (5/10/2008) |
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The strangest thing happened to me when I went to film school. I walked in the front door having a sour taste for films foreign, black and white, silent, and/or old; the class I was least looking forward to was film history. As it turns out, though I still narrow my eyes in suspicion when someone suggests a movie that fits...
(complete Unforgiven review by Thom)
| Unforgiven Movie Review by Jarrod (7/17/2007) |
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'Unforgiven' is a throwback to the classic Westerns of the past, when released, it represented a genre that was very much dying, revived only briefly by Dances with Wolves, which won many Oscars, but was distinctly modern in its style and structure, an epic set in the days of the West when much of it was yet unsettled, no...
(complete Unforgiven review by Jarrod)
The last great cowboy movie ('Brokeback ain't so much about gun-slingin') is Clint Eastwood's finest cinematic achievement both as a director and actor.
This film is like watching the entire genre take one last long breath before it lets go forever. Eastwood represents all the John Wayne-types who came before and who are...
(complete Unforgiven review by Jessica Film Junkie)
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