One thing I love almost as much as cooking is movies. While my favorites fall within pretty specific genres (hello rom-com), I am open to pretty much anything if someone tells me "it's good." And in an effort to become I guess more cultural (??) I decided last February that I would try and watch every movie that ever won a best picture Oscar.
Fast forward to September and that project has gone off the rails a bit. Blame all the cooking I guess, but I'm trying my best to get myself back on track. Case in point, I had my latest Oscar movie from Netflix for the past two months.
Yes I said months, not weeks or days. It was time to break open the package and get that thing watched.
That thing was Unforgiven, Oscar winner from '92. It stars Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman and unfortunately for me falls within my least favorite movie category, Westerns. Sorry to all the cowboy fans out there, but all Westerns are exactly the same to me. Shoot outs, bad accents, drunks, stoic looks at the camera and dust.
Lots of dust.
I hoped that Morgan Freeman could save the movie, because he is one of my favorite actors. But Clint Eastwood prevented that from happening. I liked Clint in Gran Torrino. But that's about it. I know sacrilege! He's one of the most celebrated actors/directors in Hollywood, but he just doesn't do it for me. All of his performances seem exactly the same.
The story for this movie is also pretty lackluster. Two cowboys cut up the face of a prostitute and the other girls in the house combine their money to pay some assasins (Clint, Morgan and the 'Schofield Kid') to kill them because the town sheriff is a kind of a jerk and doesn't punish them appropriately. In fact the cowboys punishment for almost killing the girl is making the men give up some horses to the owner of the whore house.
Not so PC in my opinion.
I don't like to give away major parts of the movies I watch, but there are some moments that are worth watching. There is an interesting scene in the end of the movie between Clint and the Schofield Kid that had my eyes stuck on the screen. Besides that its a whole lot of guns and Clint staring at the screen remembering past times.
I'd give Unforgiven 2 out of 5 stars because it was one note to me. I didn't feel any connection with the characters and I kept checking the time to see how much was left. Never a good sign.
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