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Since Greg n John watched the trailer, I've been waiting for this channel to react to The Harder They Fall. A true historical mixed figure Western, done excellency.
Perfect movies are rare, but this is one of those rare ones. Watched it opening night and was in awe. The ultimate deconstruction of the Western, done by the man who epitomized Westerns. Timeless piece of cinema.
Clint Eastwood was born in 1930. That's wild. He is antique, not ancient. As for his other westerns The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is a must see and The Outlaw Josey Wales is very good.
The Outlaw Josey Wales is a stand alone. For the trilogy, watch in sequence: A Fistful of Dollars For a Few Dollars More then finally, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
You don't need to suspend disbelief for that final shootout. The movie establishes that hitting a target is difficult, especially under pressure, and none of the characters except Ned are experienced killers. That’s why their aim is so poor and why they choose to leave when given the opportunity.
Exactly. It's a major part of the movie. Very few men are killers and born gun fighters. Most people panic and can't aim because of that. English Bob was a great shot when he was shooting pheasants, but when offered a loaded gun to duel Little Bill and escape jail he wants no part of it. His reputation is literal fiction. He's the myth of the West. Same as the scene where the Schofield Kid (another complete fraud) kills the guy in the outhouse...in the ensuing shootout, it's absolute chaos. The supposed bodyguards are a bunch of useless idiots just blasting in all directions. It's part of what makes this movie so unique.
I've seen a few reactions to this movie, and no reactor ever seems to notice that English Bob speaks with an upper crust British accent throughout the whole movie, and then at the end of his appearance when he's being driven out of town, he screams out the back of the wagon in a Cockney adjacent accent, meaning he's also been lying about his own background for who knows how long.
If you notice, most of Clint’s lines through the movie are unsure and ambiguous. “I reckon” “I suppose” but when Gene Hackman says he’ll see him in Hell, the response is a sure profound “yep.” This movie is so masterful on so many levels. And the final shootout is a perfect personification of what Wyatt Earp said about gun fighting, “fast is fine but accuracy is final. You have to be slow in a hurry”
This is my favorite movie of all time. It's not only a commentary on Eastwoods roles in the genre. But also on the iconography and ideology of the man with a gun delivering justice and the "hero" character type in general.
Arguably one of the greatest movies of all time. Not just one of the greatest westerns. Great reaction! Next try Open Range, Good, Bad, the Ugly, Pale Rider, Outlaw Josey Wales and For A Few Dollars More.
I love that Coy and John are watching this finally! Coy saying ‘an unpleasant way to open a picture’ is bang on. It’s not a ‘pleasant’ movie at all but it’s so good! The lighter moments help balance the dark themes. It’s my fave Clint Eastwood movie. I don’t love a lot of Western movies either but this one is incredible.
His speech about horses... "I hardly been in the saddle myself for a while, getting even with me for the sins of my youth, i used to be weak, mistreat animals and whip horses"... is mainly true btw. Back in his early days, in his westerns he often rode a white horse and back in those days animal treatment was more harsh. He became allergic to horses and stopped riding them... so in this film he gets back on a horse... a white horse, for one last time and gives that speech.
But he had to use his horse to hunt, go to town to get things not available on the farmstead. It's hard to believe he's feeding that horse and taking care of it and doesn't ride it day in and day out doesn't make sense.
@@zedwpd Probably he would take a wagon to go to town.. there's not much one can carry with just a horse. I mean, it seems that his farm is pretty far from anything so the ride to nearest town could be so long that it wouldn't be efficient to ride to town just with a horse and a couple of saddle bags. Horses would also come handy when doing farm work, like plowing field and stuff. As a work force, horses are pretty versatile animals. And judging by his aim, he hasn't hunted in while either :D Those pigs are probably bred for slaughter.
In the Line of Fire, Absolute Power,& The Rookie are 3 non western Eastwood movies I recommend. As far as westerns go Pale Rider, High Plane’s Drifter and 2 Mules for Sister Sara. The No name trilogy is obvious
"Deserves got nothing to do with it" is the theme of this movie. Munney didn't deserve the life he ended up with. His young wife, that changed him, didn't deserve to die from small pox at such a young age. Delilah didn't deserve to be cut up. Davey didn't deserve to die from a gut shot wound. Ned didn't deserve to be tortured, killed and displayed like he was. Eastwood's best movie in my personal opinion.
So the reason Will took out the men in the saloon so easily is because none of the deputies had ever been in a real fight. They give you a hint at that when The Duke showed up into town and the one deputy was all panicky. In that same scene we see the others relaxed because they essentially say Little Bill's here so we have nothing to worry about. So when that fight took place they were panicked and scared because they've never actually had to do this before. When that's realized it becomes more realistic as to why that saloon shootout played out the way it did.
Yup. Alot of people think dueling and shootouts happened at all times back then when it wasn't really all that common. Most people hadn't seen any actual action.
