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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Aug 6, 2021 0:46:04 GMT
Nice use of Morricone's The Mission score in it. Sadly, it looks like Gran Torino 1.1. Nothing wrong with that,
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 15, 2021 17:53:00 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 15, 2021 22:06:13 GMT
It's at 52% now.........here's what MAR Gossip-Machine / Punching Bag World of Reel said about it btw: It pains me to say this, but Clint Eastwood’s “Cry Macho” is incredibly generic. It also features a terrible performance from teenage actor Eduardo Minett. This is all coming from someone who has loved many of Eastwood’s late-career films; I will defend the virtues of “The Mule,” “Richard Jewell,” and “Sully” to the death. Alas, this latest Eastwood, which is a script he polished from the ‘70s, belongs in the same nadir league as “Paris 15:17” and “Heareafter.”
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Sept 15, 2021 22:37:26 GMT
It also features a terrible performance from teenage actor Eduardo Minett. I had feeling about this just from the trailer. I rewatched Gran Torino the other day and several of the supporting performances in that film are quite weak... seems to be a consistent issue stemming from his unfussy directorial style.
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Post by futuretrunks on Sept 15, 2021 22:53:45 GMT
Why have some segments of the film community been obsessed with regarding Clint as some sort of filmmaking great? Throwing around "classicism" over and over again. He's a sometimes good director, that's it. Great classicism is The Godfather, and Clint has never come remotely close to those heights in ambition, narrative scope, and formal execution. Is this just more perverse French bullshit (I say that as someone who speaks French and lived in France) contaminating popular critical opinion?
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Post by mhynson27 on Sept 15, 2021 23:13:59 GMT
Now can people stop voting for it in the BP poll?? I mean they're probably just trolls anyway, but still.
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Post by quetee on Sept 15, 2021 23:31:36 GMT
Now can people stop voting for it in the BP poll?? I mean they're probably just trolls anyway, but still. There were some people who actually thought it could. However, I agree, I hope they stop that's why I posted it got bad reviews in the thread.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Sept 16, 2021 12:17:58 GMT
Now can people stop voting for it in the BP poll?? I mean they're probably just trolls anyway, but still. There were some people who actually thought it could. However, I agree, I hope they stop that's why I posted it got bad reviews in the thread. Yeah prior to the reviews dropping I’m not sure why someone couldn’t genuinely believe this?
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Post by franklin on Sept 16, 2021 12:46:04 GMT
Clint is so over, why are studios still allowing him to make movies???
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Post by JangoB on Sept 16, 2021 12:54:08 GMT
Clint is so over, why are studios still allowing him to make movies??? 'Cause he's Clint Eastwood? I mean, he probably has a special vault at Warner Bros which he can open any time he wants and take money for his films from. Years of their successful partnership have given Eastwood a project carte blanche there. And even the stuff he does now has been successful - yes, some movies might've flopped but American Sniper and Sully and The Mule were all big hits. This question shouldn't apply to legends like this. He ain't a Scott Cooper.
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Post by quetee on Sept 16, 2021 14:52:34 GMT
There were some people who actually thought it could. However, I agree, I hope they stop that's why I posted it got bad reviews in the thread. Yeah prior to the reviews dropping I’m not sure why someone couldn’t genuinely believe this? All movies are viable until they're not. Cry Macho had neither trailer nor reviews so I didn't see a problem predicting it prior to the reviews. Now if people continue voting for it now, then yeah that's troll behavior.
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Post by flasuss on Sept 16, 2021 15:57:35 GMT
Clint is so over, why are studios still allowing him to make movies??? Because his movies nearly all the time make money and do well. Plus, he rarely goes over budget or spends too much.
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Post by speeders on Sept 16, 2021 16:19:14 GMT
Clint is so over, why are studios still allowing him to make movies??? Because his movies nearly all the time make money and do well. Plus, he rarely goes over budget or spends too much.
And he works really fast, without problems and is also a household name and a big draw, both as an actor and a director. Not to mention that he's won a BP/BD double punch for the studio TWICE. He's basically a dream director for studios.
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Post by countjohn on Sept 16, 2021 16:39:42 GMT
Mediocre Eastwood is still better than 95% of the dreck that gets wide releases nowdays so I still want to see this. Why have some segments of the film community been obsessed with regarding Clint as some sort of filmmaking great? Throwing around "classicism" over and over again. He's a sometimes good director, that's it. Great classicism is The Godfather, and Clint has never come remotely close to those heights in ambition, narrative scope, and formal execution. How many directors besides FFC have made a movie as good as The Godfather? That's a pretty ridiculous standard to hold everyone to. As it is Unforgiven is a perfect movie and pretty damn close. Outlaw Josie Wales, Letters From Iowa Jima, Gran Torino, Changeling, Invictus, American Sniper, Sully, and The Mule are all good to very good as well. That's a lot more quality movies than 99% of people who set out to be directors will ever make and in particular he's on a bit of a roll in his late career.
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Post by futuretrunks on Sept 17, 2021 0:22:02 GMT
Mediocre Eastwood is still better than 95% of the dreck that gets wide releases nowdays so I still want to see this. Why have some segments of the film community been obsessed with regarding Clint as some sort of filmmaking great? Throwing around "classicism" over and over again. He's a sometimes good director, that's it. Great classicism is The Godfather, and Clint has never come remotely close to those heights in ambition, narrative scope, and formal execution. How many directors besides FFC have made a movie as good as The Godfather? That's a pretty ridiculous standard to hold everyone to. As it is Unforgiven is a perfect movie and pretty damn close. Outlaw Josie Wales, Letters From Iowa Jima, Gran Torino, Changeling, Invictus, American Sniper, Sully, and The Mule are all good to very good as well. That's a lot more quality movies than 99% of people who set out to be directors will ever make and in particular he's on a bit of a roll in his late career. None of Clint's films hit my "OH SHIT!" button. I've had issues with QT lately, but Pulp Fiction is easily better by a huge margin than every Eastwood film, as are a number of his other films (Kill Bill Vol. 1, Inglourious Basterds, ...). Clint has nothing on his resume as bewitching and brilliant as Lynch's Mulholland Dr. or Blue Velvet. Hell, I think The Elephant Man is a greater flex of a director's command of classical narrative storytelling than any Eastwood film. None of Eastwood's films have taken me to the moon, so I'm more than tired of the common genuflection towards him. I don't think the man even has the patience to make a truly great film. Again, I like many of his films, but for me he has not made a film on the heights, so I've never considered him a great director. I shit on PTA almost daily, and think Clint has made far more good movies than him, dozens more in fact, but something like Boogie Nights is truly beyond him. Clint simply doesn't have the extravagance necessary for genius to emerge. He's a good director, a lesser Ed Zwick.
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 25, 2021 17:05:35 GMT
Didn't want to post this in the "reviews" thread but ........also didn't want to post it in whatever Paul Schrader said this week on social media one Surprising and unnecessary but......
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