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Clint Eastwood

Angus  said about 5 years ago  or at  6:18PM on Wednesday, September 27 2006 in films

The greatest American director.

His directing career is maybe even better than Scorcese's (definitely has been better than Scorcese for past 15 years).

Let me count the ways..... 1. Unforgiven 2. Million Dollar Baby 3. Mystic River 4. Absolute Power 5. Pale Rider 6. A Perfect World...


september  said about 5 years ago:

his first one - play misty for me.


DarylSomers  said about 5 years ago:

if you write his name in capital letters, it looks like CUNT EASTWOOD.


Angus  said about 5 years ago:

and Scorcese has NEVER acted with an Urang-u-tang


holyrattlesnakes  said about 5 years ago:

can't go wrong with Clint. as actor or director (fucking Bridges of Madison County most certainly excepted). or preferably both.


DarylSomers  said about 5 years ago:

CLINT EASTWOOD

CUNT EASTWOOD


Angus  said about 5 years ago:

September you win a Mars Bar for naming his first film correctly.
Its in the mail.

Daryl you get an encouragement sticker.


september  said about 5 years ago:

who would you bed angus, sondra locke or the monkey? you can't have both.


DarylSomers  said about 5 years ago:

say the monkey! say the monkey!


DarylSomers  said about 5 years ago:

CLINT'S CRAZY BARGAINS

CUNT'S CRAZY BARGAINS


Lorenzo St Dubois  said about 5 years ago:

You can go wrong with Clint: True Crime. The Dead Pool. Mystic River.


PelicanGodOfJupiter  said about 5 years ago:

CLINT EASTWOOD
CUNT EASTWOOD


PrincessMichalofKen  said about 5 years ago:

right turn, clyde - oh, do right turn!


Angus  said about 5 years ago:

Damn. Trust september to be the devil's advocate... sondra locke or the monkey, hmmm....

I'd say Sondra. She's purdy.


PrincessMichalofKen  said about 5 years ago:

but Pale Rider = yardstick western. even as a massive lee marvin fan.


DarylSomers  said about 5 years ago:

CLINTON

CUNTON


Angus  said about 5 years ago:

THE DEAD POOL !!!

The Dead Pool rulez like a monster!


Lorenzo St Dubois  said about 5 years ago:

It does not. it bites like a chihuahua.


Angus  said about 5 years ago:

KEN KUNNINGTON

KEN KUNTINGTON


DarylSomers  said about 5 years ago:

N doesn't look like a T the way LI looks like a U.

you lose.


Godzilla  said about 5 years ago:

the gauntlet was a shocker


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september  said about 3 years ago:

BADALEX said 28 days ago:
Gran Torino is the best movie I've seen in a long time by the by.


reason enough to put you on dickhead.

now log in and call me a whore/slapper/drunk tart.

clint eastwood's last good film was bridges of madison county.


rigid  said about 3 years ago:

i watched ''high plains drifter'' again the other night. now there's a brilliant movie. four and a half stars.


questionmark  said about 3 years ago:

recently saw coogan's bluff. the baddies are dangerous LSD addicts. clint plays laconic cop/swordsman.


columbo  said about 3 years ago:

i've seen Play Misty For Me twice on foxtel recently, Clint as a radio dj who's sleeping with a woman who, wait for it, turns out to be a total psycho. i think he slaps her or punches her at some point during the movie. i've seen it twice and i can't remember - i think she may have been wearing just a bedsheet at the time.

BA doesn't know what he's talking about - Every Which Way But Loose is by far Clint's best movie.

I saw Changeling last week. It's been on my mind all week so it's obviously made an impression on me. good film Clint.


questionmark  said about 3 years ago:

yeah he gives her a touch up. and don't forget the exaggerated gay character.

Clint: Jay Jay, why don't you go cruise some sailors, huh?

Jay Jay: Oh please, don't mention seafood.

ah, the 1970s.


columbo  said about 3 years ago:

i'm sitting here trying to do Clint's 'teeth-clenched cringe' that merges into 'mad-eyed glare'


LaxCharisma  said about 3 years ago:

Fuck I loved Gran Torino. Saw it a few days ago. Brilliant. Can't wait to see it again.


illywhacker  said about 3 years ago:

I'm ashamed to say that Unforgiven and Mystic River are the only films he's directed that I've seen. Really wanna see all the recent stuff. Incredible how prolific he is considering he's pushing 80.


LaxCharisma  said about 3 years ago:

Gran Torino should be on DVD soon. I'll be purchasing it.


Tim_Marben  said about 2 years ago:

Gran torino ruled.

Shame about all the religious overtones though.


angelic-layer  said about 2 years ago:

yeah great film.
watched unforgiven on blu-ray the other day. when he walks into the saloon in the end game scene, yeah it's still amazing that shot of him standing in the doors. on blu ray it's real dark.


Zac  said about 2 years ago:

i recently spent a day being sick inside.

i have a new house mate who owns all of his old westerns..

i watched each one chronologically for a whole day.

it was AWESOME.


angelic-layer  said about 2 years ago:

gotta get pale rider and high plains drifter. hope they are on blue ray. malpaso// clint westerns..been too long. then I'll have another look at the spags but saw them recently anyway...need the lush photography of the malpaso clint ones..


__v  said about 2 years ago:

i dig the outlaw josey wales as well


__v  said about 2 years ago:

i heard there was three kinds of sun in kansas - sunshine, sunflowers and sons of bitches


angelic-layer  said about 2 years ago:

outlaw josey wales in another. awesome.


outerspacextrapnel  said about 2 years ago:

Saw his latest film Invictus last night.

Piece of Shit.

Good performances, particularly from Matt Damon, but what a terrible script and pulling at the heart strings. Watching the Rugby on screen was even more boring that watching it being played out in real time.

DON'T SEE IT.


Godzilla  said about 2 years ago:


september  said about 2 years ago:

it pains me to say this but i reckon he's lost it.


questionmark  said about 2 years ago:

Pretty decent feature:

After a few years, bored and ready to jump, Eastwood received a strange, derivative script by a man named Sergio Leone. It was titled “The Magnificent Stranger” and was an obvious remake of “Yojimbo,” Akira Kurosawa’s bloody but funny 1961 samurai classic. Leone was a second-unit director in Italy who was obsessed with America. He was convinced that the classic Western had turned what was historically a remorseless struggle for commercial dominance into a moralized battle between good and evil. Leone wanted literally to demoralize the Western. He took the deep syntax of the genre (the bare streets, the stare-downs and sudden draws, the high body counts), raised it to the surface, and dropped almost everything else. “A Fistful of Dollars,” as “Stranger” was eventually titled, and its more entertaining sequels, “For a Few Dollars More” and “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” was knowing parody, and Eastwood, with his minimalist technique, fit perfectly into the style of unyielding absurdism.

www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/03/08/100308fa_fact_denby


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