A hat on Clint Eastwood again.

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.