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What's your favorite film by Clint Eastwood?

haven't seen any
0 (0%)
don't like any
1 (2.3%)
Play Misty for Me (1971)
0 (0%)
High Plains Drifter (1973)
2 (4.7%)
Breezy (1973)
0 (0%)
The Eiger Sanction (1975)
0 (0%)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
4 (9.3%)
The Gauntlet (1977)
0 (0%)
Bronco Billy (1980)
0 (0%)
Firefox (1982)
0 (0%)
Honkytonk Man (1982)
0 (0%)
Sudden Impact (1983)
0 (0%)
Pale Rider (1985)
0 (0%)
Heartbreak Ridge (1986)
0 (0%)
Bird (1988)
0 (0%)
White Hunter Black Heart (1990)
0 (0%)
The Rookie (1990)
0 (0%)
Unforgiven (1992)
24 (55.8%)
A Perfect World (1993)
0 (0%)
The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
1 (2.3%)
Absolute Power (1997)
0 (0%)
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)
1 (2.3%)
True Crime (1999)
0 (0%)
Space Cowboys (2000)
0 (0%)
Blood Work (2002)
0 (0%)
Mystic River (2003)
3 (7%)
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
1 (2.3%)
Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
0 (0%)
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
5 (11.6%)
Changeling (2008)
1 (2.3%)
Gran Torino (2008)
0 (0%)
Invictus (2009)
0 (0%)
Hereafter (2010)
0 (0%)
J. Edgar (2011)
0 (0%)
Jersey Boys (2014)
0 (0%)
American Sniper (2014)
0 (0%)
Sully (2016)
0 (0%)
The Mule (2018)
0 (0%)
The 15:17 to Paris (2018)
0 (0%)
Richard Jewell (2019)
0 (0%)
Cry Macho (2021)
0 (0%)

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Re: Eastwood, Clint - Director's Best
« Reply #30 on: January 03, 2012, 04:30:11 PM »
Letters from Iwo Jima
Million Dollar Baby
Changeling
Heartbreak Ridge
Mystic River
Flags of Our Fathers
J. Edgar

Space Cowboys
Unforgiven

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Gran Torino

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Re: Eastwood, Clint - Director's Best
« Reply #31 on: January 03, 2012, 04:41:31 PM »
Streep CINECAST!ing pulls miracles out of thin air

Dude, totally. I had a similar reaction recently watching Music of the Heart of all things, on TV.

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Re: Eastwood, Clint - Director's Best
« Reply #32 on: January 03, 2012, 07:51:03 PM »
Space Cowboys
Unforgiven


I'm sorry, but these two films are not at the same level. What didn't you like about Unforgiven?
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Re: Eastwood, Clint - Director's Best
« Reply #33 on: January 03, 2012, 07:54:34 PM »
Space Cowboys
Unforgiven


I'm sorry, but these two films are not at the same level. What didn't you like about Unforgiven?

from what I remember? everything.

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Re: Eastwood, Clint - Director's Best
« Reply #34 on: January 03, 2012, 08:01:07 PM »
Care to elaborate?
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Re: Eastwood, Clint - Director's Best
« Reply #35 on: January 07, 2012, 07:35:46 PM »
This might be more suited to the unpopular opinion thread....

1. Letters from Iwo Jima
2. Unforgiven
3. Mystic River
4. Hereafter
5. Gran Torino
6. Million Dollar Baby
7. Changeling
8. Invictus
9. Flags of Our Fathers

10. J. Edgar

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Re: Eastwood, Clint - Director's Best
« Reply #36 on: January 27, 2012, 12:49:43 PM »
This one was surprisingly hard to come to terms with. I still really haven't.

Hereafter Clint Eastwood, 2010

Eastwood's vision of the afterlife is completely hackneyed and cliched and completely ridiculous, but oddly enough it doesn't really matter at all. Because what's at the heart of the film isn't its speculation of it or anything like that, but rather its terribly lonely characters, who desperately seek a connection with anyone else. That the film eventually provides that connection shouldn't surprise anyone, but itsn't one of those overly deterministic narratives that make its contrivances all nice and tidy (this film's contrivances are all frayed, awkward and desperate, which make it better? dunno) and suggest an incompleteness regarding its emotional conclusions. Just because you've made a connection or had a breakthrough doesn't suggest that things will get better, but what the film seems to get at is that at least finally these characters can allow themselves to see that possibility. None of which makes any sense, I know. All I know is that it CINECAST!ing killed me. I didn't expect this to knock me out the way it did.

Editor's Note: the biggest drawback to appreciating the film will probably be the awkward performance from the kid. He often says lines with a strange lifelessness, but this very awkwardness lends the climactic scene with all its emotional power - it's not an actor saying their lines professionally, but an actual real character not knowing how to properly express himself. Or not. Your mileage may vary.
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Re: Eastwood, Clint - Director's Best
« Reply #37 on: January 27, 2012, 02:33:48 PM »
Thanks for taking my editorial advice to heart.

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Re: Eastwood, Clint - Director's Best
« Reply #38 on: January 27, 2012, 03:55:25 PM »
LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA
THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY
MILLION DOLLAR BABY
GRAN TORINO

CHANGELING
SPACE COWBOYS
MYSTIC RIVER


YEAH. A lot to see still!

Letters from Iwo Jima (A-)
J. Edgar (B-)
The Bridges of Madison County (B-)
Changeling (C+)
Million Dollar Baby (C+)
Gran Torino (C)
Mystic River (D+)
Space Cowboys (D)

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Re: Eastwood, Clint - Director's Best
« Reply #39 on: November 09, 2013, 06:23:36 PM »
Saw his first two films: Play Misty for Me and High Plains Drifter.

Both are problematic in the way they treat their women characters, but are generally entertaining. Misty has Eastwood really emphasizing the Carmel landscape with some long takes. Drifter is just pure anti-hero craziness; it unassumingly drags all of its characters into a state of pure suffering, wherein the cause of their doom is only known to the audience, but not to them.

 

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