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Could Al Pacino hold his own against a MONKEY?!? Let's give it up to the prototype of every "I'm not a Republican, I'm a LIBERTARIAN" wingnut out there. (But damn, was he in some good movies.)

Poll Results

OptionVotes
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. 9
A Fistful of Dollars. 3
Every Which Way But Loose. 3
High Plains Drifter. 2
Unforgiven. 2
Where Eagles Dare. 1
Kelly's Heroes. 1
The Beguiled. 1
Dirty Harry. 1
A Perfect World. 1
Escape from Alcatraz. 1
The Gauntlet. 1
The Outlaw Josey Wales. 1
Coogan's Bluff. 1
Magnum Force. 1
Space Cowboys. 1
For a Few Dollars More. 1
The Bridges of Madison County. 1
The Witches.0
Joe Kidd. 0
Rawhide. 0
Ambush at Cimarron Pass. 0
Play Misty for Me. 0
Lafayette Escadrille. 0
Francis in the Navy. 0
Two Mules for Sister Sara. 0
Paint Your Wagon. 0
The Magnificent Stranger. 0
Hang 'Em High. 0
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. 0
The Dead Pool. 0
Pink Cadillac. 0
White Hunter Black Heart. 0
The Rookie. 0
In the Line of Fire. 0
Million Dollar Baby. 0
Absolute Power. 0
True Crime. 0
Heartbreak Ridge. 0
Pale Rider. 0
City Heat. 0
The Eiger Sanction. 0
The Enforcer. 0
Bronco Billy. 0
Any Which Way You Can. 0
Firefox. 0
Honkytonk Man. 0
Sudden Impact. 0
Tightrope. 0
Blood Work. 0


Eisbaer, Friday, 6 April 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

I have seen too few of all this movies.

gabbneb, Friday, 6 April 2007 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

il Buono, il Brutto, il Cavito

OBVIOUSLY

Oilyrags, Friday, 6 April 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

yeah i irresistably voted for that too but if we're talking about performance as opposed to quality of flick im not actually convincned

deeznuts, Friday, 6 April 2007 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

I voted Dirty Harry, mainly for his suits I think.

Noodle Vague, Friday, 6 April 2007 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

i voted for perfect world because i like tater tots

gff, Friday, 6 April 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

True Crime is possibly the worst movie I have ever seen in the theater, beating out such luminous competition as Howard the Duck and Shakespeare in Love.

Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 6 April 2007 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

however if you enjoy multiple shots of 80-yo Clint taking his shirt off maybe this movie is for you

Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 6 April 2007 21:42 (eighteen years ago)

I voted for the Beguiled, which is a really AWESOME movie.

dan selzer, Friday, 6 April 2007 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

Dan OTM. The Beguiled is the best

Elvis Telecom, Friday, 6 April 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

the eiger sanction was on TV last night in the UK. nonsensical dross but great for GEORGE KENNEDY!

Tracer Hand, Friday, 6 April 2007 21:59 (eighteen years ago)

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Tracer Hand, Friday, 6 April 2007 21:59 (eighteen years ago)

I've seen 36 of those movies and i liked them all. hmmm, this will be tough. Beguiled is fave hipsters choice. hahahaha, just kidding, i love you all and i like that movie too.

scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2007 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

wait, i saw space cowboys. make that 37.

scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

wait, back in the day play misty for me was the hipsters' clint choice. how times change...

Eisbaer, Friday, 6 April 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

I thought the hipster choice would be the Outlaw Josey Wales. Unforgiven was his last good movie - critical acceptance ruined him.

Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 6 April 2007 22:08 (eighteen years ago)

I mean come on all these movies fucking suck, really badly:

Million Dollar Baby
Blood Work
Space Cowboys
True Crime
Absolute Power
The Bridges of Madison County
A Perfect World
In the Line of Fire

Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 6 April 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

(well okay In the Line of Fire at least has that one scene with Malkovich taking the gun in his mouth, which is pretty funny.)

Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 6 April 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

i vote coogan's bluff for the scenes in Ft. Tryon Park and because of the obligatory 60s hippie club scene. i wish clint had become a director more like don siegel

gershy, Friday, 6 April 2007 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

In the Line of Fire rules. Rene Russo and shit.

gabbneb, Friday, 6 April 2007 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

True Crime is possibly the worst movie I have ever seen in the theater, beating out such luminous competition as Howard the Duck and Shakespeare in Love

True, but ANGELICA HUSTON

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 6 April 2007 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

Unforgiven by far his best directed film: literate script, layered perfs.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 6 April 2007 22:16 (eighteen years ago)

Come on:

http://dortch.supremeserver5.com/images/Misc%20Memro.WWII%20to%20space/EaglesDare.jpeg.JPG

Or Sudden Impact.

