Clint Eastwood Films
My sister is taking a Film & Television class over at the local community college and one of her projects involves watching and analyzing three movies by the same director. She chose Clint Eastwood and she has to watch Mystic River, Blood Work and Million Dollar Baby.
Yesterday she watched Mystic River, today she watched Blood Work and tomorrow she's going to watch Million Dollar Baby. I didn't get to watch Mystic River with her yesterday because I was writing my research paper, which I am very proud of myself for. I set a goal of having it done that night and I succeeded! Well, technically it was done this morning since I submitted it at around 12:30 pm.
But I did watch Blood Work with her today. And I have mixed feeling about it.
The plot was intriguing. It didn't seem very original at first, but there were some twists that make it distinguishable. I thought the fact that all the murders were done to save him was a nice twist. And the title was very appropriate as well.
But the murderer was somewhat easy to predict. It obviously had to be someone who knew him and it was most likely not a cop, so that pretty much must left his friend.
Although, I will admit that I was thrown for a bit by that Computer worker who called 911. But the fact that Clint Eastwood had thought of that by himself before hand made it pretty clear that it wasn't him.
The main beef I had with the movie was the romantic aspect. It was kind of ridiculous. And completely unnecessary. They had absolutely no chemistry. And let's just be honest, Clint Eastwood as a a romantic lead is just weird. At least as he is now.
I say, if you're going to make a manly cop movie, make a manly cop movie and cut the romantic crap out. The romance in guy movies is always really crappy, anyway. And more often than not I find the girl in the relationship to be incredibly annoying.
That's probably a statement about the differences between a girl's view of a relationship and a guy's.
I'm probably not going to watch Million Dollar Baby with her tomorrow. I've already seen it and right now what I really want to watch is the rest of the Korean drama I'm watching, My Girl.
Million Dollar Baby is possibly the saddest movie I have ever seen. I would have bawled my eyes out if I hadn't been in school the first time I watched it. Even then I couldn't help but cry a bit.
Yesterday she watched Mystic River, today she watched Blood Work and tomorrow she's going to watch Million Dollar Baby. I didn't get to watch Mystic River with her yesterday because I was writing my research paper, which I am very proud of myself for. I set a goal of having it done that night and I succeeded! Well, technically it was done this morning since I submitted it at around 12:30 pm.
But I did watch Blood Work with her today. And I have mixed feeling about it.
The plot was intriguing. It didn't seem very original at first, but there were some twists that make it distinguishable. I thought the fact that all the murders were done to save him was a nice twist. And the title was very appropriate as well.
But the murderer was somewhat easy to predict. It obviously had to be someone who knew him and it was most likely not a cop, so that pretty much must left his friend.
Although, I will admit that I was thrown for a bit by that Computer worker who called 911. But the fact that Clint Eastwood had thought of that by himself before hand made it pretty clear that it wasn't him.
The main beef I had with the movie was the romantic aspect. It was kind of ridiculous. And completely unnecessary. They had absolutely no chemistry. And let's just be honest, Clint Eastwood as a a romantic lead is just weird. At least as he is now.
I say, if you're going to make a manly cop movie, make a manly cop movie and cut the romantic crap out. The romance in guy movies is always really crappy, anyway. And more often than not I find the girl in the relationship to be incredibly annoying.
That's probably a statement about the differences between a girl's view of a relationship and a guy's.
I'm probably not going to watch Million Dollar Baby with her tomorrow. I've already seen it and right now what I really want to watch is the rest of the Korean drama I'm watching, My Girl.
Million Dollar Baby is possibly the saddest movie I have ever seen. I would have bawled my eyes out if I hadn't been in school the first time I watched it. Even then I couldn't help but cry a bit.