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Clint Eastwood Growls And Scouts Talent In New Trailer For TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE!
Beaks here...
For the first time since 1993's IN THE LINE OF FIRE, Clint Eastwood is allowing himself to be directed. Granted, he's working with his longtime producer/assistant director Robert Lorenz, but it's still a welcome change of pace. Eastwood's last two movies (HEREAFTER and J. EDGAR) were drab, dimly lit disasters - easily two of the worst films of his career. While I'm all for the legend continuing to direct, it'd be nice if the movies weren't chores to sit through.
TROUBLE WITH THE GAME doesn't look like a chore at all. It looks like fun. Also, what with the "You don't know the game at all" insult flung at Matthew Lillard, It feels a bit like the anti-MONEYBALL. But the focus of the film appears to be Clint's father-daughter relationship with Amy Adams. Give it a look.
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Somebody give Clint a gun FFS! And what's with his voice?? Clint's softly spoken, but ever since Dirty Harry he's been putting on that gravely sounding tough shit. Almost like he's playing Clint Eatwood. Weird.
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Aug. 7, 2012, 7:36 p.m. CST
Love Clint Eastwood, but I'm getting a little tired of this grrrrrowly caricature he's been doing lately.
by FlickaPoo
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Aug. 7, 2012, 7:40 p.m. CST
Clint Eastwood at 80 could still kick a sweatheart like Channing Tatum's ass...Just saying
by DARTH VOODOO
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...forgive me, Mr. Eastwood.
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I'll give this a shot. I'm a sucker for a good sports flick. It's nice to see Clint back on the big screen.
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Sad that it has to be a Justin Timberlake movie.
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From characters to caricatures. Seems just like the guy who got killed in the front yard at the end of Gran Torino.
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Aug. 7, 2012, 7:47 p.m. CST
I love Eastwood and think Amy Adams is a cream dream, but I cannot stomach freaking Justin Timberlake. Is there a more punchable face than that douchebag's?
by The Krypton Kid
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At least it had some Jacobi narrated Charles Dickens woven throughout. Maybe it's the trailer, but that looked like some bad Hollywood tripe. Only made it half way through J Edger. Couldn't take Leo any longer. But since I'm not a "what have you done for me lately?" asshole when it comes to movies, I'll give anything Eastwood is in a shot.
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Aug. 7, 2012, 7:49 p.m. CST
Justin Timberlake sucks so much I couldn't get through the trailer. Matthew Lillard didn't help.
by The Krypton Kid
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...but this family/baseball farce looks like a big yawn.
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You need to get over your resentment of not making it in a 90s boyband. BLACK SNAKE MOAN, SOCIAL NETWORK, BAD TEACHER...Timberlake has been turning in some great supporting roles.
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Aug. 7, 2012, 8:13 p.m. CST
Flickapoo, are you fucking mad? Go watch Timberlake in Bad Teacher. Most forced, ham-fisted performance of the decade. Maybe ever. Oh fuck yes.
by Pvt. Duke
His role in The Social Network never called for him to show any of the range needed to put in a "great" supporting performance. He smiled, hung out, partied, did the "taking a dump face" when he was nailed for coke, all pretty standard bullshit. Ditto with Alpha Dog, just replace the coke-bust dump face with the murder-rap dump face. Nice guy, shitty actor.
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And sorry, I did the boy band thing. N*SYNC were awesome in concert and even better was Justin solo at the Norva in Norfolk, VA (with Cameron D in tow). However Queensryche, Motorhead and 80's metal are my musical tastes. :)
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Aug. 7, 2012, 8:23 p.m. CST
Timberlake's performance as Boo Boo was very nuanced in Yogi Bear.
by vic twenty
Life changer.
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and not playing Shaggy...
