Marty
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Post by Marty on Jan 16, 2006 7:42:39 GMT
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Post by Vercetti on Jan 16, 2006 16:20:40 GMT
Unforgiven Million Dollar Baby Mystic River The Outlaw Josey Wales High Plains Drifter Sudden Impact Blood Work Pale Rider Space Cowboys I have Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil ready to see and I'm looking forward to Flags of Our Fathers, Bird, Play Misty For Me, and A Perfect World.
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Post by RNL on Jan 16, 2006 21:07:46 GMT
1. Unforgiven (1992) 8/10 2. Flags of Our Fathers (2006) 5/10 3. Absolute Power (1997) 5/10 4. Mystic River (2003) 5/10 5. A Perfect World (1993) 4/10 6. Play Misty for Me (1971) 4/10 7. Million Dollar Baby (2004) 3/10 8. Sudden Impact (1983) 2/10 9. The Gauntlet (1977) 2/10
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Capo
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Post by Capo on Jan 16, 2006 21:15:05 GMT
1. Unforgiven 1992 2. High Plains Drifter 1972 3. Pale Rider 1985 4. Letters From Iwo Jima 20065. Flags of Our Fathers 20066. Million Dollar Baby 20047. Mystic River 20038. Absolute Power 1997
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Post by Mike Sullivan on Jan 16, 2006 21:43:41 GMT
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Post by jrod on Jan 20, 2006 3:06:12 GMT
Its more or less a "future" for his character in the Leone films to me. Hes the old man that used to be the Man with No Name (or presumably someont like him). I agree that it isnt anything new, but it was a creative continuation I think. Pale Rider Sudden Impact Unforgiven Mystic River Million Dollar Baby Ugh, didnt Million Dollar Baby win our Best Picture last year on the old board? From the looks of this Id like to know who voted for it.
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Post by svsg on Jan 20, 2006 5:16:43 GMT
mystic river
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Capo
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Post by Capo on Jan 20, 2006 20:20:35 GMT
Ugh, didnt Million Dollar Baby win our Best Picture last year on the old board? From the looks of this Id like to know who voted for it. Yeah, it narrowly beat Collateral for the prize. It will certainly be interesting to see who wins the Retrospective Award this year...
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Post by Vercetti on Jan 20, 2006 20:32:29 GMT
I also voted for MDB, although now I would've voted for Collateral over it. Of course I consider Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind better.
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Post by jrod on Jan 20, 2006 20:44:29 GMT
I thought Collateral was one of your 3 or 4 favorite movies.....
This year we need to keep the ballots secretive. I wouldve voted for Sideways but it was already 5 or 6 votes out of the running, and I wanted Collateral to win a lot more then MDB
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Post by Vercetti on Jan 20, 2006 21:08:27 GMT
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is the best of 2004. However my favorite was Collateral, and it is on my top favorites, at #3.
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Post by Capo on Jan 20, 2006 21:13:12 GMT
For the record, I voted for Collateral in last year's tie-breaker. I still would.
As for the awards themselves, we moderators are planning it as we speak.
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Post by Omar on Jan 20, 2006 21:16:41 GMT
Well, as long as we're on it:
I voted for "Closer" last year. I think I was the only one who did. For the tie-breaker, I voted for "Million Dollar Baby".
I thought it (M$B) was a masterpiece upon a first viewing. I have not revisited it, but I would like to soon, along with "Mystic River".
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Marty
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Post by Marty on Jan 24, 2006 7:14:46 GMT
A few thoughts on Unforgiven
Whilst Unforgiven may very well evoke strong parallels with Eastwood's earlier work as an actor, most notably with Leone, I feel this comparison is based more on the fact that he rides a horse and wears a cowboy hat, I feel it's a mistake to see the film as merely an extrapolation of such. Influences of course are everywhere, I don't feel any former collaborator can fail to ne influenced by a mentor, and it's this point that Clint acknowledges with his dedication card to Sergio and Don Siegal. Beyond influences of lighting and shot construction though I really don't see much more, although Leone's Eastwood character is a true icon of cinema, he's not as fully developed a character as Eastwood's own "William Munny". That's not to disparage Leone, as I feel "The Man With No Name" is an excellent construction of cinematic shorthand playing to Western archetypes that fit beautifully into Leone's operatic vision.
Eastwood's protagonist is something altogether different, we learn from the titles some of the back story, we first see Munny not as the lone gunslinger, but as a filth sodden pig farmer and the exposition goes on effortlessly throughout the film which makes us appreciate who this character is, and although there is a relationship between his Siegal and Leone characters, his earlier westerns like High Plains Drifer, Josie Wales and especially the Pale Rider, Munny and Unforgiven I feel exorcised some real ghosts for Eastwood. It seems to me that he's readressing the violence and it's representation in many of his earlier roles, as well as in the Western genre, there is no nobility to the violence within Unforgiven, nothing stylised or theatrical just very sobering and for my money Eastwood is maybe using the film in a very cathartic manner and making a statement about his own film history as well as talking to Eastwood's own peers when Munny extols "Hell of a thing, killin' a man. Take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have."
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Post by mikola on Apr 28, 2006 10:57:10 GMT
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Post by jake on May 13, 2006 14:09:09 GMT
1. Unforgiven (1992) 2. Mystic River (2003) 3. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) 4. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997) 5. Space Cowboys (2000) 6. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
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Post by Boz on Aug 18, 2006 9:55:44 GMT
Unforgiven (1992)I have no interest in seeing anything else from him.
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Post by Capo on Dec 12, 2006 1:28:05 GMT
I read the other day that Eastwood is 76. This in itself isn't anything I didn't already know, but for whatever reason, perhaps Robert Altman's recent passing (at an even older age), it presented itself as a remarkable fact.
Godard is the same age.
I can only wish that at 76 I am so immersed in Cinema that I am able to make films too.
Though mine will be better. ;D
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Post by Capo on Dec 12, 2006 12:51:07 GMT
That's incredible!
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Post by Capo on Jan 1, 2007 20:57:41 GMT
Million Dollar Baby is £2.84 at my local Tesco. So is Gosford Park. I bet I've bought both by the end of the week.
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