He reached his peak in 1955 with “Francis in the Navy” and it’s been a slow descent ever since.
I’m with you. I felt like I was watching a practical joke, or a poorly made after-school special with untrained actors, written by a first-year screenwriting student. Just embarrassing.
Not to me. I’ve searched the INMb and I’ve seen at least 25 films starring Clint Eastwood.
So Gran Torino wasn’t at the Art House. It wasn’t his best, but it was Eastwood doing what he wanted to do. We comon folk think it was an pretty good movie. Nothing more, nothing less.
And casting his son (as in his real life son) as that “wanabe thug” was a fun bonus.
Not everything he does can be “Pink Cadillac”
I doubt anything he can do will makeup for casting his girlfriend Sondra Locke in so many movies. She was terrible and poison to any movie she was in.
Oh, L I. Cause the other way would be cool, too.
I have to agree. I love how in her palimony lawsuit she claimed to be blacklisted by him. No, ma’am, nobody cast you before Clint and nobody cast you after Clint because you’re a horrible actress.
The one exception I can think of where the movie was actually good because of her was The Gauntlet. I had no major problems with her in The Outlaw Josey Wales because her part was minor by comparison.
I agree with the horrible actress; and never much to look at either. Boy it’s sure easy to stereotype Clint’s ideal woman. It seems like every heroine in his movies is that blonde emaciated type. Anyway, from the Wikipedia article on Sondra Locke: “Locke dropped the suit in 1990 in exchange for a “pay or play” directing deal with Warner Bros., but the studio never produced her proposed films nor hired her to direct. In 1996, they were back in court. Locke hired famed entertainment attorney Neil Papiano and filed another lawsuit, this time against Warner Bros., alleging that the company had never intended to make any films with her, and that Eastwood had compensated Warner Bros. for the contract. In 1999, they settled out of court for a reported $7 million settlement, details of which were not publicly disclosed.”
Hmmm, the movie non-making business is more lucrative than I would have guessed.
You mean Curly?