I’ve never liked Eastwood as a director to be honest.

High Plains Drifter is not his only film starring/directed by Clint that uses sexual violence against women. In a lot if his films especially in the pre PC days of the 1970s, there is either a rape scene or an attempted scene.

In Every Which way but loose, Sondra Lonke’s snooty heiress in attacked. She is also attacked in the Outlaw Josey Wales. In Sudden Impact, both Locke and her sister are raped.It then follows that Clint is able to act as the avenging angel and exact the ultimate punishment.

Even his Oscar winning Unforgiven depicts a prostitute being mutilated by a cowboy.Once again, he exacts revenge on the criminals.

What does this say about Clint’s attitude to women?

After Straw Dogs, this type of attitude to women was seen as acceptable.

It does not make it right.

Have you seen Million Dollar Baby? Can you review that one? I enjoy reading your reviews.

I think it’s great that you like Unforgiven. Lots of people do, it won a fucking Oscar. But you’re mistaken if you think there’s any such thing as an unbiased and objective review. Perhaps I can direct you to a dictionary to look up the definition of ‘criticism’. Or Google.

“Show, don’t tell,” may have originated as a writing convention, but perhaps you haven’t reached the part in film school when they teach you that films begin as a screenplay that must first be written. May I also direct your attention to “On Directing Film” by David Mamet, which is pretty much entirely dedicated to applying this principal to filmmaking.

Despite your rage that someone on the internet has a poor opinion of a film you like, thanks for links! Tell all your friends how stupid I am. Maybe they think my opinion on the Muppets of Sesame Street is wrong, too.

And, for the record, Aliens is the fucking bomb.

Comedy GOLD!

This meticulously crafted, carefully edited and expertly cast film is what the entire western genre was leading up to. The subtext is rich and expansive and the symbolism is bold. This is a seminal work that will influence all westerns to come, as it did both ‘The Proposition’ and ‘The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford’. This movie, though not my favorite western, is the best western ever made. Period.

Any moment now I expect you to publish another stack of bullshit explaining why The Terminator was somehow inferior to ‘Terminator 2′. Or how ‘Aliens’ was somehow better than ‘Alien’. Either way, you’re just plain wrong. ‘Unforgiven’ is a modern classic.

Do yourself a favor and stick to reviewing video games. That way, right or wrong, you won’t need to worry about anyone reading them and discovering you don’t know shit about cinema. You may watch movies, but you sure as hell don’t see them.