DavidM, Friday, 6 April 2007 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

wait, back in the day play misty for me was the hipsters' clint choice. how times change...

Loses points for extraneous jazzfest scenes.

Pleasant Plains, Friday, 6 April 2007 22:26 (eighteen years ago)

play misty for me is sooooooo hipsters choice circa 1992.

scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

Coogans Bluff for the Pigeon Toed Orange Peel and Linny Raven (Tisha Sterling as a young hippie)

Bob Six, Friday, 6 April 2007 23:53 (eighteen years ago)

I like Absolute Power.

Absolute Power is hipsters choice circa 2009.

trust me...

dan selzer, Saturday, 7 April 2007 00:36 (eighteen years ago)

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot might not be Clint's best but its definitely one of Jeff Bridges' best.

Rotgutt, Saturday, 7 April 2007 00:46 (eighteen years ago)

(psssst, dan, just so you know, we had a vote, tightrope is totally this month's choice, but i'll take up absolute power at the next hipster standard organization meeting.)

scott seward, Saturday, 7 April 2007 00:48 (eighteen years ago)

i dunno what to think about the fact that there's not much love expressed on this thread for clint's monkey films. ;__;

Eisbaer, Saturday, 7 April 2007 00:50 (eighteen years ago)

The Bridges of Madison County for me. I can watch that everyday and not get sick of it.

chaki, Saturday, 7 April 2007 00:54 (eighteen years ago)

> Thunderbolt and Lightfoot might not be Clint's best but its definitely one of Jeff Bridges' best.

?????????

Last Picture Show, Starman, Fearless, The Big Lebowski, Cutter's Way, Fisher King, Baker Boys, hell, even Arlington Road and Tucker make it in way before I get to that thing.

Oilyrags, Saturday, 7 April 2007 01:08 (eighteen years ago)

clint and michael keaton and jeff bridges are all people i will watch anywhere in anything at anytime forever. and ray liotta. please don't make me choose a jeff bridges movie. fearless -vs- fat city? perish the thought.

scott seward, Saturday, 7 April 2007 01:17 (eighteen years ago)

I'm inexplicably fond of Space Cowboys.

Post-A Perfect World, Eastwood fucking around >>>>> Eastwood serious

milo z, Saturday, 7 April 2007 01:17 (eighteen years ago)

<i>all people i will watch anywhere in anything at anytime forever</i>

I think this demands a Jeff Daniels poll next

milo z, Saturday, 7 April 2007 01:18 (eighteen years ago)

i really do feel that michael keaton has been ill-served in some way. this is someone who has serious power and he should be knocking socks off on a regular basis. he needs to do a movie with clint and ray liotta and jeff bridges and jeff daniels.

scott seward, Saturday, 7 April 2007 01:32 (eighteen years ago)

I really love the two Philoe Bettoe movies and Bronco Billy. Scatman Corothers was a staple of movies back in those days.

Kelly's Heroes is ace just for Donald Sutherland playing a stoner tank driver in the middle of WWII.

I've seen most of his movies up to the 90s, but somehow never saw The Eiger Sanction.

The 70s Dirty Harry movies have kick ass music with tons of fuzzy wah wah guitar. I think the end of Magnum Force is really cool.

earlnash, Saturday, 7 April 2007 02:44 (eighteen years ago)

I voted for Escape From Alcatraz. Take that, hipsters! Not that it matters. Clint can do no fucking wrong.

scott seward, Saturday, 7 April 2007 02:51 (eighteen years ago)

at the moment I'm feeling the one where nameless dude gets the shit beat out of him and crawls under buildings. hope i picked the right one.

tremendoid, Saturday, 7 April 2007 03:01 (eighteen years ago)

THE GAUNTLET!

lfam, Saturday, 7 April 2007 03:01 (eighteen years ago)

wow, someone really DID vote for where eagles dare ... and one of the momkey movies.

Eisbaer, Sunday, 15 April 2007 00:11 (eighteen years ago)

wow, someone really DID vote for where eagles dare

Damn right too, why wasn't it higher? Shame my vote for Sudden Impact didn't register - what was going on there, you pussies?

DavidM, Sunday, 15 April 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

fuck os eisbaer

JW, Sunday, 15 April 2007 19:50 (eighteen years ago)

eh?

Eisbaer, Monday, 16 April 2007 01:22 (eighteen years ago)

Don't start a poll on Friday that's done by Monday. Discrimination against the home-computerless.

