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GRAN TORINO is Clint Eastwood as an Archie Bunker You Do Not F^{k With!!!
Hey folks, Harry here... GRAN TORINO was once thought to be a story about an elderly Dirty Harry, well... turned out that wasn't accurate. Instead, it's about a new character that Clint is playing. About a grizzled, angry, pissed off at the world, elderly man living alone in a house... his kids trying to get him to move to a home... foreigners moving next door... and well... He's all kinds of angry - and he's armed. In an odd way this reminds me of HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN, but it's CLINT EASTWOOD WITH A SHOTGUN! Holy fuck that's scary! Check out the trailer below!
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huh. I expected . . . something . . . more . . .
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I'm really looking forward to this. Much more than "Changling." Could be really interesting.
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The man doesn't mess around.
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I....may have to check this out.
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WTF? You sound like one of those dolts on IMDB who have no concept of what they just saw. Honestly, did your 14-year-old intern write that?
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... or does he sound just like Bale's Batman? I couldn't stop thinking about that for the entire trailer.
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I hope it doesn't cop out like "Falling Down" did. Clint's character will probably die at the end, but hopefully he'll take out the gang, and go out with a BANG and not a whimper.
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filming that flick out here in the beautiful Detroit area ... so the local press has been following the movie pretty closely. It sounds like it's got a lot of potential, and props to Client for getting the feel right by shooting a flick about a retired auto plant worker with a car fixation actually in Detroit (and get set for a bunch of other Detroit based movies soon, thanks to our governor rolling out some egregious tax incentives for studios to start shooting here)
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Oct 24, 2008 3:23:45 PM CDT
To Wong Foo, Thanks for everything, Harry Callahan
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Looks good. Clint is a legend.
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Will rent, but expect I will enjoy it.
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This looks great. Finally a movie I'm actually looking forward to. And no I'm not going to mention a giant squid in my post...oh shit I just did.
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this is the first trailer in a long time that has gotten me excited to see the film it's advertising.
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Man, Eastwood is fucking great.
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But if he is going to do a movie like this, why not just make one last Dirty Harry movie.
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I mean, the trailer gives away 75% of the movie it seems, but MAN seeing Eastwood pull off that little finger trick of his brought a massive rush of excitement. I'm pumped.
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it wasn't screened for critics was it?
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...i just saw it and it was it's usual awesome self. the first and last traps actually made me want to vomit for the first time in the franchise. it might've been the popcorn though.
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Clint does this sort of thing in his sleep, but it still looks cool. Sold.
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Oct 24, 2008 3:53:25 PM CDT
Why the fuck would you try to start a Saw talkback...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
in an Eastwood topic? Saw is SHIT! Eastwood is king! Long live the king!
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That's pretty impressive if this one turns out to be good.
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i'm there.
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wow...this looks intense. me thinks that this will provoke some reaction in our integrated communities.
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Oct 24, 2008 4:13:17 PM CDT
First God of War, now Gran Turismo?!
by helpful electronic lab partner robot
Damn you Sony!
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...in the 70's. Nice subtle name reference. Kind of like 'Lisa Kitara' on some tv show a few years back....lifted from that car commercial saying "Lease a Kitara"
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MotherFUCKER!
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you'll have to unbuckle your collar to shit!
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You know he dies in the end. He has to, that's how these types of movies play out. And I just don't know if that sits well with me.
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Honestly he can never fail. Never.
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That was fucking hardcore. I am by no means a Clint Eastwood fan but I feel like I have to go see this.
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Good to see 'ol Clint shooting in the Detroit area. And the tax incentives have opened up a lot of filming here lately. Val Kilmer was in Grand Rapids shooting a movie here recently. Prolly go direct-to-DVD tho. But hey..I remember the hubbub when Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and the rest were filming Blue Collar back in the late '70s.
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Ass.
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at 78! I wonder if Burt Reynolds looks at Clints career and thinks.."Only if...only if.."
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"Dispatch, we have an ass-kicking in progress." Part master director, part master actor, all legend.
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Whatever it is, they won't have a chance. Damn.
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Your right I'm afraid. He will die and that will suck. How come nobody that receives redemption gets to live to enjoy it?
