Clint Eastwood Movies

moonshinerocks

I watched the Dirty Harry series of films recently, and I loved them. I would like to know what other Clint Eastwood movies that people rate so I can watch them too. I reckon he starred in LOT, so if I have some guide to what is highly rated and what is not that would be great. Watched Every Which Way But Loose and was not a fan. I know people's opinions are subjective but any recommendations would be appreciated.

Glico Man

I've just finished watching Gran Torino and highly recommend it

mikhail

Dirty Harry is only half of how he made his name. The other, earlier half comprises his westerns, starting with Leone's classic Dollars trilogy:
A Fistful of Dollars
For a Few Dollars More
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
These films were ugly and violent by the standards of the time, though they're classics for their incredible cinematography, Ennio Morricone scores and trademark duels.

He made a lot of westerns after that, but probably the single best is the multiple-Oscar-winning Unforgiven. Eastwood bought the script more than a decade before making it, and waited until he was old enough to play the retired gun-slinger lead role. It's probably the most famous of the revisionist Westerns, deconstructing the gun-slinger myth that Eastwood helped cement in the public mind.

Ulysses Gaze

The Dollars Trilogy
Play Misty For Me
The Unforgiven
Pale Rider
High Plains Drifter

rednik

The outlaw Josey Wales.
Coogan's bluff
In the line of fire
Kelly's Heroes
Where eagles dare

Josey Wales

He has so many outstanding movies as both an actor and director.

The Outlaw Josey Wales
High Plains Drifter
In the Line of Fire
Changeling
Million Dollar Baby
Gran Torino
Letters from Iwo Jima
Mystic River
Unforgiven
Where Eagles Dare

Phony Scott

Clint Eastwood is a real provocateur, in so far as he makes you think about morals and eithics in most of his films, unlike the vast majority of other film makers. Sometimes I find his work is utterly brilliant (as in Unforgiven, Mystic River and Gran Tarino) to extremely objectionable (the first act of High Plains Drifter and pretty much the whole of Sudden Impact). He's done lighter fare, such as Where Eagles Dare (watch at Christmas!) Kelly's Heroes (great fun), but also done some pretty awful stuff like Firefox (avoid) and City Heat (avoid). Overall, you'll find Eastwood has made more brilliant films than not, once he's gone, cinema will have lost one the last true greats...

Duggy747

Phony Scott wrote: »

Overall, you'll find Eastwood has made more brilliant films than not, once he's gone, cinema will have lost one the last true greats...

Which is why people need to appreciate the man while he's still here churning out high quality stuff at an incredible rate.

A legend, a blueprint for all "action" heros that would follow.

patch

Thunderbolt and lightfoot with jeff bridges is top notch.

mike65

The Beguiled 1971, only Eastwood would have made this film. Southern Gothic melodrama about a wounded soldier who finds himself in a pressure cooker of repressed sexuality and envy.

Nolanger

Breezy the actress in it is the spitting image of Hilary Swank!

Cactus Colm

A Perfect World is well worth a watch. Directed by Eastwood, starring himself and Kevin Costner (Eastwood in a smaller role here though). Costner plays an escaped convict who kidnaps a child and goes on the run with him through Texas. Eastwood plays the police chief tasked with catching him.

I guess because of it's slow pace it has become something of a forgotten / underappreciated film in both Eastwood's and Cosnter's careers, but it's a great little movie, and well worth watching.

Latchy

All of the above mentioned but if you want Clint in something with a slightly different role than his more familiar ones ,The Bridges of Maddison County with Meryl Streep is another interesting one

The Beguiled is one to watch to ,all that sexual tension with Clint and a bunch of nymphos .

Harrocks

The Living legend turned 81 recently.Always looked after himself fitness wise
Another good movie of his is Heartbreak ridge

LowOdour

Cactus Colm wrote: »

A Perfect World is well worth a watch. Directed by Eastwood, starring himself and Kevin Costner (Eastwood in a smaller role here though). Costner plays an escaped convict who kidnaps a child and goes on the run with him through Texas. Eastwood plays the police chief tasked with catching him.

I guess because of it's slow pace it has become something of a forgotten / underappreciated film in both Eastwood's and Cosnter's careers, but it's a great little movie, and well worth watching.

Great shout, had forgotten bout this fijm

paulosham

I like The Bridges of Madison County

Duggy747

Don't forget the 1978 action movie The Gauntlet where he's a drunken cop who has to protect a witness from everyone trying to kill her.

