I keep meaning to watch Richard Jewell. I bought a digital copy of it for 99 cents a while ago, so maybe I'll watch it this weekend. The other movies that he officially directed that I still need to see are *checks notes*...well the good new is that there are only two, the bad news is that they're Hereafter and Jersey Boys. I guess if I just lie and say that I've watched all his movies, nobody else is going to remember that those exist and ask about them. I seriously think that I only learned that there was a Jersey Boys movie from looking at Clint Eastwood filmographies.
I don't remember if I ever brought up the two movies of his that I watched for the first time like 6 months ago so:
The Rookie - This buddy cop movie looks good and has good stunts, but otherwise WTF is this shit? Some people bashed the scene where he gets raped by a woman, but I thought it was at least interesting that he agreed to (wanted to?) film that. The ending is offensive though, and is probably the moment in his filmography that most plays into the criticisms of his P.C. detractors.
True Crime - Eastwood is a reporter who has to save an innocent man from death row at the last minute after his 20 year old girlfriend dies in an accident and can't do it herself. This is watchable, but it's ruined by the least believable beat-the-ticking-clock sequence I can think of in anything ever. Withouth that I would have liked it, with it it was hard to give a thumbs up. The entire "last minute" angle should have been dropped, the story would work without it.
It's seems ridiculous that his wife and daughter are so young (not to mention the even younger woman he's having an affair with) until you find out that's his real daughter. This lost a ton of money, which is true of alot more Clint Eastwood movies than alot of people realize.
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