Clint Eastwood Preference?

I watched The Mule on PPV the other night. Not a great movie but I couldn't turn it off. He reminded me so much of my Dad I was fighting back tears. His eyes, his movements. My wife had to leave the room. She was afraid he'd get shot and I'd get upset.

Maybe that is why I'm resisting to watch this movie.
 
Reading this thread, it strikes me that I've probably forgotten more of his movies than I've remembered. Not that they're bad, just an indication of how prolific he's been.
 
Someone above just reminded me of one of the best movie scenes ever filmed. The In The Line of Fire scene where Clint and the female lead are peeling the duty gear off each other (we think, the camera is pointed at their feet) and all that hardware is hitting the floor.
 
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Oh come ON now - this one will never be beat. Do ya feel lucky?

John

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"Kelly's Heroes" is a favorite, but not just because of Clint Eastwood. The cast was exceptional for the time (Don Rickles, Carroll O'Conner, Telly Savalas, Stuart Margolin, etc), and for a Donald Sutherland and others who went on to have superb careers.

"The Outlaw Josey Wales" is my favorite Eastwood western. It's also one of the few "give Sondra Locke a job" movies that I actually like.

My other Eastwood favorites include:

The Eiger Sanction
Where Eagles Dare
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Hang 'em High
Space Cowboys


The hate list includes:

Bronco Billy;
Any Which Way You Can;
Every Which Way but Loose;
(all of the above being classic "give Sandra Locke a job" movies)
and:
The Bridges of Madison County
 
“Got me The Josey Wales! Mistah Grease Blue Lightnin’ HISSElF! Now ease them pistols out, BUTT FIRST! And slowww; I mean slow as molasses in the wintertime...”
"Watch 'em Abe....I seen him do some things...."
 
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Too many good parts of JW.
My favorite line is when the squaw jumps the Chief, has him on his back, straddling him. Josie stops her. “Good thing You pulled her off of me. It might had to kill her,”
One of my favorite scenes is she the Chief is sneaking around following JW. Next thing he knows he has a revolver stuck in his ear. Chief just shakes his head.
 
I like most anything Eastwood does, except tripe like The Bridges of Madison County. But as far as westerns go, I cannot stand spaghetti westerns. Something about the sound really turns me off. The dubbed voices and ricochet sounds just get on my nerves almost immediately and I have to turn them off. Been that way since I was a kid too, I didn't like the assorted "sword & sandal" Italian movies either.
 
The younger generation have no clue to what the spaghetti westerns are, they think it’s an all you can eat pasta buffet with a bbq sauce kick.
 
In the spirit of the OP's question , as far as Image , Coogan's Bluff covers all the bases of Cowboy And Hard nosed Detective . But he has done excellent work in so many genres ( and acting, directing, and producing , in various combinations ) , that he can't be pigeonholed in any one genre .

FWIW - Josey Wales is well up on my short list of greatest Westerns of all time .

Further FWIW , one of the wife's relations who was retired USSS , gave high marks to Line of Fire .
 
I am not feeling the love here for one of the most iconic performances.

Come on folks.

I saw this movie when I was sixteen years old and shortly after bought the record album. I still own that album.

Number one for me and always will be:

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Sergio Leone was a Master at his craft.

Ennio Morricone produced the most outstanding and entertaining orchestrations of any movie I have ever seen.

There are tons of accolades and words published about the movie and the directing and, of course, the music.

And then there are the heroes of that spaghetti western that will never die:

Clint Eastwood
Elic Wallach
Lee Van Cleef

So many epic scenes.

And here is a video that I watch frequently as it is also an iconic performance paying tribute to that wonderful movie.

It still sets the mood for me.
That haunting solo by Christine Anderson and the oboe solo just brings the whole scenes of the movie back to me.

Enjoy,

bdGreen




The Danish National Symphony Orchestra and the Danish National Choir.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enuOArEfqGo[/ame]
 
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