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Your favorite Clint Eastwood flick.
Posted by: Movie fan ()
Date: March 19, 2011 12:34PM

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, to me, really personified the Eastwood mystique.

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Re: Your favorite Clint Eastwood flick.
Posted by: ProVallone ()
Date: March 19, 2011 12:38PM

So many good ones, it's hard to choose.
However High Plains Drifter is so unique, I'll go with that.

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Re: Your favorite Clint Eastwood flick.
Posted by: 6X ()
Date: March 19, 2011 01:05PM

I like them all. This one the best.
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Re: Your favorite Clint Eastwood flick.
Posted by: TheMeeper ()
Date: March 19, 2011 01:14PM

I might be the only one to bring it up, but Heartbreak Ridge was a great flick. Eastwood plays a battle-hardened Marine Drill Instructor who takes a group of ne'er-do-wells and turns them into respectable soldiers. Probably not the best script or his finest performance, just a good, entertaining movie, and probably the only film about the US invasion of Grenada.

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Re: Your favorite Clint Eastwood flick.
Posted by: eesh ()
Date: March 19, 2011 01:16PM

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Probably the only John Cusack movie that wasn't mediocre.

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Re: Your favorite Clint Eastwood flick.
Posted by: scaramouche ()
Date: March 19, 2011 01:18PM

Coogan's Bluff where he played a Deputy Sheriff extraditing a guy from NY.

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Re: Your favorite Clint Eastwood flick.
Date: March 19, 2011 01:18PM

With Eastwood, it's easier to name the ones I don't like. Firefox, The Dead Pool, Paint Your Wagon. Almost everything else I will watch at the drop of a hat.

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Re: Your favorite Clint Eastwood flick.
Date: March 19, 2011 05:39PM

Hey, Firefox was awesome. Don't be hatin'.

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Re: Your favorite Clint Eastwood flick.
Posted by: Ryno78 ()
Date: March 19, 2011 05:45PM

Pale Rider one bad ass western

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Re: Your favorite Clint Eastwood flick.
Posted by: tomahawk ()
Date: March 19, 2011 11:56PM

+1 on Heartbreak Ridge. Improvise, adapt, overcome.

Although I think my favorite would have to be one of his westerns. GB&U, or maybe High Plains Drifter, or Outlaw Josie Wales. They all kick so much ass it's hard to pick just one.

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Re: Your favorite Clint Eastwood flick.
Posted by: -SBS-_ ()
Date: March 20, 2011 12:00AM

"Outlaw Josie Wales"

It that's not number 1, it's at least tied for the top spot.

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Re: Your favorite Clint Eastwood flick.
Posted by: Hatemotor ()
Date: March 20, 2011 12:07AM

-SBS-_ Wrote:
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> "Outlaw Josie Wales"
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> It that's not number 1, it's at least tied for the
> top spot.


Agreed,,,,I will however watch Kelly's Heroes any time it's on,,,,

The Good the Bad and the Ugly is probably his true signature movie

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Re: Your favorite Clint Eastwood flick.
Posted by: Hatemotor ()
Date: March 20, 2011 01:57AM

Hey Miz, how come you haven't picked a favorite movie from Clinton yet?

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Re: Your favorite Clint Eastwood flick.
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: March 20, 2011 02:05AM

cawl me carazy, but I prefer For a Few Dollaros More over Good Bad and the Ugly.

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Re: Your favorite Clint Eastwood flick.
Date: March 20, 2011 07:40AM

Emeritus Q. Beaker Wrote:
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> Hey, Firefox was awesome. Don't be hatin'.


Meh. Kind of boring up until the part where he steals the plane. If I tune in toward the end, I might watch that part. Other than that, I'll pass.

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Re: Your favorite Clint Eastwood flick.
Posted by: tomahawk ()
Date: March 20, 2011 09:47AM

Mr. Misery Wrote:
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> cawl me carazy, but I prefer For a Few Dollaros
> More over Good Bad and the Ugly.