'2 facts: the boots that Clint wore in this film are the same boots he wore n his first western role, 'Rawhide' in 1959! Also, an anagram of Clint Eastwood is 'Old West Action'
It's apparently true that the calmest person wins in a gun fight. According to eye witnesses at the gun fight at the ok corral, Wyatt Earp barely moved at all except to adjust his feet. While shots were just whistling by him.
That scene with Gene Hackman in the jail telling the “true” story of English Bob’s shootout is one of my favorite scenes in a western. It’s funny and sad at the same time. It is one of my favorite scenes in film!
after this film, very few Westerns came out… very few dared try to create one. This film was both the pinnacle and anti-thesis of Westerns and it was like everyone knew nothing is going to top this.
You need to delve into Clint Eastwood's cowboy evolution. From Rowdy Gaines in "Rawhide", through Blondie in "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" to this spectacular gem that is a retiring of a mythical screen character.
Saddest parts of the movie;: 1.Delilah was the offended party but NOBODY asked what SHE thought should be done. 2. The buddy of the main offender did nothing wrong so far as I could tell, felt bad about it, and offered Delilah a horse. 3. Morgan Freeman did the least amount of hurting other people and suffered the worst. Richard Harris' gun barrels were melted and bent in a forge, not bent by a super man. At least that's my theory. Kansas was a tough state. 7 years before the Civil War many states were added and independently chose to be slave or free and this threatened to upset the delicate balance (dead even most often) of the states. When Kansas became a state people who were pro-slave and anti-slave were both invited and they fighting started and didn't stop until until the Civil War ended (11 years later). Eventually Kansas became peaceful as most other states, but this would have taken a while. Clint Eastwood acquired the rights to this script and sat on it for years. He wanted to play the lead but realized the part should go to an older man, so he waited and waited until he felt he was old enough for the part. The woman who played the Madam was Eastwood's girlfriend for a very long time and worked with him on MANY films before this one.
This is that hidden gem and you recognized it perfectly. I'm in for a Clint Eastwood Marathon.😊 This is really one of the best ever. I'm so glad I watched it again with you. 🥳
Sigh, sometimes I just have to turn the volume down on the vaudeville act. This movie hits me as an examination of, what does it really take to kill a man. I don't know if you've seen them but you should also check out: Pale Rider (Clint Eastwood) The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood) True Grit (the newer one with Jeff Bridges) Just an added tidbit, my sister was in the Army band at Fort Ord Cali. They had a jazz band/big band and Clint hired them to play at one of his private parties at his house. My sister sang with the band and met Clint. She said he was the nicest guy you can imagine. He loved the band was was super kind and appreciative to them.
English Bob never took the gun as he believed Bill never loaded it.... his look of dismay when gun was unloaded shows that , Bill was shown sweating as he gambled on Bob thinking that too.
If you want to watch more Clint Eastwood films, give The Bridges of Madison County a watch. It features some of the best work of Meryl Streep's career and Eastwood really elevated a pretty hokey novel into a really marvelous film.
I loved that movie. Especially because of so much we got to see of Meryl's fantastic body 🥒. I think about those scenes more often than my wife would appreciate.
When it came out, Eastwood said in an interview that he wanted to do one last Western, but he wanted to depict how many of the legendary events of the Wild West were "a series of random and thuggish acts." That quote stuck with me. I've seen a lot of Westerns, but this one is my favorite. Unless we're counting 'Deadwood.'
Open Range and Silverado are two westerns that I think you guys would enjoy. For older ones, I’d recommend The Outlaw Josey Wales, High Plains Drifter, and The Cowboys but there are soooo many more
Escape From Alcatraz, Dirty Harry and it's 4 sequels, The Dollars Trilogy, Tightrope, The Rookie, In The Line of Fire, A Perfect World, True Crime, Blood Work, and the film you just reacted to, are the essential Eastwood films, in my opinion.
The Dollars Trilogy is one of the greatest Western (spaghetti Western) series of all time directed by Sergio Leon with the best Western score ever composed by Ennio Morricone. All three movies are a must watch; in order obviously.
This was the 1st western I watched as a kid. Loved it. And throughout the years I watched most of Clint’s westerns. I know they’re not all connected but his character is very similar to all his movies. So in my head I feel like they’re all the same “character” but just told as myths. The boogy man. Clint’s character in his movies “the man with no name” is one of my favorite characters ever created.
The woman who was cut up that you couldn't remember , was the mom to the young girl that was friends with Erik Draven and Shelly in The ORIGINAL CROW!:)
Since it is one of your favorite movies thar you share and play every devils night it struck me as funny that you didn't recognize her! Oh, she was also the woman who turned Christian Slaters character down in the beginning of True Romance to go see 3 Kung full movies starring Sonny Chiba!:)
An incredible movie! And great suggestions in the comments, I'll throw in something very different for a Clint Eastwood marathon. Play Misty For Me is a great film with Eastwood, not a western but it is an extremely tense suspense story.
