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

Blind people can do anything!

Yeah, ya sightist.

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

Read one book.

Oh man, this thread is making me ROFFLE

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.

"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."

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."

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

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.

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

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.

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 types furiously on a computer keyboard."

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.