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Critic's Pick: The best of Clint Eastwood for his 90th birthday...
Lincoln Journal Star ^ | April 23, 2020 | L. Kent Wolgamott

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).

(Excerpt) Read more at journalstar.com ...


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KEYWORDS: cinema; movie
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To: L.A.Justice

One of my favorites is “Two Mules for Sister Sarah.”


21 posted on 05/20/2020 8:11:58 AM PDT by Lopeover (Patriots Fight)
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To: bray

I am still surprised that his R. Jewell movie didn’t do better at the box office. Maybe it was crowded out by more splashy, Disney type entertainment. Or some sort of Star Wars film may have stolen the show.

Eastwood is still incredible, though.
I suspect his ongoing work as a director is keeping him in a functioning state. If a workhorse like Clint were to fully retire, he would probably begin to lose his health not soon afterward. If he was already into a lighter, easier schedule, a retirement would be less of a shock to the system.
I know much younger people, those in their 40’s, and work is their main reason for living.


22 posted on 05/20/2020 8:16:47 AM PDT by lee martell
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90 years and still up and about....

Clint Eastwood and Bill Murray ..
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Feb 6, 2020

23 posted on 05/20/2020 8:17:12 AM PDT by deport
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To: L.A.Justice

Eastwood has never made a bad movie, IMHO. Personal all-time favorites for me are tied: Dirty Harry and The Good, The Bad & The Ugly.

Best wishes to him for a happy 90th. Even though he’s up there in age now, he STILL has the same steely glare that scared the crap out of his opponents and set women’s hearts swooning.


24 posted on 05/20/2020 8:18:53 AM PDT by AFB-XYZ
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To: AFB-XYZ
Eastwood has never made a bad movie, IMHO.

Bridges of Madison County?

25 posted on 05/20/2020 8:19:24 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: L.A.Justice

Over 20 comments so far and no mention of “High Plains Drifter”?


26 posted on 05/20/2020 8:19:29 AM PDT by bwest
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To: dfwgator

Let’s just call that one “less brilliant”. :-)


27 posted on 05/20/2020 8:20:10 AM PDT by AFB-XYZ
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To: L.A.Justice

The Eiger Sanction


28 posted on 05/20/2020 8:21:04 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: AFB-XYZ

But seriously, could you have a more polar opposite than Meryl Streep?


29 posted on 05/20/2020 8:21:35 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: L.A.Justice

“...Clint Eastwood turns 90 next month ...”

Holy crap... 90...hard to believe.

To me, one of his best ever: “Where Eagles Dare”.


30 posted on 05/20/2020 8:22:00 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: dfwgator

Ouch!


31 posted on 05/20/2020 8:23:04 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: L.A.Justice
One of my all time favorite lines from a movie is Dirty Harry's from "Magnum Force."

"Man's got to know his limitations."

32 posted on 05/20/2020 8:23:14 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps
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To: L.A.Justice

One of his all-time greatest scenes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT2mWW5Y6sQ


33 posted on 05/20/2020 8:23:49 AM PDT by MarDav
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To: NFHale

Nobody has mentioned American Sniper. I thought it was great.


34 posted on 05/20/2020 8:24:51 AM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: L.A.Justice

Firefox was good.


35 posted on 05/20/2020 8:25:08 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: NFHale

I always try to hunt for Where Eagles Dare on some cold, snowy afternoon...Great action movie...


36 posted on 05/20/2020 8:25:09 AM PDT by MarDav
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To: deport

Clint looks in better shape than Bill does in that picture


37 posted on 05/20/2020 8:25:38 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: Gamecock

“And if I was a half as ugly as you, Sergeant Major, I’d be a poster boy for a prophylactic.”


38 posted on 05/20/2020 8:26:56 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: L.A.Justice

The Dead Pool is the only Dirty Harry film I’ve never watched all the way through. And what I did see of it was not very good.


39 posted on 05/20/2020 8:27:43 AM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Posting from deep within enemy territory - San Jose, CA)
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers

Best Dirty Harry scene, ever, really takes some nice pot shots at the “Woke” culture....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdysW4Pw_SE


40 posted on 05/20/2020 8:29:49 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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