The scarred woman, Delilah, was played by the same actress who played Darla, the junkie mom, in The Crow. She was also in Bad Boys. And disagree that Little Bill was “awful”. He was a bit of a bully, but he was the law and he adjudicated the matter with Delilah in way that he considered just. Then he hears his town is about to be set upon by low life bounty hunters and assassins, and he did what felt necessary to keep order. Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t rooting for him, but the brilliance of this movie was there no one who was purely good or purely evil. My #1 western of all time.
Since you mentioned Dennis Hopper, he has a small part in 1968 Clint Eastwood film Hang Em High, along with Bruce Dern. It's the first western he made after the success of The Classic Sergio Leone Dollars trilogy. It's one of my favourite Eastwood westerns, where Clint hunts the group of men who wronged him in the tense opening sequence. It is also highlights the brutality of hanging and the morality of the Justice system in those days.
Gene Hackman hated playing characters who were violent. He walked off principal photography of The French Connection for two weeks and Frankenheimer had to talk him back into doing it. He won his two Academy Awards for the two most violent characters he portrayed.
This is most likely the best Western ever made. So dark, yet the story really draws you in and gets you invested. If you haven't seen it, "Pale Rider" is a classic Eastwood film that has a similar tone. Love the reaction and the time that you gave to this one! ❤
Eastwood westerns are probably my favourite movies, besides LotR and the first Matrix. I utterly love every one of them. From the Sergio Leone era trilogy (For a fistfull of dollar, For a few dollars more,Good/bad/ugly), to the ones directed by Eastwood (Pale Rider, High Plains Drifter, Outlaw Josey Wales, Unforgiven etc), they are the kind of movies id choose to watch on my last day if i knew i was about to die.
I appreciate that you guys recognize that there are no truly bad or truly evil characters in this movie. But, I must take exception to your impression of Little Bill. He is not the bad guy. He is simply trying to keep the piece in this town. I really felt it when he said he did not deserve to die like that.
I cannot recommend enough what is widely considered the greatest western of all time, The Searchers. The 1956 John Ford classic is, in my opinion, the most influential movie of all time. Spielberg, Scorsese, De Palma and Lucas all point to this movie as an influential masterpiece. You can see how those directors “borrowed” shots from it for all their best flicks. Please, do yourself a favor and check it out.
Coy, the dollars trilogy is a must watch. The Good the Bad and the Ugly is in the running for best western ever made, and inspired many film-makers, such as Tarantino.
Enjoyed your reaction, fellas. If you appreciated the camera-work in this film, you might check out some of John Ford's Westerns. They are older, but "The Searchers" is a complicated classic with John Wayne playing a real SOB. "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence" is another great Ford Western but toward the end of his career, with the great quote "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” The Howard Hawks' Western "Red River" is a classic cattle-drive film with Wayne and Montgomery Clift. And while not a movie but a mini series ,"Lonesome Dove" with Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall may be the best thing network TV ever produced.
John Wayne also has an ‘old bad man with a reputation’ movie in his final film, Don Siegel’s The Shootist (1976). [Siegel directed Eastwood in Coogan’s Bluff (1968), Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970), Dirty Harry (1971), The Beguiled (1971), and Escape from Alcatraz (1979)]. Before watching The Shootist, you’d want to catch him in a few of the films that got him that reputation, I.e., John Ford’s Stagecoach (1939), Howard Hawk’s Red River (1948), John Ford’s The Searchers, Howard Hawk’s Rio Bravo, or John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1961).
Seen some comments from this and just wanted to get the message through even more but "The Outlaw Josey Wales" was Clint's directorial debut and I personally think is leaps ahead of the dollars trilogy and is something you need to see as soon as possible.
Gentlemen. My four western recommendations include two classics. One modern and one curveball. Ok. The classics: The Searchers...widely regarded as the best western ever made by many. Winchester '73. My favourite James Stewart role. Brilliant film. Modern: Wyatt Earp. Very underrated Kevin Costner film/performance. Curveball: Quigley: Down Under. Fantastic finale. Unreal performances from Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo and Alan Rickman (No surprise there right?!) Hope this helped John and Coy. Keep up the incredible work guys. All the best to all the Reel Rejects. Much love❤
Also fun fact Clint Eastwood wrote this in his 50s and waited 14 years to make it because he didn't think he was old enough to play the character. So at 64 he finally made the movie.
- Open Range (Costner & Duval) - The Cowboys (John Wayne & Bruce Dern) - Other Eastwood non-westerns that are great, Play Misty For Me, Escape from Alcatraz, Kelley’s Heroes
Be really cool if you guys did Western Wednesdays. I know it might not hit with a lot of the younger audiences (not to say some won't like it), but as I approach my 40s, I appreciate Western movies and books much more. They're the OG comic book heroes. Mr. Eastwood is a master at his craft.
