Clint Eastwood in: GET OFF MY LAWN!

[dave from knoxville]

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

[Sarah]

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.

[Martin]

Great quote though!

[Spoony]

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."

[masterofsparks]

Eastwood the director gets my eternal respect for Unforgiven. I haven't seen a lot of his other stuff.

[Spoony]

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!

[masterofsparks]

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.

[John Junk 2.0]

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.

[Martin]

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).

[John Junk 2.0]

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?"
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The End.

[masterofsparks]

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?"
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The End.

And "The World Is In the Turlet" plays over the closing credits.

[Martin]

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The End.

The best part. 

[Chris L]

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

[JonFromMaplewood]

When it comes to Eastwood as a director, there's really Space Cowboys and then there's everything else.

[senorcorazon]

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The End.

The best part. 

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