Clint Eastwood is one of the best directors workin

[Guest TheLastBoyscout]

Wrap your head around that one, why don't you?

 

Clint's been not only one of the best directors in America, but also one of the ebst actor/directors ever.

 

What can you say about a guy who has movies like:

 

PLAY MISTY FOR ME

HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER

THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES

SUDDEN IMPACT

PALE RIDER

WHITE HUNTER, BLACK HEART

UNFORGIVEN

A PERFECT WORLD

MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL

MYSTIC RIVER

MILLION DOLLAR BABY

 

...under his belt?

 

UNFORGIVEN especially may very well be the equal of any Western made by guys like Howard Hawks and John Ford.

 

Discuss.

[Guest The Shadow Behind You]

Wrap my head around that?

 

I hate that fucking term with a huge fucking passion.

 

anyways; his credentials speak for themselves with Unforgiven, A Perfect World, Mystic River and Million Dollar Baby.

[godthedog 0]

not one of the best directors ever, i'd say. he also made some extremely lightweight, forgettable crap.

[Guest TheLastBoyscout]

not one of the best directors ever, i'd say. he also made some extremely lightweight, forgettable crap.

Any director who's made a lot of movies at all has made a bunch of crap.

[Henry Spencer 0]

not one of the best directors ever, i'd say.  he also made some extremely lightweight, forgettable crap.

Any director who's made a lot of movies at all has made a bunch of crap.

Hitchcock made a metric assload of movies, and maintained a pretty high consistancy of quality.

[Insane Bump Machine 0]

Hitchcock himself didn't like a lot of his earlier films. And he did make some forgettable stuff like Under Capricorn or Topaz (although I kinda liked that one). But still, Hitchcock is probably one of the most consistant directors.

 

I agree with the topic, Eastwood is one of the best living Amercan directors. Scorsese is still ahead of him, but there's not much else. Altman maybe.

[Guest El Satanico]

Eastwood has made more mediocre or bad films than good films, but I suppose his good films are enough to make him ONE of the best current working. I have no clue where he would rank, but somewhere.

[godthedog 0]

i do like his meaty, functional style, which is part of his great sense of HOW to tell a story in the best standard manner possible, but he doesn't seem to have a great sense of judgment about WHAT kinds of stories are really worth telling.

 

of those working today, i'd put payne, both andersons, scorsese, sofia coppola, polanski and zwigoff ahead of him.

[Insane Bump Machine 0]

payne, both andersons, scorsese, sofia coppola, polanski and zwigoff ahead of him.

you mean Wes and Paul Anderson, not Paul W.S., right?

 

Payne and Coppola don't really have a big body of work to judge their skills, haven't they. And if we're talking international directors we can't forget about guys like Wong Kar-Wai or Zhang Yimou, who are both bringing the goods with everything they're working on.

[Guest El Satanico]

No...GTD adores Alien Vs. Predator and Mortal Kombat: The Movie

[Guest Boomer Sprinklespax]

Uh...QT, anyone? Aronofsky? Soderbergh, for christ's sake?

[Black Lushus 0]

did he direct Heartbreak Ridge also? If so, THUMBS UP!

[Guest Boomer Sprinklespax]

Mario Van Peebles ruled in that flick.

[Swift Terror 0]

He did direct Heartbreak Ridge

 

"damn, this guy's hardcore...I know, wait till Swede gets here, he'll take care of him"

 

"swede, swede, swede, swede, swede, swede"

 

Swede, after getting ass kicked by Clint: "Sorry sir, I'll report to the brig."

[Guest M. Harry Smilac]

Unforgiven was great.

Mystic River and anything else was pretty forgettable.

 

Eastwood was a great actor but he brings nothing special to the table when it comes to directing.

 

Unforgiven is the only one i'd call great and that's probably more to do with working with Leone in the past and learning from the master.

[Black Lushus 0]

yeah i would have to call Mystic River one pretty overrated movie with an actor trying TOO hard to win Best Actor that year...

[Ripper 0]

Unforgiven was a great movie to me.

 

 

And Bridges of Madison County ownz you bitches and you know it. Stop leaving it off.

 

Clint is a great director, but mostly to his minimalist approach to it. He doens't try to do anything dynamic. Thats why he is so good. But as mentioned in this thread, there are quite a few better today let alone ever.