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it's not to late! that voice-that act-perfect!
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I'll be checking this out on opening night. Looks like it could be one of his best films, and one of his best performances if done right.
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I wonder if Spike Lee is scared now...
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Hobo with an M1 Garande.
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so very few men left in hollywood
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so very few men left in hollywood
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It's not just for old timers.
Prayed for the cops . . . great line, so damn true. The cops are usually too buisy writing up Moms in minivans going 28 in a 25. Police work is the path of least resistance.
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Clint's still got it.
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a tip of the hat to Vanishing Point?
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Then I can die happy. Holy fuck, life is good.
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Oct 24, 2008 5:26:34 PM CDT
The scene with the two younger neighbors crying and the police c
by godmars
Walt Kowalski's death scene. That's just not cool, at all.
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Youre right buddy, speeding is great, nobody should get punished for breaking laws. Laws are stupid anyway, who needs em?!
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It's a shame Clint would never sign up for a film featuring an elderly Batman. He'd take one look at the costume and laugh. Although I'd imagine an elderly Batman might take one look at the costume and laugh too.
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and doesn't show a lot of blood and gore. You can still make a hard a$$ movie without turning into Resevoir Dogs.
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I still think he can play a retired Dirty Harry! But this may be as close as we ever get. As long as no studio ever tries to remake/reimagine Dirty Harry, well as long as Eastwood is still kicking anyhow. Now Clint make another western dammit! I mean please sir.
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front of the camera, he has become so comfortable behind the lens. Love the fact that he does his own scores also. A true renaissance man.
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I am so excited by that trailer, i think a bit of wee just came out, nuff said.
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A lot of Polish came to Detroit to work the auto factories. It's also the name of a sausage company. Any allegory there?
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A brand new "pissed off Eastwood" flick is akin to a gift from the movie Gods, no way I'd miss this one.
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I had no idea this movie was being made. This looks amazing. I am almost speechless actually. I never thought I would see another old school Clint movie come out. My God please let this man live to 120 years old!
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And as long as Clint blasts the punks before dying - it's all good.
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I'll go see this.
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sticks and stones will break my bones, but Clint Eastwoods words will fuckin kill you!
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with that steely glare, and kick him in the balls. With Newman and Heston passing this year, we NEED Clint to live a long and productive life. Please God make it so.
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Holy crap! This looks great! I was hoping Clint would grace us with one more outing as Dirty Harry but he gave us the logical next best thing! Can...not...wait....to see!
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I am pumped for this movie!
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that was fucking awesome. spike lee, you're next.
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Just imagine if Clint had agreed to play an old Batman in a movie version. Just listen to that voice!
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Yeah, it's so much better hearing Clint's voice come out of Clint versus Christian Bale...
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Wow. I intended to say something smartass, but I'm afraid.
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Add Glenn Close as a running mate, and you can't lose. Gran Torino is now on my "to-watch" list in December.
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"When seconds count, the police are only minutes away."
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Wouldn't mind seeing something similar with a old Harry getting dirty, but this looks fine. Anyway, if it was Dirty Harry those gang members would've been killed in the first 45 minutes of the movie.
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Is this movie about John McCain?
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I can't think of any artist in motion pictures that has done so much to rip down and rebuild the archetypes he has helped create and embody as more complex characters. All this in the twilight of his career. Damn it, why didn't start directing sooner!
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Jesus Eastwood directed two movies released in 2006 now 2 in 2008. What a badass
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Clint's directorial debut, "Play Misty For Me" was released in 1971. But I understand where you are coming from.
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Thank Ya Clint!
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How can one man be quite so cool and tough over 4 decades. Just for arguments sake, how many other people in the movies can boast such an impressive body of work over the years? Sure, he's had his flops, but its hard to think of someone who's had quite so many iconic roles and also furthered their career as a director at a level that Eastwood has.
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Fuckin' A!
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Iran would declare an unconditional surrender. Just incase.
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If Rambo, Rocky, Indiana Jones and John McClane can all come back for 1 last hurrah, why not an older Dirty Harry? In fact, just watching the trailer it LOOKS like a story about a retired Harry Callahan.
