Which Movies Should We Watch Next?

[strangerep]

Has Eastwood a pattern when it comes to his ends?

Not that I know of -- but I'm not an Eastwood afficionado. I liked High Plains Drifter, and (to a lesser extent) Unforgiven, but I don't much care for Dirty Harry.

(Aside: what is it with the oversupply of awful-content films in recent years? E.g., "The Revenant" was certainly well-crafted, but geez it was horrible.)

I've never seen Argo, but since it's been mentioned here I'll give it a go.

 

[pinball1970]

... I think Gran Torino was at least equally good.

Has Eastwood a pattern when it comes to his ends?

But it's so depressing at the end

Yes they are bitter sweet. In both he is an embittered, old misanthrope. Detached with no hopes, dreams, a hatred of most of life around him and detachment from his family.
Someone from the outside breaks him down and makes him care again makes him human.
In billion dollar baby she gets the family she missed, the love of a father figure and gets her dream.
He gets his daughter back briefly and possibly a chance of reconciliation with his following that experience. We do not know how she will respond to the letter.
Torino he helps save a family and learns how to be a human being again but there is a great cost in both films.
He is great at making a viewer scream at injustice, brilliant director.

 

[fresh_42]

He is great at making a viewer scream at injustice, brilliant director.

He made a remarkable development from these old westerns and Dirty Harry towards his own movies as an actor as well as a director - from "well if nothing else is on tv" to "definitely worth watching".

 

[pinball1970]

He made a remarkable development from these old westerns and Dirty Harry towards his own movies as an actor as well as a director - from "well if nothing else is on tv" to "definitely worth watching".

There are few films I dislike, even the westerns were different. The Gauntlet is my favourite from the 70s probably.
'Play misty for me' is good too, years before fatal attraction.

 

[OscarCP]

I like many of the movies, new and old mentioned here, although no one I think has mentioned the old-old ones that are among the great: Chaplin's "City Lights", Welles "Citizen Kane", Fellini's "La Dolce Vita", Griffin's "Intolerance", Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai", among so many others.

But I want to bring here a kind of movies I believe has not been mentioned so far:
Cartoons, animation, anime.

Among the best, in my opinion, all those by Studio Ghibli and specially the masterworks of Miyazaki's "Princess Mononoke" and Takahata's "The Tale of Princess Kaguya" and "The Grave of the Fireflies". Also by the late and much lamented Satoshi Kon: "Paprika" and "Perfect Blue" in particular. An numerous others around the world, including Disney and Laika Studios plus great shows such as "The Last Airbender" and the three "Violet Evergarten" ones, all of which have contributed greatly with this hard to do, magic-like art form to our one popular form of entertainment that has characterized in various forms (theater, tape, DVD, streaming) for over one century by now our modern civilization around the world.