# Eastwood fans: Which is the best Clint Eastwoof movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 1, 2004, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eastwood-fans-which-is-the-best-clint-eastwoof-movie/243037 "2004-05-01T20:35:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2004, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eastwood-fans-which-is-the-best-clint-eastwoof-movie/243037/21 "2004-05-02T03:25:03Z")
Western: Unforgiven War: Where Eagles Dare Thriller: The Eiger Sanction Comedy: Thunderbolt and Lightfoot Drama: The Bridges of Madison County ---
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In addition to all of the above, I want to mention _Bronco Billy_. There are other Eastwood **movies** that I like better, but it’s in this movie that I like **Eastwood** best. ---
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“Dying ain’t much of a living, boy.” ---
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**Tightrope**. It’s quite disturbing and it’s interesting to see Eastwood play a character like that. ---
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> [@Sam Stone](#): > > “Dying ain’t much of a living, boy.” Perhaps my all-time favorite Eastwood quote. ---
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**The Outlaw Josey Wales** is my all-time favorite Clint film, though **Unforgiven** is high up on the list, too. ---
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_Paint Your Wagon_. What? ---
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The Good, The Bad & The Ugly. Play Misty For Me. Tightrope. The man’s funny, smart and creative. I truly admire him. Cartooniverse ---
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> [@Tangent](#): > > In addition to all of the above, I want to mention _Bronco Billy_. There are other Eastwood **movies** that I like better, but it’s in this movie that I like **Eastwood** best. I thought I would be the first to mention _Bronco Billy_. Darn it, I _like_ that movie! Maybe it isn’t his best, so to speak, but it’s my favorite, and a lot of fun. What other movie has a Wild West show performed in a tent sewn out of American flags, that were made by the residents of a mental hospital? ---
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\*The Outlaw Josey Wales Unforgiven High Plains Drifter The Beguiled\* I also liked _Paint Your Wagon_, but not because of Clint. 😃 ---
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“Unforgiven” is a classic and probably my favorite that he stars in. However, if we are including films that he directed, then I would have to go with “Bird”, the biography of jazz legend, Charlie “Bird” Parker. ---
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Unforgiven & Pale Rider are the only ones that I am aware of that garnered any Oscar buzz whatsoever – from an objective standpoint I think that for me has to be taken into account saying “best”. But I enjoyed Line of Fire most followed by a movie associated with good times (almost more than trhe movie itself) : “I got me the Josie Wales.” Sad truth tho: I always think of the Spaghetti’s first when I think of him. ---
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> [@ouryL](#): > > Tarantula > > He was in it for no more than four minutes. :dubious: Clint himself must have had some fond memories of that flick- he included a snippet of it in “The Rookie.” ---
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> [@Thea Logica](#): > > _Paint Your Wagon_. > > What? Heheh. I adore Paint Your Wagon. My other favorites are Heartbreak, Ridge High Plains Drifter and Pale Rider. ---
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_Where Airdales Dare_ _Paint Your Doghouse_ _The Beagled_😃 ---
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> [@jimmmy](#): > > Unforgiven & Pale Rider are the only ones that I am aware of that garnered any Oscar buzz whatsoever… You must be confusing _Pale Rider_ with **Shane** (easy to do, since the former so unapologetically rips off the latter). _Rider_ never received any Oscar buzz, though _Shane_ got several major nods. Best films Eastwood appeared in: 1. _The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly_ 2. _Escape from Alcatraz_ 3. _High Plains Drifter_ 4. _Dirty Harry_ 5. _Coogan’s Bluff_ 6. _Unforgiven_ 7. _The Outlaw Josey Wales_ Best films Eastwood’s directed: 1. _Bird_ 2. _High Plains Drifter_ 3. _Unforgiven_ 4. _The Outlaw Josey Wales_ 5. _Mystic River_ ---
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