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AJC to Eastwood: Go ahead, make a disclaimer

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by HanSenSE, Dec 10, 2019.

  1. sgreenwell

    sgreenwell Well-Known Member

    Could have went with "Dick Jewell," but that would have suggested a different kind of movie. Still though, it would have been a hell of a double feature with "Uncut Gems."
     
  2. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    I also wonder if the average movie-goer A) Doesn't know who Jewell was and B) Feels bad because when the reports first aired, they too thought - "yep, he did it" and don't want to accept their own culpability or go through those feelings again and pay $10 to do so.
     
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  3. sgreenwell

    sgreenwell Well-Known Member

    Speaking for myself here, but the only movies I see in a theater now are Star Wars, Avengers-level affairs that seem like they'd be fun with an audience. Richard Jewell would be something I'd wait for streaming or Redbox on (except that I don't really have much interest at all if they're fabricating that a reporter slept with a source).
     
  4. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    "Sullied"
     
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  5. Pilot

    Pilot Well-Known Member

    Letters from Iwo Jima is probably a top 30 movie for me. Wish Eastwood was making stuff like that. I never saw its sister movie Flags of our Fathers after I was put off by that author’s other work, namely Flyboys.
     
  6. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    I remember thinking Unforgiven was his "victory lap" a final triumph to cap off a tremendous career. Since then: A Perfect World, Space Cowboys, Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, Flags of Our Father, Letter from Iwo Jima, Invictus, Gran Torino, American Sniper, Sully, In the Line of Fire, among others. I'd argue he's had a better career since Unforgiven than before.
     
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  7. sgreenwell

    sgreenwell Well-Known Member

    Eastwood and Affleck are probably the two leading contenders for "directing career surprisingly might surpass acting career."
     
  8. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    Affleck for sure. Eastwood is yet to be determined.
     
  9. hondo

    hondo Well-Known Member

    Absence of Malice was fiction but they turned Sally Field into the slut of all time for immediately jumping into the sack with a mob-connected guy who was under and investigation, albeit it a bit bogus. There also was the implication early in the movie that she had been banging the FBI agent. Then her co-worker at the newspaper (the blonde) was filmed getting info on the phone from a cop on a shark bite incident, and ended the conversation, "can't do dinner, maybe lunch."
    That movie was an incredible disservice to female reporters. Sally Field, who played sympathetic feminist characters in the past such as Norma Rae, should have been ashamed of herself.
     
    Last edited: Dec 17, 2019
  10. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    And lets not forget All The Presidents Men when Sally Aiken gets the CREEP list.
     
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  11. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    Norma Rae.

    Norma Jean was blonde --- and did hop from bed to bed. o_O
     
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  12. hondo

    hondo Well-Known Member

    Fixed.
     
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