The greatest western of all time. Cormac McCarthy tier. Prove me wrong

The greatest western of all time. Cormac McCarthy tier. Prove me wrong.
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>The greatest western of all time
based
>Cormac McCarthy tier
ultra based
>Prove me wrong
'fraid that ain't possible

is it even good?

The True Grit remake is better. More faithful to the book which is a true spaghetti western, and the Coens are better director's than Eastwood.

Gene Hackman makes it a tough choice though.

High Plains Drifter I think is also better. Something darkly eerie about it which is a weird feeling to derive from a western but you do and it actually works.

I mean I love it. It turns all the trops of the western on its head. The protagonist is a washed up, tired old man whose only reason to live is a sense to revenge his old friend burning in his blood. There is a supporting character who fills the archetypal "the kid" who is all bark and no bite (without spoiling it futher). The lawmen depicted are just as arrogant and venal as the outlaws. The acting is solid. It is brutal, heartwrenching, unflinching. It is a masterpiece of American and world film.

Also I'm kinda wasted rn hence all the typos
True Grit comes close but it doesn't carry the darkness and weight of Unforgiven. Unforgiven is cruel and amoral in a way that represents the truth of the hard living on the frontier.

I prefer The Outlaw Josey Wales but Unforgiven is great

The Searchers exists

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This movie is so overrated by Zig Forums it's beyond annoying. There's literally nothing good that comes from shilling this boomer muh edgy / subverting tropes garbage since it's not even a meme. It's Zig Forums sincerely thinking this shitty film is profound. It's not. It's a 15-minute short film of based Clint Eastman breaking bad that's extended to full length by a fuck ton of grim, edgy bullshit with unlikeable, annoying characters.

Fuck Unforgiven and fuck you OP, now you're Unforgiven (part too)
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>subverting tropes
It really doesn't. And it's not edgy, either. Is this bait?

It's edgy and it does subvert tropes, in the boomer 90's sense. You're just used to seeing it done by Gen-Xers and millennials who came after and did it more so with their films.

I joke to women who talk about being size queens then tell them they're gonna end up like the hooker at the beginning of unforgiven eventually lel

I think you're just retarded, user. And you evidently haven't seen many westerns.

are you kidding? "subverting western tropes" is the whole point of the movie.

You keep saying edgy.. what do you mean exactly?

You keep mentioning 'you'. what do (You) mean exactly?

I love westerns, my favorite is probably Wild Bunch

>wot if alcoholic old gunslinger got piss drunk again?
>mental, innit?

I would like to take this moment to showcase this forgotten gem.

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>Cormac McCarthy tier
Wrong. It's better

This is what paranoia does to you, kids

High Plains Drifter sucks. 70's arthouse LSD trip bullshit.

>generic, dismissive reddit response that doesn't actually address what was posted
>rather, it merely attempts to use snark and quippy dominance-signaling to discredit a comment in the eyes of the group
That doesn't work here.

How the fuck does this look so good? It's so simple, yet I haven't seen many scenes in other movies that even come close.

I guess you have to be a fan of western settings to enjoy all the subversion. I found it unengaging, perhaps because it made all the characters unlikeable and I consequently didn't really care what happened to them or how the story progressed/ended.

>The Outlaw Josey Wales
good call out.

>muh subversion boogeyman
>characters need to be likeable for me to like the movie
What's wrong with you!?

>I guess you have to be a fan of western settings to enjoy all the subversion.
Or a zoomer / young millennial who was born and raised on subversion to the point that they cant' even spot it. It just seems natural and "obvious" to them whereas everything else is boring/quaint/dumb. I can attest that there was a period in the 90's where people thought this shit was refreshing, raw, and "real" and shit like Tombstone and all the older westerns were dumb and naive. I dunno anyone from that era that looks back fondly on 90's grim muh subversion shit, though. The hangover was brutal and after the deconstruction, there really wasn't a whole lot to show for it.

I can't stand all the night scenes that are blatantly shot during the day with a bad filter.

It’s only “subversive” if you’ve only watching nothing but over the top spaghettis. If you compare it to the more bolder Classics, Unforgiven is really toothless. It says almost nothing new and controversial. Not even Shane walked out of the final gunfight unscathed (you can argue that Shane died at the end).

Picking Ford is cheating.
Wayne’s presence and body language helps it a lot. Says almost everything you need to know about him and the rest of his life after that door closes.