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if they make a movie of it.... ahh to dream :)
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I need some old dirty harry
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My ass is in the theater opening weekend.
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You know he was only with that chick that was never in anything he wasn't attched to because she let him butt sekz her
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I'm sold.
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Someone was a kept boy
A House sitter.
wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
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Holy fucking shit that looks incredible! Is it me or is Clint Eastwood the best film maker in Hollywood right now? He hasn't made a bad movie in a very long time! We are very fortunate to see this artist in this phase of his career.
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This looks great.. I will be seeing this when it opens..
I have a good Clint story..
When Kellys Hero's came out it premiered at The Parkway theater in Las Vegas..I knew a couple of the girls who worked there and they let me and a couple of buddies into the showing for free.
We wanted to see who would show up for the film and I was surprised but the theater was only about half full..We waited in the front row and in walks Clint, Don Rickles, Donald Sutherland , and Telly Savales..
Now here we are about 17 years old and waiting for Rickles to start to rip into the audience but he and Eastwood said a few words about the film and then he and Don Rickles start to walk back to the seats in the rear of the theater. Don Rickles and Clint come over to us and stop and tell us that we shouldn't sit so close to the screen as it will hurt our eyes and that moving back a little will give us a better film experience.
Now here's two guys that cared that we got to see this film and enjoy it more by not sitting so close to the screen..I will always remember that. I saw every Eastwood film thereafter and really bacame a film geek around that time..This guy is a class act all the way around..
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i cry your pardon, gunslinger. i have forgotten the face of my father.
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Oct 24, 2008 11:25:28 PM CDT
Beware the the power of horse voice and fingergun
by dracula_wants_the_amulet
Clint doesn't smoke. What's up with that voice. Sounds acted. Film looks like it's fun. the Thugs look weak as fuck though. We all know how these films end. The disgrunted forced to be a hero guy dies near the end and saves the person/ family in trouble and the community finally stands up for itself and fights the bad guys. Oh yeah and one of the bad dudes goes good. Still it's Eastwood, so my tickets already bought!!!!
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It's kind of like one of those 80's Death Wish type films, but obviously much more sophisticated and poignant than that. This guy is meaner than Dirty Harry and Paul Kersey put together.
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Oct 24, 2008 11:30:05 PM CDT
Get Off My Lawn You Little Bastards or I'll Fingergun your Ass!
by dracula_wants_the_amulet
Fingergun it's the new "Nuke The Fridge" Cacth phrase.
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"Cockloads of Shit"- Danny Glovers Dickblood's greatest qoute, ever!
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It's not to late! Set it in motion at Warner Home Video and penny up for Clint as old Bruce.
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I'll be there opening night. This looks freaking great. The Changeling interests me NOT ONE BIT. THIS does interest me. Awesome.
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In the early Oh oh's he was still in the midts of the gunslinger series.
And it seemed he had hit a dry patch.
(back then it was still supposed to be 8 - 10 books long)
So I thought it was safe to say *I won't die until the gunslinger seris is finished*
So what does he do? He releases 3 books in like 18 months.
And the ending sucks!
I ain't dying for this.
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Exactly as it's portraited on the trailer!
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Mayhap. But after seeing Clint in this trailer, I can't think of anyone I'd accept strapping on the heavy sandlewood guns and taking us through Mid-World. It's Ka.
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Looks just like Miller's old Batman when he fought Supes. And he's still got some muscle mass. Eastwood's aging like Newman; his whole face just keeps getting tighter. And now with those emerging liver spots and reddening of his cataracts he looks even scarier with a shotgun. However my enthusiasm would've went through the roof (for let's be honest, what looks like a small underwhelming film) if Hobo Eastwood woulda burned those gifts the Chinese neighbors left on his door for helping. I hope this guy is just as angry, even after his cliched redemption scene, and before he almost certainly dies. I want this movie to have balls. I want Hobo Eastwood to mumble some racial slur with his final breath. If he cries in this movie I will burn the theatre I see it in DOWN.
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the 3mins or so of this trailer is already one of the 5 best movies out this year. Fuck the police!
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Clint... Fucking... Eastwood
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No, Batman sound like Clint Eastwood. It's the other way around.
