Posted on 12/13/2009 1:06:45 PM PST by Publius804
Clint Eastwoods Invictus: A Colossal Bore
South Africa is plagued with astonishing levels of crime and poverty, its peoples segregated and suspicious of one another. But the new Clint Eastwood-directed movie Invictus says thats all okay, because the countrys rugby team won a few games in 1995.
Coming off last winters excellent and far more challenging Gran Torino, Invictus is shockingly pedestrian and cliché-ridden. Its level of racial naivety makes it a sort of Driving Mr. Damon, with Morgan Freeman accepting a demotion from his usual roles as God or the president of the United States. This time he merely plays a saint Nelson Mandela.
Although in one scene we are told that Mandela is a flesh-and-blood human being with family troubles, the rest of the movie shows the man working himself to exhaustion, protesting that he is overpaid, putting himself in physical peril for the sake of his country, forgiving sinners, and generally glowing from the halo over his head. As played by Morgan Freeman with maximum beatitude, hes one of many reasons why this movie is a colossal bore.
Another is Matt Damon who, as the blond captain of the South African national rugby team the Springboks, is a total blank except that he really wants to win. His team plays so badly in the early stages of the movie that he orders everyone to drink the worst beer he can find to symbolize the bitter taste of defeat. If putting together a championship-caliber team were that easy, wouldnt the Detroit Lions simply order in a few cases of Pabst?
Despite Eastwoods eagerness to portray Mandela as a sort of Jesus with a funny accent....
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Ok thanks for the info!
I may go see a movie over the Christmas holidays when I have some family from out of town here who like to do that... and, if so, that will be what I go see if it’s still playing.
Have they patched up their differences?
Well, I felt an obligation to help the thread along ...
I’m wondering when the Log Cabin Republicans are going to join this thread.
Just trying to Fan up some controversy.
Don’t Block me...These are all Quilt designs!
Good. I appreciate the note of defense of it. I’ll check it out when the time comes.
LOL! If we start talking about Eastern Stars, can we annoy Masons, too :-).
I’m afraid this thread is going to pieces, rather like Clint Eastwood himself, bless his heart.
“LOL! If we start talking about Eastern Stars, can we annoy Masons, too :-).”
Oh, I did a GREAT “Star of Bethlehem” Quilt! Sold to someone in Paris. 20 stitches to the inch! Smaller than AMISH Stitching.
The Amish don’t like it when I do that.
Must not antagonize the Amish.
I’ve done cross-stitch pieces that small and smaller.
Oooo....Love cross stitch.
Hey, what’s your favorite Clint Eastwood movie? I liked “Pale Rider”, “The Unforgiven”, and “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly”. I tend to be “retro” hen it comes to Clint.
“Magnum Force.”
Magnum Force.
Oh..Of Course! LOL!
I liked the one where he played a Secret Service agent defending the President from an assassin. And “Space Cowboys,” too.
I like Clint Eastwood as an actor, but I often don’t particularly care for the movies he’s in.
Oh yes...I forgot about those ones.
Space Cowboys was quite good.
Clint has quite a patchwork of movies to chose from!
:-)
Yes, a long and varied career.
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