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I liked it. A big message in various situations that said “this is the right way to behave” to the couple with the broken down car, to the guy who was stopped by the police, even to his character when his ex was sick. Some decet role modeling.......
George Burns = my first thought when I read that post.
(and, seconds after I typed George Burns in this post, a very minor older character in DD mentioned George Burns (I have Dirty Dancing on in the background on the Freeform Channel)).
He didn't end up keeping the gig but, IIRC, for quite a while George Burns was booked into the London Palladium for his 100th birthday (he did live to be 100 though ).
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Saw it today...it was GREAT!
I have comments, sure....doesn't matter ..see it!
Oh, and I knew the music would be fabulous since he is a jazz/blues connoisseur.
Didn't disappoint!
The music was pretty good. I particularly liked seeing and hearing Clint Eastwood sing along to those tunes while driving. Never even heard of half of them. I liked the movie overall, but found a few scenes were very unnecessary, the dancing scene at the drug lord's house was one.
What really is so interesting about this film, is that it's mostly true. Who would have thought a 90-year old man would be a mule for a Mexican cartel, just so incredibly odd.
Spoiler:
And yet its the truth and he carried on that way for about ten years. Another thing I liked was how charitable he was, stopping to help others, giving back financially to things he believed in....
Clint Eastwood did an excellent job playing this role.
I dont like the way modern movies depict DEA and other narco law enforcement, as the 'good guys', 'doing their job to protect public health and safety'...CMON! They are in league with the drug cartels...
Without a steady consistent flow of drugs coming in, law enforcement could not continue to wage the drug war, likewise, without the tough laws against drugs, the cartels would not have such a profitable market, both rely on each other to thrive.
Like the heroin epidemics today, no one ever stops to wonder how THIS MUCH dope consistently comes in and reaches its destination, Im sorry, but that does not happen totally under the radar!
I just tried to watch it and despised everything about it. I stopped watching maybe a quarter of the way through, then picked it back up a few days later and watched another third of it then just gave up. Why Clint would end his career on this garbage is beyond me. I don't want to see Clint on film at this age even if the movie wasn't terrible, I don't want to remember him a trembling, wrinkled up old man.
Just a terrible film in every way.
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I just tried to watch it and despised everything about it. I stopped watching maybe a quarter of the way through, then picked it back up a few days later and watched another third of it then just gave up. Why Clint would end his career on this garbage is beyond me. I don't want to see Clint on film at this age even if the movie wasn't terrible, I don't want to remember him a trembling, wrinkled up old man.
Just a terrible film in every way.
WHAT??!?!?!?!?!?!
I LOVED this gem of a film. In fact, it was just as good as Gran Torino. Fantastically acted by Eastwood, relatable and sympathetic characters, and a compelling, sentimental plot based on a true story. What else do you need in a film?!
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