I find it hard to watch him in anything. He’s a Die hard Republican.

RWNJ

In 2012, Clint Eastwood stood on stage at the convention, accompanied by naught but an empty chair. He pointed at said chair and announced, “So I’ve got Mr. Obama sitting here.”

especially since his hard right politics often leak into his films.

The vigilante wet dreams that were his Dirty Harry films being one prime example. The whole stereotype of the two fisted cop tied down by all those silly civil rights laws and corrupt bureaucrats from protecting decent (i.e. white) citizens is a glorification of the whole macho cop culture we see acted out in the streets most every day,

"Sully" was much the same--American hero being hung out to dry by pointy-headed small-minded Washington bureaucrats. The film was so full of BS Sullenberger went so far as to publicly disavow it.

Those films are all just high budget versions of his empty chair debate--setting up "liberal" straw men and then burning them down to the cheers of the MAGA crowd.

Yeah, an "icon of [toxic] masculinity."

And don't get me started on "Million Dollar Babies."

I thought Malkovich was good in "In the Line of Fire."

But please if you get the chance, see “Gran Torino.” It’s one of the best movies I’ve ever seen, about a crusty old curmudgeon who slowly learns to embrace the immigrants living next door to him.

Really. It’s a great movie.

Will do!

Where would be a good place to catch it?

It was made in 2008 so it shouldn’t be too hard to find wherever people go to view movies these days.

looked it up. Netflix has it!

Amazing and curous that Eastwood would make a movie with this theme, given his apparent politics?

A bit different from his usual themes. Have a box of Kleenex ready for the end ...

gratuitous gunplay, then?

I don’t want to give the story away. But, no, it’s not like Dirty Harry at all.

Not appreciating the racist stereotyping.

Is the film mocking it?

yet the final message was somewhat? unifying, in that Eastwood's character comes to see the humanity in the main characters - a Hmong family.

When his own family was trying to put him away somewhere

Made him understand acceptance and humanity

I loved the final scene. snif snif

I can't tolerate violence so I leave the room. Husband tells me later though.

Interesting. Thanks for recommending it!

I abhor violence too. I don’t care for seeing cruelty and violence. But this film had such a good message. It really made an impression on me. It’s not a movie I can watch over and over again.

Now my husband loves The Gladiator and has watched it like 8 times... I have to leave the room when that is on!

sadly, I have to miss a lot of films because of this. I try to just leave the room....

We watched "Exterminate All the Brutes" over the weekend. An epic historical documentary about worldwide white supremacy since 1000 (Crusades). I felt it VERY important to watch and stayed for as much as I could stomach of the violent parts...which was almost none.

The history and presentation was well worth it, in any case. Highly recommend! May still be on HBO?

Well, love to watch history, but so much of our history was violent! I mean, it was essentially dominated by violence...

Humans...oy... !

So much world history is all about one group committing violence against another to gain power.

"A man's gotta know his own limitations"

but I just learned he was the exec producer of "Indian Horse," which we just saw on Netflix this weekend, which is a story of a man raised in the Canadian school system for indigenous kids....yeah, the same system that is in the news where they just found remains of 215 MORE children buried there in a mass grave ....


So, good on him for that, anyway.