The Viewing Files: Mean and Moody and a whole lot of Clint

Sometimes you just want a mindless action movie with guns and shoot outs and dubious good guys.  Or even a whole lot of them.  Especially if Other Half is picking.

I may need some light and frothy rom coms after all that.

 

Hang em High

Starring: Well Clint of course

Original release:1968

Synopsis:  A Marshall survives a hanging and you just know he's going for vengeance

 

Clint being all mean and moody is exactly what we need.

Pale Rider

Starring:

Original release: 1985

Synopsis:  A mysterious preacher helps a bunch of prospectors

 

Back to Eastwood with another one of Other Half's picks and it's surprisingly entertaining. Bonus points for the mountain scenery

High Plains Drifter

Starring: 

Original release:1973

Synopsis:  A gun fighting stranger arrives in a small town... again

 

Ok. That was grim.

 

I'm torn between cheering for Clint cause the they had done him wrong and wanting to shoot him myself. Or at the very least club him over the head with a really hard shovel.

The Outlaw Josey Wales

Starring:

Original release:1976

Synopsis:  A man's family is murder

 

I'm starting to think that these last 3 movies are a trilogy which I've watched out of order because I'm pretty sure he's the same character in all movies.

 

If so it was nice to see a softer side before he became the avenging angel of death he was in High Plains Drifter.

 

If not then I'm really confused and still entertained. So that's something I guess.

Where Eagles Dare

Starring: Richard Burton

Original release:1968

Synopsis:  Nazi's being bad

 

Clint kills just about every Nazi on the planet and Burton charms the ladies and pretty much everyone else with his seductive patter.

 

Pretty much what you want in any decent action war movie.

Kelly's Heroes

Starring: 

Original release:1970

Synopsis:  A group of misfit soldiers plan a gold heist

 

I'm here for all the bromance and Oddball with a side of Moriarty.

Dirty Harry

Starring: 

Original release:1971

Synopsis:  He's a bad ass cop and they're the criminal

 

San Francisco has never looked so good or Clint so gruff and gritty.

Magnum Force

Starring: 

Original release:1973

Synopsis:  This time the baddies are cops

 

Harry's back and taking no prisoners.

Sudden Impact

Starring:

Original release:1983

Synopsis:  Harry after more bad guys... maybe

 

Harry. Doing what he always does. Shooting first and never asking questions. But with a softer side and a dog.

 

Brutal and entertaining the way these kind of movies were.

The Dead Pool

Starring:

Original release:1988

Synopsis:  A game, a list and Harry

 

I'm here for Patricia Clarkson and no other reason... well except to finish this series and laugh at the 80s trashiness.