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Some parts had me laughing out loud unintentionally and others had me compelled. hmmmmm
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Asian gangstas, really? So 1990's. Asians are our friends, they can be trusted completely. Please don't perpetuate.
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But that looks pretty damn intriguing. Might have to see this movie. But not if it is PG-13. Nope.
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And it's not some old guy that helps a young kid become a man, I heard him talking about this the other day and that's what he made it sound like...but HOLY SHIT...this doesn't look like that at all. This looks like BADASS Clint..the Clint I adore...the Clint that we really haven't seen since Unforgiven (and that's movie to me is fucking legendary), the sneering steel eyed, growling voice Clint Eastwood who shows us how to stand up and kill some folks.
This looks incredible...and I hope to God he pulls out a gun and starts BLASTING people at some point...
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Oct 25, 2008 1:44:58 AM CDT
"Hate to admit it?" Fuck you cocksucker
by guy who got a headache and accidentally
Was there some point where we were all supposed to be embarassed by Clint Motherfucking Eastwood or something?
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Clint as old Bruce Wayne would be awesome.
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Except in this one he apparently never quit drinking.
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And Mario Van Peebles lives next door.
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no one is Roland if not Clint.>p>
Every step of the way, that;' the face i saw
But hey he's old and a liver spot now.
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that didn't suk
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Film looks good, but the shot at 38 seconds as Clint's kids are trying to sell him on the idea of moving into a retirement home is frickin' hilarious. I've just watched it about twenty times.
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This man has made Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, Flags of our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima, Changeling, Gran Torino. Now I haven't yet seen the last two yet, but they look pretty f'ing good. The guy just oozes quality. Most directors DREAM of having that many amazing films in their entire career. Clint, you are a legend. Keep em comin.
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Oct 25, 2008 2:37:24 AM CDT
This is one of the few topics i've seen...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
where everyone is positive! Great stuff.
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doing Death Wish without the butt rape
/channeling the old perv from family guy
mmmmm, I likes me some butt rape, mmmmm
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I bet it all ends in tears though.
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No, actually it looks awesome. I love Clint.
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is he catching up to Scorsese as our countries greatest living director? Unforgiven, Outlaw Josey Wales, Million dollar baby, Mystic River,Heartbreak Ridge( i think is very underrated)Bird ,High Plains Drifter,Pale Rider, Bronco Billy,The Eiger Sanction ( another movie i think gets shafted ). He has made a shit ton of great films and a hell of a lot of really good ones. i think Clint might have Marty trumped due to sheer volume of work..... arguably at least !
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Clint can make about 3 films in an afternoon!,and quality ones at that.
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To think Spike Lee was mad about Clint's "racist" FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS. He'll pop a gasket over this one.
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Clint was too cool as Rowdy Yates in Rawhide, 1959.
In the '60s, he was the Man with No Name.
The '70s gave us Dirty Harry.
Let's not forget the great director and actor of the 80's, 90's and the current decade, and that totals Six decades as a bad ass!
Next year will mark the 50th Anniversary of Rawhide.
Then again, it's already been 53 years since his film debut.
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And who was pissing and moaning about Asian gangsters??? The world of the OG is an equal opportunity paradigm.
Point is, Eastwood's an old dude who fought in an east Asian war - Vietnam, Korea, the Boxer Rebellion, whatever. If this movie was set in the year 2050, the neighbors and the gangsters would be Iraqis. Same diff. -
Oct 25, 2008 5:26:36 AM CDT
At the end he's court ordered to go to a rest home
by dracula_wants_the_amulet
And the first person he meets there is Harrison Ford. They spend the next half hour giving each other steely eye glances. Clint does that fingerbang shit. Indy reaches for his gun but it aint there, he grins. Credits roll!
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theres the risk that it could potentially be interpreted as racist-though Clint's too smart for that so Im sure the film is fine in context. I mean he comes off normal Clint Bad-ass here, but I'll bet theres more darkness and moral ambiguity to him than meets the eye. Has the potential to be a damn interesting flick anyway-count me in!
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Sorry, but the sight of Clint back in bad-ass form just destroys my grasp of language. I almost wish this WAS Dirty Harry, but who cares...I cannot WAIT for this...Clint could still kick the ass of every douche in this talkback. Except for me.