I'd have voted for White Hunter Black Heart.

Dr Morbius, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:29 (eighteen years ago)

poll was started LAST friday!

dan selzer, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

ah, so it was. But by last Monday, it disappeared from view bcz of our still fucking lovely 2-1/2 days-and-no-more of New Answers.

Dr Morbius, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

nine months pass...

Watching Dirty Harry on cable right now. Such a great movie...

Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 2 February 2008 05:34 (seventeen years ago)

i've just watched all five this week (got the box set for xmas).

first three- great. dead pool- fun.

i can't believe someone up there repping for sudden impact, which we watched for twenty minutes then had to turn off.

darraghmac, Saturday, 2 February 2008 13:57 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

Hah, yeah, I think my point was that as far as Clint is concerned, "A Perfect World" was at one point a late career peak, but now it's more like a mid-career peak and the beginning of another imperial phase. Unforgiven, A Perfect World, In the Line of Fire, Madison County (take a breath for a couple of years), Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, the WW2 films, etc. He's been totally hit or miss for many years, but that's largely because he keeps cranking them out. Around 20 films in the last 20 years, half of which he stars in *and* directs!

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 14:27 (four years ago)

Actually, ITLOF aside, he only stars in movies he directs.

So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 14:33 (four years ago)

Yeah, but not every movie he directs. Just about half, I think.

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 14:37 (four years ago)

oh I meant after Unforgiven, sorry. I remember an interview then where he made it clear it was his future.

So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 14:38 (four years ago)

You mean if he acts he only acts in movies he directs, you mean?

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 14:43 (four years ago)

He only has threesomes in movies he directs.

i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 14:47 (four years ago)

by "Eastwood" Eric of course means "Scott."

So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 14:52 (four years ago)

Whoa Clint's a big fan of Christopher Guest movies and The Hangover pic.twitter.com/224ixkQjMz

— Matt Prigge (@mattprigge) September 8, 2021

i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 16:21 (four years ago)

five months pass...

White Hunter, Black Heart (1990) was not as great as some of his earlier films like The Outlaw Josie Wales or High Plains Drifter, but it was a pretty good pre-Unforgiven film.

I kind of enjoyed the incessant gay panic humor from the super-straight military guys in Heartbreak Ridge (1986)

Dan S, Sunday, 27 February 2022 01:15 (three years ago)

Pale Rider (1985) was another great one

Dan S, Sunday, 27 February 2022 01:33 (three years ago)

two months pass...

I’ve been using my netflix dvd subscription to watch various directors’ films in order, to get a sense of the progression of their style and aesthetic


Eastwood has directed an amazing number of films! Unforgiven (1992) was a pinnacle obviously.

Dan S, Friday, 13 May 2022 00:25 (three years ago)

For the most part, I would have been fine with him stopping there.

Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Friday, 13 May 2022 00:45 (three years ago)

One of his films that was not on my radar was A Perfect World. I don’t remember reading or hearing about it when it was released in 1993

Dan S, Friday, 13 May 2022 00:53 (three years ago)

thought it was a good film about the cinematic past, how law enforcement was irrelevant, how a boy was treated at the hands of a killer

Dan S, Friday, 13 May 2022 01:23 (three years ago)

I haven't seen it since it was in theatres. Given how its reputation has grown in recent years, I should probably give it a fresh look; I remember liking it just fine, though I did snicker along with the rest of the sparse matinee crowd at Costner complimenting the boy's penis.

Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Friday, 13 May 2022 01:52 (three years ago)

I think I was going and seeing about 4 films a week when Perfect World came out. Most of the new ones in Dublin . Both mainstream and what was showing at the IFC.
So caught that and think I have the end scene in my head. Or definitely one major still.

Think he's been quite good as a director.

Shame about the politics. I just heard he had an immediate reaction to the speech made by Marlon Brandos guest at the Oscars. Cropped up in the Behind The Bastards on John Wayne. I guess he's likely to support the cowboys but did seem a little cynical.
& him funding searches for still captive Vietnam soldiers which I think was fruitless.

Stevolende, Friday, 13 May 2022 02:04 (three years ago)

Feel like a lot of the talk about him as a director - "in the Hawks school", "the last classicist" - is trying to get a positive spin on him just not making many interesting choices.

Daniel_Rf, Friday, 13 May 2022 09:36 (three years ago)

two years pass...

Can't Stop, Won't Stop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhkkBFhW-MM

Charlie Hair (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 1 October 2024 23:29 (one year ago)

^^New directorial effort Juror #2 trailer

Charlie Hair (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 1 October 2024 23:30 (one year ago)

ten months pass...

