Anyone rewatch the original The Beguiled after seeing the remake?
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 05:20 (six years ago) link
directing himself again
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5911117/Clint-Eastwood-88-paces-set-Mule-returns-acting-six-year-hiatus.html
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 July 2018 06:36 (five years ago) link
Who is the oldest actor to get lead billing in a studio movie? My best guess is George Burns in 18 Again!, when he was 92. So Clint is only four years shy.
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 July 2018 14:51 (five years ago) link
watched 'the gauntlet' today, not bad tho its a little crazy/excessive how overdone the gunfire scenes are
For the house scene, it was built at a cost of $250,000 and included 7,000 drilled holes that would include explosive squibs for its demolition. To simulate the gunshots from the gauntlet of officers at the end of the film, the bus was blasted with 8,000 squibs.[2]
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 21 July 2018 23:01 (five years ago) link
Dead? No.
― Chase Knobbe? Have you Courtney Cox? (Tom D.), Saturday, 21 July 2018 23:02 (five years ago) link
xp never previously knew stuff abt his relationship w sondra locke either
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sondra_Locke#Personal_life
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 21 July 2018 23:02 (five years ago) link
The Gauntlet represents the only time I've ever contributed anything to a Wikipedia entry--a quip related to the film by AP Mike on The Best Show that I didn't want lost to history--but I see now that it has been removed.
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Saturday, 21 July 2018 23:32 (five years ago) link
do not withhold quips
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 21 July 2018 23:34 (five years ago) link
Can't seem to pull it up now, not even on archive.org
The story was about Mike and his friends overhearing an older gentleman saying to his wife "I do believe that is the best film I have ever seen" as they let the theatre. If that's not a "Critical response," I don't know what is.
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Saturday, 21 July 2018 23:43 (five years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/dec/12/the-mule-review-clint-eastwoods-drug-running-drama-is-a-slow-misfire
Female characters are either shrill shrews or bikini-clad hussies desperate to sleep with an 88-year-old man (Earl manages two threesomes with attractive young women in the film) and an odd, leering montage of asses grinding to music feels like an uncomfortable and unnecessary deviation into soft porn.
― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 22:38 (five years ago) link
lol two threesomes
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 23:01 (five years ago) link
i watched the 15:17 to paris tonight and... kinda liked it. idk there's something really humanist about the backpacking scenes that caught me.
― devvvine, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 23:03 (five years ago) link
Not available for screenings so uh
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 23:03 (five years ago) link
Clint dancin' with them who brung him
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 23:04 (five years ago) link
He pronounces “pecans” two different ways in the trailer. Is that a thing people do?
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 23:09 (five years ago) link
nick pinkerton's review
― devvvine, Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:56 (five years ago) link
Racist grandpa phase is retroactively ruining the good stuff.
― louise ck (milo z), Thursday, 13 December 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
(Earl manages two threesomes with attractive young women in the film)
!? lmao
― No Smockin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 13 December 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link
The Mule does kinda feel like a perfect Pinkerton storm.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Thursday, 13 December 2018 18:04 (five years ago) link
no one named Earl has ever had a threesome, c'mon
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 13 December 2018 18:06 (five years ago) link
Earl ‘The Pearl’ Monroe disagrees.
― louise ck (milo z), Thursday, 13 December 2018 18:18 (five years ago) link
I doubt the Sweatshirt's had one either
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 13 December 2018 18:23 (five years ago) link
You can't say Warren wasn't warnin' y'all.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Thursday, 13 December 2018 18:34 (five years ago) link
The Mule features what is perhaps the leakiest, most poorly run cartel in cinema history
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 December 2018 21:57 (five years ago) link
Alm0nd calls it Eastwood's best movie ever: https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/movie-review-the-mule-clint-eastwood-honest-classic/
― love craptually (Eric H.), Monday, 31 December 2018 15:12 (five years ago) link
well, yeah
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 31 December 2018 15:15 (five years ago) link
It also improved its box office this weekend
A long way to go to match Gran Torino's $148M but I have faith in that section of America.
― love craptually (Eric H.), Monday, 31 December 2018 15:23 (five years ago) link
it was a fairly stupid movie overall. naturally Eastwood's character redeems himself with his family in the end just by being a decent human being for one night, nevermind the fact that he causes his family a shit ton more pain in the end due to his job with the cartel.
also he like disobeys the cartel over and over again and they keep threatening him if he doesn't fall in line but they never do anything about it, also they use the same drivers on the same routes every single run making it criminally easy for law enforcement (who still need a tip from an informant anyway).
also we're to believe he kills two ripped, young cartel people who had him at gunpoint moments earlier. it's off-screen, but....I was lolling imagining how his frail ass could have pulled that off.