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Aug. 7, 2012, 8:28 p.m. CST
Actually, I think Timberlake's performance as Boo Boo Bear was his best work.
by The Krypton Kid
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Aug. 7, 2012, 8:31 p.m. CST
Looks good. And I liked Hereafter. Calling it a "disaster" is overstating it.
by DadTimesTwo
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Eastwood is making films with Justin Timberlake? This has to be a sign of the end of the world. Right?
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Looks like a good flick. Probably rent it. Don't get the Timberlake hate, he's pretty good. He was solid in Social Network.
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......Actually I take that back. He is best in supporting roles.
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Aug. 7, 2012, 8:49 p.m. CST
Hang on - i thought Gran Torino was his last in front of the camera?
by mojination
As an actor who's built his career playing badass justice dispensers it was a fantastic swan song (his character. the supports were fucking painful)...
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Jesus christ this looks terrible.
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Aug. 7, 2012, 9:19 p.m. CST
Who's job on set was it to explain to Eastwood who Justin Timberlake was?
by Cornholio3000
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Aug. 7, 2012, 9:30 p.m. CST
Why is Hollywood so determined to shove Timberlake down our throats?
by mastermold
If Clint stabs him in the throat with a pen and kills him, I will see this movie.
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Aug. 7, 2012, 9:31 p.m. CST
Wasn't 'Gran Torino' supposed to be Clint's final acting gig?
by Bill C.
Just wondering.
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no fucking thank you.
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Aug. 7, 2012, 10 p.m. CST
I also heard Eastwood retired from acting after Gran Torino
by BoyNamedSue
At his age, and with his money, I'd retire altogether and enjoy what little time I have left on this earth.
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A smug douche. he plays it in every film I have seen him in. And you cant call being yourself "acting"
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Aug. 7, 2012, 10:08 p.m. CST
HA! Surely as the sun rises and sets, geekboys hate Justin Timberlake...
by FlickaPoo
you guys all sound as bitter as the fat guy in his old boyband.
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Yes, it does look that way but the great Clint can usually do it all. Give the old guy a chance, we know what's like when he's great.
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what he enjoys is making films, so i guess more power to him.
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Aug. 7, 2012, 11:03 p.m. CST
do Batman Beyond as the next bat franchise and cast Eastwood as old Bruce dammit!
by DrPain
make it so movie gods!
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Aug. 7, 2012, 11:14 p.m. CST
Kinda find it hard to take Clint seriously after seeing his vapid family on t.v.
by MST3KPIMP
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Whatever we think is Clint Eastwood should be put in the context of his real world filled with skincare products, microgreens and private jets. Let the imaginary Eastwood in your minds go. This guy probably loves MY LITTLE PONY and capri cigarettes.
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stop fronting, it's obvious to everyone here how much you really love Timberlake.
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Aug. 7, 2012, 11:59 p.m. CST
mitt will love this movie... and he has clint's vote
by JimmyJoe RedSky
a baseball movie with no black people in it - lotsa good mormon friendly shiny fun though
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why cant the old man with no name do more of that - feels like centuries ago - age appropriate parts in movies with big balls that dont suck is what clint should do if he is going to act again - even just a walk on in a qt fiasco - or a cohen bros bit part - imagine his granite face in the likes of "miller's crossing" - anything but this feel good vapid neo-con bait
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CLINT EASTWOOD = OLD WEST ACTION Same letters. And it's his birth name. Mythic.
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He's 80, for God's sake. Go listen to your grandpas, your voice ages along with the rest of your body.
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Just sayin...
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Aug. 8, 2012, 4:19 a.m. CST
No, I love YOU, Mila Jovovich! You were so freaking hot in The Fifth Element.
by The Krypton Kid
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His voice is just that, his voice. The dude is old now. Amy Adams looks fine and JT is OK in roles like this. Not a baseball movie fan but I will rent this.
