wdn't have predicted this in the Every Which Way But Loose days:
http://www.towleroad.com/2011/03/leonardo-dicaprio-and-armie-hammer-film-very-passionate-kiss.html
― Fuck bein' hard, Dr Morbz is complicated (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 March 2011 02:05 (thirteen years ago) link
http://kristinburns.com/WordPressPhotos/PJ/DuranDuran_mg_4011.jpg
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 03:41 (twelve years ago) link
weird.
was hereafter any good at all?
― akm, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 04:31 (twelve years ago) link
will return to acting as a baseball scout going blind:
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Matthew-Lillard-Joining-Clint-Eastwood-Trouble-With-Curve-28893.html
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 January 2012 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
Dude kinda just won the Super Bowl ad derby.
― dead-trius (Eric H.), Monday, 6 February 2012 01:38 (twelve years ago) link
Definitely.
http://www.youtube.com/chrysler
― ‘Neuroscience’ and ‘near death’ pepper (Eazy), Monday, 6 February 2012 06:22 (twelve years ago) link
Most effective moment of this for me is the split-second of the African-American kid as he's stepped out of his dad's car, and in that split second the two other kids (white) are walking to him--a moment literally under a second.
― ‘Neuroscience’ and ‘near death’ pepper (Eazy), Monday, 6 February 2012 13:41 (twelve years ago) link
Also, Clint's "Yeah" near the end is great and/or terrible.
― ‘Neuroscience’ and ‘near death’ pepper (Eazy), Monday, 6 February 2012 13:42 (twelve years ago) link
meh, Clint knows a brass-balls Nixonian president when he sees one.
http://www.salon.com/2012/02/06/clint_eastwoods_super_bowl_obama_endorsement/
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 February 2012 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
Some are insisting its just an endorsement of Detroit and Karl Rove is whining about it for various reasons
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
No votes for Paint your Wagon??
― Waxahachie Swap (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
"This is just halftime for American musicals."
― dead-trius (Eric H.), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
It's funny that it gets parsed as political when it's a car commercial using the rhetoric of a political ad, and working really hard not to be political. But, of course, the stuff it's advertising isn't removed from politics, which is what the right is jumping on.
― ‘Neuroscience’ and ‘near death’ pepper (Eazy), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
Chrysler wiped union signs off the footage, literally nothing to see here folks
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
Woah, David Gordon Green directed the ad, and Matthew Dickman (one of the twin poets profiled in the New Yorker a few years ago) was one of the writers.
http://www.wweek.com/portland/blog-28200-see_that_wieden%2Bkennedy_super_bowl_ad_with_clint_eastwood_it_was_directed_by_david_gordon_green.html
― ‘Neuroscience’ and ‘near death’ pepper (Eazy), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
bouncing back from your highness
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
just watched this, anyone who sees anything truly political in it is insane.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 03:16 (twelve years ago) link
Off-topic from Clint, but the similar 2011 Super Bowl spot was good, directed by Samuel Bayer ("Smells Like Teen Spirit"):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKL254Y_jtc
― ‘Neuroscience’ and ‘near death’ pepper (Eazy), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 04:33 (twelve years ago) link
sighhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoqKdWY692k
― This cad needs a cordial introduction to Eugene of Oxbow. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 31 August 2012 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
does this damage his reputation at all? Or it he so old and such a revered hollywood figure that it doesn't matter?
― akm, Friday, 31 August 2012 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
Yes.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 31 August 2012 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/articles/you-did-great-terrified-personal-assistant-tells-c,29393/
― This cad needs a cordial introduction to Eugene of Oxbow. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 31 August 2012 16:59 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmratV9kac0&hd=1
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Friday, 31 August 2012 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
also: http://www.theonion.com/articles/breaking-john-mccain-just-blew-his-brains-out-duri,29369/
― This cad needs a cordial introduction to Eugene of Oxbow. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 31 August 2012 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
Can only presume everyone pretending to be shocked or disappointed in this is doing so to draw attention away from Mittens.
― Eric H., Friday, 31 August 2012 17:02 (eleven years ago) link
Does this mean that we can look forward to other Republican leaning actors coming on and saying their best known lines?Arnie: "RUN TO DA PRESIDENTIAL CHOPPAH!"
― wise men farting over you (snoball), Friday, 31 August 2012 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
New movie in three weeks, start your political based jokes/Photoshopping now:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2083383/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 31 August 2012 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
What does invisibama want Clint to tell Romney to do to himself at 6:15?
― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Friday, 31 August 2012 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
xp Trouble With The Laffer Curve
― wise men farting over you (snoball), Friday, 31 August 2012 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
Go fuck yourself
v v classy joke
― dmr, Friday, 31 August 2012 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
NYT: "Aides said Mr. Eastwood does not like teleprompters and was trusted to deliver an on-message endorsement."
oh he was ad-libbing up there? you don't say
― dmr, Friday, 31 August 2012 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
"I know what you're thinkin'. 'Does he have Barack Obama in that chair or doesn't he?' Well to tell you the truth in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself."
― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Friday, 7 September 2012 02:12 (eleven years ago) link
Far from my favourite director--except for Blood Work, don't know that I've ever liked anything, and J. Edgar especially seemed like a waste. I didn't mind Hereafter, though, improbabilities and all. (By which I don't mean the hereafter stuff, which you just have to go with; more like, now I'm mailing off my manuscript, now I'm speaking at a book fair...) Matt Damon is fine in the dropping-out-of-life role. Did not feel like a Clint Eastwood film at all. I wish Arte Johnson had showed up on a park bench at some point, otherwise not bad.
― clemenza, Friday, 30 August 2013 11:38 (ten years ago) link
I don't dislike Hereafter (or Blood Work or J Edgar either, for that matter) but I'm still puzzled as to why it turned into a romcom in its last 10 minutes.
― the vineyards where the grapes of corporate rock are stored (cryptosicko), Friday, 30 August 2013 23:33 (ten years ago) link
you liked Blood Work
― what's up ugly girls? (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 30 August 2013 23:41 (ten years ago) link
True about the last 10 minutes--the rom part, anyway. I don't know if it was more or less preferable to what I expected, some mystical mumbo-jumbo, but it definitely wasn't very convincing.
The first hour or so, though, I was impressed with how even the pacing was, and even found both Damon's and the kid's stories somewhat moving.
― clemenza, Friday, 30 August 2013 23:44 (ten years ago) link
I recently tried to rewatch The Unforgiven and found I could not stomach it.
I don't mean the violent ending. I quit watching about 50 minutes in because the dialogue was horrible and the way the characters and plot were being set up were as artificial as the flavor of a watermelon Jolly Rancher, but all the while it was pretending it was the juiciest, ripest watermelon you ever laid a lip to. Nothing about that movie came within sight of any reality that ever was or will be. It even sucked as a pure myth.
― Aimless, Saturday, 31 August 2013 01:20 (ten years ago) link
i like it
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Saturday, 31 August 2013 01:54 (ten years ago) link
the two iwo jima movies are probably the most interesting of his recent work to me
the unforgiven is hard for me to watch b/c of all the people who don't like or know westerns who claimed it was "revisionist" and "the best western ever" and i'm conscious of that inflated sense of importance that both eminates from it and was accorded it
but all told it is hardly a bad movie
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 31 August 2013 02:35 (ten years ago) link
emanates?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 31 August 2013 02:36 (ten years ago) link
it's Unforgiven, guys. The Unforgiven is another western.
I admire the crispness of its dialogue without ever -- then and now -- buying William Munny's rediscovery of his inner T-1000; and, boy, do the Richard Harris scenes drag.
Also...not once was Ned's race mentioned? And he's lynched?
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 31 August 2013 02:38 (ten years ago) link
i think i have picked up my mom's old habit (which at one time was very frustrating to me) of adding an article or title to everything.
fast food chains, per my mom: the subway, the burger king, mr. wizard's...
god bless her :)
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 31 August 2013 02:41 (ten years ago) link
I found it so ordinary and so plodding, I've never seen it a second time. Was furthermore bothered by what amateurist brings up: the reverential treatment it received, when directors had been killing off and de-mythologizing the Western for 40+ years at that point--at least going back to High Noon and The Gunfighter--and usually in much better films.
― clemenza, Saturday, 31 August 2013 02:57 (ten years ago) link
Was furthermore bothered by what amateurist brings up: the reverential treatment it received, when directors had been killing off and de-mythologizing the Western for 40+ years at that point
yes indeed. Same year Eric Clapton won Album of the Year: mythologizing a mythology that didn't and could never exist.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 31 August 2013 02:58 (ten years ago) link
There were so many such films in the late '60s and through the '70s, I suppose enough time had lapsed that it seemed new again (helped by the fact it was Eastwood directing).
― clemenza, Saturday, 31 August 2013 03:00 (ten years ago) link
Also strange that the Academy coronated a comeback when Eastwood's movies, with exceptions, had been modest to huge profit makers for years.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 31 August 2013 03:02 (ten years ago) link
plus the likes of High Plains Drifter and Pale Rider got respectful press (and made money).
I don't mean the violent ending. I quit watching about 50 minutes in because the dialogue was horrible and the way the characters and plot were being set up were as artificial as the flavor of a watermelon Jolly Rancher, but all the while it was pretending it was the juiciest, ripest watermelon you ever laid a lip to.
Aww, I liked it. My grandfather was in it. He is dead now.
― not some dude poking a Line 6 pedal with his dick (sarahell), Saturday, 31 August 2013 03:11 (ten years ago) link
Also, to state the obvious, they never really stop making such films, they just take different shapes in different decades. Right now it's a world-weary Batman, and Scar wears a mask and speaks through a vocoder.
That's a great story about your grandfather.
― clemenza, Saturday, 31 August 2013 03:14 (ten years ago) link
he had a couple lines, i think he was "man on train" or something.
― not some dude poking a Line 6 pedal with his dick (sarahell), Saturday, 31 August 2013 03:18 (ten years ago) link