Gran Torino

[Fenian_Bastard]

The best compliment I can give Unforgiven is that it is just millimeters from being as good as McCabe and Mrs. Miller, and it's the only "modern" western I've ever seen that's even in the conversation.

 

[Tommy_Dreamer]

No ****, Colombo.

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/64338/

HEY, CUT BACK ON THE ****ING CAFFEINE!!!

EDIT: Hmmm, silence.

Not enough exclamation points?

Perhaps if he had mentioned the movie title in the thread instead of a quote from a movie that sounds like something Mr. Wilson would say to Dennis the Menace, then perhaps you wouldn't have started another thread on it.

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

No ****, Colombo.

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/64338/

HEY, CUT BACK ON THE ****ING CAFFEINE!!!

EDIT: Hmmm, silence.

Not enough exclamation points?

Perhaps if he had mentioned the movie title in the thread instead of a quote from a movie that sounds like something Mr. Wilson would say to Dennis the Menace, then perhaps you wouldn't have started another thread on it.

That was my thought.

 

[Tommy_Dreamer]

No ****, Colombo.

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/64338/

HEY, CUT BACK ON THE ****ING CAFFEINE!!!

EDIT: Hmmm, silence.

Not enough exclamation points?

Perhaps if he had mentioned the movie title in the thread instead of a quote from a movie that sounds like something Mr. Wilson would say to Dennis the Menace, then perhaps you wouldn't have started another thread on it.

That was my thought.

This is the reason for so many damn d_b's on this board. Not everyone opens up every new thread started. If I do a d_b it's because I've went back two pages and didn't see it. But I digress.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Thought Million Dollar Baby was splendidly put together . . . had virtually no faults . . . and was a dead-nuts, deserving Best Picture winner in the year in question.

Otherwise . . . I have zero use for Stallone, and scant use for Eastwood, so will
withdraw from this particular thread . . . as life's too short.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Stallone doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as Eastwood.

 

[Beaker]

No love for Unforgiven, Ben?

 

[Killick]

It's certainly not cinematic gold, but for as many movies that Clint's made that are, one of my favorites is still "Heartbreak Ridge" -- I'm a sucker for Marine flicks, especially this one with the plethora of one-liners that spill from the mouth of Eastwood's Gunny Sgt. Thomas Highway.

... and "Million Dollar Baby" was about as close to perfect as I've seen on the big screen.

That is all.

 

[Tommy_Dreamer]

It's certainly not cinematic gold, but for as many movies that Clint's made that are, one of my favorites is still "Heartbreak Ridge" -- I'm a sucker for Marine flicks, especially this one with the plethora of one-liners that spill from the mouth of Eastwood's Gunny Sgt. Thomas Highway.

... and "Million Dollar Baby" was about as close to perfect as I've seen on the big screen.

That is all.

Heartbreak Ridge is great. Gunny Highway's one liner at the beginning to the cop is great:

Cop (after Gunny got out of court for pissing on his squad car): You're going to pay full price, rummy! I don't give any serviceman's discount!

Clint: Too bad your old lady does!

 

[Beaker]

Stallone doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as Eastwood.

No doubt.

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

It's certainly not cinematic gold, but for as many movies that Clint's made that are, one of my favorites is still "Heartbreak Ridge" -- I'm a sucker for Marine flicks, especially this one with the plethora of one-liners that spill from the mouth of Eastwood's Gunny Sgt. Thomas Highway.

... and "Million Dollar Baby" was about as close to perfect as I've seen on the big screen.

That is all.

Million Dollar Baby... a shell of a film compared with Mystic River

 

[Beaker]

It's certainly not cinematic gold, but for as many movies that Clint's made that are, one of my favorites is still "Heartbreak Ridge" -- I'm a sucker for Marine flicks, especially this one with the plethora of one-liners that spill from the mouth of Eastwood's Gunny Sgt. Thomas Highway.

... and "Million Dollar Baby" was about as close to perfect as I've seen on the big screen.

That is all.

Million Dollar Baby... a shell of a film compared with Mystic River

Agreed Simon...I understand that MDB was a good film, but I don't get all the love for it.

 

[HejiraHenry]

Ever see Copland?

I give Stallone some credit for that.

So it's that and the first Rocky and First Blood.

And the one where he's an explosives expert and bangs Sharon Stone. What the hell.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I loved Cobra. But that was probably about 25 years ago. Stallone is essentially a two-hit wonder that he was able to milk more than any franchise can be milked, and I liked the last Rambo and Rocky movies (low expectations helped tremendously).

 

[BYH]

Eastwood is having the decade of his life in his ****ing SEVENTIES. The guy can just do no wrong. Has anyone ever made Oscar-caliber flick after Oscar-caliber flick this deep in his career?

And Unforgiven was the feel-good movie of all-time compared to Million Dollar Baby.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Eastwood is having the decade of his life in his ****ing SEVENTIES. The guy can just do no wrong. Has anyone ever made Oscar-caliber flick after Oscar-caliber flick this deep in his career?

And Unforgiven was the feel-good movie of all-time compared to Million Dollar Baby.

Heath Ledger did pretty well deep in his career.

 

[BYH]

That's not the guy from The Client, is it?

 

[Beaker]

God you guys are awful.

 

[bigpern23]

He is a colossal badass in Gran Torino.

I'm with you on that point, mg, except to perhaps add:

He is a colossal badass in damn near everything he's ever done.

And Pallister, you definitely need to see Unforgiven. Not exactly the bright, cheery holiday flick, but a damn good movie.

I remember seeing Unforgiven and thinking that Eastwood was living up to his image as this era's John Wayne, going out as the aging gunslinger the way Wayne did in "The Shootist." That was 16 years ago.

 

[digger]

He is a colossal badass in Gran Torino.

I'm with you on that point, mg, except to perhaps add:

He is a colossal badass in damn near everything he's ever done.

And Pallister, you definitely need to see Unforgiven. Not exactly the bright, cheery holiday flick, but a damn good movie.

I remember seeing Unforgiven and thinking that Eastwood was living up to his image as this era's John Wayne, going out as the aging gunslinger the way Wayne did in "The Shootist." That was 16 years ago.

I'll watch Unforgiven, The Outlaw Josey Wales and almost any John Wayne movie any time they're on tv. Silverado, also. Unforgiven is definitely the best out of those, though. The Shootist was recently on on of the movie channels, I watched it 3, 4 times.