I wish to see Cry Macho in theaters. An upcoming
film by talented actor, director and happen to compose Clint Eastwood. Before that,
I recalled and discovered films on which he was behind of camera.
1970s:
Play Misty for Me (1971). A great directing
debut of Clint Eastwood who made watchable a predictive and straight B-rate
story, which used many times in nowadays. I didn’t like green acid color titles
in introduction, but it’s my taste. A plot is misunderstanding, which on woman
pursuing a radio DJ and for it gets ready to kill while she would be sent in
jail far before of final confrontation. Director Eastwood and scriptwriter Jo
Heims made Play Misty for Me and had collaboration again in Breezy (1973) in
which a main man will take a cameo. I didn’t get ignition of interest for watch
this film, because I didn’t find interesting in a story and, perhaps, romancing
drama isn’t a movie for a cynical alcoholic.
N.B. Dirty confession. I couldn’t sit on
films centered on romance and, of course, listen women’s hysterias on topic
“You don’t love me” (which appear in Play Misty for Me.). That’s correct, it
depends how to tell a story. And why I’m writing it… an Italian movie Scusa ma
ti chiamo amore (Sorry, If I Love You in English-language release.) interested
me, which I saw in parts and hadn’t opportunity to see till final. When I’ve
watched it later in full and I liked well-told story. A sequel was too girlie
and dystrophic in screenplay. Spanish Tengo ganas de ti (I Want You) by same writer
where I saw conclusion part by it I didn’t get stimulus to watch from beginning
to credits. I like more relationship of elder people as brilliant final in
Forever Young with Mel Gibson.
High Plains Drifter (1973). The Stranger
rides in town, which will visit leaving jail outlaws. Mystery with mystic in
everywhere. In atmosphere, in arrived man, in past of this town. A phenomenal charm.
The Eiger Sanction (1975). James Bond without
romanticism. Abominate secret service led by albino sick ex-Nazi blackmails
professor Jonathan Hemlock for temporary return on duty. A fantastic screenplay
based on eponymous Rodney Whitaker’s novel, which he wrote under Trevanian, is
interesting to follow for every thing of a plot. Eastwood gives tension in
climbing on Eiger Mountain to where to his personage ordered to figure a spy.
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976). More two hours
of holding in one breath in epic story on a farmer became an outlaw who will
escape, spit and revenge for slaughtered family. A western with hyping
directing decisions and excellent shootouts. Here is resplendent cinematography
work of Bruce Surtees. A greatly written screenplay by master in it Phil
Kaufman (Raiders of the Lost Ark and Rising Sun.) and Sonia Chernus bases on a
book The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales by Forrest Carter. A notable miss to machine
gun shootout to soldiers where need blood for reality, but it doesn’t worse
pleasure. I like revenge movies, because it reminds me when somebody borrows
from me money and don’t return them.
The Gauntlet (1977). I haven’t dislike to
crew work, acting, everything in control of Clint Eastwood. And screenplay was
enticing until coming of surrealism. A witness, which Eastwood’s Shockley must
deliver, describes wanting her criminal as having a terrible voice by it
personages guess police captain. Culmination is armored in iron plates bus in them
(and never in tires.) shoot many policemen who are manikins in mind, because
don’t think obvious in that orders are criminal. One of them easily kills
unarmed Pat Hingle’s character. No reaction they express in killing of their
bad police captain by the witness.
1980s:
Bronco Billy (1980). Fundamental depending in
films of director Clint Eastwood in a scriptwriter. Dennis Hackin isn’t A-quality.
Bronco Billy is unmolded work. Sondra Locke’s character proclaimed dead and
playing unfortunate to going to be her husband Geoffrey Lewis’s hero was jailed
without corpse find. Disappeared Locke joins to contemporary sharpshooter (in
Clint Eastwood’s performance.) and his transporting circus. They accidentally
stays in one house where Lewis spends resort confinement for murder. He sees
and reports about alive Locke. Arrived FBI wants arrest her and the
sharpshooter for holding in hostages, but they just move away without noise. In
Bronco Billy slapstick hits in happening serious. A film hasn’t proper work
with crowd as it shows a scene of alighted marquee, but I like camera decisions
and praise fine cinematography and directing.
