Clint Eastwood: My Top 15 Favorite Movies ...Punk.

1219   7.4   8.2 

The chemistry that results from Clint Eastwood's & Morgan Freeman's presence in this movie epitomizes the main thing I like about Million Dollar Baby. These are two seasoned actors so comfortable in their craft, that they both simply move in this film with a flowing ease of two veterans of their field who are just willing to allow the emotion of the story & the naturalness & trust of each other's acting ability to drive the momentum of this movie. And their chemistry of friendship, as cliche as it sounds, truly belies on the phrase of that "indescribable something" & yet, it's so tangible that the much younger yet equally talented Hilary Swank can't help but to follow suit in doing. It all leads to an overall performance from the trio that makes this a film whose power stems not from the boxing themes that one would usually expect from a boxing flick, but more from the emotions that weave & tie the characters together & allows the plot to unfold at it's own volition. In the end, it seems almost overkill to describe Million Dollar Baby as anything other than a boxing film that focuses on the female contingent of the sport directed by & starring Eastwood, along with Hillary Swank & Morgan Freeman.
Or in other words, a film that had me at "Mo Cuishle".

The Mighty Celestial's rating:

555   7.9   8.3 

"That's right. I'm Will Munny and I've killed women and children. I've killed everything that walks or crawls at one time or another. And I'm here to kill you, Little Bill......"



This film could've also been called The Final Chapter Of The Man With No Name, But Now We've Given Him A Name, Punk.

The Mighty Celestial's rating:

229   7.2   7.2 

A truly romantic story of how the escapist fantasy high/feeling that initially results with falling in love must eventually be realistically dealt with, as the conditions & responsibilities of one's current situation come quickly creeping back in. This movie always reminds of something I heard once: that couples pairing up for the sake of true love is still a relatively young concept in the context of human history. That we as both a society & a species over-all, have not evolved enough yet to be able to deal & accept each other in a manner that would be considered as total unconditonal love (which is the only real love). And it is because of this that the world population has yet been unable to formulate an effective means of discussion that would truly begin a process of unity between it's racial, social & in this case, gender factions. Maybe, like this film depicts, this is why so many make decisions more for the sake of a security based on social & financial reasons than what is right for us on an emotional level. And as they impeded on Robert Kincaid (Eastwood) & Francesca Johnson (Streep), decisions which may impede on our ability to follow our hearts & therefore sway us, individually and socially, from a path that would lead to true love before it's too late.

The Mighty Celestial's rating:

751   8.4   9 

At the outset of the first western movies, the cowboy characters had been categorized between two basic types: Those who wore the white hats, & those who wore the black ones.
As time passed though, the hat colors began to blur between who was bad, who was bad, & then to eventually who was just plain ugly.
Though the final film in the "Man With No Name" trilogy, IMO, the best & most definitive one of the three.
It's almost impossible to think of the genre of the spaghetti western, let alone this particular series & not think of the iconic trio of Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef & Eli Wallach.

The Mighty Celestial's rating:

357   7.5   7.9 

Clint Eastwood begins his tour as the S.F. cop with a 70's machismo chip on his shoulder who consistently talks thru incessantly gritted teeth & who enjoys pissing off his superiors & welding big handguns like they were just a natural extension of what makes Harry so dirty to begin with.



He's mad as hell and he's not gonna take it anymore, punk!

The Mighty Celestial's rating:

78   6.5   7 

She's crazy as hell and she's not gonna take it anymore, Clint!

The Mighty Celestial's rating:

69   6.4   6.6 

Typical Dirty Harry fare, but now with a female partner.
However, despite being forced to side up with a Women's Lib quota filler,
Clint Eastwood, just like in the first Dirty Harry, still "manages to carry a 70's machismo chip on his shoulder, talk thru incessantly gritted teeth, piss off his superiors & weld big handguns like they were just a natural extension of what makes Harry so dirty to begin with".

The Mighty Celestial's rating:

118   7.3   7.8 

Same thing I said about The Enforcer, except replace "Dirty Harry" with "The Man With No Name But Now With A Name", "Women's Lib quota filler" with "Social-Conscious National Regret", "70's" with "1870's", and "big handguns" with "long-ass six-shooters".

The Mighty Celestial's rating:

463   7.4   8.1 

Clint Eastwood excellently directs this tale of the pacific war from the view of a band Japanese.
A country in which the war is not just against the the Allies, but also in a war within intself between the new methods & technology of the new age against it's revered ancient traditions of honor for one's native land & emperor, not to mention against the obligational feelings towards own family.
Who knew that a tale about the "other side" would make such a great American movie?



I know that Clint doesn't actually act in this one, but I was really impressed with this film, that I just had to include it on this list.

The Mighty Celestial's rating:

355   7.6   8 

Fueled with the advent of the spaghetti westerns, the icon of the cowboy had begun to evolve into a more complex figure, of the quiet lone wolf who's only identity traits were marked by the mystery of his identity & by the grit of his character.
Thus began this particular sub-genre within a genre, which eventually lead to A Fistful Of Dollers, & even more later on, to a memorable trilogy of an non-American telling of an American icon.

The Mighty Celestial's rating:

331   7.8   8.3 

The Man With No Name returns, but now, he comes with a name, ("Manco"....?), teams up with a partner (Col. Mortimer) & this time around, is out for more than just a fistful of dollars.

The Mighty Celestial's rating:

85   6.7   7.5 

Take a heist movie & combine it with a war movie & what do get?
Three Kings.
Take a heist movie & combine it with a war movie both made in the beginning of the 70's decade & what do you get?
Kelly's Heroes.

A cool cast of actors that include the ever reliable Clint Eastwood, Teddy Savales, Carroll O'Connor, Don frikkin' Rickles & an offbeat yet definitely fun & memorable role from Donald Sutherland.

The Mighty Celestial's rating:

55   5.9   6.2 

The gaunlet has been thrown down & Dirty Harry has accepted the challenge.
Even if the only way of getting there means that he has to take a bus.

The Mighty Celestial's rating:

293   5.6   6.3 

In space, no one can hear an old man fart.

The Mighty Celestial's rating:

497   8.1   8.4 

"Ever notice how you come across somebody who you never should've f#cked with?
That's me."

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