I’m a little surprised no one here was talking about juror #2. I guess I am part of the problem considering I just watched it for the first time now

I thought it was fantastic. aside from the indelicate racial politics in the jury room, I thought it was a really piercing study of morality and the nature of redemption, and, with the caveat that I’ve never served on one, likely a very realistic depiction of the grasp an average jury has of their instructions, which is horrifying obviously.

really powerful final scene!

brony james (k3vin k.), Saturday, 30 August 2025 12:42 (three months ago)

Not your fault, because there's no way around it, but another one of those figures still worthy enough to warrant a thread bump but also old enough to make your heart skip a beat when you see it bumped.

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 30 August 2025 12:45 (three months ago)

His best since Sully, though some of the dialogue is straight outta Matlock. I wonder whether Eastwood’s TV-indebted blocking eulogizes an extinct era of competence or shows a reluctance to further murk the script.

hungover beet poo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 30 August 2025 12:50 (three months ago)

He seems like a director who often embraces the "good enough" efficiency model of filmmaking, which indeed does owe a debt to television.

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 30 August 2025 12:55 (three months ago)

Straight outta Matlock, crazy motherfucker called Eastwood

I fresh like botti (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 30 August 2025 12:56 (three months ago)

Might be time for a re-poll. Dude was old when this thread started, but he's made dozens of films (well, at least 1.1 dozen) since, some of which might well make a run at the spaghetti westerns.

henry s, Saturday, 30 August 2025 12:59 (three months ago)

I would have voted for “White Hunter Black Heart”

birdistheword, Saturday, 30 August 2025 18:39 (three months ago)

A poll of films he's directed might be interesting. Or just post-Unforgiven films.

He was my favorite movie star when I was a kid -- I've seen pretty much everything up to the 90s but nothing since. I have no idea if any of his later films are at all worthwhile. He still often makes some box-office at least.

Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 30 August 2025 19:22 (three months ago)

Worth watching: A Perfect World, The Bridges of Madison County, Mystic River, Letters from Iwo Jima, American Sniper, Sully, Juror #2. I don't defend each item; Mystic River and American Sniper have developments and overtones that at times make me ill. But I can't think of another Hollywood director this century who'd try.

hungover beet poo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 30 August 2025 19:50 (three months ago)

"Mystic River and American Sniper have developments and overtones that at times make me ill"

this times a thousand for American Sniper, which to me is indefensible garbage

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 30 August 2025 19:54 (three months ago)

What's defensible: Bradley Cooper, on the hunt for a subtler movie; his best work imo.

hungover beet poo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 30 August 2025 20:01 (three months ago)

I'm kind of indifferent to him nowadays but when Lalo Schifrin died I watched some Dirty Harry clips which got me remembering some of the good stuff he'd done. Also talk of Escape from Alcatraz in the news, lol.

Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 30 August 2025 20:15 (three months ago)

Also thanks Alfred that's a useful response.

Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 30 August 2025 20:17 (three months ago)

i think mystic river is a good deal better than described there tbh

gran torino makes the list, but has a lot more asterisks against it- its a throwback to a classic 80s clint performance/movie archetype and so jarring in the ways in which aspects of that just cannot work now, and worth acknowledging that some of it nevertheless does work just as well as ever.

tuah dé danann (darraghmac), Saturday, 30 August 2025 22:12 (three months ago)

^^ exactly my response re Mystic River.

hungover beet poo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 30 August 2025 22:31 (three months ago)

He also likes to cast non-professional actors and goes for a certain “naturalism” in terms of directing actors… which I think might have a tendency to result in work that is maybe unintentionally reflexive of other media? Like if the actors’ performances come out of their familiarity with related genres (e.g. Matlock in re Juror #2), then he just goes with that rather than be more authoritarian?

sarahell, Saturday, 30 August 2025 22:51 (three months ago)

morgan freeman has some good video clips out there about how clint treats actors like horses (what it turns out to mean is rather more than clint directs his projects as if horses were on set which is either a post hoc rationalisation of his approach or fairly sensible depending on whether you prefer to print the legend or not,)

tuah dé danann (darraghmac), Sunday, 31 August 2025 00:24 (three months ago)

idk you gotta be gentle with horses

hungover beet poo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 31 August 2025 00:33 (three months ago)

Tom Hanks talking about that.