Firefox (1982). This film I wanted to rewatch
after watching or some moments at least. Major Mitchell Gant heads by the US
government in the Soviet land for stealing unique MiG-31 indicated as Firefox,
which has unbelievable speed, can hide from radars and can control by thinking
(only in Russian, which language a main hero knows.). Taking of this only plane
will cease mass production and willn’t allow change balance in Cold War. I was
in worrying for hero (especially in moments of beating flashback of Vietnam War,
which gives bad in magnificent toilet scene with a KGB agent.), feel sadness in
deaths of good personages and I wanted succeed in a mission. Filming in Moscow
was impossible then. Vienna was changed city. Of course, eyes take alien buildings
for Moscow, but Eastwood made excellent strives in authenticity by propaganda
posters, signboards, inscriptions and put Kremlin on backstage. The film has
impossible as general holds hands in pockets in face of Brezhnev, and also a
general secretary personally speaks with Mitchell Gant as a negotiator. I can
believe in colonel with two orders of “Hero of the Soviet Union” (not so much
were them.), but not in Eastwood took captain’s form with one of that order as
when he hides in a shower and speaks from a name of neutralized by him colonel
to soldiers who are searching Mitchell Gant. Bloopers don’t kill impression and
forget when he ups in an air. Grandiose stages filming in there. View of fighter
plane gives to feel impetuosity by raising up waves of waters and flying in
snowed mount gorge. See disability of helicopters against this machine. Hyping
and still to be worrying a final clash with a second prototype of Firefox in
steering of neutralized in the shower colonel whom Gant spared.
Honkytonk Man (1982) is lenient to reality
film, which doesn’t harm screenplay. Clint Eastwood reveals excellent singing
talent. I mostly haven’t like to Red Stovall due of his personality of man
easily going on criminal acts. It was until conclusion to where I evoked a sympathy
to revealed a tragic character. Clint makes brilliant acting in that stance.
Technical fails: I didn’t get in total feel of 30s as Eastwood used own guitar
and obvious fail was a scene of standing up of character with a cigar in a
mouth, which he didn’t had in sitting.
Sudden Impact (1983). The one film of Dirty
Harry series directed by Clint Eastwood. Sudden Impact as any of five movies
has breathtaking staged action, gritty in screenplays and catchphrases, which
are greatly too much for quoting. I like his “complain to cafe”. I’m thinking,
I would use “Go ahead, make my day” in situation without made corpses before,
but a screenplay is phenomenal in combination many plots are showing San
Francisco hates inspector Callahan. He, as in previous parts, argues with
administration on police methods. His actions and incidents for them him
usually downgrade in job, but here he was sent on few days vacation. But calm willn’t
comes. Eastwood in directing gives 70s to film made in 80s. Composer Lalo
Schifrin attractively gives music notes. Wonderful work with a light as overall
again work with camera by Bruce Surtees.
Tightrope (1984). Richard Tuggle wrote a screenplay
from non-fiction book “Escape from Alcatraz” by it became a splendid film
released in 1979, which directed Don Siegel and lead role performed Clint
Eastwood. Tightrope was next and last collaboration of Tuggle with Malpaso
Productions where he also became a director, which was officially, because his
slow due to inexperience made to Eastwood did most filming of detective story where
this writer purposely implements sex perversions. Film can watch for charm of
New Orleans while plot is guessable. It’s easy to understand that true passion
in Genevieve Bujold’s personage will be attacked by serial killer in
culmination. I like up of suspense, but screenplay always has places for stuck.
Eastwood’s detective easily detects maniac by finding a name on saved piece of
newspaper, which just appeared. His fail as director were: in a first
confrontation where I’ve thought that his character killed maniac and he made
unlucky scene in attack and appeared hand with revolver.
