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Title:	Movie Reviews and Discussion
Notice:	Please do DIR/TITLE before starting a new topic on a movie!
Moderator:	VAXCPU::michaudo.dec.com::tamara::eppes

Created:	Thu Jan 28 1993
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1249
Total number of notes:	16012

106.0. "The Unforgiven" by 25415::MAIEWSKI () Mon Mar 29 1993 19:25

  After seeing the Unforgiven, we completed seeing all 5 of the Oscar nominated
movies. Once again, my feeling was that while this is a really good movie, it's
just not a great movie. What it is, in fact, is a rather typical Clint Eastwood
flick. 

  I find that there isn't really a whole lot to say about this film. I've
always liked Clint Eastwood. I liked him as Randy in the TV series Raw Hide, I
liked him as Dirty Harry, and I liked him as the cowboy in all of those
Spaghetti Westerns. I didn't see the one with the monkey. 

  It's always the same story. Clint always plays the hardened hero/anti-hero
who sees life more simply than others and asks less out of life than others.
He's always struggling with some deep emotion, then when the *** hits the fan
he always goes in and clean's things up the same way. 

  There are always the understated lines:

    - "Now ask yourself, are you feeling lucky?"
    - "Looks like your *** out of luck"
    - "Go ahead, make my day"

  There's always the girl he can't quite get close to, always the friends
who get along with him because they don't ask questions and there's always
his horse/.45 who is his only real friend.

  And it's always fun. Once in a while he fools you into thinking it's a
different sort of movie, but by half way through you see the gimmick and it all
falls into place. He appeals to that basic desire in all of us that maybe
we could be the hero if only we could get by taking as little from life as
he does.

  Vintage Eastwood,
  ***,
  George

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
106.1	Title correction please	KOLFAX::WIEGLEB	Who is 'The Loneliest Monk'?	`Mon Mar 29 1993 19:49`	5
	The title is actually "Unforgiven". [0 for 2] :^) - Dave
106.2	He should have armed himself.....	ASDG::GASSAWAY	Insert clever personal name here	`Mon Mar 29 1993 20:42`	12
	George, I must disagree. I thought this movie was classic. Perfectly cast too (Gene Hackman is such a marvelous bad guy. My dream movie is Clint and Arnold as the good guys, versus Gene Hackman, Martin Landau, John Lithgow, and James Spader as the bad guys.) Everything was right. Cinematography, acting, screenplay, direction, timing, ........just beautiful. I usually can't stand Westerns, but this was magnificent. Lisa
106.3	minor correction...	15610::QUIRICI		`Tue Mar 30 1993 11:37`	7
	re: .0 He was Rowdy Yates in Rawhide. Thanks. Ken
106.4		58323::PIERCE	Think Spring	`Tue Mar 30 1993 16:03`	6
	I agree with .0 the movies was okay becasue it was a Clint movie.. but it was not great by any means and I really didn't think it deserved a Oscar for Best Pitcher. IMHO LKP
106.5		SUBWAY::BACH	A New York node?	`Tue Mar 30 1993 18:24`	3
	MOD note/TITLE= "Unforgiven" ;-)
106.6	It should NEVER have won the Oscar!!!!	3694::BELFORTI	Mrs. Frank N. Furter	`Mon Jul 19 1993 11:02`	6
	Rented this over the weekend.... lots of hype for a nothing movie!!!! I was very disappointed in it! Just another Eastwood western as far as my family was concerned! 2.5 out of 5 for the movie itself, and -5 out of 5 for originality!
106.7		12368::michaud	Jeff Michaud, DECnet/OSI	`Mon Jul 19 1993 11:29`	6
	> Just another Eastwood western as far as my family was concerned! That's exactly what was intended (ie. a western)!! No "good" westerns have been made in the last couple decades. If you don't like Westerns at all ....
106.8		STAR::MARISON	Scott Marison	`Mon Jul 19 1993 13:54`	8
	<<< Note 106.7 by 12368::michaud "Jeff Michaud, DECnet/OSI" >>> > That's exactly what was intended (ie. a western)!! No "good" > westerns have been made in the last couple decades. What about "Pale Rider"??? /Scott
106.9	Don't remember seeing it	12368::michaud	Jeff Michaud, DECnet/OSI	`Mon Jul 19 1993 19:31`	4
	> What about "Pale Rider"??? Never saw it. When did it come out and who was in it? (maybe you should create a new topic for it)
106.10		45106::ALFORD	lying Shipwrecked and comatose...	`Tue Jul 20 1993 07:01`	4
	Pale rider was good, I enjoyed it anyway. Clint Eastwood western. Came out a few years back.
106.11		STAR::MARISON	Scott Marison	`Tue Jul 20 1993 13:15`	12
	> <<< Note 106.10 by 45106::ALFORD "lying Shipwrecked and comatose..." >>> > > >Pale rider was good, I enjoyed it anyway. > >Clint Eastwood western. Came out a few years back. It must have come out in the '86-'88 time frame... I enjoyed it almost as much as I enjoyed Unforgiven. /Scott
106.12		29881::REILLY	Sean Reilly CSG/AVS DTN:293-5983	`Tue Jul 20 1993 20:18`	7
	"Pale Rider" was a lot better than profits (and critics) suggested. As an Eastwood fan, I put this up right up there with "High Plains Drifter." Good supporting cast, too, with (d'oh, forget the name of the actor Clint helped out), Chris Penn, and William Dysart. - Sean
106.13	Moriarity?	8269::BARRIANO	choke me in the shallow water...	`Wed Jul 21 1993 10:57`	12
	re <<< Note 106.12 by 29881::REILLY "Sean Reilly CSG/AVS DTN:293-5983" >>> > Good supporting cast, too, with (d'oh, forget the name of > the actor Clint helped out), Sean, Michael Moriarity, I believe. He stars as one of the lawyers on tv's Law & Order. Barry
106.14	* �	DECWET::JWHITE	real artists ship	`Thu Mar 24 1994 17:44`	4
	finally saw 'unforgiven' on video. i really did not care for it at all.
106.15	Unforgiveable!	HOTLNE::SHIELDS		`Thu Nov 28 1996 01:46`	10
106.16	To each his/her own.	POLAR::TYSICK	Bring a spine or ride the pine!	`Fri Nov 29 1996 08:29`	10
106.17	We agree to disagree!	HOTLNE::SHIELDS		`Fri Dec 06 1996 05:37`	9