I just started to watch "Unforgiven" and thought it was the worst movie in the world

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...because of the awful narration. But then after five minutes of annoying narration, I looked at the box and found that it was a video for blind people. VHS too, so I can't turn off that option.

So now I have to reserve a different copy.

I had heard that it was a good film. But then, a lot of people told me Good Will Hunting was a good film.

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I haven't seen it since it came out, but at the time I thought it was great.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:53 (nineteen years ago) link

This should be an option for every DVD ever.

"Dirk is unzipping his fly, and pulling out his unfeasibly large penis."

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:55 (nineteen years ago) link

"The Charger careens out of control and crashes into a gas station, which explodes in a tremendous fireball."

"Lee punches a guard. He punches three more in rapid succession. He grabs another one and snaps his neck like a twig."

"Mr. Hulot approaches an office building..."

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:58 (nineteen years ago) link

You have no idea how close you are to what the narration was like.

"A burly man enters the inn and slashes the woman on her pretty cheek"

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:59 (nineteen years ago) link

This may sound kind of cruel, but what does "pretty" mean to a blind person?

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 02:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Face without jagged metal spikes that cut your hands?

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 02:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I saw it when it came out. I remember being underwhelmed.

― supercub, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 02:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Underwhelmed, indeed! I thought it was just me! It was a truly awful film. The scenery was good.

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 03:14 (nineteen years ago) link

bullshit, it's a good movie. one of eastwood's best.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 03:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Naaaa.

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 03:19 (nineteen years ago) link

whatever dude.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 03:22 (nineteen years ago) link

people i know seem to either love the movie to death or hate its guts.

all i remember is ENGLISH BOB ENGLISH BOB ENGLISH BOB

― latebloomer: HE WHOM DUELS THE DRAFGON IN ENDLESS DANCE (latebloomer), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 03:31 (nineteen years ago) link

I saw these kind of shows, when I was a kid and volunteered with blind people. They're oddly fascinating.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 04:51 (nineteen years ago) link

UM......
What is the point of putting them on video? Why not just release the audio on CD?

― marmot wolof (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 13:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Blind people can do anything!

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 13:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, ya sightist.

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 13:53 (nineteen years ago) link

You know, I heard that in Poland this was standard practice for foreign films, instead of dubbing or subtitles. I'm serious.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 13:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Read one book.

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 14:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh man, this thread is making me ROFFLE

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 19:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Last year, something went wrong with my TV and for some reason it started getting the deaf narration feed if you turned the TV above a certain volume. It was as if my TV was saying "What are you, DEAF?"

It was especially funny to try to hear the narration explain the sight gags on The Simpsons.

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 19:28 (nineteen years ago) link

"Neo swoops in at the last moment, grabbing Morpheus and the Keymaker out of the air just before the explosion engulfts them all, flying away to freedom on WINGS OF JUSTICE."

― known vaginatarian (nickalicious), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 19:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Ned swoops in at the last moment, grabbing Morbius and the Pinefox out of the air just before the ILX crash engulf(t)s them all, flying away to freedom on Freaky Trigger."

xpost:
The Polish dude who "reads" the film to you is called a lector.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 19:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I remember my mom checking out a copy of Ghost from the library that had narration for the blind on it. She watched the whole thing through and didn't even seem to notice anything was unusual.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 17 February 2005 05:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Anyone ever sample this stuff for use in dance music/hip hop?

― Un investigador del siglo XXI (AaronHz), Thursday, 17 February 2005 06:02 (nineteen years ago) link

UHmm marmot, ERRR (*is whacked on back, clears throat, sneezes*) .. ahem, cough, splutter... Many blind people can see some shapes and colors (just like many deaf people can hear some rudimentary sound). Don't think these people aren't used to the experience of "watching" TV over at friends' houses, or with their families.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 17 February 2005 17:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Those who have expressed a less than favourable opinion of "Unforgiven" have underestimated the power of grit to lift a movie to critical success. Gritty movies exert an unusual appeal upon critics because they usually subsist on a diet of cotton candy and sunny-side-up eggs.

― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 17 February 2005 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link

"Aimless types furiously on a computer keyboard."

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 17 February 2005 18:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Unforgiven is pretty strong, particularly in the last 20 minutes or so. There is a LOT wrong with it, but it's about as good as Eastwood gets - I'd put the Sergio Leone trilogy and the Outlaw Josey Wales ahead of it. Unforgiveably bad things about the movie: the totally stupid "writer" character, the inexplicable absence of any racism or even any mention of race at all in respect to Morgan Freeman's character, some of the pointlessly heavy-handed imagery (look, Eastwood's rollin pigshit! He's hit bottom! Get it? GET IT?!?). On the plus side, the story is strongly written overall - Gene Hackman's evil is revealed slowly and subtly, there's some great dialogue (the "he's holdin onto his shit like it was gold" line always sticks in my mind), gorgeous scenery, a fantastic turn by Richard Harris as "English Bob", and Clint's monologue at the end where he threatens the surviving populace is pretty much the greatest thing he's ever delivered.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 17 February 2005 18:09 (nineteen years ago) link

five years pass...

who owns this shithole?

A+++

― wilter, Monday, 5 April 2010 04:00 (fourteen years ago) link

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