Blood Work: Clint Eastwood

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Has anyone seen this movie yet?
C.E. did a fatanstic job with the movie, but the gun handling was horrible.

Granted that he was holding a bad guy at bay, about 90 percent of the time he had his finger on the trigger of a cocked .357 mag/.38 revolver whether he was going to shoot or if he had it out for show.

Great ending though.

45R
 
Gee folks, maybe Clint is just an actor. You think? I wasn't under the impression actors knew how to use their props, nor is it a big issue whether they know all the minor details of gun handling. They're more concerned with the lines...I wouldn't dwell on it. It was a great movie by the way.:D
 
Gee folks, maybe Clint is just an actor. You think? I wasn't under the impression actors knew how to use their props, nor is it a big issue whether they know all the minor details of gun handling.
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:evil: But Mr. Eastwood is a public figure. He should be a roll model to all future Dirty Harry cops. Still breaking all the rules of gun safety is a bad thing.:neener:
 
Eastwood is nothing but an actor. Hitchcock said it best when he said that "actors are cattle." All of them. Their job is to perform by learning their lines and emoting in a believable fashion. it is up to the writers to provide them with good scripts and the director to, of course, direct them. If we are going to get all anal over the gun handling, I guess we should blame the director and/or producer for not having a technical advisor on the set to help Mr. Eastwood with that aspect of the performance. It wouldn't matter to you guys that he was doing something wrong with the gun except that, deep down, you want to believe he really is like the Dirty Harry character he portrayed. Just like a previous generation wanted to believe that John Wayne was really a hero.
 
I think the points about acting and directing are right on but I also think there are different things that work for different people. In other words, all the admonitions about keeping your finger off the trigger except when you are ready to fire is fine as far as it goes, but sometimes it's appropriate to have your finger on the trigger, despite what all the rangemasters and gurus say. It is up to the individual to decide when the finger on the trigger is appropriate, not some author or self-appointed guru. Gee don't you hate that? Personal responsibility.
 
I greatly enjoyed Blood Work. Seems to me that Clint Eastwood is evolving into a real actor in his senior years.

I notice when someone in a movie handles a gun correctly, but unless it's really bad, I tend not to notice much when they don't. I did notice him firing a shot into a stack of newspapers at a newsstand. Not too likely, I thought.

I just watched Heartbreak Ridge again. It was interesting that some of the actors' guns rode up on full auto and some didn't.
 
Sorry, but as a long time Eastwood fan, my opinion was that this film is proof his best films are behind him. One problem is his poor gunhandling tactics, another is the gunfight inside metal walls, but the major problem I had with him was his using another of his no-talent paramours as the female lead. I found the story predictable. Satisfying, but predictable. Wife had it figured as soon as Jeff Daniels' character was intro'd. Not THAT's predictable.

As a go to the moviehouse experience, nope.
As TV fare, pretty good.
As a gun savvy movie, nope. And though I didn't go back and rewatch it for a bullet count, it seemed he got more than 8 shots out of that .357 (which should have made him deaf and night blind from firing inside the boat.)

My biggest problem with the movie was Jeff Daniels as the bad guy. Man, that guy should be doing something else besides drama.

(Paramour? Yes, here in the South, we mow the lawn with those.)
 
If we are going to get all anal over the gun handling, I guess we should blame the director and/or producer for not having a technical advisor on the set to help Mr. Eastwood with that aspect of the performance.
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Eastwood was the director.
 
I liked Blood Work. My fiancee and I figured it out at the same time, when the little boy figured out the code.

Jeff Daniels is a versatile actor. I can't wait for Dumb and Dumberer.:D
 
S&W does make an 8 shot 357. I just can't recall (or find) the model number just now. But does it make a difference?

And as to the technical aspects of the gun play... this was one of the hallmarks of Eastwoods cop flicks. And the inaccuracies and the inane shoot-em-ups were a serious flaw. A mark of a the serious decline in Eastwood quality this film represents.
 
Poor gun handling aside, I enjoyed the movie. I'm somewhat of a movie snob and I find most mainstream Hollywood to be predictable. But it came across as a mature movie, not as good as Pale Rider and certainly not as good as Unforgiven, but very watchable. Maybe not a second time. ;)
 
mguffey said,

... the major problem I had with him was his using another of his no-talent paramours as the female lead. ....Wife had it figured as soon as Jeff Daniels' character was intro'd. Not(sic) THAT's predictable.
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If you're referring to Wanda DeJesus, she's involved with Jimmy Smits, not Clint.:) The "no-talent" is open for debate, but I like her on CSI: Miami.:cool: It came to me the same as with your wife, and my wife just couldn't understand how I got it so fast.:eek:
 
"his best films are behind him"

Mguffey...I thought so too. Too much of a 'formula' movie. I long for the days of 'Coogan's Bluff', 'Play Misty...' etc. This one was just waaaayyy too predictable.
 
Eastwoods wife was in the movie. She was the hispanic news reporter who stuck her mike in his face and asked a question.

The scene with the little boy touching the 357, was pretty good. He didn't turn it into an anti-gun message, like most flicks do.

waterdog
 
One of you folks may correct me on this, but wasn't there a scene in the original "Dirty Harry" where one of the bad cops is threading a silencer onto a revolver? :confused: :rolleyes: Needless to say, don't try that one at home (or anywhere else you're hoping for a .357 to go "pooof" when the trigger is pulled). geegee
 
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