Pale Rider (1985). Clint Eastwood plays again
a man without a name, but can give suspicions about past of a preacher who can
shoot and do non-saint thing in having sex with a woman going to marry on a
“good man” as said a main hero. Bruce Surtees was a cinematographer of all
American Eastwood’s western in keeping excellence. Scriptwriters Dennis Shryack
and Michael Butler had before The Gauntlet. They wrote better script, which
didn’t get to maturity. Their story isn’t interesting. I can accept only a
broken stone while Pale Rider is unfinished and has questions. What about Josh
played by Christopher Penn? I don’t see understanding why Richard Kiel’s
personage changed to sympathy to the preacher. I didn’t like needless places
for joking to audience as Eastwood did in Bronco Billy and Honkytonk Man. Clint
Eastwood in directing wasn’t accurate. Camera takes in detail that a toy dog
uses as a corpse. The director for making beautiful shots don’t take in
attention a commonsense, which didn’t slip in final shootout where memorable
moments of these failures in killing of Billy Drago, running surgery doctor and
then woman despite they should heard shootings and silliness in duel between
two know each other people. Invaded in a shop group of hostiles where clearly
can see nobody shoot till needful end of bullets for emerged preacher. His
character doesn’t give interest, because he speaks of one-liners, which I like,
but in this frequent way. A memorable directing shot of hand with a gun from a
first-person view. Perhaps, Eastwood used inspiration from Sergio Leone as can
remember gun and later shovel in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
Heartbreak Ridge (1986). A movie sticks to
realism of military days in quiet pace and then involvement in conflict in
Grenada. Clint Eastwood plays gunnery sergeant Tom Highway whose phrases are
satisfaction to listen and his personal story of a firm man of army is
interesting.
Bird (1988). I would want to visit jazz
basements between 20s to 50s. Clint Eastwood always gives esteem to magnificent
music as in Bird in which he overdramatizes in staging and a story about real
Charlie Parker goes to fiction. Forest Whitaker doesn’t take a role. I don’t
like his hallmark swelling acting technique in showing teeth, smile and closed
eyes. No gestures of actual Charlie Parker. Also Whitaker doesn’t fit
physically. I see James Earl Jones for part, but not in age on that moment. On
a ninetieth minute was enough for me…
1990s:
White Hunter Black Heart (1990). Three far
experienced scriptwriters Burt Kennedy, James Bridges and Peter Viertel from whose
book was made adaptation of fictionalized reality. Clint Eastwood performs
interesting character, a director in his open mind with unusual manner of
speaking who went in Uganda for filming. Clint Eastwood is phenomenal in acting
of this personage on whom I loveably was watching and was listening abrasive
phrases. I like a pace in which he made and showed inner of cinema industry in
process and people. I like, but not the ending where is no point in happened.
It is misunderstanding.
The Rookie (1990). Eastwood agreed to make
this film for getting availability on production of White Hunter Black Heart. A
budget in ten million dollars and written screenplay are for VHS where nothing
good can do a great director and large stuntmen crew. Original author Scott
Spiegel had then Evil Dead II for shame while Boaz Yakin was a writer of the
greatest adaptation of The Punisher with Dolph Lundgren. I don’t know how much
was participation of Yakin who will write and sometimes direct many excellent
flicks, but I would like to know how anybody was serious in all that about The
Rookie. I think, Eastwood wasn’t. He halted on five days filming for presenting
White Hunter Black Heart on Cannes competition. It cost additional 1,5 million
dollars for The Rookie. For playing German origin villains were took Spanish
actors Raul Julia and Sonia Braga. Julia is magnificent in making accent and I
bet that Eastwood took him for wish to make movie with him while Braga had with
him love relationships, but, maybe, it had another reason. The film is list of
silliness. Eastwood’s Nick Pulovski always speaks one-liners and constant in be
ass. Light Latin music in a bar of tough bearded bikers. And “you’re stinking
of whiskey” – a complaint by Charlie Sheen’s personage to Eastwood’s is the
most misunderstand for me. I have many disliked director’s decisions as I had
pleasure to see Charlie Sheen in rage in burning that tough bar. I can accept
that wearing of helmet for motorcycle isn’t a tough measure. Film’s fail: two
crew members (perhaps, one of them is Clint Eastwood.) in a scene when a bad
guy closes all doors of house and tries silently to kill Sheen’s girlfriend
while rolling camera show that they are not alone.
Unforgiven (1992). That’s a good film, but it
doesn’t better of any other Clint Eastwood’s westerns. A revisionist of genre
where in acting staff are marvelous Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman and Morgan
Freeman. A main character with disgusting past on it he reasons he will never
cleans. Film goes in debunking myths as Gene Hackman’s sheriff does in
conversations and he will say “he’s got one barrel left” in a final meeting while
it finishes in myth where Will Munny kills all confronting in a saloon. Except
this scene, I don’t see story is so interesting, but I could watch again. I
like said then by Eastwood on why he willn’t get an Oscar. It describes him. “First,
I'm not Jewish. Secondly, I make too much money. Thirdly, and most importantly,
because I don't give a fuck.”
