Clint Eastwood -- Go Ahead, Make My Day!

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Just looking over the Scarface thread again, and Clint was kicked around a bit. Whudda shame and what sacrilege, he's part of the Holy American Trinity (with Pacino and DeNiro). Classic for the Sixties spaghetti westerns and his Seventies variants of same. Not as fond of Dirty Harry as I used to be, though those still have their moments.

Or am I retroactively trying to justify that I spent an inordinate amount of time during undergrad watching Clint's films?

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Sunday, 28 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There's been a good American Masters on PBS about Clint lately.

― Josh, Sunday, 28 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

American Master my ass

― anthony, Sunday, 28 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'High Plains Drifter', 'Unfrgiven', 'Play Misty for Me'! What else do you need to know?

― dave q, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i cannot see it , im sorry.

― anthony, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i like the good the bad and the ugly, i have watched it almost as many times as I have watched 'captain america'

― Menelaus Darcy, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dirty Harry is one of my favorite movies ever. Also, the one with the monkey.

― Kris, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No need to be sarcastic. Fistfull of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More are also even better than TGTB&TU (although it was all sullied a bit for me when that @#$@!$ husband of Madonna had the lovely music box theme as some sort of twisted homage in Lock Stock and etc.), but the Kurosawa films they were based on (almost scene for scene!) are much better still. Clint Eastwood is a definite Classic. It's PC hipster posturing to even imply otherwise (still, he probably shouldn't direct...).

― Dan I., Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Really terrible actor. Looked good up there on the screen tho, so they told him to just whisper everything and not move. And take his shirt off every so often. For all that, as much as I hate the right- wing fucker, Unforgiven was perfect.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

For all that, as much as I hate the right- wing fucker, Unforgiven was perfect.

Isn't Eastwood more of a libertarian type (i.e., don't bug me and I won't bug you and I don't like taxes an awful lot) than a full-blown right-winger? I'm not aware of him making any particularly right- wing comments IRL. Maybe this is a Charton Heston situation in reverse (in Eastwood's case, someone who's not very political or at least non-rightwing in films with right-wing themes (like Dirty Harry)?

Dave Q. hit on at least three Clint Eastwood highlights. Matter of fact, I'd put all of his own westerns (save the awful and derivative Hang 'Em High) as classics. That the Sergio Leone films are classic is beyond question IMHO (although the best of that lot, Once Upon a Time in the West, was Clint-less). I even liked Line of Fire, though the chimp-movies he did in the Seventies are kinda dumb.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ten years pass...

lol @ clint eastwood and van cleef playing footsie

― dayo, Thursday, 17 November 2011 01:35 (fourteen years ago)

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