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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Chris L on October 25, 2008, 09:47:14 AM
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I'm not sure why that's not the actual title. Harrison Ford probably threatened to sue.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/grantorino/
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Spitting women - the best.
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Maybe I'm saying something entirely obvious here, but with the amount of respect Eastwood always gets you never know: doesn't this look like total garbage?
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Maybe I'm saying something entirely obvious here, but with the amount of respect Eastwood always gets you never know: doesn't this look like total garbage?
I'll never understand why he gets so much credit for his directorial work. So incredibly overrated. I've also never understood why Angelina Jolie got praise (aside from her looks) so I'm glad to see a project between the two is getting mixed reviews. The trailer looks horrendous.
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This sure looks like white-man-saves-the-day colonialist fantasy garbage. Why isn't Sylvester Stallone starring?
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Eastwood's a terrific director. Million Dollar Baby and Flags of our Fathers are both top notch. There are some stinkers in there (Blood Work? ugh), but I just saw Unforgiven recently, and it holds up, and White Hunter Black Heart is as good a film as anybody could have made with Jeff Fahey.
Talk up people you like, it's bound to be lots more interesting than slams on easy targets. Tell me which film personnel I can productively spend my time with. Guy Maddin anyone?
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Maybe I'm saying something entirely obvious here, but with the amount of respect Eastwood always gets you never know: doesn't this look like total garbage?
The trailer makes it look like a straight up b-movie* incongruously directed with the solemnity of Mystic River. Clint should at least stop scoring these movies himself, or at least liven up the soundtrack with that mysterious cd Skag Winesack received in the mail that time (http://www.wfmu.org/listen.ram?show=8877&archive=9116&starttime=2:19:41).
*not to be confused with Straight Up: Bee Movie 2
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I think Clint Eastwood the Director is a ponderous, manipulative, overrated hack.
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I think Clint Eastwood the Director is a ponderous, manipulative, overrated hack.
but i still want to see this piece of garbage.... although i feel like i just saw the whole thing.
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I'll go on record as saying that I'm an Eastwood supporter.
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Upon further reflection: I don't know why anyone would care about that
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GET OFF MY LAWN. this movie would have to suck serious dick for me to not want to get a GET OFF MY LAWN tattoo.
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I love Clint Eastwood as a B-movie vigilante. This seemed okay for the first half of the trailer while it looked like a hilarious comedy to me. The vibe of the movie gets mixed up along the way though.
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Million Dollar Baby and Mystic River are two of the worst films ever made. Underrated Eastwood: A Perfect World.
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You know, I never thought to check on this, but does he talk in the weird teeth-clenching bad-boy voice in real life?
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You know, I never thought to check on this, but does he talk in the weird teeth-clenching bad-boy voice in real life?
Only to his grandchildren
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Yesterday I was looking for a picture of a very young, scrawny Clint Eastwood in a superhero costume (I thought this was from Le Streghe, but I didn't find it there), and I came across something that said the reason Sergio Leone chose him as the man with no name is that he only has two expressions, "one with the hat, and one without it."
P.S. This post is beautifully badly written.
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Great quote though!
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Who in the world is going to buy into this movie but old men with little flags.
McCain is going to take his grandkids to see this on the weekend. He'll lean over and growl to the kid stuck sitting next to him, "this is how my generation handled things, son."
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Eastwood the director gets my eternal respect for Unforgiven. I haven't seen a lot of his other stuff.
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Unforgiven is one of his best*. But that had the self-awareness to know that it was about a character at the end of his life, well past a hey-day that we'll never know, and don't want to know. But, unless the trailer is presenting it in some skewed light, Get Off My Lawn looks like white-panic revenge film. I don't like to think of Clint Eastwood as a deluded old man, ("Sure, my character could fight off 10 gang members... will I have a big gun?"), so I really hope there is another layer to this movie that isn't being conveyed.
*and stars the great Saul Rubinek!
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But, unless the trailer is presenting it in some skewed light, Get Off My Lawn looks like white-panic revenge film. I don't like to think of Clint Eastwood as a deluded old man, ("Sure, my character could fight off 10 gang members... will I have a big gun?")
This description makes Get Off My Lawn seem like it might be the 6th Dirty Harry movie.
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Who in the world is going to buy into this movie but old men with little flags.
McCain is going to take his grandkids to see this on the weekend. He'll lean over and growl to the kid stuck sitting next to him, "this is how my generation handled things, son. HEHHHH???"
Fixed.
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I'm not so sure about the white-panic theme, to me it looks more like Clint starts off as a grumpy old git but Learns Valuable Life Lessons along the way, chiefly through his awkward/forced relationship with the neighbor's kid. I'm guessing the violent stuff is a side plot (though I expect one of the last scenes of the movie to be the kid visiting Clint in the hospital after the climactic showdown between the gang and Clint/kid).