A Perfect World (1993). Kevin Costner of
actors on whom I just like to watch. Even if he performs a disgusting character.
This Eastwood’s two hours are swiftly watch. I like mood of that time, which
sets in 60s and about touchable relations between escaped convict and a boy who
hadn’t friends and find friendship with a kidnapper. It willn’t right to
indicate on reality in manhunting. I would cut a scene where Eastwood says on meeting
in a past while I would remain a phrase “Did we meet before?” I don’t like a tension
sound in Negro family house, which hadn’t require for a scene.
I had distraction to The Bridges of Madison
County (1995). I decided to read story in Wikipedia and my intuition was
correct that I willn’t find a place in watching of film about suffering accidental
love, because Meryl Streep has one of popular in marriage thing – lost passion
to current one. Marriage is creep is a philosophical morale for a film. It’s a
good in few years, but then it deeply creep.
Absolute Power (1997). Gene Hackman and Clint
Eastwood again in one film, which bases on a book David Baldacci. Excellent
William Goldman wrote a screenplay of hyping story where leaves retirement
thief Luther Whitney who becomes a mysterious witness of incident with participation
of famous person. A hyping story where got in a circumstance a lead personage
makes a choice. Personal adoration in conversation and staging to “Doctor
Kevorkian scene” and in a limousine. I very understand on “we’re too old to
bullshit each other”. Behind of the film in truth on absolute power, which one
sometimes can have a place in the United States.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
(1997). A real, which was in 80s, turned to fiction. A journalist John Kelso
whom plays John Cusack arrives in Savannah where gets in homicide and meet unusual
citizens. A film finishes in unelaborated sense of everything were happening.
True Crime (1999). Clint Eastwood plays
obsessing in cheating journalist Steve Everett who gets sudden investigation on
a man on execution. Actor and director don’t make a disappointment as anybody
else. Eastwood directed an enjoyable film. Investigation holds as it does with
antiheroic Everett. A special adoration to rude conversation in office with boss
Alan Mann in performance of precisely chosen James Woods warms my sailor’s
heart. I apologize, for some spoiling in a story. True Crime has a wonderful thing
that is no everything back to all right in the end.
2000s and 2010s:
Staff of fantastic actors, which I didn’t
wish to see in first minutes of watching of Space Cowboys (2000). It initially delusions
in commonsense. I see good in idea on old-timers go to space. Twenty minutes
and I’ve checked a lunatic screenplay. A film so unrealistic in everything if express
on it by diplomacy. One thing for understand – secret Soviet rockets in space. I’ll
give on positive. Clint Eastwood in directing never degrade to pathos as Apollo
13, which, I confess, I saw the last half of hour, but I was overload in pathos
in every shot and thing. And Tom Hanks who is symbol of these films. I check
him in actor’s list when I see a pathos. I saw last decades of minutes of
Armageddon, which directed by Michael Bay and it fulfills on a film. I didn’t
take for whole watching of Space Cowboys…
I couldn’t do it with Blood Work (2002). It’s
by a book of Michael Connelly, an author of adapted, but brilliant, The Lincoln
Lawyer. It was on the tenth minute. In clicking was always cocky Jeff Daniels
(who saved outfit till hair from Dumb and Dumber.) where I thought that he is a
killer, because maniacs usually behave cocky in bad detectives. That is! It was
Daniels…
Mystic River (2003) was next for hops in
lengths. I didn’t get trust that is movie is adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s
novel. Among his books made in films I found for watching Shutter Island where
in switched brain can find an answer “Is DiCaprio normal or not?” due to no one
chain can join. For two hours I get a simplistic story and it goes to be silly
by cliffhanging ending…
Oscars, as whole American cinematography,
went in one degradation. It was when “Gladiator is the best film” and “Russell
Crowe is the best actor” who never finished an acting school and wasn’t
exceptional to has gift. I was skeptical to Million Dollar Baby (2004) even
then. I’ve read a script where I saw a “film for Oscars”.