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Crushes the gang in their Civic with his Gran Torino.
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An old, bitter, angry Clint kicking ass and taking names.
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his neighbor's is the scary one. Seriously Harry, liberal douche bags like you never cease to crack me up with how naive and easily seduced by evil you are.
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Oct 25, 2008 9:40:43 AM CDT
Another Everywhich Way But Loose Sequel, Please!
by alice cooper stalker
Let's see further adventures with Clyde!
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Eastwood's conservative too - supports McCain in this election and everything. What kicks ass about him is that he's one of the few filmmakers/actors that will defy his conservative beliefs in service of a story.The ending of Million Dollar Baby is a perfect example of this (SPOILER). He caught a LOT of shit from conservative talking heads who think euthanasia is wrong, and his response was essentially "I may not believe in it, but I'm not going to change a perfectly good ending just because it makes me personally uncomfortable."My point is this: personal politics don't apply in a film like this, because I guarantee that Clint Eastwood doesn't give half a shit about them when it comes to movies. He tells stories, period.
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2nd half stank. from the moment swanks on screen family were introduced. It was they were written. Maggie became a paraplygeic. Her family were portrayed as unsympathetic. that left a really sour taste in my mouth. then there was the scene right at the very end where there are no other hospital employees around. so clint gets in unplugs maggies life support machine and walks out. odd.
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That's how you play a man, Ms. Foster.
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it might jsut be me...but this seems almost exaclty how id picture clint eastwood in a normal day of bad-assery
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he made this film just to show that he was still the number one badass...that even someone in his age bracket can still be fuckin hardcore. and it appearently is working very effectively.
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Instead of "The Mummy McCain" I'd vote Republican for the first time EVER! He stands firm on his convictions and is firm in his beliefs but it is a real no-nonsense approach (unlike McCain's all over the place rhetoric.) Eastwood is Presidential it hurts! He could have been the next Reagan. That trailer looked so great it gave me chills! Man, I love Clint Eastwood.
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get plaudits from Richard Burton. Burton was asked what it was like to work with Clint. Burton was dismissive at first, but realised clints greatness when he saw what he did with the small amount of lines that were given to him. Burton said that unlike other Hollywood stars he found CLint Eastwood to be really gracious. As did william goldman. Clint doesnt audition actors. He simply pulls out a list of actors from his desk from his non descript office. and his casting agents ring the actors on the list. and that is it.
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i'll be watching that.
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If it was Dirty Harry I would have Geekasmed.
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If you can't embrace this, your a racist
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but i would give this film a very limited release in Ireland. two weeks ago. our feeble, soon to be booted out on thier asses govt. Pissed off the over seventies as well as the rest of irish society by trying to take away the medical cards for the over seventies. They got angry took over a church. and heckled politicians. Later on in the week they had a demo on the dail and 15,000 turned up. So the last thing the irish need is a bunch of gun toting pissed on pensioners. What happened in Jennifer Hudsons family. Guns and rage and things will end up badly.
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So if this was an elderly Dirty Harry movie, they wouldn't have been able to use that subplot.
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Oct 25, 2008 1:35:11 PM CDT
Guy Who Got A Headache And Accidentally Saves The World
by nuking the fridge
Hey Prick....go save your own ASS and go Fuck yourself.
I am just NOT into PG-13 flicks with the Clint. I like his hard and unrelenting "Unforgiven" tone movies. Hopefully this new flick is the "real" deal. -
Oct 25, 2008 1:48:36 PM CDT
Clint does seam to get drastically more menacing as he ages.
by kingoflight
I want to know how christan bale throat felt after his lines in bat man when they could have just asked clint to do a VO lol.
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Actually, I think Aaron Eckhart's voice after becoming Two-Face sounds the most like Clint Eastwood's, especially in the first hospital scene and especially since you see lots of teeth, but the mouth itself barely moves, though in this case I'd imagine that's mostly because it can't move much. Anyhow, just saying, if you want to look for Eastwood's voice coming from a different actor in the new Batman film, I think it's hands-down from Two-Face, particularly when Gordon says he's sorry and Two-Face grunts, "No! No you're not. Not yet..."