No, I understand. Lee Van Cleef has a bigger role in that movie than Clint does, and the bad guy El Indio is truly one of the most evil SOBs I've ever seen in a movie. Gian Maria Volonte deserved an Oscar for that. That whole thing with the musical pocket watch and the showdown at the end is classic Sergio Leone.

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Re: Your favorite Clint Eastwood flick.
Posted by: Some College Kid ()
Date: March 20, 2011 12:18PM

-SBS-_ Wrote:
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> "Outlaw Josie Wales"
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> It that's not number 1, it's at least tied for the
> top spot.


I agree, that movie was loaded with what I call "reality proverbs", a case in point would be the scene where the river barge operators is whistling dixie when he leaves Wales on one bank and starts whistling "Battle Hym" halfway across. Ergo "changing one's tune midstream". Chock-full-of nuts with similar scenes

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Re: Your favorite Clint Eastwood flick.
Date: March 20, 2011 12:43PM

As much as was made of Unforgiven, I think High Plains Drifter was his best film. A perfect blending of traditional and deconstructionist Westerns where the anti-Hero is both protagonist and antagonist.

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Re: Your favorite Clint Eastwood flick.
Posted by: -SBS-_ ()
Date: March 20, 2011 08:20PM

WashingTone-Locian Wrote:
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> As much as was made of Unforgiven, I think High
> Plains Drifter was his best film. A perfect
> blending of traditional and deconstructionist
> Westerns where the anti-Hero is both protagonist
> and antagonist.


Unforgiven was ok, but Clint was getting older, and simply not as much of a badass as in some of his earlier westerns.

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Re: Your favorite Clint Eastwood flick.
Posted by: Conie ()
Date: March 20, 2011 08:28PM

Pale Rider...He was so sexy

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Re: Your favorite Clint Eastwood flick.
Posted by: ruprect ()
Date: March 20, 2011 08:43PM

-SBS-_ Wrote:
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> WashingTone-Locian Wrote:
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> > As much as was made of Unforgiven, I think High
> > Plains Drifter was his best film. A perfect
> > blending of traditional and deconstructionist
> > Westerns where the anti-Hero is both
> protagonist
> > and antagonist.
>
>
> Unforgiven was ok, but Clint was getting older,
> and simply not as much of a badass as in some of
> his earlier westerns.


I thought "Unforgiven" was great in its conception and execution. A man who trys to escape his past but accepts his being as what God and the world has made him.The film was a sophisticated version of "Shane".

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Re: Your favorite Clint Eastwood flick.
Posted by: tomahawk ()
Date: March 20, 2011 08:47PM

Unforgiven was not Clint's best film for me, and I think it was a bit over rated.

But it was certainly one of Gene Hackman's best performances; in fact I think he made the movie. I only really liked Clint at the end when he wipes out the assholes.

High Plains Drifter was all Clint and all badass, love that movie.

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Re: Your favorite Clint Eastwood flick.
Posted by: TheMeeper ()
Date: March 20, 2011 10:41PM

tomahawk Wrote:
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> +1 on Heartbreak Ridge. Improvise, adapt,
> overcome.

Heh, I watched it again this morning. It's a good plot if you can suspend disbelief in terms of comic relief. 80s cheesy-ness abounds. This movie was a vehicle for Eastwood's tough-guy talk-shit acting. No other actor could star in this. It's all about Eastwood playing the awesome character of Gunny Highway.

The juvenile homophobic insults in this movie are epic too. Classic Esstwood dialog.

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Re: Your favorite Clint Eastwood flick.
Posted by: whiterussian ()
Date: March 20, 2011 10:45PM

I agree with tomahawk on Unforgiven - - Gene Hacknman made the movie. As far as Clint: Outlaw Josey Wales and Grand Torino. In a way, kind of the same guys.

