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| quote: Originally posted by medic451: Not that Im complaining, but wasnt “The Mule” suppose to be his last on screen role? Happy to see thats not the case. Im a big fan of Dwight Yoakam as well, looking foward to this.
There were some that predicted that after Gran Torino as well, I'm also glad to see that wasn't the case.
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| Will have to see! He’s a legend. One of the last great actors. |
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| It’s been released on HBO. |
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| After The Mule I’m a little apprehensive about watching new Clint Eastwood movies. After reading this I think I’ll pass on the new one. |
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| Should have been titled "Cry Uncle". |
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| The story was not good. The acting and dialogue was terrible. Questionable directing as well. I think it was a film to keep him busy during the pandemic. Had a couple of good points. But overall felt like a B movie and I don’t mean a rating.
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| Cry Macho felt more like a parody of a contemporary Clint Eastwood movie to me. There's a lot of way familiar themes and motifs. The storytelling is light—at times I was wishing for something more meaty. The acting is serviceable. It ends up being an ice cream cone—it's all pleasant and then melts away in five minutes. What won me over is getting to watch a modern film made for grown-ups, for once. How refreshing! It wasn't a director, cinematographer, and editor all amped-up on Red Bull making choppy, talky, wobbly, orange-teal movies for yoots also amped-up on Red Bull. This is the kind of film you could show your parents and grandparents, and they would get it. I can overlook storytelling flaws for filmmaking of this level of maturity. And, I mean, Clint Eastwood, man. The dude is 91, but still mobile and active and sharp. Is that really the same guy who played the fighter pilot from Tarantula! and the lab tech from Revenge of the Creature back in '55?! Give it up for the guy! quote: Originally posted by Pyker: quote: Originally posted by Blume9mm: Didn't he make a 'traveling' movie like that before?
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| quote: Originally posted by parabellum:
Looking at that trailer, his latest film has some of the same themes as Gran Torino.
Very much so, including using non-actors. Yoakum was just awful, really painful to watch. As was the kid although he sort of grew on me. The first third of the movie will challenge your resolve to stay to the end, but if you can endure that, the rest of the movie gets better. A movie I won’t watch again, but…Clint
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