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Million dollar baby which swpept the guild awards. Clint had one eye on micheal moore. and in his acceptance speech Eastwood said if any liberal filmmaker came up to him with a camera, he said he would "shoot them dead at point blank range". Eastwoods publicist then said that his client was joking. Eastwood heard that and said that he wasnt joing. the people that were their said eastwood looked very serious.
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. . . and it could take my arm clean off if I pull the trigger. Shit, I wanna be that cool when I'm 78.
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cant help but notice that its late saturday and (ahem)...no script girl report.And in excitement I checked youtube and she does a report up thats not here....so, I dont want to jinx us, and I should bite my tongue, dare I speak too soon, but.....victory?
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Oct 25, 2008 2:27:46 PM CDT
Clint Needs to get this movie out before Inaugeration Day
by catlettuce4
because when Obama takes office a film like this is going to be labeled "hate speech". That'll teach Eastwood to endorse McCain.
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did he endorse mcCain anyone know?
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The scenes between Clint, Dennis Leary and James Woods are gold.
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I'm not sure, but I doubt it. I remember him making a web video attacking the Bush Administration a while back ago. That same day I remember they were playing the video on Fox and they making fun of him and calling him a socialist, lol.
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However, toward the end of his life he began to espose nuclear power as a way to end our dependence on fossil fuel and curb global warming.
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It's time I pretty much accepted the fact that I am gay for Clint. That looks like one hell of a movie. He should give blood transfusions to half the directors in Hollywood.
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In answer to the question. He says it in the interview in the latest EW.
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I'm still voting Obama, though.
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The next big line of Clint's.
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about a year or so ago.
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Love those rare stories where the character you wouldn't necessarily agree with, to say it diplomatically, is put in the hero's position and you find that have to root for him, whether you want to or not. This looks like one of those stories, and a damn good one. Clint Eastwood truly is one of the last diamonds of the real Hollywood.
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Oct 25, 2008 3:56:20 PM CDT
Oh, but I forgot... the real question is: how will washed-up hac
by jackpumpkinhead
What will he find to bitch about in this one of Eastwood's? "The Gran Torino car wasn't black enough!"...? Will he shoot his own movie "The '72 Plymouth", which will then tank and score 30% at Rotten Tomatoes? Questions, questions...
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Seriously, that guy's the BEST! Great trailer! :)
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Clint voting McCain is just par for the course. Remember, he voted Perot, too.
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Just because a movie has ethnically diverse actors doing bad things that doesn't make it racist. And claiming you are trying to point out how overly sensitive others are just shows off what a pissed of small minded white boy YOU are. (ESPECIALLY when no one to this point has posted a talkback even remotely suggesting the film is biased). There are Asian gangs in this world. Some Black guys in Detroit are bad people. Old White dudes are sometimes prejudiced. Just becoz some assholes cry racism doesn't mean you have to justify them by even responding. Do urselves a favor and only speak of Spike Lee when he makes a good movie. You would be amazed how much time it saves.
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hey, did Paul Haggis write this?
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made it a retired Dirty Harry movie
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Clint in Millers Dark knight returns has been a dream of minr for over a decade.
I could die a very happy geek if I could hear Clint say "I´m Batman".
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that story was picked up before this site ran into to the toilet. I think If i am not mistaken it surfaced around the time that eastwood went to Cannes film festival. Eastwood shot the story down. saying no more dirty harrys. They were planning to remake them. I can imagine the response. "over my dead body." that is that. move on. Clint did say something about a series of videogames. You cant make them without him.
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That is one of Parkers best films. really great stuff. Depends on your point of you I guess. Singelton got really angry about it and said the movie was racist.
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im so damn sick of that kid.
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This movie looks fuckin' HARDCORE. The whiny diaper-needs-to-be-changed snotnosed children on the IMDb are mocking this film and it's star (CLINT EASTWOOD) 'cause he's too old. Fuck 'em. As far as I'm concerned Clint is God, albeit with a bigger dick.
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I can't kick.
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I think their discourses on each other are pretty entertaining. I wonder what Spike thinks of the first scene of Clint's new movie is him bullying 3 young black guys.
