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Hahaha no seriously I can take any film good or bad if Clint is in it.
There are a few Clint Eastwood films I don't enjoy, those being Any Which Way but Lose, its sequel Any Which Way You Can, and Bronco Billy for instance.
Yeah that's a funny moment,a definite nod to Callahan.
I always felt that scene in CITY HEAT was kind of an homage to the Warner Bros Bugs Bunny cartoons that spoofed the '30's gangster era where they had enormous guns.
I really like CITY HEAT as well. It's fun to see Clint in a period comedy, and I love pretty much anything set in that era.
A smaller Eastwood film I've always liked was Honkeytonk Man, which was something of a bomb from around 1982. Just a good small period picture with Kyle Eastwood in a costarring role.
In the Line of Fire's teaser trailer is one of my all-time favorites with Malkovich's villain talking up his plan to kill the president to Eastwood on the phone, who turns, cocks his gun and says in that classic speech pattern, "That's not gonna' happen." Classic.
I don't really like Pale Rider....loose remake of Shane. It's nowhere near as good as The Outlaw Josey Wales!
Just watched Thunderbolt and Lightfoot last night. Great movie, written and directed by Michael Cimino. That ending gets me every time!
But, seeing you chaps are giving it a worthy praise, I might have to watch it again after all these years and see if my perspective changes on the matter.
Y'all git along and waatch ma film boys now,ya hear ?
- I enjoy Firefox. By my count, it's one of only two spy thrillers Clint Eastwood made, so it's already interesting. But all the tense scenes in Moscow --the airport, the subway-- are terrific, as is the lead up in the military base to Eastwood taking off with the Firefox. Fine score by Maurice Jarre, too. There is a suspenseful piece heard when Clint is walking the streets of Moscow at night that's pretty cool. Unreleased, sadly.
- High Plains Drifter is a fine film. A dark one, too, which feels like it's almost reveling in being as mean-spirited as it is. You know, in Spain they changed the title of the film to Cowards' Hell. In English, that phrase may not roll off the tongue as well as in Spanish, but its meaning is rather appropriate.
- Admittedly, Josey Wales is very different from Sergio Leone's westerns. Leone's films make the West into something mythical, larger-than-life, while Josey Wales, despite striving to show a series of colorful situations and characters, feels considerably more realistic, and it clearly makes a bigger effort to reflect the cultural landscape of that time period.
- If you haven't seen this, enjoy:
Some of the dialogue is brilliant with so many great lines, shared between Wales and the supporting characters. (the supporting cast or superb IMHO)
And lets not forget, CE directed and played the central role.
Fletcher: Damn you, Senator. You promised me those men would be decently treated.
Senator Lane: They were decently treated. They were decently fed and then they were decently shot. Those men are common outlaws, nothing more.
You left out the best line
Fletcher "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining!"
1 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
2 Unforgiven
3 Dirty Harry
4 For a Few Dollars More
5 High Plains Drifter
6 The Outlaw Josey Wales
7 Where Eagles Dare
8 Magnum Force
9 Million Dollar Baby
10 Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Perfect!
If u can download it then go for it .
Personally, I think he could've made another one, and in fact, I think of Blood Work as a quasi-Dirty Harry film, since he plays a cop and, well, is Clint Eastwood.
I could do without The Dead Pool and The Rookie, though. Late 80s early 90s films definitely lacked in delivering decent material for the most part unless a film was built on intellectual grounds.
That's on my Sky watchlist not got round to giving it a look.