I think the Dirty Harry character works best in the. 1960s. He just seems out of place in the eighties. I wish they'd only made it a trilogy. Sudden impact was awkward & forced w/ few highlights, which is more than I can say for the abyssmal Dead Pool.
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I think the Dirty Harry character works best in the. 1960s.
Oops. I wrote 60s when I meant 70s. Was dirty harry relevant & still popular in the 80s? Sure, but the last two movies just went in too an extreme direction for me to really think of what the 1st three accomplished.
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"Oops. I wrote 60s when I meant 70s. Was dirty harry relevant & still popular in the 80s?"
I'd agree that the last two films were a definite step downhill (although I'd add that none of the sequels, in my view, come close to being as good as the first film), but during the Reagan/Thatcher era of the yuppie, paranoia about youth and gang crime (of the kind represented in this film by the young punks who get set free in the court scene at the start of the movie) and increasing bureaucracy, plus rising crime and the decline of the kind of traditional masculinity that Harry Callahan represented, the 1980s Dirty Harry films (SUDDEN IMPACT and THE DEAD POOL) felt very relevant at the time as a reaction against what was going on in the 1980s - so relevant, that during one speech Reagan himself quoted the most famous line from SUDDEN IMPACT ('Go ahead, make my day'). Both SUDDEN IMPACT and THE DEAD POOL are far from being 'good' films, but they felt very relevant during the 1980s. The 'extreme direction' you pointed out seemed very much 'of the time', capturing much of the attitudes of the 1980s, particularly in THE DEAD POOL's focus on celebrity.
'What does it matter what you say about people?'
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958).
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And plus then there wouldn't of been the famous line "go ahead make my day".
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Hmmmm....The enforcer is the only Dirty Harry Movie without a catchy quip:
Dirty Harry: Do you feel lucky, Punk?
Magnum Force: Man's got to know his limitations;
Sudden Impact: Go 'head; Make my day;
Dead Pool: You're s**t outa luck;
What does "Enforcer" have?
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You are rite in a way, but still some of the line from 'The Enforce' are memorable as well. My personal favorite of all DH movies is:
- I have put you in Personal
-DH: Personal is for *** *****
- I spent 10 years in personal
- DH: Yeah ....
That scene is so so funny :) Hahahahahaha ...........
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Lets not compare all these great Clint Eastwood films with one another. Each one has its own special taste. If all were in the same way & theme, the it would have boring to an extent. After all little change is good ;)
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What does "Enforcer" have?
I found this to be the best Dirty Harry film so I disagree.
shareWell, The Enforcer was released in 1976, and even though the 1980's were different, still, there was a six year gap, not twenty-six, and to say that he's is out of place in the 80s is just pure BS, coz Dirty Harry was the original 80s action hero. Alien was released in 1979, Aliens in 1986. Did anyone ever say that Xenomorphs were out of place in the eighties? Sometimes I get the impression from people that the 80's happened in some mythical alternate reality.
If this would be a sequel to a movie from 1966, I would get it. But, will anyone say that the Avatar sequels will be out of place when they will be released? Coz the gap between the original and the first sequel will be greater.
Really? What's not to like about Sudden Impact?
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