Kim Kimberly, Sunday, 31 August 2025 00:39 (three months ago)

Watched "Juror #2" on a plane not so long ago. The "dialogue is straight outta Matlock" thing is true (well I guess, I don't think I've ever actually watched a full episode of Matlock), it looks and feels very much like a TV movie, in that none of the characters feel even remotely like real people, but this weirdly makes the movie better I think? The whole movie just seems so efficient and straight to the point. I highly recommend it.

silverfish, Tuesday, 2 September 2025 19:10 (three months ago)

also watched on a plane!

brony james (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 3 September 2025 07:46 (three months ago)

one month passes...

I'd never seen "High Plains Drifter" before, but really liked it. It's a weird little movie, basically a parable that also works as a sly subversion.

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 4 October 2025 13:11 (two months ago)

I remember seeing it as part of a series of Clint Eastwood westerns on television, sandwiched between The Outlaw Josey Wales and Pale Rider. They were the slices of bread and Drifter was the filling. What kind of filling? Salami and Vegemite, microwaved for a few seconds. God, I love salt. Wales is more quotable. Rider is better-looking but I barely remember anything about it, although it feels like a different take on the same idea.

Drifter on the other hand is much more vivid. Although I was left wondering how audiences in the 1970s reacted to the sexual assault scene early in the film. It feels completely out of place in the film and also in Eastwood's filmography - as if he was trying to show that the character is a hard-ass, but he took it much too far. If it was supposed to make him come across as an arse the rest of the film undermines this by making him the star. It doesn't even fit into the "punishing the town" theme because it happens in private and the victim didn't appear to be part of the conspiracy against him.

I remember when the Star Wars prequels came out, if George Lucas was thinking of Drifter when he tried to tell the tale of how a little boy turned into Darth Vader. If he had modelled his storyline on that film the results would have been much better.

Ashley Pomeroy, Saturday, 4 October 2025 22:39 (two months ago)

There are some takes that Pale Rider is a sequel to High Plains Drifter in the slight supernatural take on the stranger.

earlnash, Sunday, 5 October 2025 00:53 (two months ago)

It's bizarre to find out that the scriptwriter of High Plains Drifter was inspired by the murder of Kitty Genovese in 1964. I'd have to watch the film again to see what the connection is.

I'm sure there is an Italian western with the same premise of High Plains Drifter that predates it, but I can't think of which one it is right now.

Josefa, Sunday, 5 October 2025 04:03 (two months ago)

I think this is the connection (from wiki):

Two weeks after the murder, The New York Times published an article claiming that thirty-seven witnesses saw or heard the attack, and that none of them called the police or came to her aid...The incident prompted inquiries into what became known as the bystander effect, or "Genovese syndrome," a social psychological theory that states that individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim in the presence of other people.

Anyway, the premise of "High Plains Drifter" is kind of ingenious. And it was neat to see Anthony James pop up. I mostly recognize him from a "Naked Gun" movie, but Clint drew him out of retirement and cast him in "Unforgiven" decades after this movie. Also, some fun trivia: "It is notable that Anthony James's first and last major film appearances were each in Academy Award-winning films for Best Picture."

Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 5 October 2025 13:01 (two months ago)

There are some takes that Pale Rider is a sequel to High Plains Drifter in the slight supernatural take on the stranger.

Pale Rider felt creaky to me the one time I saw it (admittedly, on commercial TV) but this kinda makes me want to revisit it. And yeah, HPD rocks.

She's the Tariff (cryptosicko), Sunday, 5 October 2025 14:08 (two months ago)

Pale Rider has some great location footage, nb this is going to be a huge image because I can't use Imgur:
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNjYzNWEyODEtNzMzMy00Y2VjLTk3YzAtZmExNDE0YzljZjY3XkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDReviews40/pale%20rider/large/large%20pale%20rider%20blu-ray12.jpg

It also has really subdued lighting - seemingly no lighting at all - which must have looked weird in the 1980s but feels refreshingly modern. In comparison Heaven's Gate looks nice but the use of fog filters and ND filters dates it to the 1970s.

There weren't very many mainstream Hollywood Westerns in the 1980s. Silverado, Young Guns, and that was about it until Dances with Wolves came along. It was one of those dead genres, like the sung-through musical or the World War Two film. It's just a shame that Pale Rider wasn't a better film.

Ashley Pomeroy, Sunday, 5 October 2025 18:33 (two months ago)

I didn't dig Pale Rider the last time I saw it. Felt ... dull?

Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 5 October 2025 18:36 (two months ago)

two weeks pass...

watched pale rider last night, was blindsided by just how good it looks (had not seen this thread until now). kind of the default clint eastwood western besides that but man the production design and landscape photography carries it. definitely adding it to my 'good movies to zone out to' list

ciderpress, Saturday, 25 October 2025 16:35 (one month ago)


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