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What's your favourite Clint Eastwood film?

• What's your favourite Clint Eastwood film?

• What's your favourite Clint Eastwood film?

  Chillblane > 26/06/2012, 19:40

  As the subject asks, what is your favourite Clint Eastwood film?
  
  This is not as easy to answer as you may think as he's done some amazing films, Dirty Harry (there's 5 of them and they are all good), Heartbreak Ridge, the Spaghetti Western trilogy, and that's just a few of them.
  
  For me this is a 3 horse race:
  
  The original Dirty Harry (the only time if he actually asked anyone if they were feeling lucky by the way, never repeated in any of the other 4 sequels) where he plays Harry Calahan who's always getting the 'dirty' jobs, proper hard faced but with a clear sense of right and wrong.
  
  Heartbreak Ridge - Clint plays a Drill Instructor charged with whipping a unit into shape. There are some very dry comedy moment in this film but its the ending that really makes this film stand out for me when the unit is actually deployed in a real war zone lead by Clint. Classic stuff and way better than Full Metal Jacket (not that FMJ was a bad film by any strech).
  
  Gran Torino - Clint as a grumpy pensioner who has issues with new neighbours and gangland violence. Contains some very pertinent issues regarding race and tolerance as well as one man's need to shelter and protect those who need his help.
  
  Because i feel that Cran Torino is the most moving of all these films it's my favourite Clint Eastwood film, even though the others are well worth a watch this is the one i would recommend to anyone who wants to see Clint at his best.

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  raylovschicks > 13/10/2012, 23:37

  Love all his films,,but this is my fave by far,,he potrays his character like no other can,,just a GOD...

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  Clitterbug > 13/10/2012, 23:43

  I liked Play Misty for Me not so much for Clint but for the mad bitch {dunno her name} who was obsessed with him, it was all a bit Charlie Manson i thought, but for a Clint Performance id go for The Unforgiven.

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  RussyRover > 14/10/2012, 01:24

  the mad bitch was Jessica Walter clitterbug...
  
  For me, the final scene in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly is the best, whether that is due totally to Clint or not, I'm not sure... but for me the best film he is in.
  
  
  
  
  
  Purely on Clint Eastwood, yeah I'd agree with Dirty Harry, the original that stood out for me.
  
  
  
  
  
  Because I really liked the films, Kelly's Heroes is also worth a mention as is Escape from Alcatraz, but as you say Chillblane, there are so many, it does get hard to sort them out.
  
  

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  UubbaGuubba > 17/10/2012, 20:15

  Yeah loads of classics but some stinkers also imo
  
  Liked;
  Pale Rider
  Unforgiven
  Gran Torino
  
  Didnt like;
  Heartbreak Ridge (sorry!)
  Firefox
  Space Cowboys (wtf were they thinking?)
  
  PS does anyoe ele have trouble typin on the forum - I have to proof read everythingbecause nt all etters make onto the page! - see what I mean......

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  Clitterbug > 17/10/2012, 20:18

  uubba yes ll the tme mae also eems to be a slight lag now aswell, unless my typins getn quicker lol

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  raylovschicks > 18/10/2012, 19:32

  
  
  THIS IS CLASS BIGTIME...

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  spunkathon > 24/10/2012, 21:10

  I always had a soft spot for The Gauntlet. Another one with Sondra Locke, but it followed his Dirty Harry tough guy image, and I loved the ending with the armour plated bus.
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