In the Eastwood directed The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), Josey is a younger version of a William Munny during the Bleeding Kansas era. There are even a couple scenes similar to the story told of him taking out the 2 or 3 men (although Josey is no mean-spirited drunk fool).
Clint was on TV's western "Rawhide" and became the biggest movie star on the planet. Before Clint there was John Wayne. "Cowboys" like Gene Autry, Tex Ritter (John Ritter's dad), Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, etc., were role models for young boys back in the day.
If you like Neo Westerns I can't recommend SIlverado enough, the cast is incredible, and It was made by people who loved Westerns, and it reinvigorated the genre.
This is my favorite film Eastwood directed. Great performances, amazing dialogue, cinematography and production design are top notch and the overall themes are portrayed extremely well throughout. Hackman definitely earned that Supporting Actor Oscar. Also, $300 would be worth like $8,000 today so definitely a lot lol for back then. That’d last a family at least a couple of years.
I never know why this movie doesn’t get mentioned, it’s quigely down under, silly title but a really unique western as it’s yes you’ve guessed it set in Australia. The wonderful Alan Rickman and Tom selleck star in this quite emotional movie about a man hired from America because of his shooting skills , he thought he was hired to kill dingos but he was hired to murder aborigines 😢.I’ve watched it numerous times and makes me cry every single time.
As Little Bill said it's not about the fastest or the best shot. It about who keeps their head. Everyone in the bar was scared to death but Will and Little Bill.
This movie is truly one of a kind, unique in the genre of Westerns, because it is an anti-westerrn. I literally takes all the tropes of western movies and breaks them. It takes takes the traditional westerns as the rumors of William Munny and the more modern and gritty approach to the actual scenes of him drinking a whole bottle of whiskey and going on this quest for revenge on behalf of his best friend Ned Logan and his dear departed wife. I honestly consider this Eastwood's best work ever. His Magnum Opus. The pinnacle of his career. The best western ever made.
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There are plenty of westerns y'all could react to that didn't include racists.
Viva Sacheen Littlefeather!!
Since Greg n John watched the trailer, I've been waiting for this channel to react to The Harder They Fall. A true historical mixed figure Western, done excellency.
This won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor for Hackman, Best Cinematography, and, a couple of others.
Perfect movies are rare, but this is one of those rare ones. Watched it opening night and was in awe. The ultimate deconstruction of the Western, done by the man who epitomized Westerns. Timeless piece of cinema.
Well Said
Clint Eastwood was born in 1930. That's wild. He is antique, not ancient. As for his other westerns The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is a must see and The Outlaw Josey Wales is very good.
The Outlaw Josey Wales is a stand alone.
For the trilogy, watch in sequence:
A Fistful of Dollars
For a Few Dollars More
then finally, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Palerider
They made my horse surrender
High Plains Drifter
Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More are both awesome and have been remade more times than I can keep up with.
You don't need to suspend disbelief for that final shootout. The movie establishes that hitting a target is difficult, especially under pressure, and none of the characters except Ned are experienced killers. That’s why their aim is so poor and why they choose to leave when given the opportunity.
Correct. Little Bill explains to the writer how difficult it is in the earlier scene. All the deputies are panicking and Will is not.
Exactly. It's a major part of the movie. Very few men are killers and born gun fighters. Most people panic and can't aim because of that.
English Bob was a great shot when he was shooting pheasants, but when offered a loaded gun to duel Little Bill and escape jail he wants no part of it. His reputation is literal fiction. He's the myth of the West.
Same as the scene where the Schofield Kid (another complete fraud) kills the guy in the outhouse...in the ensuing shootout, it's absolute chaos. The supposed bodyguards are a bunch of useless idiots just blasting in all directions.
It's part of what makes this movie so unique.
Agreed, pretty much every western that depicts quick draw artists with deadly aim is bullcrap.
Plus everyone in the saloon is scared s***less
You can even see this in real life gunfights. People miss ALOT even at close range. And the pistols back the were even less accurate I believe.
I've seen a few reactions to this movie, and no reactor ever seems to notice that English Bob speaks with an upper crust British accent throughout the whole movie, and then at the end of his appearance when he's being driven out of town, he screams out the back of the wagon in a Cockney adjacent accent, meaning he's also been lying about his own background for who knows how long.
Exactly, and since he loves England so much it seems he was forced out likely fleeing the law which is why he had to take up bounty hunting here
I recommend "The Outlaw Josey Wales"
The Outlaw Josey Wales is another must watch Clint Eastwood movie.
Clint deliberately waited until he was that age until he made this.
It's a top tier Western.
I heard that., He sat on this script for many years until he felt he was the right age to play Munney.
Clint Eastwood's MASTERPIECE. "Any man don't wanna get killed better clear on out the back".
“I’ll see you in hell William Muny”
“We all have it comin’, kid.”
