Movie review thread...
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@nzzp
Watch a lot of film and he's probably my favourite filmmakerI enjoy trying to see what a director does in film - how he cuts to scenes, framing, lighting etc etc. Some are complex (Kubrick, Nolan), but Eastwood seems to me to be very simple and clean and in the background - more about the actors acting and telling the story.
But being able to make something look simple takes a genius ....
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@catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@victor-meldrew said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nzzp said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mn5 ... So the top five westerns got Clint are:
OK. I'll bite:
- Unforgiven - IMHO his best film and the best Western ever made
- Pale Rider- Mystical and the best shoot-out ever as a finale
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - the original
- The Outlaw Josie Wales - Clint being Clint
- High Plains Drifter - Truly weird
Hard to argue.
Indeed but I have to find a spot for his other two Spagetti Westerns somewhere. They are just absolute classics. It’s tough to narrow it down to five. Joe Kidd and Hang em High are both very good movies too.
Number one would have to be GBU or OJW I reckon.
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@mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@victor-meldrew said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nzzp said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mn5 ... So the top five westerns got Clint are:
OK. I'll bite:
- Unforgiven - IMHO his best film and the best Western ever made
- Pale Rider- Mystical and the best shoot-out ever as a finale
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - the original
- The Outlaw Josie Wales - Clint being Clint
- High Plains Drifter - Truly weird
Hard to argue.
Indeed but I have to find a spot for his other two Spagetti Westerns somewhere. They are just absolute classics. It’s tough to narrow it down to five. Joe Kidd and Hang em High are both very good movies too.
Number one would have to be GBU or OJW I reckon.
Not quite a western but The Beguiled is also a great film. Really creepy and disturbing and a bit Hitchcock-like.
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@victor-meldrew said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@victor-meldrew said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nzzp said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mn5 ... So the top five westerns got Clint are:
OK. I'll bite:
- Unforgiven - IMHO his best film and the best Western ever made
- Pale Rider- Mystical and the best shoot-out ever as a finale
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - the original
- The Outlaw Josie Wales - Clint being Clint
- High Plains Drifter - Truly weird
Hard to argue.
Indeed but I have to find a spot for his other two Spagetti Westerns somewhere. They are just absolute classics. It’s tough to narrow it down to five. Joe Kidd and Hang em High are both very good movies too.
Number one would have to be GBU or OJW I reckon.
Not quite a western but The Beguiled is also a great film. Really creepy and disturbing and a bit Hitchcock-like.
Yeah it is but doesn’t really compare as I’d call it a different genre completely.
Clint played very against type in that one.
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@mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@victor-meldrew said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@victor-meldrew said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nzzp said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mn5 ... So the top five westerns got Clint are:
OK. I'll bite:
- Unforgiven - IMHO his best film and the best Western ever made
- Pale Rider- Mystical and the best shoot-out ever as a finale
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - the original
- The Outlaw Josie Wales - Clint being Clint
- High Plains Drifter - Truly weird
Hard to argue.
Indeed but I have to find a spot for his other two Spagetti Westerns somewhere. They are just absolute classics. It’s tough to narrow it down to five. Joe Kidd and Hang em High are both very good movies too.
Number one would have to be GBU or OJW I reckon.
Not quite a western but The Beguiled is also a great film. Really creepy and disturbing and a bit Hitchcock-like.
Yeah it is but doesn’t really compare as I’d call it a different genre completely.
Clint played very against type in that one.
It's a hard film to pigeonhole. Actually it's hard to think of an actor or director who does so many genres so successfully as Eastwood.
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@victor-meldrew said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@victor-meldrew said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@victor-meldrew said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nzzp said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mn5 ... So the top five westerns got Clint are:
OK. I'll bite:
- Unforgiven - IMHO his best film and the best Western ever made
- Pale Rider- Mystical and the best shoot-out ever as a finale
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - the original
- The Outlaw Josie Wales - Clint being Clint
- High Plains Drifter - Truly weird
Hard to argue.
Indeed but I have to find a spot for his other two Spagetti Westerns somewhere. They are just absolute classics. It’s tough to narrow it down to five. Joe Kidd and Hang em High are both very good movies too.
Number one would have to be GBU or OJW I reckon.
Not quite a western but The Beguiled is also a great film. Really creepy and disturbing and a bit Hitchcock-like.
Yeah it is but doesn’t really compare as I’d call it a different genre completely.
Clint played very against type in that one.
It's a hard film to pigeonhole. Actually it's hard to think of an actor or director who does so many genres so successfully as Eastwood.
Oh hell yeah. Icon isn’t a strong enough word. He’s just the fucken man, pure and simple.
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Horses and in the West, but not necessarily Western
Bronco Billy
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@mikethesnow said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Bronco Billy
Real sleeper that film. Very underrated.
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Now you’ve all made me think of Play Misty for me. Clearly not a western but one of Clint’s finest.
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@victor-meldrew said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mikethesnow said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Bronco Billy
Real sleeper that film. Very underrated.
If we’re talking underrated you can’t go past Coogans Bluff, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot and The Eiger Sanction
Just an awesome bunch of Eastwood flicks.
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@catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Now you’ve all made me think of Play Misty for me. Clearly not a western but one of Clint’s finest.
Wasn't that his first full directorial debut? I remember watching it when I was in my early teens. Scared the life out of me.
Tightrope has a similar feel
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@catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Now you’ve all made me think of Play Misty for me. Clearly not a western but one of Clint’s finest.
Absolutely and such stunning shots of Monterey, what a place.
his punch to knock Evelyn out the window at the end would have KO’d Mike Tyson.
The actress ( Jessica Walter ) died in March this year.
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No mention of Every Which Way but Loose?
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Simple, feel-good fun done only as Eastwood could do it. Hard to believe it's the same guy who did Gran Tourino
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@victor-meldrew said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Simple, feel-good fun done only as Eastwood could do it. Hard to believe it's the same guy who did Gran Tourino
I so wanted a pet orangutan after that
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Stillwater
Runs deep
4 out of 5
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@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
No mention of Every Which Way but Loose?
Clint had some nice looking boxing moves……and that’s about as kind as I can possibly get about that movie.
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@victor-meldrew said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Unforgiven - IMHO his best film and the best Western ever made
fucking this x1,000