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Here's how I would end this movie:
Clint gets the neighbor kid killed in a drive-by with his tough-guy act, thus earning the total enmity of his neighbors. He also gets thoroughly terrorized by the gangstas who also have access to very large guns (even though they aren't vets, they can still get, and use, weapons!). He becomes a drunk recluse who tries and fails to get the nerve to shoot himself in the head. The gangsters take over the neighborhood and learn to begrudgingly respect this grizzled old coot now that he is no longer a threat and has instead become a kooky neighborhood drunk pariah who rants to himself and kicks dogs. The gangstas will occasionally assault members of the neighbor family, or torture their pets, but as time goes on they leave the crazy old man alone. Eventually the old man dies and his kids inherit the house. They rent it out to some local (white) graduate students who are completely oblivious/indifferent to the low level of sustained terror surrounding them. They start a kickball league at the neighborhood park and begin a renaissance of re-gentrification that promises to drive the gangstas out of town. This is signified by two gangsta dudes sitting on a park bench watching sadly as some dude in American Apparel short shorts brushes aside crack vials and used condoms off of the baseball diamond and picks a Domino's pizza box out of the trash and says "This'll be home base" as another girl wearing enormous and chunky 80's retro glasses and a neon-green tube-top smokes a parliament and drinks a Sparks out of a paper bag. One gangsta turns to the other and goes "What happened to the neighborhood, man?"
www.sadtrombone.com
The End.
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Here's how I would end this movie:
Clint gets the neighbor kid killed in a drive-by with his tough-guy act, thus earning the total enmity of his neighbors. He also gets thoroughly terrorized by the gangstas who also have access to very large guns (even though they aren't vets, they can still get, and use, weapons!). He becomes a drunk recluse who tries and fails to get the nerve to shoot himself in the head. The gangsters take over the neighborhood and learn to begrudgingly respect this grizzled old coot now that he is no longer a threat and has instead become a kooky neighborhood drunk pariah who rants to himself and kicks dogs. The gangstas will occasionally assault members of the neighbor family, or torture their pets, but as time goes on they leave the crazy old man alone. Eventually the old man dies and his kids inherit the house. They rent it out to some local (white) graduate students who are completely oblivious/indifferent to the low level of sustained terror surrounding them. They start a kickball league at the neighborhood park and begin a renaissance of re-gentrification that promises to drive the gangstas out of town. This is signified by two gangsta dudes sitting on a park bench watching sadly as some dude in American Apparel short shorts brushes aside crack vials and used condoms off of the baseball diamond and picks a Domino's pizza box out of the trash and says "This'll be home base" as another girl wearing enormous and chunky 80's retro glasses and a neon-green tube-top smokes a parliament and drinks a Sparks out of a paper bag. One gangsta turns to the other and goes "What happened to the neighborhood, man?"
www.sadtrombone.com
The End.
And "The World Is In the Turlet" plays over the closing credits.
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www.sadtrombone.com
The End.
The best part. :)
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Clint attempts to get signed to Anti Records, sings the Golden Globe-nominated "Love Theme from Gran Torino" (my title):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEXF7U5TYV8
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When it comes to Eastwood as a director, there's really Space Cowboys and then there's everything else.
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www.sadtrombone.com
The End.
The best part. :)
THIS STORY: MADE. MY. DAY. Nice work, Hulk Junk.
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Ha! Thanks senorcorazon. I write what I know.
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When it comes to Eastwood as a director, there's really Space Cowboys and then there's everything else.
A-freakin'-men.
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David Poland: (http://www.mcnblogs.com/thehotblog/archives/2008/12/in_response_to.html)
With all due respect, Gran Torino is a sitcom quality "get off of my lawn" movie with an incredibly likeable lead actor (which keeps it from being unwachable) and an Outer Limits ending that would be beaten senseless if any less revered director had dared to release it.
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Every which way but loose is great, when they eat the clam chowder with dentures in it.
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I think Clint Eastwood the Director is a ponderous, manipulative, overrated hack.
Hear hear.
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Daily News
2008-12-14
YER ALL WIMPS!
Why Eastwood thinks America is full of babies
BY LARRY McSHANE
Thought of the FOT when I read this load of turd. Some highlights --
"TOUGH GUY Clint Eastwood believes America is getting soft around the middle -- and the iconic Oscar winner thinks he knows when the problem began.
'Maybe when people started asking about the meaning of life," Eastwood, 78, growls.
"Everyone's become used to saying 'Well, how do we handle it psychologically?' Eastwood says. 'In those days, you punched the bully back and duked it out.'"
"If a car doesn't have 400 air bags in it, then it's no good."
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"If a car doesn't have 400 air bags in it, then it's no good."
sorry, Clint, i dont feel like dying or becoming a vegetable because some jackass crashed into me.
