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The Outlaw Josey Wales is the single best Clint Eastwood movie he made, in my opinion. I do believe I heard him express the same opinion in an interview. One heck of a good movie that was done well on all levels. Kinda like Burt Reynolds in Deliverance, one of their all time best individual performances that will stand the test of time, yet not quite good enough at the time they were released to win the top honors. Someone noted John Wayne, he had a ton of movies I'd love to watch most anytime. My favorite is True Grit, followed by the Jeff Bridges remake. Though, the Jeff Bridges version was most remarkable and probably the better of the two, I still feel loyalty to the John Wayne version.

"Hell of a thing, killing a man. Take away all he's got, and all he's ever gonna have."

I'm still trying to figure out why this is on the handgun forum.

You should try and get to the bottom of that.


Travis

yep. I watched it last night too. one of the great all time movies, period.

moral of the story is don't give clint whiskey.

My fault, I was in a hurry when I created this Post. Was surfing the Fire while watching Unforgiven.

Agree.

disagree, it is 2nd best. however ... you shouldn't take that to mean that I like tombstone any less ...

You'd have to be born without a penis to be concerned about where you posted your thought.



Travis

'Hang 'em High' is pretty good too but 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly' is the greatest western of all time.

Nobody has mentioned "Two Mules For Sister Sarah"

It's one of my favorite Eastwood "oldies"

+1. Favorite part of mine is at the end where he's telling them all not to shoot at him or he'll kill them and their families and burn their houses down.

i like the entire kaleidoscope of Eastwood westerns...

in my mind, what "makes them" is the very clever, succinct one-liners throughout the drama...


they were so memorable, that from the mid 70's onward, whenever Pat (scenarshooter), and i would call each other to visit, we would often start our conversation with some verbatim--or creatively modified--'Eastwood line'--replete with "the voice" to break the ice...it was always a fun way to start a nice visit--visits about the next hunt, what we were working on, etc., etc.

a few years back, on one rainy Memorial day weekend, wifey and i went to Wallyworld to buy a couple movies for the weekend. i selected a couple of Eastwood's films. while shopping, we ran into the local police chief, and subsequently, wife and he began to visit. when he saw the flicks in my hand, he laughed and mentioned that they were some of his very favorites. i had to laugh too--because no matter who you are, they are easily accepted as a fundamental part of our culture and upbringing...

The Searchers is the best movie ever made. Since it's also a western, it is the best western ever made. The Outlaw Josey Wales, High Plains Drifter, Kelly's Heroes and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly are all better Eastwood movies than Unforgiven. Unforgiven has its moments, but it wouldn't even make my top twenty all-time westerns. Maybe the top hundred. I have to conclude that a lot of folks just haven't watched many westerns.

Gene Hackman was in quite a few westerns, but I just don't see him as a western actor. I would have liked to have seen somebody like Tom Selleck, cast against type, as Little Bill.

My wife and I are Eastwood fans but I can take or leave Unforgiven although that's one of my wife's favorite movies.

Eastwood has certainly become an American icon.

My favorite scene is near the end. Eastwood walks into a bar with a 12ga. SxS and faces down 20 bad guys including ole English Bob. little Bill

English Bob is run out of town well before that scene.



Travis

Yes and Yes .... Grand Torino is 95 % great ... except for the ending.

should have said Little Bill

"All right, I'm coming out! Any man I see out there, I'm gonna kill him! Any sonofabitch takes a shot at me.. I'm not only gonna kill him, I'm gonna kill his wife, all his friends, and burn his damn house down!"