Clint Eastwood

A lot of his movies are now being released on blu ray, and in particular the older westerns.

The Dollars trilogy is on my list, I just watched Pale Rider which is a great transfer...and to be honest most of EastwooRAB movies are great transfers for blu ray. The Dirty Harry movies particularly look and sound spectacular.

Nice that EastwooRAB legacy is being done justice on his 80th birthday.
 
Not a fan of his either in the acting sense nor the directing. But Happy Birthday anyway!
 
I grew up lookng at Clint Eastwood films.
First saw him on tv in Rawhide as Rowdy Yates.
A movie star in every sense of the word, have a great birthday
 
Happy birthday Clint. Unforgiven was the best film of the 1990s! I loved Mystic River as well - and Gran Torino was great! Keep making great films!
 
I heartily second this recommendation. Although the film belongs to Costner, Clint (director) has a great role as a lawman.

Happy birthday Clint. My grandfather got me into your films and we spent many happy years watching them together which only stopped when he became blind.
 
Just while we're here, I watched The Good, The Bad and The Ugly the other night and was massively disappointed.

A Fist Full of Dollars and A Few Dollars More are some of my favourite films ever, whereas the above strayed far too much into comedic territory for my liking. I really didn't like the Civic War setting either.

Anyway, happy belated birthday Clint
 
Clint Eastwood-I used to very much enjoy his movies but now he has `jumped on the bandwagon` of the current productions where bad language is the norm`-I cannot abide watching them.
He,at 80, has the clout and supposed wisdom to refuse parts that involve him using expletives-but he just goes ahead and makes them-shame, such a potentially great actor will possibly be remembered by many in this way only.
Call me `old fashioned`(I don`t mind at all) but this type of `trench speak` has the reverse effect on me-it is not at all clever and it is used in many cases just to `pad out` a poor movie plot.
Some of the films now made, if you took out all the bad language, near pornographic sex scenes and the wanton violence you would only have titles-back to back!
I like suspense films -the likes of `the master`-Alfred Hitchcock did not need any such treatment-even the `shower scene` in psycho was delicately handled and the knife was never actually shown penetrating flesh.
Now someone`s going to say,"wot about the axe scene on the stairs?"
Well again, a lot was left to the imagination-that is a far more powerful tool!
The `stars` of today are,in the main, a bunch of talentless twits-I wouldn`t give you tuppence for the whole lot of them!
They pat each other on the back at that now worthless Academy AwarRAB presentation- I`ve seen better on `you`ve been framed!!`
No,I`m sorry-I wish Eastwood had `fallen off his perch` after he made the dirty Harry films!
 
Thats interesting. I didn't know that. I did The Unforgiven for a media studies project at college. Really confused my tutor as I kept including quotes from Clint's other films which of course were totally irrelevant to the project at hand.

Its great to get the opportunity to take a film apart like that to reveal the masterpiece that you wouldn't necessarily see watching it once or even a few times.

Its a great modern classic.
 
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