It climaxes with them driving a bus that gets shot to shìt. The whole movie was loosely remade with Bruce Willis in 16 Blocks.

Kick ass poster, too :pac:

Phony Scott

Duggy747 wrote: »

Kick ass poster, too :pac:

After seeing that poster, this poster makes a hell of a lot more sense! :pac:

Renn

Up there with the most overrated directors of the last 10 years? Definitely.

High Plains Drifter > * btw.

BopNiblets

Don't forget Pale Rider, he's a priest who hits Jaws from the Bond films in the nuts with a sledgehammer!
Clint rocks.

patch

Renn wrote: »

Up there with the most overrated directors of the last 10 years? Definitely.

High Plains Drifter > * btw.

He's made a couple of turkeys, blood work springs to mind, but he's directed some excellent movies.
Compare his body of work to any of the great directors and I reckon on a numbers verus quality ratio he is near the top of the list.
And high plains drifer is great in so many ways. A horror/ghost story/western? Groundbreaking.

Phony Scott

patch wrote: »

Compare his body of work to any of the great directors and I reckon on a numbers verus quality ratio he is near the top of the list.

Agreed. I have my issues with High Plains Drifter as I've already stated, but it's far from an awful movie. Get past the opening act, which almost ruins the film and its a cracking western.

Renn

The opening act is one of the best things he's done

Skerries

Phony Scott wrote: »

After seeing that poster, this poster makes a hell of a lot more sense! :pac:

Fromvert

Come on lads, Every Which Way But Loose and Any Which Way You Can are must sees.

Clint Eastwood, an Orangutan and underground bare knuckle boxing. With that combination you can't go wrong.

CarrickMcJoe

What about THE DEAD POOL , great car chase with Eastwood against the remote control car rigged with a bomb.

moonshinerocks

Many thanks for all the recommendations/analysis. What I have learnt is that there are many many great Eastwood films, so I have decided to make it my mission to watch EVERY single film that he has ever starred in. If I can get my hands on them all! Watched Every Which Way But Loose for a second time last night, enjoyed it more. I think I was expecting him to be Dirty Harry the first time and he wasn't. I still don't think there was good chemistry between him and his manager (not sure who played that role but he looked terribly familiar). Think I'll watch Play Misty For Me next. Saw the end of it a few years ago and it drew me right in.

patch

Misty is a good one, actually the first feature he directed.
Loosely remade as fatal attraction iirc.

paulosham

moonshinerocks wrote: »

I still don't think there was good chemistry between him and his manager (not sure who played that role but he looked terribly familiar).

That was Geoffrey Lewis, he's been in around 5 or 6 films with Clint and almost every TV show going since the early 70s.

longshanks

No mention of Bird yet? Or alcatraz? tsk tsk people, tsk tsk





















and don't get me started this

crash davis

God, so many of his are brilliant, both as a director and an actor. In the Line of Fire hasn't been mentioned yet, has it? Great flick.

Sir Gallagher

No mention of Space Cowboys.. a terrible movie by all accounts yet strangely enjoyable.

ronoc 1

saw the beguiled recently imo his best performance,the look of horror on his face when he sees

his leg is amputated

didnt realize he could be such a good actor btw is that his only acting role where he plays a bad guy

donfers

there is a box-set of 35 of his movies for 60 euros in hmv at the moment, good value at less than 2 euro a movie

but be warned some good 'uns are missing

none of the leone westerns, no misty, no beguiled, no high plains drifter, no escape from alcatraz, no in the line of fire, no million dollar baby, no changeling but pretty much everything else

worth a buy? or disappointed by the exclusions?

patch

donfers wrote: »

there is a box-set of 35 of his movies for 60 euros in hmv at the moment, good value at less than 2 euro a movie

but be warned some good 'uns are missing

none of the leone westerns, no misty, no beguiled, no high plains drifter, no escape from alcatraz, no in the line of fire, no million dollar baby, no changeling but pretty much everything else

worth a buy? or disappointed by the exclusions?

Hmmm, might be good if it had some of the more elusive titles.
Still want to see breezy which he directed.
I suppose many such as myself would already own a good few of his best ones.

Duggy747

I saw that boxset too, some good movies in there but not all the classics.

Anyways, I'm the midsts of updating my Clint Eastwood collection to HD. (Unforgiven looks excellent!)