So many uses.
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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Grand Torino should have made the list. My dad was a Korean war vet and he talked about Asians exactly like Clint Eastwood did in grand Torino even down to the racist nicknames. The good Bad and the Ugly well deserved in the #1 spot.
“But seriously, could you have a more polar opposite than Meryl Streep?”
Excellent description of ol’ Meryl. :-)
No mention of “Bird” yet.
[[[5.The Outlaw Josey Wales]]]
An excellent western in a time of the genre dying out.
Dirty Harry was the birth of the anti-hero. An entirely new genre.
Clint was a pioneer in so many ways. The best thing he did was go to Italy during the 60’s.
Loved the early stuff:
Hang’em High, High Plains Drifter, Play Misty for Me, Coogan’s Bluff, The Spaghetti Trilogy, The Eiger Sanction, Where Eagles Dare, from fun to serious to absurd. (The Gauntlet)
Tightrope, Firefox, etc.
Liked Gran Torino, but it was flawed by the insertion of the F-word every three seconds. Needlessly repetitive, and irritating.
He was also in “Creature From The Black Lagoon”. Or was it the sequel. He was an extra.
So many uses.
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Best line in his or anybody elses movie. And it seemed he always had a line for every movie.
Watched that with the wife just recently. I said I was surprised it was all about cheating on a loving caring husband for thrills.
Loved “American Sniper”.
I was thinking more of the movies he was actually in, though.
Outlaw Josey Wales is another of my all time favorites.
“Where Eagles Dare” always comes to mind immediately for me, though, when Clint is mentioned.
I prefer “Dyin’ ain’t much of a livin’, boy”
“Firefox”
Maj. Gant steals the MiG-31 and runs a gauntlet of Soviet attempts to shoot him down.
But I swear, when he goes supersonic on the deck to avoid radar & the MiG is stripping the snow off of trees, this is the only time I ever saw Clint Eastwood smile.
“Let’s see what this thing can do.”
“Boy, is this a machine!”
Equaled only by Dirty Harry’s disgust: “Nobody, I mean NOBODY, puts catchup on a hot dog!”
PS - "The Dead Pool" might not have been the greatest movie, but anything with a Lalo Schifrin soundtrack is gonna be good.
“You must learn to think in Russian.”
Happy Birthday, Clint Eastwood!
90, wow.
And a lot of great movies. What a wide span of subjects too, from the spaghetti western to the serious western, the cop, the spy, the military leader, the Secret service agent, the retired auto worker, the boxing coach, the DJ, the cool buddy of the guy with a pet monkey - he’s played and directed many roles. What a great career.
‘Tarantula’... :-)
The Dead Pool is the movie in which Clint paid back Pauline Kael for calling the Dirty Harry films fascist by having the killer murder an obnoxious movie critic.
+1.
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