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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.
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.
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”
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.
"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.
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
'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'
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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. 🥳
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.
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.'
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.
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.
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 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.
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! ❤
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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❤
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).
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).
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.
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.
Great job guys! The Good, The Bad and The Ugly 1966 outstanding! Skinny the bar owner in Unforgiven was the guilty in 1967 In The Heat of the Night with Rod Steiger and Sidney Poitier!
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.
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.
- 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
Clintathon Like the sound of that. They’ll be plenty of suggestions for the dozens of films he’s done but my suggestion for you would be Dirty Harry. A film that essentially created the rogue cop genre, a kick ass score by Lalo Schifrin, one of the scariest villains ever with Andy Robinson, directed by Don Siegel (to whom Eastwood dedicated Unforgiven to along with Sergio Leone) and one of the most quoted film monologues in movie history. It also spawned the funniest scene in The Naked Gun.
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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.
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
This won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor for Hackman, Best Cinematography, and, a couple of others.
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 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.
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
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.”
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.
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”
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.
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.
Outlaw Josey Wales. A must see of Clint films. Excellent film. Unforgiven and Josey Wales are two top Westerns.
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.
"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.
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.
Love that Munny leans in a tiny bit before ending Bill
'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'
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).
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.
I love the difference in the way you read the epilogue compared to the way you read the prologue.
You want to see an earlier, not your normal Clint western, check out High Plains Drifter.
We NEED MORE western movie reviews/ watch alongs!!!!
Pale Rider is one of my favorite Clint Eastwood westerns.
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.
Clint Eastwood did a really incredible job creating this story about the dangers of the old west.
His son though
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
The trifecta, of Eastwood..Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, and Gran Torino.
Honorable mention " Outlaw Josey Wales!"
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. 🥳
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.
This is film is a cinematic masterpiece. Glad you guys enjoyed it!
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.'
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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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
Best Clint Eastwood hands down - Outlaw Josey Wales.
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.
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.
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.
Clint’s films are like still water and deep as anything.
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!
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.
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.
My grandfather loved Westerns and Eastwood was his favorite actor.
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.
It's like Clint Eastwood knows how to shoot a movie.
Also, that's Clint's son.
Y'all are hilarious. Perpetual aged actors, slo-mo grain harvest.....well done, fellas. Well done lol
Was lucky enough to see this in theater when I was 15 towards the end of summer in 1992.
This. Movie. Is. Perfect.
Western in space..
*"Firefly series, and Serenity the movie."*
Also, another bunch of good spaghetti western movies are all the Terrance Hill flics
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! ❤
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.
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.
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’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 ?”
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 would love to rewatch the classic Clint spaghetti westerns with you guys.
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
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❤
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.
The ‘cut up’ girl is Anna Thomson… who was in the Crow, playing the mom who was cleared of morphine by the title character.
I really dig that you guys had fun with this while still following the story closely and respecting the care that went into it.
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).
I had a box set of all his westerns, even the old ones. They always tell a story.
My favorite western is i The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
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).
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.
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
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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.
The Magnificent Seven, Rio Bravo, and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon were my favorites growing up.
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.
Clint also wrote and played the theme music apparently
Great job guys! The Good, The Bad and The Ugly 1966 outstanding! Skinny the bar owner in Unforgiven was the guilty in 1967 In The Heat of the Night with Rod Steiger and Sidney Poitier!
And now you know why this movie is legendary. Great reaction.
Saul Rubinek as Beauchamp is adorable lol
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.
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 😂❤
i think that lady with the cuts on her face is the mother in The Crow
Crazy how u never saw this. It came out while u were both alive. Think I’ve seen it 10 times. All time great western.
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.
- 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
Since you like Gene Hackman you really need to check out Crimson Tide which also has Denzel Washington in it
You guys do a good job. Appreciate that you take a little extra time and do it right. 👍
Also Clint got this script years before he made it. He held this in his back pocket for years
Clintathon
Like the sound of that.
They’ll be plenty of suggestions for the dozens of films he’s done but my suggestion for you would be Dirty Harry.
A film that essentially created the rogue cop genre, a kick ass score by Lalo Schifrin, one of the scariest villains ever with Andy Robinson, directed by Don Siegel (to whom Eastwood dedicated Unforgiven to along with Sergio Leone) and one of the most quoted film monologues in movie history.
It also spawned the funniest scene in The Naked Gun.