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I think their discourses on each other are pretty entertaining. I wonder what Spike thinks of the first scene of Clint's new movie is him bullying 3 young black guys.
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. . .these recent films of Clint's (Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, Letters from Iwo Jima, now this) seem to have a great formal symmetry to them. You know this won't just be another revenge/action type deal. . . it will have character development, story arcs, a fulfilling climax, the whole deal. He really has become quite a storyteller. In interviews and such, he makes his views, ideas, and politics sound awfully one note, but his films are always a LOT more complicated. . . Unforgiven is practically postmodern in its reassessment of the American western. My prediction is that this and Changeling will both be A pictures.
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Yeah, because all Asian people are foreigners? WTF Harry, do you call your wife a foreigner too? Those slant eyed kids in the trailer didn't "speakie Engrish with any chinky-assed accent," did they? I'm not sure if I care to watch another "white man saves a bunch of minority 'foreigners,'" but it seems like at least there are some three dimensional Asian characters in this movie. So I'm giving this film the benefit of the doubt.
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Seriously, it makes my dick limp knowing that a handful with you would rather bitch about Harry referring to Walt's gun as being a shotgun, or the Asian people next door being citizens. Instead of recognizing a joke (which wasn't hard to do in this case), and watching an amazing trailer a select few of you would rather tackle the insignificant in order to impress your internet pals. Love the trailer, will be there opening night. Thanks for posting this Harry.
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Seriously, the coolest motherfucker on the goddamn planet.
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Clint Eastwood cannot do wrong. Batman please.
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typing in a Clint Eastwood talkback every if you know what I mean.
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I believe his debut was Dirty Harry, no not the whole movie. During the suicide jumper scene the director took ill, and Clint too over. I think this happened before Misty, but I could be wrong. Too tired to hit IMDB at the moment.
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Eastwood did fill in direct those scenes in "Dirty Harry," but that wasn't his first directorial effort. "Play Misty for Me" came out a few months earlier and, in fact, there's a scene in "Dirty Harry" where he walks past a theater showing "Misty."
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I don't really have a desire to see this...and I don't know why. Maybe it is because it looks like an Urban "Unforgiven" , but you know, with Joss Whedon as a priest instead of Morgan Freeman and a bunch of Korean kids instead of whores...Or maybe it's just that frontier justice isn't as appealing in the Britney Spears/NASCAR/Dubyah USA we live in now...
Dunno.
Maybe Clint is just f**king old. -
Old Clint Eastwood is a deadringer for my dad!
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I'm surprised by how many talkbackers seem to think the movie about him being racist and how that's okay. If you've seen a movie before, or if you've read one sentence about this movie's plot, you know that in addition to being the asskicking Eastwood movie the world demands, it is a story about him learning tolerance through his relationship with his immigrant neighbor. Duh.
This is also pretty standard Eastwood characterization, for example take a look at THE ENFORCER, where he's very chauvinistic but Tyne Daley earns his respect. -
It's a fact.
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I agree with you that the movie obviously deals with Clint overcoming his racism by befriending his Asian neighbors. However, since this is a Clint Eastwood movie, I bet you it doesn't end with the typical Hollywood action movie ending. Look at his current track record - Clint's movies have progressively gotten darker and more complex over the years.
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Duh, how can this be a racist movie if Clint defends, befriends, and it looks like maybe even mentors one of the Asians. Anyone watching the whole traile, and think this is racist has their head stuck in their third point of contact.
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Thanks for the education.
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When are they going to make a movie with Clint and Sam Jackson kicking ass together? They should have made Sam Jackson his son-in-law in this movie and then have to the two of them kick the asian gang's ass while trading angry one-liners and staring down punks. That would kick ass!
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since I wanted to see a movie on opening night with a packed house.
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The older he gets, the cooler he gets.
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Ah that's one thing about our Harry, doesn't play any favorites! Harry hates everybody: Limeys, Micks, Hebes, Fat Dagos, Niggers, Honkies, Chinks, you name it.
Gonzales: How does he feel about Mexicans?
De Georgio: Ask him.
Harry Callahan: Especially Spics.
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