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 31 December 2018 15:27 (five years ago) link
nevermind the last part, the internet seems to confirm the judge just made an awkwardly worded comment and wasn't actually saying Earl killed anybody.
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 31 December 2018 15:30 (five years ago) link
Clint's performance in The Mule is near-great.
Try to understand what's actually happening in the film, Nee.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 11 May 2019 13:06 (five years ago) link
Ok
― Got your butt drank (Neanderthal), Saturday, 11 May 2019 14:50 (five years ago) link
White Hunter Black Heart is underrated I think. Unusual and interesting film.
― mirostones, Sunday, 12 May 2019 03:01 (five years ago) link
White Hunter Black Heart is just a lightly fictionalized compilation of various lurid John Huston legends into a coherent script. The legends are courtesy of Huston and are more to be credited for the interest you see there than anything Eastwood contributed.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 12 May 2019 03:15 (five years ago) link
You're wrong on that last.
It's based on a novel by Peter Viertel, who was working with JH on African Queen.
Getting back to The Mule, Clint's character is driven out of his horticulture business by the internet and complains loudly about cellphones in a couple scenes, so that softens his character for me... Anyway it's the latest in a series of "mea culpa" protagonists he's played (Unforgiven, MDB, Gran Torino).
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 12 May 2019 03:42 (five years ago) link
It's based on a novel by Peter Viertel
Which was a lightly fictionalized compilation of various lurid John Huston legends. Huston's character was the focal point both of the book and the resulting movie. Had he not been such an interesting character, the novel and movie would not exist.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 12 May 2019 04:04 (five years ago) link
A movie was based om a book
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Sunday, 12 May 2019 04:08 (five years ago) link
It's not easy to make a good film given those circumstances! (Don't) see W.C. Fields and Me.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 12 May 2019 04:10 (five years ago) link
I don't like the 'mea culpa' films he has made, and he never seems to apologize for the really bad stuff. So much awful stuff in his relationship to Sondra Locke, and he makes a film about being too occupied with work, and everyone is falling over themselves to give him praise?
I don't like White Hunter, Black Heart, Africa and Africans just seems like a stage for John Huston to live out his morality play. The really great Eastwood films are Sudden Impact, Pale Rider and A Perfect World, imo. And it annoys me that he has actually made a few great films, would be much easier if he was only a villain. I'd rather be a bit annoyed and have Pale Rider, though.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 12 May 2019 11:53 (five years ago) link
yeah review via the life, fits you
ppl gen mean 'mea culpa' for some of the earlier work
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 12 May 2019 13:46 (five years ago) link
I've never seen anyone say The Mule is about his earlier work?
― Frederik B, Sunday, 12 May 2019 14:46 (five years ago) link
It doesn't have to be specifically, but the estrangement from family expands upon a similar trope in Million Dollar Baby, to name one.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 12 May 2019 15:05 (five years ago) link
Edelstein:
For nearly half a century, his alter-egos did not take emasculation lightly: He’d rasp some variation of, “You don’t listen, do ya’ asshole?” and pull back his fist or pull out his big gun. But the nonagenarian Earl Stone isn’t Harry Callahan or Bill Munny or even the once-militant Walt Kowalski of Gran Torino. Early on, before he understands how easily they could kill him, Earl sasses his Mexican handlers. He says, “Ya vol, mein herr,” with a silly German accent. But when they start to rough him up and hiss cabron in his face, he does nothing, nada. He’s not a fighter. He only wants to sniff flowers. Clint Eastwood has aged into Ferdinand the Bull.
https://www.vulture.com/2018/12/the-mule-is-a-modest-twist-on-the-clint-eastwood-myth.html
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 12 May 2019 15:09 (five years ago) link
kinda want to see Clint do a series of True Detective
― sarahell, Sunday, 12 May 2019 17:39 (five years ago) link
he's mighty elderly
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 12 May 2019 17:44 (five years ago) link
Yes, was just thinking he's now moving into the oldest-people-to-have-ever-directed-a-movie zone, if not quite Manoel de Oliveira just yet.
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 12 May 2019 18:01 (five years ago) link
oh i was just thinking in terms of acting in it
― sarahell, Sunday, 12 May 2019 18:05 (five years ago) link
I had to look up the last time that Clint had acted in something he didn't direct - turns out to be this, which I'd never even heard of before (don't think it got a UK release):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trouble_with_the_Curve
My guess also is that Clint probably swore to himself long ago to never ever return to TV.
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 12 May 2019 18:17 (five years ago) link
unless he talks to a chair
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 12 May 2019 18:39 (five years ago) link
Eastwood's box office record is startling. I might be wrong, but he's quite along among filmmakers approaching 90 whose movies still make a tidy proit.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 May 2019 19:42 (five years ago) link