Clint Eastwood

Leo's J Edgar may have his Clyde Tolson:

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2010/12/08/armie-hammer-leonardo-dicaprio-clint-eastwood-hoover/

wdn't have predicted this in the Every Which Way But Loose days:

http://www.towleroad.com/2011/03/leonardo-dicaprio-and-armie-hammer-film-very-passionate-kiss.html

http://kristinburns.com/WordPressPhotos/PJ/DuranDuran_mg_4011.jpg

weird.

was hereafter any good at all?

will return to acting as a baseball scout going blind:

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Matthew-Lillard-Joining-Clint-Eastwood-Trouble-With-Curve-28893.html

Dude kinda just won the Super Bowl ad derby.

Definitely.

http://www.youtube.com/chrysler

Most effective moment of this for me is the split-second of the African-American kid as he's stepped out of his dad's car, and in that split second the two other kids (white) are walking to him--a moment literally under a second.

Also, Clint's "Yeah" near the end is great and/or terrible.

meh, Clint knows a brass-balls Nixonian president when he sees one.

http://www.salon.com/2012/02/06/clint_eastwoods_super_bowl_obama_endorsement/

Some are insisting its just an endorsement of Detroit and Karl Rove is whining about it for various reasons

No votes for Paint your Wagon??

"This is just halftime for American musicals."

It's funny that it gets parsed as political when it's a car commercial using the rhetoric of a political ad, and working really hard not to be political. But, of course, the stuff it's advertising isn't removed from politics, which is what the right is jumping on.

Chrysler wiped union signs off the footage, literally nothing to see here folks

Woah, David Gordon Green directed the ad, and Matthew Dickman (one of the twin poets profiled in the New Yorker a few years ago) was one of the writers.

http://www.wweek.com/portland/blog-28200-see_that_wieden%2Bkennedy_super_bowl_ad_with_clint_eastwood_it_was_directed_by_david_gordon_green.html

bouncing back from your highness

just watched this, anyone who sees anything truly political in it is insane.

Off-topic from Clint, but the similar 2011 Super Bowl spot was good, directed by Samuel Bayer ("Smells Like Teen Spirit"):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKL254Y_jtc

sigh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoqKdWY692k

does this damage his reputation at all? Or it he so old and such a revered hollywood figure that it doesn't matter?

Yes.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/you-did-great-terrified-personal-assistant-tells-c,29393/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmratV9kac0&hd=1

also: http://www.theonion.com/articles/breaking-john-mccain-just-blew-his-brains-out-duri,29369/

Can only presume everyone pretending to be shocked or disappointed in this is doing so to draw attention away from Mittens.

Does this mean that we can look forward to other Republican leaning actors coming on and saying their best known lines?
Arnie: "RUN TO DA PRESIDENTIAL CHOPPAH!"

New movie in three weeks, start your political based jokes/Photoshopping now:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2083383/

What does invisibama want Clint to tell Romney to do to himself at 6:15?

xp Trouble With The Laffer Curve

What does invisibama want Clint to tell Romney to do to himself at 6:15?

Go fuck yourself

v v classy joke

NYT: "Aides said Mr. Eastwood does not like teleprompters and was trusted to deliver an on-message endorsement."

oh he was ad-libbing up there? you don't say

"I know what you're thinkin'. 'Does he have Barack Obama in that chair or doesn't he?' Well to tell you the truth in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself."

Far from my favourite director--except for Blood Work, don't know that I've ever liked anything, and J. Edgar especially seemed like a waste. I didn't mind Hereafter, though, improbabilities and all. (By which I don't mean the hereafter stuff, which you just have to go with; more like, now I'm mailing off my manuscript, now I'm speaking at a book fair...) Matt Damon is fine in the dropping-out-of-life role. Did not feel like a Clint Eastwood film at all. I wish Arte Johnson had showed up on a park bench at some point, otherwise not bad.

I don't dislike Hereafter (or Blood Work or J Edgar either, for that matter) but I'm still puzzled as to why it turned into a romcom in its last 10 minutes.

you liked Blood Work

True about the last 10 minutes--the rom part, anyway. I don't know if it was more or less preferable to what I expected, some mystical mumbo-jumbo, but it definitely wasn't very convincing.

The first hour or so, though, I was impressed with how even the pacing was, and even found both Damon's and the kid's stories somewhat moving.

I recently tried to rewatch The Unforgiven and found I could not stomach it.

I don't mean the violent ending. I quit watching about 50 minutes in because the dialogue was horrible and the way the characters and plot were being set up were as artificial as the flavor of a watermelon Jolly Rancher, but all the while it was pretending it was the juiciest, ripest watermelon you ever laid a lip to. Nothing about that movie came within sight of any reality that ever was or will be. It even sucked as a pure myth.

i like it

the two iwo jima movies are probably the most interesting of his recent work to me

the unforgiven is hard for me to watch b/c of all the people who don't like or know westerns who claimed it was "revisionist" and "the best western ever" and i'm conscious of that inflated sense of importance that both eminates from it and was accorded it

but all told it is hardly a bad movie

emanates?

it's Unforgiven, guys. The Unforgiven is another western.

I admire the crispness of its dialogue without ever -- then and now -- buying William Munny's rediscovery of his inner T-1000; and, boy, do the Richard Harris scenes drag.

Also...not once was Ned's race mentioned? And he's lynched?

i think i have picked up my mom's old habit (which at one time was very frustrating to me) of adding an article or title to everything.

fast food chains, per my mom: the subway, the burger king, mr. wizard's...

god bless her :)

I found it so ordinary and so plodding, I've never seen it a second time. Was furthermore bothered by what amateurist brings up: the reverential treatment it received, when directors had been killing off and de-mythologizing the Western for 40+ years at that point--at least going back to High Noon and The Gunfighter--and usually in much better films.

Was furthermore bothered by what amateurist brings up: the reverential treatment it received, when directors had been killing off and de-mythologizing the Western for 40+ years at that point

yes indeed. Same year Eric Clapton won Album of the Year: mythologizing a mythology that didn't and could never exist.

There were so many such films in the late '60s and through the '70s, I suppose enough time had lapsed that it seemed new again (helped by the fact it was Eastwood directing).

Also strange that the Academy coronated a comeback when Eastwood's movies, with exceptions, had been modest to huge profit makers for years.

plus the likes of High Plains Drifter and Pale Rider got respectful press (and made money).

I recently tried to rewatch The Unforgiven and found I could not stomach it.

I don't mean the violent ending. I quit watching about 50 minutes in because the dialogue was horrible and the way the characters and plot were being set up were as artificial as the flavor of a watermelon Jolly Rancher, but all the while it was pretending it was the juiciest, ripest watermelon you ever laid a lip to.

Aww, I liked it. My grandfather was in it. He is dead now.

Also, to state the obvious, they never really stop making such films, they just take different shapes in different decades. Right now it's a world-weary Batman, and Scar wears a mask and speaks through a vocoder.

That's a great story about your grandfather.