I don't know why, but I've always had a thing about hot chicks that were crazy enough to kill you.
Posted on 01/27/2009 4:15:37 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
I thought The Wrestler and Slumdog Millionaire were both really good. I liked Gran Torino better though. I have heard several people say Slumdog Millionaire is already one of their absolute favorite movies.
He wanted to name you "Filo Beddoe"? :-)
Even those were good. It’s not his fault the monkey was a bad actor.
He did. I will admit to wondering how I would have been different with that name. Something tells me I would be a lot closer to the barroom fighter Clint was in the movie than the laid back person I currently am.
1. Clint came out as a homosexual...
2. He admitted that he was wrong about other cultures;
3. He offed himself after an hour soliloquy specifying how his life was carbon-heavy, and that taking his life would cure the end of global warming...
That would have made liberals stand up and cheer!
Eastwood made some weird movies when he was trying to break out of the "Man with no name" typecasting.
I always though an under-appreciated movie was "Play Misty for Me." Michael Douglas ripped off that whole movie in Fatal Attraction. Jessica Lange played the nutball girlfriend perfectly. She was good looking enough to seduce him, and totally crazy. As an aside, that movie was the one where a pair of white patent leather loafers became the standard horrible gift in movies (Vacation and a bunch of other movies have used it.)
That wasn’t Jessica Lange, that was Jessica Walter. GREAT movie, btw.
Still, quite a good movie!
Works GREAT for Roger Ebert, too....
Had a similar yardstick myself, although I used Leonard Maltin as the 'stick...
the infowarrior
Just OK plus, not good imho. Many character development and structure problems. Some truly lousy acting (including bits by Clint), some clunky staging, a predictable ending but....better than ninety percent of what’s out there.
I will admit that when I bought my first pickup truck in 1982, I had a bed liner installed. My friend insisted on calling it a ‘Filo Beddoliner’. :-)
The only eligibility for the Oscars you need is to release it before Dec 31 somewhere in the LA area. Gran Torino was but they ignored it regardless. It won’t be up for nomination next year.
I thought that in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot it was obvious that Eastwood and George Kennedy were old lovers and Kennedy was jealous because Eastwood had taken up with a younger guy (Jeff Bridges.)
I don't know why, but I've always had a thing about hot chicks that were crazy enough to kill you.
not sugarfoot, it was Rawhide.....my favorite singer Frankie Laine sang the theme
Ms. Longet was very sexy in “The Party.” Too bad Spider Savitch didn’t decide to go to Telluride instead that day...
“Sugarfoot, right?”
Rawhide. Sugarfoot didn’t last long. I liked it.
And how come nobody on the thread has mentioned The Good the Bad and The Ugly?
My husband and I saw it. He’s a Vietnam Vet. At the end of the movie we just sat there. Didn’t think about moving for three or four minutes. It really grabbed us.
BTW, I thought the Hmong girl was cute and the grandmother was hysterical! I thought the use of less-than-professional actors was refreshing.
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