I used to look forward to the Christmas season when a new Clint Eastwood movie would be coming out. The Dirty Harry movies and the spaghetti westerns are a couple examples.

I didn't much care for:

True Crime
Bronco Billy
Bridges of Madison County, and their ilk.

Hard to pick a top 3.

The bad?

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Originally posted by slabsides45:

Anything with an orangutan costarring.

Do you mean Clyde or Sondra Locke?

Top 3 (hard to choose)
-- Unforgiven
-- Josey Wales
-- Kelly's Heroes

Don't like
-- Firefox
-- Any Which Way You Can (Locke is insufferable)
-- Bridges of Madison County (never saw, never want to see)

When did I. Ecame so old that I think of lint's movies as a director first?

Garden of good and evil is awesome.
Bird is great too.
Must say I 'm no fan of Flags or Letters nor the last one with the objector dude. Might be related to me being a foreigner.

The one with the orangutan was awful.

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Originally posted by NK402:
I have never thought the Unforgiven was deserving of all the plaudits.

I thought it deserved all it got. Excellent film, but I did not list it in my top 3 because I have seen it only several times (first release movie theater and several times on BluRay). It is just a depressing film for me to watch over again. Gran Torino, another outstanding film, same thing; a little bit of a downer film to watch time after time. May be the reason why I had no interest in seeing Million Dollar Baby, heard that was an extremely depressing Eastwood film.

My top 3, I must have viewed a couple of dozen times each. Had VHS, laserdisc, DVD, then BluRay. Hated to watch them on TV with commercials.

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Originally posted by 46and2:

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Originally posted by Prefontaine:
What is wrong with Firefox? Haters!

I know.

Uncultured heathens.

Maybe it's an age thing, I saw it when I was like 4 (?), thought it was the coolest thing ever. I think my parent let me stay up late to see it. My older brother and I still reference it sometimes "No, you have to think in Russian "

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Originally posted by 0-0:

The one with the orangutan was awful.

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I just remembered something. In one of those movies, the climax is a prolonged fistfight between Eastwood and the actor, William Smith. The fight goes on for what seems like 10 minutes or more. They fight in and out of a barn, over hay bales, water troughs, fences, and on and on. I had taken my youngest son, who was probaby eight at the time. He's chewing popcorn and thoroughly engrossed. Just before Eastwood emerges victorious, my son turns to me and says, "I was in one just like that!"

What? No "Play Misty for me" love... :P

While no fan of Bridges of Madison County, it made me appreciate and respect Eastwood to a much greater level.

I was teaching down there during filming and supervising the student-run TV station. Clint saw to it that my HS students had first access to him and the set, granted them closer access than the regular media and even had different production people come and speak to my classes. He treated those kids like they were the stars...

I like and watch the ones everyone likes, never heard of half the bad ones named, and haven't seen any of the bad ones.

Gran Torino
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Pale Rider

Million Dollar Baby is great, and rough... I simply don't care to watch such heavy things very often. This one, Babel, Hotel Rwanda, Leaving Las Vegas, House of Sand and Fog, Requiem for a Dream, etc... (just shoot me already)

I don't regret seeing any of them, I enjoyed them, once, or maybe once in a great while.

The Eiger Sanction
Tightrope

The rest are take it or leave it's.

In this order;
1. Where Eagles Dare
2. The Outlaw Josey Wales
3. The Eiger Sanction
4. Kelly's Heros
5. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
6. The Unforgiven

The ones I'll watch again and agin:

Unforgiven
Dirty Harry
White Hunter Black Heart

The ones I don't care for:

Any Which Way You Can
The Rookie
Bridges of Madison County

The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Outlaw Josey Wales
Dirty Harry
And many more....


The one with the monkey
Pink Cadillac
Bridges OMC.