Sept. 17, 2012, 1:24 p.m. CST
by jim loder
Eastwood? Check. Amy Adams? Check. Baseball movie that doesn't look like it was written by apes who've never seen a baseball game? Check. Justin Timberlake (even worse, trying to play an athlete)? Not a chance in hell will I see this movie. All the half-way decent actors out there that could have filled this role - who didn't have to even add to the movie, just not subtract - and they give the part to this guy? Damn it. First Eastwood movie ever I won't see.
Sept. 17, 2012, 2:08 p.m. CST
by gruemanlives
Sept. 17, 2012, 2:15 p.m. CST
by Joe
The way people spat vitriol about Clint after his speech was disgusting. Even though I'm not a conservative, Clint's politics have never bothered me because he's a remarkable director, actor and composer. The speech wasn't his finest hour but the way some on the left called him senile etc was shameful. The man has acted and directed some of the greatest pieces of cinematic art in history. If idiots are going to use one misstep to attack someone, then why stop there? Why not Jane Fonda's stupid behaviour back in the day? Or Madonna saying kabbalah water can cure cancer. These are the real morons. Unless one of these pathetic haters can make something that's even a millionth as great as Unforgiven or Mystic River, they need to shut the fuck up.
Sept. 17, 2012, 2:21 p.m. CST
by NathanGrey
Watch the SNL sketch, Empty Chair 2012!
Sept. 17, 2012, 2:27 p.m. CST
by WWBD
Just turned a lot of people off I'm afraid.
Until you get rid of those voice ads... Way too annoying to stick around. I'll check back later on next week to see if they are still here.
Sept. 17, 2012, 2:41 p.m. CST
by Joe
go ahead- make my den.
Sept. 17, 2012, 6:13 p.m. CST
by Red Ned Lynch
...is aware of my politics. Clint Eastwood is not a good husband or boyfriend. He is not a good business partner. I don't agree with his politics. He is, however, a fine director and one of the greatest movie stars to ever grace the screen. And he could argue with a chair every weekend on Pay Per View and it would not change that one bit. To try to turn the star of Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, High Plains Drifter, The Unforgiven, Dirty Harry, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Kelly's Heroes, The Beguiled, Play Misty for Me, The Eiger Sanction and (for me anyway) The Gauntlet into nothing more than a political punchline is an absolute indication that you have no business on a site devoted to movies. We're lucky to get this movie and we'll be lucky to get any more he graces us in his remaining years. And yeah, I left a lot off that list above, because I only included movies I absolutely love. And I still left off Hang 'em High and probably some more that slipped my mind. They'll still be my favorites, and a handful will still be considered all-time classics, long after every bit of minutiae about this year's elections have long been forgotten.
Sept. 17, 2012, 8:59 p.m. CST
by goatherdingclownhunter
Eat shit you stupid bastard
I agree. It's Clint Eastwood, one of the most popular film icons of all time. We should all be so lucky to live in the age that he is alive, for his legacy will transcend many many years to come. I will watch every movie he directs and/or stars in, whether it's good, or bad, or even ugly.
Sept. 17, 2012, 11:23 p.m. CST
by Orbots Commander
...shouldn't effect the way one looks at his body of work. That's stupid. He's still one of the greatest directors and movie stars of all time.
Sept. 18, 2012, 12:17 a.m. CST
by ChaunceyGardiner
As the last two decades of Eastwood's career have been some of the most interesting years I've ever seen from a single director. It is though Eastwood is exploreing himself, his ideals and his values, his interests, his conundrums through each and every film project. I don't think I've ever seen a director challange themselves the way I've seen Eastwood challangeing himself. And while "Hereafter" is still a project that baffles many (his producer included), it is still one of those highly individual films that you watch and you can tell that there is a real interaction with the material on the part of the director and his main actor and that while takeing chances with a very unconvential story structure they see value and meaning in the tale they are weaveing. Bryce Danner Howard's small segment in "Hereafter" is one of the best composed and acted sequences of any Eastwood film, something I would put up there with the buried emotional power of "Unforgiven," its unrelenting drive towards an honest epitaph for its characters, a nail of truth that pierces them and makes them bleed beautifully human and true. Then you've got "J. Edgar" and it still amazes me that Eastwood had the guts to team with Dustin Lance Black and film what is truly a strange and beguileing picture about the lies we all tell ourselves about who we are. Sad, emotive, and, in my most sincere opinion, empathetic, wise, and courageous. As an artist, Clint has hollowed out a niche no other man could possibly call their own. Really enjoyed this interview, Capone. Thank you.
Which comment offended you, retard? The one where I said I don't care about Eastwood's politics and I condemned those on the left who have attacked him? Or the one where I called your buttbuddy Chuck Norris a prick? You really are fucking stupid. You'd need a lobotomy to increase your IQ. Go suck Cheney's dick. (Get it? No, of course you don't, you're a redneck shortbus riding assmaster).
had to be done.
Sept. 18, 2012, 7:19 a.m. CST
by Balkin Flabgurter
Sept. 18, 2012, 7:36 a.m. CST
by the_rising
But Clint speaks his mind, gets some laughs and you hate his guts and cannot stop yourself from having temper tantrums.
Just threw a sour note on things asking about the chair speech. Didn't see the need to bring that up whatsoever. I come to AICN to learn more about movies and get a reprieve from political nonsense.