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So which is your favorite Clint Eastwood flick? Do you like the westerns, Dirty Harry, or other characters he portrayed?

I'll start with I like all his flicks. But I really like Unforgiven and Grand Torino the best.

What's your's?
 
Second on Grand Torino.

Though for westerns, my all time favorite is still Tombstone.
 
For a Few Dollars More was my favorite of the Spaghetti Westerns. (w/ Lee Van Cleef)
Magnum Force for the Dirty Harry series. "A man's got to know his limitations"
+1 on Gran Torino.
Also need to add for consideration... Blood Work
 
No particular order...

Pale Rider
Good, Bad, & the Ugly
Gran Torino
High Plains Drifter
 
I'm not a big fan of westerns (maybe if they had talking toasters or something*) so:
Play Misty for Me.

My family makes fun of me for liking really bad movies so I'll add The Eiger Sanction as a favorite.

*Which probably explains why I liked Cowboys and Aliens.

Nauga,
who watched "Reign of Fire" again last weekend o_O
 
Hard to pick a favorite Clint Eastwood movie. However, my LEAST favorite, and I mean if I never see it again it will be too soon, is Paint Your Wagon.

The dude must have lost a bet to agree to make that one.

BTW... Million Dollar Baby wasn't bad at all.
 
Yeah, Kellys Heroes! Great movie. And Dog's choice, Bridges of Madison County. He moved from being a bad ass to realistic parts, like in Forgiven, Madison County, and that boxing one.

And I love Paint Your Wagon. But then I'm a Lee Marvin fan, and he played two parts in that movie.
 
Soon we'll see "Two Mules for Sister Sara" on someone's list. eek!

Million Dollar Baby was good though...
 
All Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns....

And the rest of his movies, except "Every Which Way but Loose" and "Every Which Way You Can"..... even though those were Clints highest grossing movies.

Don't forget "Rawhide"...
 
Truly shocked I'm the only one to mention Pale Rider.

Would like to add to my list above:

Thunderbolt & Lightfoot
Escape from Alcatraz
 
Wait. Clint Eastwood, the director, also acts? :)
 
Anymouse said:
Hard to pick a favorite Clint Eastwood movie. However, my LEAST favorite, and I mean if I never see it again it will be too soon, is Paint Your Wagon.

The dude must have lost a bet to agree to make that one.

BTW... Million Dollar Baby wasn't bad at all.
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Paint Your Wagon was a bit out of his ordinary style, but I enjoyed it. Along with a bunch of other movies he was in. And I'm old enough to remember Rawhide, when it was first on TV. :)
 
The thing is Clint had no flexibility. He always had to play the winner.
 
He got rid of Sondra Locke in real life. Too soon?
 
Unforgiven
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Pale Rider/High Plains Drifter

I'll have to watch Million Dollar Baby again - I haven't seen it in such a long time I can't remember whether I liked it much or not.
 
jim.nelson said:
Where Eagles Dare
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I like "Where Eagles Dare"...both the book and the movie. It's amazing how close the movie's plot line is the book, but there are two things that really stand out.

First, Clint's character, in the book, is the comic relief. Since they got rid of most of Schaffer's humor, Clint actually doesn't have much to say.

Second, the body count is real high vs. the book. Way high. Only four people die in the book (the four traitors). Smith even goes back at one point and rescues one of the Germans trapped by fire.

The high body count is a key part in Mad Magazine's parody of the movie: "Where Vultures Fare." One of the characters even gets an assignment to count the bodies. Clint's character speaks mostly in grunts or two-word sentences. And the parody even goes off on the fact that the dialog is in English, but of course it's really "German," but Burton has a Welsh accent, Eastwood has an American accent, and all the Germans have German accents.

Ron Wanttaja
 
"Its a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away everything he's got and everything he's ever gonna have."

"Now remember, when things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is."

"Well, if you're waitin' for a woman to make up her mind, you may have a long wait."

"You're going to look pretty silly with that knife sticking out of your ass."

"Okay, you did two things wrong, one is you asked a question and two is you asked another question."
 
"I'm gonna paint yore wagon, I'm gonna paint it fine,

I'm gonna use an oil based paint because it's notty pine....."
 
mscard88 said:
So which is your favorite Clint Eastwood flick? Do you like the westerns, Dirty Harry, or other characters he portrayed?

I'll start with I like all his flicks. But I really like Unforgiven and Grand Torino the best.

What's your's?
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Actually, I really, intensely, disliked Gran Torino. Clint failed to save the girl. He failed. He was a failure. That is not my Clint.
 
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