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Two retired, down-on-their luck outlaws pick up their guns one last time to collect a bounty offered by the vengeful prostitutes of the remote Wyoming town of Big Whiskey.
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LibraryThing member LisaMaria_C
I wound up liking this much more than I thought I would. First, I had found I didn't like the Spaghetti Westerns Eastwood had made--or the ones I'd tried, A Fistful of Dollars and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Too violent, too dark, with not one character I could connect with.
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in the first few minutes I'd stick long with Unforgiven either--the opening scene was pretty sickening. But then Gene Hackman showed up as "Little Bill" and I was riveted. And it probably helped that to begin with the film showed Eastwood's character in a sympathetic light as a widower raising two young children--that I could feel for him. Add in Richard Harris and Morgan Freeman and I couldn't turn away. In a way this is rather subversive of the whole Western genre, and yes, it is dark--but it was also engrossing from beginning to end. Show Less
LibraryThing member comfypants
Assaulted prostitutes put out a bounty on their attackers.
Good story and characters, and great ending, but slow movie. There's lots of tediously superfluous dialog, and a few scenes that could be cut without losing anything.
Good story and characters, and great ending, but slow movie. There's lots of tediously superfluous dialog, and a few scenes that could be cut without losing anything.
Awards
Academy Award (Nominee — Best Picture — 1992)
National Film Registry (2004)
AFI's 10 Top 10 (Western — 4)
Original publication date
1992