If you notice, most of Clint’s lines through the movie are unsure and ambiguous. “I reckon” “I suppose” but when Gene Hackman says he’ll see him in Hell, the response is a sure profound “yep.” This movie is so masterful on so many levels. And the final shootout is a perfect personification of what Wyatt Earp said about gun fighting, “fast is fine but accuracy is final. You have to be slow in a hurry”
This is my favorite movie of all time. It's not only a commentary on Eastwoods roles in the genre. But also on the iconography and ideology of the man with a gun delivering justice and the "hero" character type in general.
Arguably one of the greatest movies of all time. Not just one of the greatest westerns. Great reaction! Next try Open Range, Good, Bad, the Ugly, Pale Rider, Outlaw Josey Wales and For A Few Dollars More.
I love that Coy and John are watching this finally! Coy saying ‘an unpleasant way to open a picture’ is bang on. It’s not a ‘pleasant’ movie at all but it’s so good! The lighter moments help balance the dark themes. It’s my fave Clint Eastwood movie. I don’t love a lot of Western movies either but this one is incredible.
Yeah, I’m not a big western person though I have a few I do enjoy, but this easily stands among the best, if not, the best.
Eastwood's character is an old western villain from a movie we never got to see, he managed to survive and tried to lead a normal life.
Let me tell you, I am NOT a Western genre fan most of the time but THIS...was a masterpiece ... a great film all around.
His speech about horses... "I hardly been in the saddle myself for a while, getting even with me for the sins of my youth, i used to be weak, mistreat animals and whip horses"... is mainly true btw.
Back in his early days, in his westerns he often rode a white horse and back in those days animal treatment was more harsh. He became allergic to horses and stopped riding them... so in this film he gets back on a horse... a white horse, for one last time and gives that speech.
But he had to use his horse to hunt, go to town to get things not available on the farmstead. It's hard to believe he's feeding that horse and taking care of it and doesn't ride it day in and day out doesn't make sense.
@@zedwpd Probably he would take a wagon to go to town.. there's not much one can carry with just a horse. I mean, it seems that his farm is pretty far from anything so the ride to nearest town could be so long that it wouldn't be efficient to ride to town just with a horse and a couple of saddle bags. Horses would also come handy when doing farm work, like plowing field and stuff. As a work force, horses are pretty versatile animals. And judging by his aim, he hasn't hunted in while either :D Those pigs are probably bred for slaughter.
A classic definitely. Gene Hackman deserved his Oscar for this.
I think this was the year Hackman beat out Nicholson as Colonel Jessup from A Few Good Men. A couple of absolutely titanic performances.
Part of this was filmed in Canada. Eastwood's old spaghetti westerns were filmed in Italy. That's why they are called spaghetti westerns.
Spaghetti westerns were made by Italians but were filmed in Spain (no deserts in Italy).
In the Line of Fire, Absolute Power,& The Rookie are 3 non western Eastwood movies I recommend. As far as westerns go Pale Rider, High Plane’s Drifter and 2 Mules for Sister Sara. The No name trilogy is obvious
I go Dirty Harry, Escape from Alcatraz, Absolute Power, In the Line of Fire and Play Misty for Me.
"Deserves got nothing to do with it" is the theme of this movie. Munney didn't deserve the life he ended up with. His young wife, that changed him, didn't deserve to die from small pox at such a young age. Delilah didn't deserve to be cut up. Davey didn't deserve to die from a gut shot wound. Ned didn't deserve to be tortured, killed and displayed like he was. Eastwood's best movie in my personal opinion.
Clint Eastwood did a really incredible job creating this story about the dangers of the old west.
His son though
Outlaw Josey Wales. A must see of Clint films. Excellent film. Unforgiven and Josey Wales are two top Westerns.
So the reason Will took out the men in the saloon so easily is because none of the deputies had ever been in a real fight. They give you a hint at that when The Duke showed up into town and the one deputy was all panicky. In that same scene we see the others relaxed because they essentially say Little Bill's here so we have nothing to worry about. So when that fight took place they were panicked and scared because they've never actually had to do this before.
When that's realized it becomes more realistic as to why that saloon shootout played out the way it did.
Yup. Alot of people think dueling and shootouts happened at all times back then when it wasn't really all that common. Most people hadn't seen any actual action.
'2 facts: the boots that Clint wore in this film are the same boots he wore n his first western role, 'Rawhide' in 1959! Also, an anagram of Clint Eastwood is 'Old West Action'
It's apparently true that the calmest person wins in a gun fight.
According to eye witnesses at the gun fight at the ok corral,
Wyatt Earp barely moved at all except to adjust his feet. While shots were just whistling by him.
I love the difference in the way you read the epilogue compared to the way you read the prologue.
That scene with Gene Hackman in the jail telling the “true” story of English Bob’s shootout is one of my favorite scenes in a western. It’s funny and sad at the same time.
It is one of my favorite scenes in film!
after this film, very few Westerns came out… very few dared try to create one. This film was both the pinnacle and anti-thesis of Westerns and it was like everyone knew nothing is going to top this.
