# Will Eastwood's RNC performance influence his new movie's Box Office **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 21, 2012, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-eastwoods-rnc-performance-influence-his-new-movies-box-office/635364 "2012-09-21T07:49:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-eastwoods-rnc-performance-influence-his-new-movies-box-office/635364/21 "2013-06-06T18:35:13Z")
I’ll see an Eastwood movie or a Polanski movie or a Gibson movie if they’re _good movies_. By all accounts, _Trouble With the Curve_ wasn’t, so I didn’t. If he came out with another _Gran Torino_ (which I liked) or _Letters from Iwo Jima_ (which I liked a lot) I’d line up to see it. ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-eastwoods-rnc-performance-influence-his-new-movies-box-office/635364/22 "2013-06-06T18:40:05Z")
\*Trouble with the Curve \* was on last night when I was looking for something to watch. I thought “that old fucker?” when I saw Clint was in it. Ended up watching some anyway because Amy is just so damned cute. So yes, Clint’s DNC appearance, and maybe his age and his last couple of movies too, have caused me to discount him where I wouldn’t have in the past. I didn’t go from loving him to hating him because the his DNC antics, I went from lukewarm to tepid. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-eastwoods-rnc-performance-influence-his-new-movies-box-office/635364/23 "2013-06-07T03:58:09Z")
> [@shiftless](#): > > So yes, Clint’s DNC appearance, and maybe his age and his last couple of movies too, have caused me to discount him where I wouldn’t have in the past. I didn’t go from loving him to hating him because the his DNC antics, I went from lukewarm to tepid. Who are you, Fox News? He was at the RNC. ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-eastwoods-rnc-performance-influence-his-new-movies-box-office/635364/24 "2013-06-07T12:36:45Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Who are you, Fox News? He was at the RNC. Oops, you are correct. Fox News must be taking over my brain. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-eastwoods-rnc-performance-influence-his-new-movies-box-office/635364/25 "2013-06-07T13:20:22Z")
> [@Shakester](#): > > The fact that it’s about baseball, the second stupidest sport in the world (after US “football”), is what would keep me from having any interest in it. > > ETA: Clint’s idiotic politics make it any more attractive, either. Replace ‘football’ with ‘golf’ and you’ve got it in one. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-eastwoods-rnc-performance-influence-his-new-movies-box-office/635364/26 "2013-06-07T13:35:40Z")
Nothing about the RNC speech surprised me. His politics have been known for a while, along with his lack of comedic talent. What he did at the convention was stupid, but not offensive in my mind. He’s not Roman Polanski. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-eastwoods-rnc-performance-influence-his-new-movies-box-office/635364/27 "2013-06-07T15:03:43Z")
Another vote for not seeing his movie because I had not heard anything about it that sounded like it was a movie I wanted to see and for that reason alone. His RNC bit was sad and funny in ways it did not mean to be, but hateful? Nah. Pathetic, yes. It was more shocking than anything else to see someone who youve always thought of as model of virility and strength and intelligence suddenly be revealed as doddering, weak, and confused. I don’t need to agree with the politics of those who entertain me. If they are _scum_ I don’t want to give them my money even indirectly, but nothing that Eastwood did showed him to be that. Just as pathetic. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-eastwoods-rnc-performance-influence-his-new-movies-box-office/635364.md?page=1)