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Re: Your favorite Clint Eastwood flick.
Date: March 20, 2011 10:52PM

TheMeeper Wrote:
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> tomahawk Wrote:
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> > +1 on Heartbreak Ridge. Improvise, adapt,
> > overcome.
>
> Heh, I watched it again this morning. It's a good
> plot if you can suspend disbelief in terms of
> comic relief. 80s cheesy-ness abounds. This
> movie was a vehicle for Eastwood's tough-guy
> talk-shit acting. No other actor could star in
> this. It's all about Eastwood playing the awesome
> character of Gunny Highway.
>
> The juvenile homophobic insults in this movie are
> epic too. Classic Esstwood dialog.


The best thing about that movie is that it captured America's uncertainty about war following Vietnam. Today, nobody would really think twice if we invaded a place like Grenada. But when it happened in the early 80s, it was a shock that we could actually do it without fucking something up.

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Re: Your favorite Clint Eastwood flick.
Posted by: tomahawk ()
Date: March 20, 2011 11:01PM

Heartbreak Ridge was the first I remember Clint starting to play the "old man badass" role. The guy is like in his 80s now and he still plays that well, in Gran Torino he was totally believable as a Korean War vet who had every likliehood of wiping out the local gang. It's almost like Walt Kowalski is really Gunny Highway 25 years later.

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Re: Your favorite Clint Eastwood flick.
Posted by: bloody blisters ()
Date: March 21, 2011 12:56AM

the ones where he isnt in it or has had anything to do with the making of the film

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Re: Your favorite Clint Eastwood flick.
Posted by: Harry Tuttle ()
Date: March 21, 2011 01:31AM

Hey! THat's my favorite Adam Sandler movie!

bloody blisters Wrote:
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> the ones where he isnt in it or has had anything
> to do with the making of the film

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Re: Your favorite Clint Eastwood flick.
Posted by: Mossberg ()
Date: March 21, 2011 12:13PM

Ever notice the blooper in "hang em high", forward to the scence where the two brothers and the other 4 are to be hanged. Eastward goes and grabs the bar girl who is watching the proceedings. As he is passing through the crowd you see a cowboy with a pair of dark horn rim glasses real big 1970 types in the scene, It's one of those "What the hell was that?" moments.

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Re: Your favorite Clint Eastwood flick.
Posted by: tomahawk ()
Date: March 21, 2011 07:25PM

Mossberg Wrote:
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> Ever notice the blooper in "hang em high", forward
> to the scence where the two brothers and the other
> 4 are to be hanged. Eastward goes and grabs the
> bar girl who is watching the proceedings. As he
> is passing through the crowd you see a cowboy with
> a pair of dark horn rim glasses real big 1970
> types in the scene, It's one of those "What the
> hell was that?" moments.


IMDB has pages full of mistakes like that for every movie.

In High Plains Drifter there's a scene where Clint is leaning against a post drinking a half-empty beer and a guy sneaks up on him with a knife. In the next shot the beer mug is now full.

Then, of course, without even looking at the guy Clint tells him he's going to look pretty funny running around with that knife sticking out of his ass. Classic.

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Re: Your favorite Clint Eastwood flick.
Posted by: joey ()
Date: March 21, 2011 07:32PM

Not to change the subject, but watching Death Hunt with Lee Marvin yesterday, I noticed quite a few bloopers.

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Re: Your favorite Clint Eastwood flick.
Posted by: Harry Tuttle ()
Date: March 28, 2011 09:26PM

That one with Malkovich...... Malkovich, malkovich...

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Re: Your favorite Clint Eastwood flick.
Posted by: WingNut ()
Date: March 28, 2011 10:13PM

Dirty Harry is pretty intense but dated.

All time best is the one with Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez.

There is a blooper in the film when the bridge is going to be exploded,you can see a car driving in the far background.


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Re: Your favorite Clint Eastwood flick.
Date: March 29, 2011 06:38AM

Dirty Harry

I'll go the totally other direction too. Kelly's Heros.

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