no likable....
characters
shareThe Midget.
Clint was likable if you got the point of the story.
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So what exactly is the point... that even bad guys can be good and good guys can be bad? lol... or maybe the drifter is the ghost of the sheriff? blah, blah, blah.
That's about all I got out of this one.... I mean, it's not a bad idea but the execution was a little weak.
Honestly, I'm surprised by the high rating it has (currently 7.5/10). And I wouldn't even say movies must have a point. Sometimes they're better if they don't.
Still, its not terrible, I'd give it a 5.5 out of 10. I've seen worse films.
I'm so glad I first saw this when I was a teenager in the 80s. Back then, you could feel comfortable liking an anti-hero in a movie instead of feeling obliged to indignantly moralize about it.
shareIts not so much that, I don't mind shady characters in movies, it's just that HPD for some reason seems to have has a very "b-movie" feel to it, which is weird because Eastwood is in this. I don't know, maybe the film is just showing it's age. Some movies from the 70s and earlier are not aging that well. This could be one of them.
At any rate, I could name plenty of westerns that I liked more than this.
In fact, I just watched a movie called Wind River (2017) that is kind of like a modern day western akin to 'No Country For Old Men' with a twist, the film is shot in snowy Wyoming. I would have to say it was better than HPD. But it has a more modern film-making touch to it that the older films don't seem to have.