The Shrine

Wow. I've never watch a Clint Eastwood movie, but I have to say after seeing this one I need to see some of his catalog. The movie was excellent.

What? Never seen an Eastwood flick? Damn, boy, you gotta get yourself some culture! :-)

Start with The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, then Deadpool, then Unforgiven. That'll give you a good cross-section of his first 40 years or so and then you can move on to his more recent stuff as a director.

You got a sneak preview?

Mystic River was one his best as a director.

Flip wrote:You got a sneak preview?

Mystic River was one his best as a director.

It's been available as a torrent download for a couple of days.

His acting career all but ends after Unforgiven and then he becomes much more of a director. If he doesn't know who Eastwood as an actor is, the more recent stuff is probably not the best way to start.

Zeus wrote:Start with The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, then Deadpool, then Unforgiven. That'll give you a good cross-section of his first 40 years or so and then you can move on to his more recent stuff as a director.

WTF? You forgot Kelly's Heroes, dammit!

SineSwiper wrote:

Zeus wrote:Start with The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, then Deadpool, then Unforgiven. That'll give you a good cross-section of his first 40 years or so and then you can move on to his more recent stuff as a director.

WTF? You forgot Kelly's Heroes, dammit!

There's a ton of good flicks I didn't mention (and I haven't seen that one so I can't comment on how good/bad it was). I was just trying to hit a few of the biggest as a cross-section to give him the idea.

Zeus wrote:What? Never seen an Eastwood flick? Damn, boy, you gotta get yourself some culture! :-)

Start with The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, then Deadpool, then Unforgiven. That'll give you a good cross-section of his first 40 years or so and then you can move on to his more recent stuff as a director.

I watched The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, and Unforgiven. I need to get Deadpool.

I preferred the Good, the Bad. But both were excellent.

Kelly's Heroes! It's not just a Clint Eastwood film, but he's the lead in it, and it's a fucking hilarious movie.

A few other good movies:

Two Mules for Sister Sara - The dynamic between Clint Eastwood and Shirley MacLaine really make this movie.

Firefox - Some people liked this movie, some people didn't. But, he was branching off to a new genres with this, as he plays a American spy trying to steal an experimental Soviet jet. This was one of his earlier self-directed movies, too.

Escape from Alcatraz - Classic Eastwood here, except in a prison movie.

Space Cowboys - One of his older movies. Saw this one in theaters. Kinda cheesy plot, but good stuff. The four aging superstars (Tommy Lee Jones, Sutherland, Garner, Eastwood) in this one make a great dynamic.

This movie's actually good, seriously? Because the trailer just made it look like 2 hours of "Get off my lawn you damn punks"

Evidently, it's a Christ metaphor.

No, it's not. But it is a good movie.

Tessian wrote:This movie's actually good, seriously? Because the trailer just made it look like 2 hours of "Get off my lawn you damn punks"

No, it's nothing to do with that. That's just the idiot marketers trying to get you to watch it

Escape from Alcatraz is a great movie. Well worth the watch if you can handle 70's-style filmmaking (ie. Hard Cuts, very little "babying" in the storyline making it a bit harder to follow, etc).

Saw this last night and I have to agree that it is an amazing movie. There's a few plot points that are easily seen before they happen but quite a lot of it was done very well.

Clint Eastwood is so good in the movie that if it was two hours of "Get off my damn lawn you punks" it would have still been worth seeing. It is actually like 15 minutes of that though lol