We NEED MORE western movie reviews/ watch alongs!!!!
You want to see an earlier, not your normal Clint western, check out High Plains Drifter.
You need to delve into Clint Eastwood's cowboy evolution. From Rowdy Gaines in "Rawhide", through Blondie in "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" to this spectacular gem that is a retiring of a mythical screen character.
Rowdy Gaines is a 3 time Olympic swimming Gold Medalist. Rowdy Yates was Clint Eastwood's character on Rawhide. No biggie, simple mistake.
@@talyn468 LOL! Thank you. Too much TV as a kid.
Saddest parts of the movie;:
1.Delilah was the offended party but NOBODY asked what SHE thought should be done.
2. The buddy of the main offender did nothing wrong so far as I could tell, felt bad about it, and offered Delilah a horse.
3. Morgan Freeman did the least amount of hurting other people and suffered the worst.
Richard Harris' gun barrels were melted and bent in a forge, not bent by a super man. At least that's my theory.
Kansas was a tough state. 7 years before the Civil War many states were added and independently chose to be slave or free and this threatened to upset the delicate balance (dead even most often) of the states. When Kansas became a state people who were pro-slave and anti-slave were both invited and they fighting started and didn't stop until until the Civil War ended (11 years later). Eventually Kansas became peaceful as most other states, but this would have taken a while.
Clint Eastwood acquired the rights to this script and sat on it for years. He wanted to play the lead but realized the part should go to an older man, so he waited and waited until he felt he was old enough for the part.
The woman who played the Madam was Eastwood's girlfriend for a very long time and worked with him on MANY films before this one.
This is that hidden gem and you recognized it perfectly. I'm in for a Clint Eastwood Marathon.😊 This is really one of the best ever. I'm so glad I watched it again with you. 🥳
Sigh, sometimes I just have to turn the volume down on the vaudeville act.
This movie hits me as an examination of, what does it really take to kill a man.
I don't know if you've seen them but you should also check out:
Pale Rider (Clint Eastwood)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood)
True Grit (the newer one with Jeff Bridges)
Just an added tidbit, my sister was in the Army band at Fort Ord Cali. They had a jazz band/big band and Clint hired them to play at one of his private parties at his house. My sister sang with the band and met Clint. She said he was the nicest guy you can imagine. He loved the band was was super kind and appreciative to them.
Love that Munny leans in a tiny bit before ending Bill
English Bob never took the gun as he believed Bill never loaded it.... his look of dismay when gun was unloaded shows that , Bill was shown sweating as he gambled on Bob thinking that too.
Who's a Writer / Director / Actor, etc. you would like to see take on a WESTERN??
React to 3:10 to Yuma - Christian Bale and Russel Crowe
Sam Rockwell
Tom Hardy was amazing in The Revenant. Not exactly a cowboy, but I was kind of surprised he didn't get more roles like that.
Open Range is a great modern Western. Robert Duvall and Kevin Costner
Ben Foster needs a leading role
Open Range, Silverado, The Man With No Name Trilogy, 3:10 To Yuma (Bale and Crowe remake)… there are tons of great Westerns but that’s just a few
Silverado, amen.
If you want to watch more Clint Eastwood films, give The Bridges of Madison County a watch. It features some of the best work of Meryl Streep's career and Eastwood really elevated a pretty hokey novel into a really marvelous film.
I loved that movie. Especially because of so much we got to see of Meryl's fantastic body 🥒. I think about those scenes more often than my wife would appreciate.
When it came out, Eastwood said in an interview that he wanted to do one last Western, but he wanted to depict how many of the legendary events of the Wild West were "a series of random and thuggish acts." That quote stuck with me. I've seen a lot of Westerns, but this one is my favorite.
Unless we're counting 'Deadwood.'
The trifecta, of Eastwood..Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, and Gran Torino.
Honorable mention " Outlaw Josey Wales!"
Open Range and Silverado are two westerns that I think you guys would enjoy. For older ones, I’d recommend The Outlaw Josey Wales, High Plains Drifter, and The Cowboys but there are soooo many more
Escape From Alcatraz, Dirty Harry and it's 4 sequels, The Dollars Trilogy, Tightrope, The Rookie, In The Line of Fire, A Perfect World, True Crime, Blood Work, and the film you just reacted to, are the essential Eastwood films, in my opinion.
The Rookie with Charlie Sheen is a deep cut! Nice call!
I guess you never saw Absolute Power, would recommend
This is film is a cinematic masterpiece. Glad you guys enjoyed it!
Pale Rider is one of my favorite Clint Eastwood westerns.
The Dollars Trilogy is one of the greatest Western (spaghetti Western) series of all time directed by Sergio Leon with the best Western score ever composed by Ennio Morricone. All three movies are a must watch; in order obviously.
This was the 1st western I watched as a kid. Loved it. And throughout the years I watched most of Clint’s westerns. I know they’re not all connected but his character is very similar to all his movies. So in my head I feel like they’re all the same “character” but just told as myths. The boogy man. Clint’s character in his movies “the man with no name” is one of my favorite characters ever created.