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Aug. 8, 2012, 6:09 a.m. CST
I'll pass. Wake me when he's pissed & shooting people in the face again.
by Xenodistortion
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I love how, at this particular point in his life and career, Clint Eastwood pondered the "big questions" of afterlife and the supernatural in Hereafter, and ultimately concluded that he, like the rest of us, knows absolutely nothing for certain. Hereafter is a subdued, but rather brilliant, flick.
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just added another layer the dr phil joke put me off but its got clint...an american institution
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I was a little sceptical about the marketing around this movie though. I did not know if it was a "disaster" movie, a "ghost" movie or a "love" story. It's a bit all of all that and at the same time it's not. I think that's maybe why some people were a bit disappointed. It's a movie about two different things that are strangely very tied. It's about leaving the past behind you and at the same time finding/accepting who you really are. No need to be a religious guy to like this movie. I'm not and I liked it.
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Aug. 8, 2012, 7:08 a.m. CST
Waiting for the AICN negative review because Eastwood endorsed Romney...
by Wes_Reviews_
...because you know that's exactly what will happen.
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Harry comes out of retirement for one last case. It would be so awesome.
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Aug. 8, 2012, 7:15 a.m. CST
Shouldn't Clint be playing Amy Adams' GRANDFATHER instead?!??
by BoyNamedSue
Come on.....we're talking a 50-year age gap.
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Clint is the man, LOVE Amy Adams, and great supporting cast (John Goodman! Robert Patrick! Ed Lauter!). And baseball. Surely, this won't suck, will it?
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Do AICN ever get their facts right before posting things? Clint's last directed and acted movie was "Gran Torino" since 2008. Clint was the leading role in "Gran Torino" too. How can Beaks forget that?
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Eastwood didn't direct this movie, ignore my post, I get it. My apologiez, my bad.
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Clint's racial attitudes have been troubling at times. I've had to search deeply in his on-screen catalog to find black males who are anyone I'd want my son to grow up to be. Isn't easy, and while there are a few, I think it would be reasonable to say that they are disproportionately criminal, or dead. The first really admirable black character I can remember in an Eastwood film was Mario Van Peebles in "Heartbreak Ridge" who was a jive-talking, but ultimately admirable, Marine. Eastwood is a wonderful director, and I've heard he is an amazingly good man to work with, but that ultra-Conservative bent has some unfortunately side-effects, like the absence of black people.
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Aug. 8, 2012, 8:06 a.m. CST
Hipshot, have you not seen Clint's movies w/Morgan Freeman?
by BoyNamedSue
Where Freeman played admirable characters? Or his Dirty Harry films, where he had black partners who were noble people (who didn't necessarily survive to the end)?
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onec again wants the white man to make films with loads of black people because blacks cant make films for themselves.
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Casting directors must watch his performances on there and think it's going to translate to the big screen. Sadly, it hasn't. He seems like a nice, charming guy, but I haven't seen many people who are less natural at acting.
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Yes, I've seen the films with Morgan Freeman. I'm not being glib here, and will answer your question seriously. Freeman is the epitome of a "safe" black man, a cinematic eunuch who has never had a love scene, never so much as a passionate kiss in his entire screen career. When I think of a role model, I think of someone I'd want my son to grow up to be, and moving through the stage of "virile manhood" is one of those. Freeman doesn't qualify. The Dirty Harry movies feature two black men. Both die. Remember I mentioned "dead"? No, I wouldn't want my son to grow up dead. Mario Van Peeples is about the first.
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You misunderstand completely. I'm not asking white people to do anything at all. I'm just noticing what they do. I have never, ever suggested that white people do anything different than they are. But the images we create and consume speaks to our conscious and unconscious beliefs and desires. I look at art as a measurement of what is going on culturally and psychologically. I defy you to find a single post of mine where I want white people to do a damned thing.
