Thank you Metaluna for bringing up LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA. I think that was even nominated for best picture, but I still think of it as underrated because I don't know many people who have seen it and those who did I thought were too hard on it. To me it was a profound approach to the war movie. He takes the one war almost everybody can agree on and shows it from the point of view of people who clearly were on the wrong side. And yet they are just people, human beings who end up by circumstance and culture fighting this war to the death.

I had some buddies who thought the part about the dog was corny but oh well. For the most part it was much subtler than FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS and had great characters and performances. And I like that the colors are so muted I remember it as being in black and white. I really liked that one.

That said, I hope Clint is stepping out of his "important" mode and just doing a Clint Eastwood movie. Anybody else love that part in BLOODWORK where he tells his partner he has to get something out of the trunk, pulls out a shotgun and just walks down the street blasting? He still has it in him to add to the all time badass canon if he wants to.