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I posted this video to Facebook and captioned it, "Try to watch this trailer without giggling". I was specifically referring to the gritted-teeth delivery of the "Get off my lawn" line.
Ten minutes later, my friend's weird dad who is 50-something years old posted a response: "I don't understand what I'm supposed to be 'giggling' about".
I wondered if maybe he thought I was taking the themes of racism/ageism too lightly or something? But then another ten minutes later, his Facebook Status said, "Robert has joined the group Clint Eastwood is the Baddest MotherFucker Alive (http://www.facebook.com/groups.php?id=1455422963#/group.php?gid=2234893009)".
WTF passive aggressive??
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Friends' parents who are on facebook: weird.
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"If a car doesn't have 400 air bags in it, then it's no good."
sorry, Clint, i dont feel like dying or becoming a vegetable because some jackass crashed into me.
Back in those days if a jackass crashed into you, you crashed back and duked it out.
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Friends' parents who are on facebook: weird.
I guess you're sending a not so subtle hint about the propriety of us older folks getting into social networking, eh?
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I guess you're sending a not so subtle hint about the propriety of us older folks getting into social networking, eh?
It's not that at all. It's more a question of boundaries. If my Dad, or friends parent's were super into our gossip, I would be unnerved by that.
Won't you join me on Facebook, Dave?!?
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I guess you're sending a not so subtle hint about the propriety of us older folks getting into social networking, eh?
It's not that at all. It's more a question of boundaries. If my Dad, or friends parent's were super into our gossip, I would be unnerved by that.
Won't you join me on Facebook, Dave?!?
Would I have to post a picture? I HATE pictures.
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Just watched it. What a piece of shit.
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Just watched it. What a piece of shit.
Ha HA!
It's not like I was going to see this film in theaters, but now I probably won't even rent it.
Has anyone seen The Wrestler yet?
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But, unless the trailer is presenting it in some skewed light, Get Off My Lawn looks like white-panic revenge film. I don't like to think of Clint Eastwood as a deluded old man, ("Sure, my character could fight off 10 gang members... will I have a big gun?")
This description makes Get Off My Lawn seem like it might be the 6th Dirty Harry movie.
Although sometimes maybe the marketing is designed to throw viewers off the mark. I just read this in regard to this movie;
"I don't want to give away the ending, but suffice it to say that its take on vengeance and violence as the ultimate answers is not what you might expect from Dirty Harry."
Seems more Unforgiven than The Gauntlet, in retrospect.
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I want to shoot my mouth off about this movie so badly. I'm going to have to drop the 10 to speak accuratley, I guess.
For my money, Unforgiven was the best place to end the revenge/western flicks from the Old Guard of cinema, (plus the Old Guard never had the benefit of The Great Saul Rubineck!) Also, you never know if the ending is going to communicate what they think it is, or if the two hours of carnage couldn't possibly be reversed by a five minute nod to reason at the end of the film.
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Gross. The friend's father in question just posted this to Facebook:
____________ posted a link
Global Orgasm - December 21st, 2008 - Peace through Global Ecstasy
Source: www.globalorgasm.org
On December 21, 2008, the Synchronized Global Orgasm will create a concentrated influx of positive energy into the quantum field of the Earth by combining orgasm with conscious intention for Peace. Initiative by BaringWitness.org, design by Globulart Diseño, globulart.com
"GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR ORGASM TODAY EVERYBODY!!!"
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Gross. The friend's father in question just posted this to Facebook:
____________ posted a link
Global Orgasm - December 21st, 2008 - Peace through Global Ecstasy
Source: www.globalorgasm.org
On December 21, 2008, the Synchronized Global Orgasm will create a concentrated influx of positive energy into the quantum field of the Earth by combining orgasm with conscious intention for Peace. Initiative by BaringWitness.org, design by Globulart Diseño, globulart.com
"GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR ORGASM TODAY EVERYBODY!!!"
Is this guy RaveDad or what?
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haha amazing
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This thing is written by a guy who was behind Comedy Central's Let's Bowl as well as a lot of the old Amphetamine Reptile skits on their "Dope, Guns and Fucking in the Streets" VHS compilations. There's a particular style of humor there that people can either get into or not, I think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41-aKU0sZoE
I haven't seen it and don't know if I'll like it, but I'll certainly give it a shot.
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Yeah, yeah, I agree with most of what you guys are saying but you've got to admit, Eastwood tipping the barber so that he doesn't hit his "juggler" is pretty great.
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I saw the Gauntlet this week, directed by Clint.
It stunk!
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I was out visiting my dad over the holidays, and he really wanted to see this. So I went with him. It was genuinely the worst film I've seen in the theater since Deadly Force, featuring Wings Hauser as Stoney Cooper (which I saw as a pre-teen in a double feature with Angel. High School Honor Student by Day. Hollywood Hooker by Night. The MPAA ratings system was not much respected at the Cypress Twin Cinema).