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Aug. 8, 2012, 9:18 a.m. CST
Krypton Kid, there IS a more punchable face than Timberlake.
by Somerichs
Kid goes by the name of Matt Barkley... as for JT, I don't hate him, I'm not bitter, and I don't resent his success. He's a hard-working dude with a lot of talent, and that's translated to him becoming a major player in the entertainment industry. He conquered the music side, and now he's hell-bent on becoming an "actor," too. And he's using every ounce of the clout he's gained as a big money draw in the music world to make that happen. The trouble is, his success as a musician does not translate over to the big screen. His roles thus far have been terrible, and I mean terrible. Either he's surrounded by a bunch of yes men who won't tell him the truth, or he refuses to believe that he's a hack. The end result of that is that we're forced to endure his painful emoting in film after film that would be better for his not having been in it.
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THIS MOVIE IS FUCKING TERRIBLE. I saw an early screening of this movie a month ago but it was apparent that nothing could be saved about it. It's an amateurishly made movie by old people for old people. It's a 90 minute nap at 24 frames a second. It's a Lifetime movie for people who can't figure out how to set up their cable box. It's totally obvious Clint was doing this as a favor for his producing partner who doesn't know how to make movies, but he tries his hardest, which unfortunately is not good enough. I'm pretty sure the point that drags it over the line is when Clint Eastwood slowly & painfully recites every line to "You Are My Sunshine" while crying on his wife's grave. I mean, EVERY line, every verse, with total sincerity, as the crane slowly moves over the graveyard. It seemed like a joke, but it was not a joke. It's a cringeworthy moment capable of spawning a million Internet memes. If it sounds sweet & sentimental, it's not. This movie sucks.
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Which octogenarian doesn't vote Republican?
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Aug. 8, 2012, 10:47 a.m. CST
RE: " Freeman is the epitome of a "safe" black man, a cinematic eunuch"
by Stalkeye
Ouch! Never heard Morgan being referred to that Meme before. However, quite a few People deem him as some sort of 'Tom. I think otherwise but wassup with the scandal in regards to his grandaughter-in-law? Now, THAT'S something to critique about as oppossed to him being a "safe' Black man.
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I don't think of him as a Tom. I do think that he's played his entire career being "safe"--the non-sexually competitive (any film) "magical negro" (playing God twice) who exists to assist and help white people find themselves. That said, he has operated with great dignity and supreme skill. But he would be the go-to black man for directors like Frank Darabount ("The Green Mile", "Shawshank", "Walking Dead") who might reasonably be considered to have a serious problem with black men. I measure this stuff by how black males in the "breeding circle" are treated in their films: in other words, between 18-50, lean bodied, heterosexual, and survive the film. Note that by this definition, Spike Lee has treated white males quite well, despite his political posturing, while, say, Woody Allan apparently has serious issues leading to exclusion. But Darabount is a piece of shit--his pattern is one of emasculation, death (without concern. Note that Tom Hanks never tried to save John Coffey, despite KNOWING him to be innocent--a vomitous change from the original book) or the transformation of "Tyrese" in the Walking Dead comics (macho, intelligent, sexual) into the ball-less cowardly near-moronic "T-Dawg" (I know, and have met, thousands of black people. Never one with a name like that). Despite what anyone says, the chance of "T-Dawg" just accidentally having the same first letter as Tyrese is about one in 275--or the frequency of the letter "T" (1 in 26) times the odds of encountering a black character (about 1 in 12). Not good. Morgan Freeman is the epitome of safety: he says nothing controversial, is happy to die protecting white people in films ("Red" or "The Unforgiven") or even eat shit onscreen ("The Power of One") but never ever ever compete sexually. In return, he has had one hell of a career. He really understands what a certain kind of white person wants to see, and has played it for all its worth. Power to him.
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He's beein working with Eastwood since the early 90's not since Sergio Leone days for Christ Sakes. A saw a picture of him and he looked early 50's max. Someone else posted he should be Amy's grandfather. I don't think that's necessary. She's in her thirties now--and Clint could play a guy in his 70's, so that could still work. Little disagreements, mostly.
