Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Unforgivable.

Unforgiven wasn't a very good portrayal of normal old western movie heroes. Usually, the heroes in westerns are the hard core fighters but maintain a respectable image and they look out for the women. I think that Bill Munny (Clint Eastwood) was too light hearted to match this profile. When Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman) shot a cowboy, Bill Munny couldn't finish the job and hoped that the cowboy would survive his wound. Ever since his wife died he gained a soft spot. Maybe he used to be a killing machine, but he wasn't throughout most of the film.Toward the end of the film he turns around to his past and goes for Little Bill and kills a handful of other people. A normal hero would not have killed the innocent, just the killer of his best friend.

Also, I thought that this movie was really uneventful and I didn't really like it. Usually old cowboy westerns involve alot of action; shootings and battle scenes. This film had shootings for like two seconds throughout the film and there were no battle scenes. I was kind of dissapointed in this western because it was hyped up alot and known as one of the greatest movies and best picture but I really didn't think the pictures were that great and I deffinetly would not have this on my top 100. I also was dissapointed because this movie had a lot of potential to be a great movie because it has some of the greatest actors; Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman.

1 comment:

Pimpin' All Over the World said...

I was disappointed by this movie too. I don't really think any of the westerns we watched in class had very much action. At least nothing like today's westerns. I mean, yeah Unforgiven had that one shooting scene in the saloon, but it wasn't very exciting and it was slow.