ha i bought that box for my brother for his birthday
tcm were showing them all a few weeks back and it was the first time i'd seen sudden impact, and yeah agreed wtf? that film is just rong
dead pool also gets a wtf for the rc car chase
― DG, Saturday, 2 February 2008 14:01 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, but a fun wtf.
main difference in cool btwn first three and the last two- terrific seventies jazzy music vs awful eighties synth shite.
i'm not usually so tuned in to soundtrack but it really stood out watching them all in a row.
― darraghmac, Saturday, 2 February 2008 14:04 (sixteen years ago) link
he has ahnold's terminator sunglasses in the last two though
― DG, Saturday, 2 February 2008 14:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Schifrin's soundtrack is pretty essential
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 3 February 2008 18:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Ultimate Dirty Harry box set on the way
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 08:38 (sixteen years ago) link
way to make my christmas present obselete :(
anyway, the ultimate box set would leave out the one made just to keep his lame girlfriend happy, no?
― darraghmac, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 14:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Missed this, but I don't agree that Million Dollar Baby, True Crime, or The Bridges of Madison County suck badly--quite the contrary, even if you feel that the difference between good people and bad people is drawn too starkly in Million, and if True Crime feels improbable (it's supposed to), and if Bridges of Madison County worships Meryl Streep (I thought the ending particularly was beautifully played). Space Cowboys and Blood Work are harmlessly fun bad movies, and A Perfect World and In the Line of Fire don't suck as badly as most films of their respective genres, FWIW. My personal favorite is True Crime, but I'm a sucker for so much of that movie: The interview with the prisoner where he takes one-word notes for his "color piece," the fact that he's just the worst father in the world, the performance of the wrongfully accused, etc...
― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 19:49 (sixteen years ago) link
I like In the Line of Fire a lot too.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 20:02 (sixteen years ago) link
I would have voted Magnum Force, had I voted. I love the Dirty Harry movies. May not get the box set though, a man's gotta know his limitations.
― Bill Magill, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 21:43 (sixteen years ago) link
this would have been a hard poll for me. i love Magnum Force, High Plains Drifter, and Unforgiven, in such different ways.
― rockapads, Thursday, 20 March 2008 03:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Clint on politics, Spike Lee, Harry Callahan, and everything
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 6 June 2008 19:10 (sixteen years ago) link
shame on a nigga who try to run game on a nigga
― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Friday, 6 June 2008 19:46 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.thebadandugly.com/2009/03/14/first-look-the-human-factor/
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 16 March 2009 14:16 (fifteen years ago) link
watched "heartbreak ridge" today & it was fuckin awesome
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 26 April 2009 18:48 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm STILL surprised that every which way but loose got ANY votes, much less three -- the monkey movies are clint's nadir.
― Richardson Richardson (Eisbaer), Sunday, 26 April 2009 19:21 (fifteen years ago) link
fuckin awesomely terrible
― I'm crossing over into enterprise (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 26 April 2009 19:22 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost. I know! What a film. He has so many quotable bad-ass put downs in that film!
"Sergeant, you get that contraband stogie out of my face, before I shove it so far up your ass you'll have to set fire to your nose to light it."
― Suggesteban Cambiasso (jim), Sunday, 26 April 2009 19:25 (fifteen years ago) link
describing a "dusky girl" from hong kong (?) as "a real crossway breezer".
When the cop says to him when he gets out of the court, "You're gonna pay full price rummy. I don't believe in no serviceman's discounts" and he replies "Too bad, your old lady does".
― Suggesteban Cambiasso (jim), Sunday, 26 April 2009 19:27 (fifteen years ago) link
xxp u mad ~maaaybe it dragged a little & final battle stuff isnt v. interesting but eastwood was so damn funny and there were so many good scenes
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 26 April 2009 19:28 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah there was so much quotable shit no way i could keep up but was constantly loling
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 26 April 2009 19:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Trying to get in touch with his feminine side by reading women's magazines while stalking his ex-wife by waiting outside her place of work in his car.
― Suggesteban Cambiasso (jim), Sunday, 26 April 2009 19:30 (fifteen years ago) link
PLAY MISTY FOR ME
― m coleman, Sunday, 26 April 2009 20:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Highway: I been pumping pussy since Christ was a corporal. I can tell you, the best damned poontang I ever paid for was in Da Nang. The girls were checked out daily. And we got ourself laid in a safe, orderly, proficient, military manner. That is until some suckhead writes home mama and says he dipped his wick in the Republic of South Vietnam. Then the shit hits the fan. A committee of congressmen who asshole to asshole who couldn't make a beer fart in a whirlwind, start telling your basic-ass-in-the-grass, Marine " No more shore time ". We responded in true Marine Corps fashion. We salute, do an about face, double time back to the boom-boom garbage dump where we get the clap, and the drip, and the crabs and a generally poor attitude towards the female of the species. War is hell, boy. That's a fact!
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 26 April 2009 23:15 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090601/gottlieb/single?rel=nofollow
Though he was born in San Francisco, he missed the summer of love, LSD, the sexual revolution and all the spoils of American bohemia because he was too busy combating evil and moral relativism in the name of justice. Sacrifice demands recognition. In contemporary American cinema, Clint Eastwood is our perennial Last Man Standing. But what is he standing on, or for, and why is he so eager to hide it? ....
The traditional Eastwood hero--and Clint, for all his bluster, has never played a villain--spends an inordinate amount of time pushing other people away, only to grudgingly accept the perseverant embrace of the outside world, as long as the world is defined exclusively in terms of his suffering. If Eastwood is to be credited for artistic and emotional growth, his mythic doppelgängers must learn to accept a love that asserts itself without conditions. He has publicly reduced his political credo to "everyone leaves everyone else alone." That philosophy is a reason to become a hermit. It's a reason to vote for regressive taxation and Second Amendment rights. It's not a reason to make movies.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 20 May 2009 15:07 (fifteen years ago) link
1967 interview...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDVzK8IthCs
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 24 July 2009 08:42 (fourteen years ago) link
J.Ro on White Hunter Black Heart:
http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/a-free-man-20091201
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 December 2009 19:04 (fourteen years ago) link
was 80 yesterday.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 18:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Paint Your Wagon! Ah, yes! Where you may see Clint Eastwood & Lee Marvin in their most cringeworthy roles ever. Rent it today, as a tribute to his 80th birthday. Crank up the DVR and die a little inside.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 18:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Watched the last 40 minutes of Where Eagles Dare on TCM yesterday and was a little surprised how boring it was. I think they were going for terse and understated, but even the guy falling 1000 feet from the gondola was like "YAAAAAAAHHHHHH...eh, whatever."
― Grisly Addams (WmC), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Recently saw The Beguiled. A haunting and interesting film. What are peoples' takes on the gender politics of the thing? I can see it having both feminist and misogynist readings.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Watched the last 40 minutes of Where Eagles Dare on TCM yesterday and was a little surprised how boring it was.
whaaaaaat
― Remember when Mr Banhart was a replicant? (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 15:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Leo's J Edgar may have his Clyde Tolson:
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2010/12/08/armie-hammer-leonardo-dicaprio-clint-eastwood-hoover/
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 11 December 2010 03:59 (thirteen years ago) link
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
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sW-PoPy6TAo/TWXFr0f-9lI/AAAAAAAAC5s/4ScDuUZz-gA/s1600/Any+Which+Way+But+Loose+%252763+Chevy-01.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 13 May 2022 16:23 (two years ago) link