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Who gives a shit? The guy has made some legendary films.
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Aug. 8, 2012, 12:14 p.m. CST
And Timberlake was fucking perfect in THE SOCIAL NETWORK.
by Robert Evans
If you've ever seen Sean Parker speak, you'd know this to be true.
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Not interested. Clint, use the hopefully long rest of your life to deliver a few more classics, please.
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Aug. 8, 2012, 12:27 p.m. CST
I guess Freeman was at his best as Fast Black in Street Smart in which he played the opposite of the "Magical negro"
by Stalkeye
I'm not going into the breeding circle thing as it may be due to some director's own insecurities and not to mention it's a very sensitive topic. That being said, Freeman has been deemed a Tom because of the aforementioned roles you were refering to. And yes, T-dawg is a pethetic character in the series, I'm just suprised he didnt get killed off during the first Season. Saw how Merle handed his ass to him and not only that, he comes off like a fucking moron. Never read much of TWD comics, but this Michone should more than make up for said lame character. T-Dawg sounds overtly condesending and stereotypical. For a guy named "T-Dawg", he sure is one big pussified Mofo. Imagine the reaction from many had there been a romantic sub plot between 'dawg" and the Farmer's daughter..LMMFAO.
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Clint looks pretty fragile... one day soon he'll just be... gone. And I'll be leaving condolences on AICN and surfing his obits on the net and feeling that horrible empty feeling inside again.. Fuck it, I'm gonna go listen to some Smiths
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Aug. 8, 2012, 12:38 p.m. CST
GRAN TORINO is Clint's most recent masterpiece, This shit looks too sacharin though....But Mr.Eastwood who the fuck am I too argue with you? You make it Sir and I watch....
by SmokieGeezer
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Aug. 8, 2012, 12:40 p.m. CST
Clint should have been the boss of THE EXPENDABLES....Why did no one think of that huh? Fuck me...all these ideas and I cant pitch them
by SmokieGeezer
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Aug. 8, 2012, 1:24 p.m. CST
hipshit -did you ever see Freeman in Street Smart? No, then shut the fuk up
by The Real Liberal Warrior
Yeah, I'm back and i'm Black
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Watching all the trailers before "Dark Knight" (pretty bad) it occured to me the trouble with trailers is they are too long and show too much. You get bored with the movie before you have even seen it.
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Aug. 8, 2012, 2:14 p.m. CST
Cast includes guy from boy band, Shaggy from live-action Scooby-Doo, lead actor's son
by Sam Lloyd
Oh yeah, this'll win ALL the Oscars.
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Aug. 8, 2012, 2:16 p.m. CST
GAAAAAHHHH!!!! that loud fucking ultrabook ad after the trailer. Thanks for blowing my hearing out. Shit!!!
by Squinty CGI Flynn
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Why is it that once every crappy pop star has gotten tired of making music they have to become an actor. Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Marketing has ruined the world.
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...and never will be. I'll pass.
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Aug. 8, 2012, 3:09 p.m. CST
I don't mind Justin Timberlake. Justin fucking Beaver however should stay the fuck away from a movie set.
by Mr. Pricklepants
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Oh Clint, you top bloke, you. Why didn't you stop acting after Gran Torino, the perfect end to your Dirty Harry-style persona, in the same way that Unforgiven said goodbye to your Western persona? Torino wasn't a great film but Eastwood was brilliant in it (surely Oscar-worthy). But this? I managed half of the trailer. The only thing I would like to see him appear in now (if he HAS to make another film) is one last Dirty Harry film, in which, i would suggest, he comes out of retirement after someone starts targeting all of his old (surviving) partners from the earlier flicks. Now THAT i would pay to see.
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...he had me when he was 70.
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I love Eastwood but I'm wondering if maybe he is old and senile these days, evidenced by his endorsement of Mitt Romney. Don't get me wrong, Obama is a fucking loser as well, but I thought Clint was too smart to support either of these fuckers. Oh well. I still love him, mostly.
