HAPPY BIRTHDAY CLINT!
Posted on 05/20/2020 7:54:22 AM PDT by L.A.Justice
Clint Eastwood turns 90 next month and he’s still making and starring in movies.
Eastwood, who first appeared on screen in 1955, most recently starred as an elderly drug runner in 2018’s “The Mule” and last year directed “Richard Jewell.”
The longest-running Hollywood icon, Eastwood, who also served as mayor of Carmel, California, in the 1980s, has acted in 50 movies — starring in 42 — and directed 43 pictures.
Over the last 65 years, he’s acted opposite an orangutan, tried his hand at a musical — his “singing” in “Paint Your Wagon” has to be heard to be believed — created a pair of iconic characters, the Man with No Name and “Dirty Harry" Callahan, and won four Oscars for movies he directed.
Here are my picks for the top 10 Eastwood pictures, presented in chronological order. This new batch of flicks could come in handy with another weekend of staying home (and staying safe).
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(2) "Dirty Harry," 1971.
(3) "The Outlaw Josey Wales," 1976.
(4) "Unforgiven," 1992.
(5) "A Perfect World," 1993
(6) "In the Line of Fire," 1993.
(7) "Bird," 1998.
(8) "Mystic River," 2003
(9) "Million Dollar Baby," 2004.
(10) "Letters from Iwo Jima," 2006.
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Michael Medved did not think that MILLION DOLLAR BABY was a good movie...He may have been the only movie critic who did not like MILLION DOLLAR BABY...
I did not realize that Eastwood will be 90 years old this month...
Was DEAD POOL the worst Dirty Harry movie? It came out in 1988...I think that DEAD POOL was OK...
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Jersey Boys
Richard Jewell was his best directing job. Great movie.
All good.
Grand Torino
* The empty Obama chair
Almost nothing beats The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Just an awesome film. Nothing’s perfect, but that was a GOOD movie.
MILLION DOLLAR BABY was garbage.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CLINT!
Not too different but Gran Torino was missing and thats up there for me.
I used to visit Carmel in the 80’s (DLI student), what agreat mayor, and what a great place.
Josey Wales was his best movie.
Happy Birthday Clint!
Thanks for the entertainment.
What made Letters from Iwo Jima so interesting to me was Flags of Our Fathers was the other side of the story. I thought that was brilliant.
I didn’t like Mystic River. The ending/story resolution was ridiculous.
I liked:
Play Misty For Me
The Beguiled
The Gauntlet
Bronco Billy
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Heartbreak Ridge
Gran Torino was good. ....”toad” eh?
That was an excellent movie with an exceptional soundtrack. My “Top Ten” list of movie scores has at least 2-3 from that movie alone.
I loved Richard Jewell, but Gran Torino had that incredible scene in which he says of his Asian neighbors (while strongly wiping his face in a bathroom), “I have more in common with these Gooks than with my own family.” It was an incredible moment.
Beautiful and bittersweet, as well as the ending.
Kelly’s Heroes
Bloodline
Play Misty for Me
The Any Which Way franchise was the worst. Mildly funny at best.
We need the pic of Clint and the empty chair :)
I have all his movies plus the first 4 seasons of Rawhide and “Unforgiven” was his best by far with “The Outlaw Josey Wales” a distant second.
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