[AdaGray]

I knew it would be. The whole premise is so politically correct that the movie had to be bad.

[Vaquero]

For the most part he is a pretty OK guy for a hollyweird guy....but Clint has some sort of white guilt problem I never understood....

[kenmcg]

With Mandela’s ties to marxist leftist regimes its easy to see why a movie glorifying him would be loaded with lies and a bore.

[DoughtyOne]

I could see this one coming from FIVE miles away.

Good grief, are we incapable as a people of admitting how badly the anti-White movement screwed over South Africa?

The really sad thing is, it’s being done subtly or not so subtly here right now. Whites are being demonized at about every level.

White men are depicted terribly on television these days. Yes there are some bright spots, but by and large they’re just played off as ignorant, insensitive, objects of derision.

When you see someone going after big business, demonizing big business and Wall Street, think about who is really being targeted. Why it’s those evil White guys...

[stevem]

I saw a trailer for this when the wife and I went to see ‘Blind Side.’ Even when I knew it was a Clint Eastwood movie, there was zip in the trailer that made me want to see it. Too bad. I have usually found movies with Morgan Freeman to be as good as any and better than most.

[svcw]

Mandela was/is a communist. Eastwood is naive.
South Africa maybe worse than hell.
Friends of ours have an eight foot concrete wall around their house with razor wire on top of that, with guard dogs and they are in a better neighborhood.
The police are corrupt (worse than Mexico).
Anyone who thinks a game can solve problems is an idiot.

[BlessedBeGod]

I wonder if this is Clint’s cinematic response to Spike Lee accusing him of being a racist.

[x]

Often when an actor turns to directing, he can't bear to leave anything out, so the film turns out too long. That's certainly been true of Clint's movies.

Also, it's said that Eastwood just shoots the script, and that's the movie. More experienced directors rely more on their gut and feel free to shoot things differently on set, and leave footage on the cutting room floor.

It's not that he's a bad filmmaker, just that he's not as good as he could be. Bloodwork was really awful, and I doubt Invictus is as bad as that was.

I wish Clint had a bit of Sergio Leone's continental cynicism or irreverence or ambiguity or whatever. Clint's the good cowboy, the man in the white hat, but what Hollywood sees as "good" and "bad" has changed over time. The roles he played in other people's movies were more complex and ambiguous than his own films are.

[DogBarkTree]

Clint is one of my favorites but I will never watch any movie staring Matt dip$hit Damon.

[seowulf]

Mandella? Isn’t he the Marxist who took a relatively prosperous country and turned it into a typical African crap hole?

[Deb]

The World can thank American Leftists like Randall Robinson (brother of Wash. Post writer Eugene) for the festering turd that is South Africa. Nelson ("I am a Communist") Mandela, presided over a country that dares not build a house without a "rape room" and where whites are routinely car-jacked and murdered every day of the week.

That Clint chose to tell the absurd story of the rugby team instead of the true story of chaos and poverty that is post-apartheid South Africa, shows he has lost the ability to see reality. I blame the too young, Mexican wife. He has become another elderly, senile Barry Goldwater.

[bmwcyle]

Why are they making a movie about another worthless socialist?

[purplelobster]

Mandela’s wife Winnie had a gang that were referred to as her “rugby team.” If someone fell out of favor with Mandela’s opinions she would have her rugby team track down the person and then they would have a rubber tire placed around their waist, splashed with gasoline and lit on fire. The practice was referred to as necklacing. Is this film about the rugby team necklacing?

[CondoleezzaProtege]

I liked “Changeling,” directed by Clint Eastwood a lot. Angelina Jolie is a wonderful actress. I normally don’t hold political views against actors. If they are talented, I will respect their art.

Matt Damon is the exception, at least for me. His youtube video (which now has almost 7 million hits) is the most watched youtube video on Sarah Palin and quite possibly the most watched video dealing with the 2008 election. He basically rips her apart to shreds and degrades her in the most condescending way possible.

I don’t think his acting is anything to write home about anyway and I will boycott any movie he is in.

[Captain Peter Blood]

The understanding of Africa and South Africa as portrayed by the people like Eastwood and the MSM borders on the criminal.
Mandela was and is a Communist and a Murderer and his political party the ANC is a terrorist organization.
People do not understand that basically Africa is still very tribal in thinking and action.
Mandella does not nor has he ever spoken for all South Africans. In fact he and the ANC did everything in their power to freeze out the other tribes like the Zulu's, etc. from any political power.
Mandella is basically a Thug and nothing else.

[Captain Peter Blood]

The understanding of Africa and South Africa as portrayed by the people like Eastwood and the MSM borders on the criminal.
Mandela was and is a Communist and a Murderer and his political party the ANC is a terrorist organization.
People do not understand that basically Africa is still very tribal in thinking and action.
Mandella does not nor has he ever spoken for all South Africans. In fact he and the ANC did everything in their power to freeze out the other tribes like the Zulu's, etc. from any political power.
Mandella is basically a Thug and nothing else.

[Captain Peter Blood]

The understanding of Africa and South Africa as portrayed by the people like Eastwood and the MSM borders on the criminal.
Mandela was and is a Communist and a Murderer and his political party the ANC is a terrorist organization.
People do not understand that basically Africa is still very tribal in thinking and action.
Mandella does not nor has he ever spoken for all South Africans. In fact he and the ANC did everything in their power to freeze out the other tribes like the Zulu's, etc. from any political power.
Mandella is basically a Thug and nothing else.

[Fiji Hill]

I’ve lost all desire to see Clint Eastwood films since “A Perfect World” (1997), which was one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Invictus is shockingly pedestrian and cliché-ridden.

I know Eastwood is now considered an established and very fine director, but this has been my observation of all the movies he's directed.

[Liberty Valance]

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