What's the big deal with Clint Eastwood?

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Re: What's the big deal with Clint Eastwood?

Post by JimC » Thu Sep 30, 2010 5:37 am

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Jim Jimminy Jim...

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I keep trying for depraved, too...

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Re: What's the big deal with Clint Eastwood?

Post by Robert_S » Thu Sep 30, 2010 8:22 am

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anna09 wrote:Seriously? :dono:

My husband and all of his friends have a man crush on this guy and I just don't see why. I mean, yea he looks tough and everything but the movies are really cheesy and predictable yet they can't get enough of them. I was just flipping through the channels when my husband yelled out, "SUDDEN IMPACT IS ON!! YEEESS!!" :? So I left the room and figured I'd give him a moment.

Is this just a guy thing? :think:
His appeal to me is extremely low. The posturing of him as a ruggedly individualist and vigilante in the Dirty Harry series put me right off Eastwood. The very peak of his reprehensible message was at the end of one of those movies, where he took justice in his own hand by executing a defeated and unarmed bad guy by shooting him with what looked like a whale harpoon. Redeeming feature: His direction of the film Flags of Our Fathers.

Likewise, my esteem for Mel Gibson took a huge dive when I found out about his religious and political views. It seems attraction depends at least as much on what is going on in a person's mind to me, if not more so than appearance and demeanour. That's why I feel incredibly lucky. My partner is tops in all those respects.
On the other hand, it saved us all from one of those sequels that begins with the psychotic murderer getting out on parole.

Seriously though, violent crime was actually on the increase in the US at the time and a lot of people were frustrated with the courts and police. How do you feel about Sudden Impact, where a victim of a gang rape goes vigilante on her rapists and Dirty Harry turns a blind eye to it?

I do see some point that there is a great deal of fear mongering about "rising crime rates" when they are actually decreasing now.
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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Re: What's the big deal with Clint Eastwood?

Post by Wumbologist » Thu Sep 30, 2010 1:14 pm

Seraph wrote: His appeal to me is extremely low. The posturing of him as a ruggedly individualist and vigilante in the Dirty Harry series put me right off Eastwood. The very peak of his reprehensible message was at the end of one of those movies, where he took justice in his own hand by executing a defeated and unarmed bad guy by shooting him with what looked like a whale harpoon. Redeeming feature: His direction of the film Flags of Our Fathers.

I know what you're thinking: 'Did he fire six shots, or only five?' Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But, being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?

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Re: What's the big deal with Clint Eastwood?

Post by Hermit » Thu Sep 30, 2010 1:17 pm

Jörmungandr wrote:I know what you're thinking
If it makes you happy to think so...
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Re: What's the big deal with Clint Eastwood?

Post by Wumbologist » Thu Sep 30, 2010 1:21 pm

Seraph wrote:
Jörmungandr wrote:I know what you're thinking
If it makes you happy to think so...

And now you're thinking about Shetland ponies. Don't bother denying it, I'm pretty good at this. :smug:

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Re: What's the big deal with Clint Eastwood?

Post by Hermit » Thu Sep 30, 2010 1:24 pm

Jörmungandr wrote:
Seraph wrote:
Jörmungandr wrote:I know what you're thinking
If it makes you happy to think so...
And now you're thinking about Shetland ponies. Don't bother denying it, I'm pretty good at this. :smug:
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Re: What's the big deal with Clint Eastwood?

Post by klr » Thu Sep 30, 2010 1:48 pm

anna09 wrote:Seriously? :dono:

My husband and all of his friends have a man crush on this guy and I just don't see why. I mean, yea he looks tough and everything but the movies are really cheesy and predictable yet they can't get enough of them. I was just flipping through the channels when my husband yelled out, "SUDDEN IMPACT IS ON!! YEEESS!!" :? So I left the room and figured I'd give him a moment.

Is this just a guy thing? :think:
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Re: What's the big deal with Clint Eastwood?

Post by klr » Thu Sep 30, 2010 1:49 pm

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I watch all of the Sergio Leone films whenever I see them on TV. I also have the soundtrack to the good the bad and the ugly on my ipod.
Me too. :tup:

But not on an iPod. :coffee:
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Re: What's the big deal with Clint Eastwood?

Post by charlou » Thu Sep 30, 2010 1:53 pm

I like clint eastwood

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Re: What's the big deal with Clint Eastwood?

Post by Ronja » Thu Sep 30, 2010 6:20 pm

IMO, anyone who can play in a touching and/or believable way in both Rawhide, Dirty Harry, Honkytonk Man, and Bridges of Madison County, deserves at least some respect, stupid political opinions or not.
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Re: What's the big deal with Clint Eastwood?

Post by Robert_S » Thu Sep 30, 2010 7:39 pm

Ronja wrote:IMO, anyone who can play in a touching and/or believable way in both Rawhide, Dirty Harry, Honkytonk Man, and Bridges of Madison County, deserves at least some respect, stupid political opinions or not.
And he directed Bird.
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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Re: What's the big deal with Clint Eastwood?

Post by maiforpeace » Thu Sep 30, 2010 7:51 pm

Ronja wrote:IMO, anyone who can play in a touching and/or believable way in both Rawhide, Dirty Harry, Honkytonk Man, and Bridges of Madison County, deserves at least some respect, stupid political opinions or not.
Who wrote they didn't respect him for his work as an actor/director because of his 'stupid political opinions' ? :think:
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Re: What's the big deal with Clint Eastwood?

Post by MrFungus420 » Fri Oct 01, 2010 5:06 am

Does everybody know that Chuck Norris used to be a pansy...then he saw his first Clint Eastwood movie...
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Re: What's the big deal with Clint Eastwood?

Post by Trolldor » Fri Oct 01, 2010 5:57 am

But he was still a redneck, bible-bashing creationist.
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Re: What's the big deal with Clint Eastwood?

Post by Ronja » Fri Oct 01, 2010 6:13 am

Robert_S wrote:
Ronja wrote:IMO, anyone who can play in a touching and/or believable way in both Rawhide, Dirty Harry, Honkytonk Man, and Bridges of Madison County, deserves at least some respect, stupid political opinions or not.
And he directed Bird.
Which I *still* have not seen! :cry:
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