Clint Eastwood

I skipped the screening.

Movies don't need to be judged on accuracy. But why would Eastwood go out and say “The investigative board was trying to paint the picture that he had done the wrong thing,” when that is a complete lie? And why would the producer say: “It’s not a documentary. But at the same time it needs to be an authentic view of what Sully and Jeff experienced, and this was what they faced. This was what they went through.” When it's factually, provably not?

Well, at least Sully isn't introduced raping a woman 'til she likes it, so it's definitely one of Eastwood's lesser offences.

"Until I read the script, I didn't know the investigative board was trying to paint the picture that he (Sullenberger) had done the wrong thing. They were kind of railroading him into 'it was his fault,'" Eastwood said in a publicity video for the Warner Bros. film.

Idiot...

Saw this over the weekend, thought it was a pretty solid late Eastwood film. The first crash sequence is strong Fordian "community comes together" stuff, and felt really well put-together to me. The interplay between the strange, blaring media hype and the bland, anonymous spaces (hotels and conference rooms) where the characters were forced to dwell felt interesting to me, ymmv of course.

also, this from earlier in the thread:

The whole water landing sequence is shown TWICE (same shots, takes, everything)

is just not at all true, the first sequence only shows a couple glimpses of the cockpit, while the second one takes place almost entirely inside the cockpit. And though there's a lot of talk of the movie being workmanlike, I think the pacing is fairly strange, because the entirely film is basically the subjective post-trauma experience of Sully.

The NTSB stuff is obviously not accurate, but the NTSB investigators are all basically the externalized surrogates of Sully's own self-doubt. I can appreciate that within the context of the movie while also knowing that it's a crock.

Is there another director in American history with Eastwood's box office at his age? I'm amazed that has streak continues.

His

i doubt it, the only Hollywood equivalents I can even think of are Sidney Lumet and Robert Altman, and they were still younger than Eastwood is now when they made their last films. And of course those films were not box office successes on the level of Eastwood's recent work. Maybe John Huston was close? Most of the incredibly successful classical hollywood directors (hitchcock, hawks, ford) were all in their 70s when they made their last movies.

My review.

oops sorry -- wrong thread

Wrong thread but awesome anyway

lol thanks

Sully is pretty good! Funny despite the attempt at unorthodox structure, the crisis scenes are the highlight.

I wonder if Laura Linney will get any more exclusively-on-the-phone roles.

In the Line of Fire plays really well as a spoof

Aww, I remember it being quite good as an action flick. Maybe I shouldn't ever bother revisiting it?

Just through a different lens

Tightrope is a pretty daring investigation/indictment of the Clint the Cop icon -- also, Genevieve Bujold -- but also has some hokey touches I hadn't remembered from '84.

Any hints on the gauntlet?

Anyone rewatch the original The Beguiled after seeing the remake?

directing himself again

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5911117/Clint-Eastwood-88-paces-set-Mule-returns-acting-six-year-hiatus.html

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.

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]

Dead? No.

xp never previously knew stuff abt his relationship w sondra locke either

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sondra_Locke#Personal_life

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.

do not withhold quips

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.

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.

lol two threesomes

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.

Not available for screenings so uh

Clint dancin' with them who brung him

He pronounces “pecans” two different ways in the trailer. Is that a thing people do?

nick pinkerton's review

Racist grandpa phase is retroactively ruining the good stuff.

(Earl manages two threesomes with attractive young women in the film)

!? lmao

The Mule does kinda feel like a perfect Pinkerton storm.

no one named Earl has ever had a threesome, c'mon

Earl ‘The Pearl’ Monroe disagrees.

I doubt the Sweatshirt's had one either

You can't say Warren wasn't warnin' y'all.

The Mule features what is perhaps the leakiest, most poorly run cartel in cinema history

Alm0nd calls it Eastwood's best movie ever: https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/movie-review-the-mule-clint-eastwood-honest-classic/

well, yeah

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.

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.

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.

Clint's performance in The Mule is near-great.

Try to understand what's actually happening in the film, Nee.

Ok

White Hunter Black Heart is underrated I think. Unusual and interesting film.