The woman who was cut up that you couldn't remember , was the mom to the young girl that was friends with Erik Draven and Shelly in The ORIGINAL CROW!:)
Since it is one of your favorite movies thar you share and play every devils night it struck me as funny that you didn't recognize her! Oh, she was also the woman who turned Christian Slaters character down in the beginning of True Romance to go see 3 Kung full movies starring Sonny Chiba!:)
An incredible movie! And great suggestions in the comments, I'll throw in something very different for a Clint Eastwood marathon. Play Misty For Me is a great film with Eastwood, not a western but it is an extremely tense suspense story.
The scarred woman, Delilah, was played by the same actress who played Darla, the junkie mom, in The Crow. She was also in Bad Boys.
And disagree that Little Bill was “awful”. He was a bit of a bully, but he was the law and he adjudicated the matter with Delilah in way that he considered just. Then he hears his town is about to be set upon by low life bounty hunters and assassins, and he did what felt necessary to keep order. Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t rooting for him, but the brilliance of this movie was there no one who was purely good or purely evil. My #1 western of all time.
I think people make the mistake of thinking of Little Bill as "the bad guy". The beauty of this movie is that everyone is the bad guy.
Even the women
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Best Clint Eastwood hands down - Outlaw Josey Wales.
Since you mentioned Dennis Hopper, he has a small part in 1968 Clint Eastwood film Hang Em High, along with Bruce Dern. It's the first western he made after the success of The Classic Sergio Leone Dollars trilogy. It's one of my favourite Eastwood westerns, where Clint hunts the group of men who wronged him in the tense opening sequence. It is also highlights the brutality of hanging and the morality of the Justice system in those days.
I’d love to see Lonesome Dove on this channel. It was one we watched a lot when I was kid.
She was also Francine (the computer girl) in the first Bad Boys.
Everything Clint Eastwood is special but Once upon a time in the West is one of the best westerns ever made.
Henry Fonda is evil magnetism personified!
Clint’s films are like still water and deep as anything.
Y'all are hilarious. Perpetual aged actors, slo-mo grain harvest.....well done, fellas. Well done lol
Gene Hackman hated playing characters who were violent. He walked off principal photography of The French Connection for two weeks and Frankenheimer had to talk him back into doing it. He won his two Academy Awards for the two most violent characters he portrayed.
This is most likely the best Western ever made. So dark, yet the story really draws you in and gets you invested. If you haven't seen it, "Pale Rider" is a classic Eastwood film that has a similar tone. Love the reaction and the time that you gave to this one! ❤
It's like Clint Eastwood knows how to shoot a movie.
Also, that's Clint's son.
I really dig that you guys had fun with this while still following the story closely and respecting the care that went into it.
Eastwood westerns are probably my favourite movies, besides LotR and the first Matrix. I utterly love every one of them. From the Sergio Leone era trilogy (For a fistfull of dollar, For a few dollars more,Good/bad/ugly), to the ones directed by Eastwood (Pale Rider, High Plains Drifter, Outlaw Josey Wales, Unforgiven etc), they are the kind of movies id choose to watch on my last day if i knew i was about to die.
I appreciate that you guys recognize that there are no truly bad or truly evil characters in this movie. But, I must take exception to your impression of Little Bill. He is not the bad guy. He is simply trying to keep the piece in this town. I really felt it when he said he did not deserve to die like that.
My grandfather loved Westerns and Eastwood was his favorite actor.
I’ve seen almost every Eastwood movie, but this in, in the theatre blew me away.
I’m glad you showed the humor as well
“So…you use your hand ?”
I cannot recommend enough what is widely considered the greatest western of all time, The Searchers. The 1956 John Ford classic is, in my opinion, the most influential movie of all time. Spielberg, Scorsese, De Palma and Lucas all point to this movie as an influential masterpiece. You can see how those directors “borrowed” shots from it for all their best flicks. Please, do yourself a favor and check it out.
This. Movie. Is. Perfect.
The ‘cut up’ girl is Anna Thomson… who was in the Crow, playing the mom who was cleared of morphine by the title character.
Coy, the dollars trilogy is a must watch. The Good the Bad and the Ugly is in the running for best western ever made, and inspired many film-makers, such as Tarantino.
The Unforgiven redefined the modern western film genre
Western in space..
*"Firefly series, and Serenity the movie."*
Also, another bunch of good spaghetti western movies are all the Terrance Hill flics
And now you know why this movie is legendary. Great reaction.
Was lucky enough to see this in theater when I was 15 towards the end of summer in 1992.
Enjoyed your reaction, fellas. If you appreciated the camera-work in this film, you might check out some of John Ford's Westerns. They are older, but "The Searchers" is a complicated classic with John Wayne playing a real SOB. "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence" is another great Ford Western but toward the end of his career, with the great quote "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” The Howard Hawks' Western "Red River" is a classic cattle-drive film with Wayne and Montgomery Clift. And while not a movie but a mini series ,"Lonesome Dove" with Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall may be the best thing network TV ever produced.
