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What a STINKER! (recollections as a kid when I saw FF in '82)

posted 14 years ago by Pseudoephedrine
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I remember seeing this movie as a kid, and going home with all my friends we kept saying "That was a piece of *beep*

We all seriously just flat out hated this BORING film. It took over an hour plus before Clint even got into the frickin' plane.

I just remember the group I was with
(we were all 8-12 years old) just hated this piece of crap.

Just watched it again (now as a "mature" adult)
and hoping that I would catch on things I may of missed as a kid.

Nope. The endless scenes of "Show me your passport" was like
being trapped in a room packed full of FARTS.

Clint really did make 'trashy' movies back then, it's good that he caught on
as a filmmaker so by the time he made "Unforgiven" he dropped a lot
of the idiotic implausible situations.

Also, the Vietnam flashbacks was just flat out badly done.

I know it was supposed to add tension..but why would the U.S. government
send an obviously deranged man on such of a deadly....

forget it.

Please don't bother answering.

[–] SeisCinemaSeis 14 years ago

You just said it all, man. I never watched this film before. Actually relatively recently Mr. Eastwood has become one of my favorite directors (Basically since I saw 'Mystic River' although I loved Unforgiven). Therefore I am just discovering his earlier films (as director). Some of them are good (Pale Rider, Bird), some of them are decent (High Plains Drifter, Play Misty for Me) but a few ones are nearly unwatchable (Firefox, Sudden Impact, Absolute Power).

The good news is that unlike most filmmakers, Clint is getting better with each project, while other directors are/were walking in the opposite direction (Spielberg, the late Hitchcock, Lynch, George Lucas).

[–] tricksoftrade01 14 years ago

For a guy who rates 'The Watchman' as your top picks for 2009 it seems that your tastes in movies have not change much since you were a kid.

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[–] stevenackerman69 13 years ago

Maybe your problem was that you were too young to understand the film and what it was about.

[–] bringbackdeano 13 years ago

If you were only 8-12 years old then maybe you were too young. I couldn't have watched this either at that age. It isn't made for elementary schoolers.

I thought this was a great film, even if the plot was a little far-fetched. There was plenty of suspense and intrigue. There was plenty happening all the way through. It just wasn't always car chases and knife fights.

Please don't bother answering.
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Why not? Don't you want people to express their opinions too? I thought the idea of these threads was to get some sort of discussion going. Oh wait - perhaps you don't want to be flamed for your opinion.

After all has been said and done, more has usually been said than done...

[–] wild_cobra427 10 years ago

(now as a "mature" adult)

Maybe not as mature as you would think.

Example of senility.http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/2779/paintx.png

[–] savagesteve13 10 years ago

The hangar scene SFX were terrible, the jet engines looked more like propane heaters strapped to a wooden model.
If you're gonna fake jet engines at least make proper fakes and don't use a hardware store solution.