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| 80% Recommended by our customers. Studio: Warner Home Video Catalog: DVD Release date: 1997-03-26 Media: DVD released in theatres: 1992-08-07 Running time in minutes: 127 DVD aspect ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Picture format: Letterbox, Pan & Scan Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC DVD Region code: 1 DVD layers: 1 DVD sides: 2 released in theatres: 1992-08-07 Ean: 9780790729640 Book Isbn: 0790729644 Upc: 085391253129  Tip: compare prices with similar DVDsDirector:
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 Written on November 28, 2007 Summary: Unforgotten There's not much to say. Great movie. I had it on VHS. I needed a clean version for my DVD collection. It a class of it's own.  Written on November 7, 2007 Summary: anamericancallederik Unforgiven was a pretty bad western but not as bad as Pale Rider. Again, Eastwood is given the perfect plot - a bad man turned good forced to return to his old ways for the want of money, the job, to kill two cattlemen who sliced up a prostitute's face. These old veterans, reluctantly, go back to their old ways after the girls of the cathouse put together a big enough "steak" to kill them. Again, the movie had too much talk and not enough action. The ending was an improvement, but by the time I got there I felt like I wasted my time. This movie did not merit the best picture Oscar Award. There are many other westerns that are far more deserving. If you liked: the Good the Bad and the Ugly, For a Few More Dollars, A Fist Full of Dollars, High Noon (Gary Cooper) or Stage Coach (John Wayne) do not watch this film unless you want to disappoint yourself. Written on October 27, 2007 Summary: 18 people gave this one star - bet they eat junk food This film is rather slow in its build up, but like a great meal which has had hours lavished over it, from firstly buying all the ingredients then spending hours over the stove mixing and cooking. You finally sit down to eat 'mmm mmm, that tastes so darn good' quarter of an hour later you've finished your meal and you feel content. Unforgiven works in a similar way, the film spends large amounts of time bringing the story together, then the climax is short, but it gets me every time, it is so exciting. The film sets to dispel the old myths of the west - regarding cold hearted killers, and the only real cold hearted son of a gun isn't that cold hearted afterall. Written on August 7, 2007 Summary: "It's a hell of a thing, killin' a man. Take away all he's got, and all he's ever gonna have." Unforgiven combines two major elements to make it the best Western ever made. First is its brutally realistic depiction of violence and killing in the Old West. Second is the situation of causing a reformed man to revisit the behavior of his past in order to survive. There are no glorious killings in Unforgiven. This movie lays to rest the notion of high-noon showdowns or fighting for honor. Executions, ambushes, and agonizing gut-wounds are the staple methods of attack. Alcohol, pride, and gold fuel most of the violence in the town of Big Whisky. Most of the scenes with violence are very one-sided, further lending credence to this film. The main character is almost certainly a wolf in sheep's clothing. Through the efforts of his late wife, he has been able to eliminate his psychopathic tendencies, fueled for the most part by alcohol. His sober days are blanched by regret and remorse over the people he has killed. He is for all intents and purposes an unsuccessful farmer out trying to collect a bounty. But when things go horribly wrong, he is forced to return to the behavior and actions of his past to survive. A simple man with an extraordinary past and consequently extraordinary abilities. Written on July 20, 2007 Summary: The attractive murderer "Unforgiven" certainly looks beautiful, especially in HD. And I admit it is a very good film with a lot of good points, perfect timing, excellent acting, good characters, the works. And it has a lot more nuance than westerns normally have. But I will contend that ultimately it still boils down to the same old thing: admiration for a killer. When William Munny, in the charismatic and handsome frame of Clint Eastwood, rides out of Big Whiskey in the end, saying that if anybody hurt the prostitutes for putting up the blood money, he will come back and kill everybody, there is pretty much not anybody watching who does not feel deep in his/her gut: "my god, there is a MAN!" You just can't help it, it's in our dark nature. And you can even see this excemplified in the admiring and longing looks given him by the writer fellow and by the prostitute with the scars, as they watch him leave. There is no way around it: it is gut-level admiration for a man who by his own admission has killed many innocent men, and women, and children, and who killed several more just minutes ago. And the film aims for it, it is where it gets its marketing power. I am shocked that I've been unable to find any other reviewers (professional or amateur) who really question this. It is not a "great wrong", but there's certainly nothing beautiful about it, and it needs to be recognized. In a documentary about Eastwood, the narrator says about Unforgiven: "the sherif has tortured and killed Will's best friend. He has no choice but vengeance." And that's the exact untruth to be uncovered. There is always a choice. Violence begets violence, and he who breaks the chain, wins. Don't get me wrong, I am not villainizing "the Clint" here. His hyper-violent movie characters are merely reflecting an important aspect of human nature. I'm just saying it's an aspect we'd do well to look at some more. Another way to express my problem with it: if you listen to the movie, it is clearly against violence. The characters say it many times. But if you look at the movie, it is clearly for it. The violence is presented in a way so it is enjoyable. A friend of mine said that the final big gun battle was "like an orgasm". By the way, I'm just watching the documentary about the film, and DW Peoples (the writer) does say that the reason people think it's an anti-violence movie is that most other movies are "pro-violence" in the sense that if it is the good guy doing it to the bad guy, it's OK. But that reality is more complex, and that it's often difficult to pinpoint who's the "good guy" and who's the "bad guy". Which I think is wise. You'll notice that each participant in a fight always thinks of himself as the good guy. I will concede that within the framework of a big, popular, Hollywood movie, this film is probably as far as we can currently go towards an anti-violence movie. If you'd made a movie like this and not made the violence seductive and aesthetic, it would instantly have lost 90% of its audience. At least. |
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| Catalog | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD |
| Release date | 1997-03-26 | 2006-01-10 | 1997-03-26 | 2005-07-12 | 2006-05-02 | 2006-12-19 |
| Media | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | HD DVD |
| released in theatres | 1992-08-07 | 1969 | 1982-05-21 | 2005-01-28 | 1994-06-24 | 1995-11-22 |
| Running time in minutes | 127 | 145 | 95 | 132 | 190 | 179 |
| DVD aspect ratio | 2.35:1 | 2.40:1 | 2.35:1 | 2.40:1 | 1.66:1 | 2.35:1 |
| Audience Rating | R (Restricted) | R (Restricted) | R (Restricted) | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | R (Restricted) |
| Picture format | Letterbox, Pan & Scan | - | Anamorphic Widescreen, Pan & Scan | - | - | - |
| Format | Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC | AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC | AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen |
| DVD Region code | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| DVD layers | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| DVD sides | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | - |
| Ean | 9780790729640 | 9781419810763 | 9780790729343 | 9781419802492 | 0012569744929 | 0025193106322 |
| Book Isbn | 0790729644 | 1419810766 | 0790729342 | 1419802496 | - | - |
| Upc | 085391253129 | 012569705937 | 085391118121 | 012569593237 | 012569744929 | 025193106322 |
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