Posted on 02/08/2018 10:03:49 PM PST by nickcarraway
Clint Eastwood is at the top of his game for about 10 action-packed minutes in which he directs a recreation of the events of Aug. 21, 2015, when three young American men thwarted a terrorist attack on a European train.
Airman Spencer Stone, Spc. Alek Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler play themselves taking down an attacker (Ray Corasani), who’s armed with a knife, pistol, assault rifle and almost 300 rounds of ammunition. This unusual casting move boosts the action’s emotional heft, and those scenes are a tense, taut piece of filmmaking.
But in the remaining 83 minutes of this movie’s brief running time, Eastwood is at the very bottom of his game, interspersing quick cuts to the train ride with a thuddingly boring back story of average, slightly hyperactive kids who maintained a lifelong friendship.
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Even if this movie is a dud, I’m going to see it. I’ll never forget his conversation with an empty chair representing 0. For that alone, he has my loyalty.
Still it is worth drawing attention to it as it sounds a good film to me, one I will want to watch.
Never understood why people should listen to a “critic” who gets paid to tell us if we should like or dislike a movie. If it sounds appealing go see it. If you like it, great. If you don’t, so be it.
Seinfeld ‘s Uncle Leo’s is in the movie.
These very same critics were calling "American Sniper" a dud, too. Once you understand that patriotism and valor are to lefty critics as sunlight is to a vampyr everything makes sense.
Translation: They didn’t get high and kidnap little boys to have sex with.
Oh yeah. I’ve always liked Fred.
If I were one of those heroes and my background history leading up to the event were portrayed, it would be 78 minutes of boredom too.........LOL!
Another (more positive) review:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3630490/posts
My wife and I are looking forward to seeing this one. So many times the only way to tell if a movie will be good and uplifting is if the media slugs attack it. This is probably going to be another one of those movies. I saw the trailer and liked it.
They would only praise the film if the soldiers included Bradley/Chelsea Manning, Bowe Bergdahl, and an angry lesbian/trannie.
And the villain has to be switched from a moslem jihadist to an alt-right white neo-nazi.
The Outlaw Jose Wales was a classic.
Remember before the Internet, Cable TV, DVDs, Video tapes, laser disks and all that?
Well, the only way to see a movie was to go to the theater and watch?
Back then I had an A list of movies I would go and see about 10+ times!
TOJWs was one. Young Frankenstein another. Monty Python’s Holy Grail. That was my A list. By the end me and my friends had the dialog down to where we could say it along with the actors.
I had a B list of movies I saw from 3-7 times, but that would be too long a list to cite here. Most of the action, science fiction and comedy movies of the early to mid 70s.
The bad reviews are probably because it was not a made-for-movie event. It’s a story better suited for 20/20 or CBS’s 60 Minutes. It was a bad idea to try and create a 2-hour story from 2 minute event.
But she looks to have Susan Estrich frown lines under that forced smile.
“Josey Wales is one of the best movies ever made, IMHO.”
You got that right. The Outlaw Josey Wales is my favorite western of all time. It pisses me off when I see that it is given 2 starts on the Cable guide. (It use to be 4 stars. F’ing liberal “Redleg” scum.)
The reason Eastwood makes movies fast is that he is meticulous about setting up-—actually doing the work of a director.
Word is he is called “one-shot Clint” because he rarely does reshoots. He has everythingperfect for “the” shot. He also stays on budget that way.
Personally, I liked “Sully” a lot, but thought “Jersey Boys” was bad-—musicals are NOT his forte. But he barely got “Sully” made, and he and Hanks had to beg from the studios to get the final financing after Steven Mnunchin’s group provided the key initial investment. They were at Sundance and told everyone that the movie barely got made.
I’m a Clint Eastwood fan.
But I read the book. It’s mostly background info which is pretty boring. To be honest, I skipped all that stuff and enjoyed the action parts of the book.
When I heard Clint was going to make a movie about this I said to myself, first Eastwood movie I’m gonna miss.
You mean “Frankie Valli” but again, I thought that was a bad movie.
You should see “12 Strong.” A little bit of cliche, but all true. Hemsworth does a creditable job, but Pena and Shannon as the grunts, are good and the two Afghans, the good guy and the bad guy, are really good. Not crazy Michael Bay-ish pyrotechnics, either.
People are missing the important point here.
Clint has become my role model. As I approach 76, I look to Clint who directed a movie at 86. He still maintains his office of 30+ on the Burbank studio grounds.
The lesson?
Think 90
Outlaw Jose Wales
Damn! I missed both of those!
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