Clint also wrote and played the theme music apparently
John Wayne also has an ‘old bad man with a reputation’ movie in his final film, Don Siegel’s The Shootist (1976). [Siegel directed Eastwood in Coogan’s Bluff (1968), Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970), Dirty Harry (1971), The Beguiled (1971), and Escape from Alcatraz (1979)]. Before watching The Shootist, you’d want to catch him in a few of the films that got him that reputation, I.e., John Ford’s Stagecoach (1939), Howard Hawk’s Red River (1948), John Ford’s The Searchers, Howard Hawk’s Rio Bravo, or John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1961).
Seen some comments from this and just wanted to get the message through even more but "The Outlaw Josey Wales" was Clint's directorial debut and I personally think is leaps ahead of the dollars trilogy and is something you need to see as soon as possible.
I had a box set of all his westerns, even the old ones. They always tell a story.
Gentlemen. My four western recommendations include two classics. One modern and one curveball.
Ok. The classics: The Searchers...widely regarded as the best western ever made by many.
Winchester '73. My favourite James Stewart role. Brilliant film.
Modern: Wyatt Earp. Very underrated Kevin Costner film/performance.
Curveball: Quigley: Down Under. Fantastic finale. Unreal performances from Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo and Alan Rickman (No surprise there right?!)
Hope this helped John and Coy. Keep up the incredible work guys. All the best to all the Reel Rejects.
Much love❤
Also fun fact Clint Eastwood wrote this in his 50s and waited 14 years to make it because he didn't think he was old enough to play the character. So at 64 he finally made the movie.
- Open Range (Costner & Duval)
- The Cowboys (John Wayne & Bruce Dern)
- Other Eastwood non-westerns that are great, Play Misty For Me, Escape from Alcatraz, Kelley’s Heroes
Be really cool if you guys did Western Wednesdays. I know it might not hit with a lot of the younger audiences (not to say some won't like it), but as I approach my 40s, I appreciate Western movies and books much more. They're the OG comic book heroes. Mr. Eastwood is a master at his craft.
I would love to rewatch the classic Clint spaghetti westerns with you guys.
You guys do a good job. Appreciate that you take a little extra time and do it right. 👍
In the Eastwood directed The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), Josey is a younger version of a William Munny during the Bleeding Kansas era. There are even a couple scenes similar to the story told of him taking out the 2 or 3 men (although Josey is no mean-spirited drunk fool).
You guys put out so much content, I can’t keep up. I have to come back, date or even weeks later to watch the videos I want 😂❤
Clint was on TV's western "Rawhide" and became the biggest movie star on the planet. Before Clint there was John Wayne. "Cowboys" like Gene Autry, Tex Ritter (John Ritter's dad), Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, etc., were role models for young boys back in the day.
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My favorite western is i The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
If you like Neo Westerns I can't recommend SIlverado enough, the cast is incredible, and It was made by people who loved Westerns, and it reinvigorated the genre.
Outside of the Dollars Trilogy Eastwood's best westerns are Pale Rider, The Outlaw Josey Wales and of course Unforgiven which you have just watched.
This is my favorite film Eastwood directed. Great performances, amazing dialogue, cinematography and production design are top notch and the overall themes are portrayed extremely well throughout. Hackman definitely earned that Supporting Actor Oscar. Also, $300 would be worth like $8,000 today so definitely a lot lol for back then. That’d last a family at least a couple of years.
If you like this film you might like 'The Pale Rider'. Or maybe 'The Outlaw Josey Wales'.
I never know why this movie doesn’t get mentioned, it’s quigely down under, silly title but a really unique western as it’s yes you’ve guessed it set in Australia. The wonderful Alan Rickman and Tom selleck star in this quite emotional movie about a man hired from America because of his shooting skills , he thought he was hired to kill dingos but he was hired to murder aborigines 😢.I’ve watched it numerous times and makes me cry every single time.
It is a terrific western. You're right it doesn't get mentioned enough.
As Little Bill said it's not about the fastest or the best shot. It about who keeps their head. Everyone in the bar was scared to death but Will and Little Bill.
The unforgiven is a western from 1960 with Burt Lancaster
The Magnificent Seven, Rio Bravo, and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon were my favorites growing up.
This movie is truly one of a kind, unique in the genre of Westerns, because it is an anti-westerrn. I literally takes all the tropes of western movies and breaks them. It takes takes the traditional westerns as the rumors of William Munny and the more modern and gritty approach to the actual scenes of him drinking a whole bottle of whiskey and going on this quest for revenge on behalf of his best friend Ned Logan and his dear departed wife. I honestly consider this Eastwood's best work ever. His Magnum Opus. The pinnacle of his career. The best western ever made.