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 (four years ago) link
Ok
― Got your butt drank (Neanderthal), Saturday, 11 May 2019 14:50 (four years ago) link
White Hunter Black Heart is underrated I think. Unusual and interesting film.
― mirostones, Sunday, 12 May 2019 03:01 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four years ago) link
A movie was based om a book
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Sunday, 12 May 2019 04:08 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four years ago) link
I've never seen anyone say The Mule is about his earlier work?
― Frederik B, Sunday, 12 May 2019 14:46 (four 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 (four 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 (four years ago) link
kinda want to see Clint do a series of True Detective
― sarahell, Sunday, 12 May 2019 17:39 (four 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 (four 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 (four years ago) link
oh i was just thinking in terms of acting in it
― sarahell, Sunday, 12 May 2019 18:05 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four years ago) link
*profit
his return to TV for the RNC was a good appearance
― global tetrahedron, Sunday, 12 May 2019 21:03 (four years ago) link
in what sense are you using "good"?
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 13 May 2019 03:52 (four years ago) link
yeah, but it's not tv, tho, it's HBO?
― sarahell, Monday, 13 May 2019 03:55 (four years ago) link
Had somehow not seen this playful image of birthday boy Clintus Eastwood until today! pic.twitter.com/gkwdoWFuAN— 𝖇𝖚𝖒𝖕 𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖈𝖐 1776 (@NickPinkerton) May 31, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 2 June 2019 16:15 (four years ago) link
Doug McClure?
― The Guts of Duran Duran (Tom D.), Sunday, 2 June 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
yes it is! wow, "The Virginian" ran for 9 years.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 2 June 2019 18:12 (four years ago) link
I watched "Coogan's Bluff" a few weeks back. I know I had seen it a couple of times as a kid as it is a classic Eastwood marathon afternoon movie.
Coogan's Bluff has some interesting how things change scenes dealing with the police therapist character that caught my attention. The whole sequence with her starting in the squad room with the perp on to when she goes on a date with Coogan is darkly hilarious to watch with modern eyes as it is so sexist.
― earlnash, Sunday, 2 June 2019 21:00 (four years ago) link
well this could be innnnteresting
https://collider.com/richard-jewell-trailer-new-clint-eastwood-movie/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 October 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
Hmm. Wrongfully accused middle aged white dude vs. the government *and* the lying media. Seems likely to make everyone mad.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 October 2019 17:22 (four years ago) link
Thankful it's not a McVeigh movie
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Thursday, 3 October 2019 17:25 (four years ago) link