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This movie gives "paint by the numbers" a bad name". Does anyone not know the plot based on seeing just a two minute trailer?
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I think he really started putting it on heavy for Heartbreak Ridge and has grown increasingly comfortable with it. He dropped it for the soap opera he did with Meryl Streep that put me to sleep.
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If they rebooted the Batman franchise with JGL, Eastwood would be the perfect old Bruce. If nothing else, guaranteed boxoffice gold.
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the Chris Reeves movie about the guy who fakes the pimp story? Saw it. Your point is probably that Freeman is dangerous in it. Agreed. Very early in his career. Note how fast he shifted away from this. And although he played a pimp, he still didn't get laid. Never has in his entire career. So go fuck yourself.
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The point isn't about an individual director's insecurities. The point is that that imagery WORKS. In other words, there is no sexual activity for non-white males in any widely popular film (measured by earning over 100 million domestic). That means it's the AUDIENCE, and the director is no more than a member of that audience. I consider this far, far more accurate a measurement of people's actual feelings than anything people say publicly and consciously. Look at the venom I reveal among talkbackers any time I bring this up. This is what is actually going on behind the smiles, Dude. You can't confine this to a few directors, any more than you can look at a 100% white Senate (through most of its history) and say "it's Washington." Nope, this is humanity--we are just that clannish. Movies reveal our secret desires and insecurities. If they don't align with our needs, we don't go see them, and they fail at the box office.
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Aug. 9, 2012, 8:13 a.m. CST
Timberlake is better than you guys are giving him credit for. Look at this interview of the real Mr. Parker
by David Duchovny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAFUAgDJTEU
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Aug. 9, 2012, 8:52 a.m. CST
hipshit - Think Like a man earned 91 M domestic 95 total
by The Real Liberal Warrior
But that 9 million less than your arbitrary100M 'proves' your point right ? And when it passes 100M ill bet you push new goal to 150M, then you will say 'major' studio- wait Sony is a major, so scratch that You are a fuckwit - as in im gonna fuck witcha because i cant stand mealy mouth -think of any damn excuse to twist facts to fit your own assholery. The real fukken warrior is back you hyena bitch
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I guess I stand corrected as there is no doubt I can disagree that Society for the most part are clanish and may prefer to see someone they resemble garner all the "Glory' be it onscreen and to a lighter extent, Sports. (Ain't no Brothas in Hockey. LMMFAO) Freeman's performance as Fast Black stood out because A. He was a dangerous Pimp who handed some John his ass with one swift kick. and B.) It's fucking Easy Reader! playing against type ergo proving Freeman's acting dynamic. Oscar worthy just like Denzel from Training day. No, fast didn't get laid despite how he often talked about fucking "TV broads" throughout the Film. IMO Fast didn't need to have a sex scene for this type of story. We already know he's getting Ass. And for the record, I didn't care for Reeve's Love scene with that Hooker(Including Aeretha Franklyn Song) as it absolutely served no purpose to the viewer whatsoever. afterwards, Morgan Played it too safe as you would put it.However, his part in wanted was a breath of fresh air as if there was a hint of 'Black coming back especially when he refferd to MaCavoy as "This Motherfucker".. BTW, That Jim Carrey Movie was a let down and a bit too PC and a bit of a contradiction. I.E. Where's Carrey's reaction when he found out that God was really Black? Then afterwards, God/Freeman is mopping the floors like a Janitor?!? You shouldn't be suprised about him being killed off in RED, look at Darwin in First Class. The tradition is still alive and well.
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Aug. 9, 2012, 9:31 p.m. CST
I hate baseball more than anything, but Eastwood being a grumpy bastard is awesome!
by Dan
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Aug. 9, 2012, 9:33 p.m. CST
Doesn't look like he can kill anyone so beating a punks ass will do.
by Dan
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