Flags of Our Fathers (2006). I want to see
more flicks where using big budget as Clint Eastwood did with one hundred
million dollars. I don’t say that have a perfect like Flags of Our Fathers. I
willn’t take some historical nuances, which revealed since release, but in this
film the director was accurate in real events. He gives a place for fiction,
which little bit exaggerates in dramatizing and rarely damages in making a good
shot goal. I don’t see that it was needful to present narration in combination
of changing each other time periods. I would fix ten minutes before credits. A
present time and James Bradley takes interview and writes a book Flags of Our
Fathers are odd. It’s a realistic film showing dirt of war, which has after of
it. An accurate till disgusting of reality. I would like that Clint Eastwood
concentrate on these things.
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006). I’ve got an
original version without subtitles, which demonstrates Japanese side in Iwo
Jima battle while Flags of Our Fathers is about American. I got knowledge on a
story by reading and then skipping. Letters from Iwo Jima mostly fiction and
has actual people, but not reality of happened. It is highly dramatized. I
didn’t think on looking for a version with subtitles…
I hadn’t enticement to Changeling (2008) and
Invictus (2009) in releasing. J. Edgar (2011) made confident to don’t watch
Eastwood’s films on real people. I couldn’t believe it’s about head of FBI. I
was thinking Leonardo DiCaprio’s character is administrator of shoe factory to
whom had esteem American presidents. Naomi Watts is miscasting for Helen Gandy.
She is too beauty for playing a “person chose career to marriage”. Out of place
a nonsense scene between her and offering marriage DiCaprio, which wasn’t in
reality. Eastwood destroyed story on controversial and interesting man.
Appeared in conclusion Richard Nixon is villain-esque personage. Leonardo
DiCaprio excellent. Wrong choice of actor was Angelina Jolie in Changeling,
which I more like to watch her as goodwill ambassador than an actress and
director. Therefore, I don’t see that she can take a part of heroine in
Changeling. I watched few scenes of it. I didn’t that she shows person. Jolie
tries act. Meeting with boy is overdramatized directing. Clint Eastwood chose
her due of match to women of 20s. If I have curious in Morgan Freeman in
implementation of Nelson Mandela as accent by watched trailer, but it promised
using of real event as pattern pathos story, which was in American Sniper
(2014). I read autobiographic book of Chris Kyle and I had wider look in
trailer watching. Fictionalized Hollywood epic where book of real man used as
basis. I didn’t want to see what director did in Sully (2016) and Richard
Jewell (2019) where I know that he combined two people in one and entered
imagined sex scene. Moreover, Olivia Wilde. I never saw feeling in her
personages. Take real people as acting themselves in The 15:17 to Paris (2018)
wasn’t what I would do. I had strong feelings to don’t watch Hereafter (2010)
and Jersey Boys (2014), which based on musical on real band Four Seasons.
Gran Torino (2008). Walt Kowalski in this
film represents a past world, which of strong and free people. Of course, his behavior
isn’t always correct as Eastwood’s hero isn’t humble to say pejorative words to
non-white while he is a wise and strong personality who makes relationship with
Asian boy. A first screenplay by Nick Schenk is powerful in story and have a
lot of giving for thinking. Clint Eastwood said in Gran Torino that he is
finishing with acting while, fortunately, he returned.
The Mule (2018). A successful decision was in
using basis of real story and that a screenplay wrote Nick Schenk. A movie is relevant
for today as was and still Gran Torino. Topics, as excellent scene with stinged
political correctness in society of weak people who can’t change a wheel, and
tremendous story about Earl Stone became transporters of drugs. He knows what
in bags, but he sees that for earning money will help people while he doesn’t
understand that delivered things will overweight in bringing deaths. It’s film
will long for different discussing. A living thriving island in an ocean of
faceless (please, stop writing these kind sentences!).
Clint Eastwood directed and performed a lead
character in Cry Macho while Nick Schenk worked on a screenplay, which was
original was written in 70s by Nathan Richard Nusbaum who attempted to sale and
eventually adapted into a book in 1975. It projected many actors and Clint
Eastwood interested in 1988, but changed on playing Inspector Harry Callahan in
The Dead Pool. Thirty-three years later, he revised the story, which currently
is finished in production and get ready to appear on screens.
