Eastwood fans: Which is the best Clint Eastwoof movie?

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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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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.

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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. :smiley:

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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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Clint himself must have had some fond memories of that flick- he included a snippet of it in “The Rookie.”

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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 :smiley:

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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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This thread has gone to the dogs. :smiley: