Film Clint Eastwood

[Scouse]

Just got back from seeing Gran Torino. Well worth a watch if you're the type of person who doesn't always like to leave their brain under the watchful gaze of the popcorn vendor.

This guy, over his entire career, has churned out gem after gem after gem. I can't think of a single A-list star who's hit the nail on the head so many times as Clint.

He's a fantastic actor, director and even writer.

He's even got a good formula - traditionally doing a crowd-pleaser followed by a more "arty" project then back to crowd-pleaser - the funds raised by the blockbusters being used to do something a bit more cerebral - which is obviously what he likes best.

So, I thought I'd put up a random post in his honour. What's your favourite Clint moment?

I'd tell you my answer, but I'm so chock-full of gravelly goodness that I can't pick between them

 

[Ch3tan]

The scenes with him and clyde in "every which way but loose". Noty only a talented actor, director and writer, but he can work with animals too

 

[Tom]

For me, just about every scene in Unforgiven. That film is a masterpiece of a ruined life.

 

[ramathorn]

i never really took to clint in a big way. i love movies and most of my mates are real movies nuts too. they LOVE mr eastwood, like arty farty posters of him on the walls love him.

i hate westerns and while i know there is a lot more to him than his western movies, i think deep down i cant shake the idea of him being a cowboy. i still havent seen unforgiven even though everyone i know is telling me how awesome it and he is.

i loved gran torino, really did, probably my favorite film of his (although if im honest i havent seen many more of his flicks) - favorite bit was him singing at the end. he couldnt sing for shit, but it really worked

 

[ECA]

I am a huge huge huge clint fan.

Love the dirty harry series, play misty for me ( lol @ clint as a smooth jazz DJ ), and I think high plains drifter is probably my favourite clint western

 

[ECA]

His worst film is probably two mules for sister sara.

He also did a western musical ( Paint Your Wagon ) that is unintentionally hilarious.

 

[DaGaffer]

His worst film is probably two mules for sister sara.

He also did a western musical ( Paint Your Wagon ) that is unintentionally hilarious.

Actually, I think it was intentionally hilarious.


My favourite Clint film has to be The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. It was one of the first "grown-up" films I ever saw with my Dad (who was a huge fan of the Spaghetti Westerns), so it always evokes great memories.

Having said that, I could also make a case for The Outlaw Josey Wales, Unforgiven and Kelly's Heroes (even though he obviously isn't the best thing in it, woof woof).

 

[Scouse]

Glad you liked Gran Torino Rama, but:

i hate westerns

I was waiting for a plane in Delhi airport when I started speaking to some Yank woman. She worked for US Immigration and her and her partner were waiting for the delivery of some prisoner to take back to the US.

She'd been there 3 days. Not left the airport. Said she "hated Indian food".

I said, all of it? I mean, there's a billion people in India and I'm sure that they don't all like everything that's on offer. But everyone in India can find at least one dish that they like.

I suggested the perhaps she should venture out and try a number of recommended dishes. She may not like them all, but if she put in the effort then maybe she'd find something she did like. After all, one billion Indians can't be wrong?

(She gave me a flat "no". And told me that Indians were all "unclean". Then she proceeded to tell me how she couldn't understand how people in Britain could live on an average £25k a year. We must all live in poverty, she said...)

 

[old.user4556]

Sounds like you met a prize fuckwit there Scouse .

 

[old.user4556]

Just to add to this thread, I got out a Clint effort tonight on blu-ray: Changeling.

Long, but it was brilliant; such a heartbreaking story, really got me, had to hide the misty eyes from the missus.

 

[ramathorn]

Glad you liked Gran Torino Rama, but:



I was waiting for a plane in Delhi airport when I started speaking to some Yank woman. She worked for US Immigration and her and her partner were waiting for the delivery of some prisoner to take back to the US.

She'd been there 3 days. Not left the airport. Said she "hated Indian food".

I said, all of it? I mean, there's a billion people in India and I'm sure that they don't all like everything that's on offer. But everyone in India can find at least one dish that they like.

I suggested the perhaps she should venture out and try a number of recommended dishes. She may not like them all, but if she put in the effort then maybe she'd find something she did like. After all, one billion Indians can't be wrong?

(She gave me a flat "no". And told me that Indians were all "unclean". Then she proceeded to tell me how she couldn't understand how people in Britain could live on an average £25k a year. We must all live in poverty, she said...)

yeah i would be the first to admit i am being narrow minded about the man. i have yet to see a western i really liked though, be they modern day or old school, i just cant get a feel for them at all. i have however just ordered a blue-ray of unforgiven in the hope that i get my eyes opened a bit.

 

[mr.Blacky]

I would almost say that Gran Torino is his best movie yet.

 

[Yaka]

a friend of mine kept bugging me to watch gran torino, my last clint film was mystic river which i found 90% boring given the acting talent on display.

i only ever saw breif tv adds on gran torino and none seemed to mention it was a fucking class comedy film. i began laughing along from its opening sequence till final scenes. clint manning up toa in the barber shop was brill. i was expect a serious type film not something i ended up seeing. defo one of the best clint east wood films

 

[ECA]

I agree Gran Torino is a great film.

It will be a sad day when we lose Clint Eastwood.

 

[mank!]

enjoyed gran torino but thought some of the acting (particularly the hmong kid) was awful.

the one and only clint film i've ever seen :0

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Will utter more support for Unforgiven: stunning film.

Yet to see enough of his directed stuff to make a judgement, got Mystic River sitting unwatched, will probably see that and GT soon enough.

 

[mank!]

oh fuck yeah, mystic river was good. forgot i'd seen that.

 

[Yaka]

thought it mystic river was preety boring.

 

[Ch3tan]

I enjoyed mystic river, it was slow paced, but not boring imo.

 

[Scouse]

Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil is one of his best directorial efforts IMHO

 

[Embattle]

I love The Good, The Bad and The Ugly but at the end I love loads of his films so couldn't pick out one over another.

 

[Thugz]

Unforgiven was excellent. The whole film building up to the finale. I think though that there wasn't enough nastiness shown by Clint when the eventual fight came. I wanted a more kind of Jekyll and Hyde type of switch. Kind of thing that was in Runaway Train with John Voight when he turned on his young partner with a knife in the rail car. Now that was acting.

 

[SawTooTH]

High Plains drifter is an underrated Clint film. It has themes on a much more psychological level, that were reused less successfully in his other Western Pale rider.

 

[`mongoose]

I'm surprised that nobody's mentioned Million Dollar Baby. I thought that was pretty stunning tbh.

Also loved Gran Torino and I have to echo Rama's thoughts. I'm not a huge fan of westerns - I just don't get them. I have seen good, bad and teh ugleh and some of his other westerns - they're ok but they don't entertain me the way some of his other movies have.

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