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In Reply to: Quit belaboring your point about Award "recanting" - this is a forum to exchange ideas & opinions(nt) posted by Jimmy NYC on February 7, 2007 at 17:11:46:
Now if you have some arguments that Million dollar baby or Letters from Iwo Jima are signs of a mediocre director give it your best shot.
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Admittedly - I have not seen "Letters from Iwo Jima" but that specific film was not the centerpiece of my point.I did shell out $10.50 for "Flags Of Our Fathers" and like many Eastwood films, it was on the same level as bad television. If "Letters from Iwo Jima" is the greatest film ever made, for me it won't erase the mediocrity of his body of work.
Listed below are films of Eastwood's that I have seen, that weren't completely without merit (as a Ron Howard film etc.) but still, pretty much stunk up the joint.
I consider bad films taken from Eastwood's directorial resume prior to "Letters from Iwo Jima".
** Flags of Our Fathers ** Blood Work ** Space Cowboys ** True Crime ** Absolute Power ** The Rookie ** Bird ** Heartbreak Ridge ** Honkytonk Man ** Firefox ** Bronco Billy ** The Gauntlet**
I mean...OUCH!
Analog, I admit Million Dollar Baby wasn't bad . The directing was adequate but Eastwood's limited acting abilities undermined that film for me.
Not for a minute, or even a second did I believe that Eastwood was Frankie Dunn. Once again he used the full gamut of his three facial expressions. One a blank look, the other two, sneers. It wasn't a great film because of his own performance.
nt
Is that all you have to say after reading my little essay? I learn nothing from you! nt
I'd say a very little essay. What do you want? you pretty much just made a list of movies. You don't really say much about them other than you think they represent a body of mediocre work. I'm not impressed. Eastwood has IMO made at least four outstanding movies and at least a few other movies with merit that rises well above the level of mediocre. I would concede that it took Eastwood time to mature into an excellent director but IMO and in the opinion of many other people he did do just that.
Should be fun.
Letters from Iwo Jima, Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River and The Unforgiven. The more interesting question would about the other movies of merit I was refering to. But here is some evidence as to what other film makers think of Eastwood.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000142/awards
Yeah, those are the accolades bestowed upon a "mediocre" artist by his peers. Like I said before, I'm sure he is crushed by the negative comments on this forum. To be praised here by certain regulars is the real goal of all film makers and the true mark of an excellent film maker. All those awards I cited on IMDb are meaningless drivel based on ill informed and simply unimportant peoples' opinions. Not like the people here.
mediocre adjective a mediocre performance ordinary, average, middling, middle-of-the-road, uninspired, undistinguished, indifferent, unexceptional, unexciting, unremarkable, run-of-the-mill, pedestrian, prosaic, lackluster, forgettable, amateur, amateurish; informal OK, so-so, 'comme ci, comme ça', plain-vanilla, fair-to-middling, no great shakes, not up to much, bush-league.
sincerely beanz
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