What a sad way to go out, Clint - crappy movie.

Kid's acting is bad throughout the whole film. As for Clint - I'm trying to figure out what's making him look so feeble and unable to act more youthful. It's mostly his posture - and his inability to walk - he basically has to drag his feet in order to move forward (this is not acting - basically, his physical mobility is severely limited now - judging by this film and latest interviews). There's this scene where he cooks - and he looks good enough, but then turns around and starts walking - again, posture and the feet dragging just stand out too much). From what I understand, bad posture can be fixed in old people - why is this not being done? Or does Clint not give a fuck anymore at this point?

As for the feet dragging - I wonder if it's just the knee/hip joints that are so fucked in his case? Or did he have all of the joints replaced? Can knee braces help just for the film alone? I feel like they should have a doctor to be available in these films where old peeps are the leads - I think they might offer a few solutions.

In the Irishman, Deniro looked similarly feeble in the fight sequence - and it was his legs that revealed his feebleness. I can't help but feel like if he had knee braces for that scene, he could have pulled it off without any issues, but without them he looked like an 80 year old man fighting. You'd think that with all the money involved in making these films, these kind of ideas would be implemented in each film, but just because there's a lot of money involved in an affair and you have some legends directing it - it doesn't mean that everything is going to be done intelligently. This film and the Irishman are prime examples. All I can say is, it really removes any suspension of disbelief that you may have had.

How old was his charcter suppose to be 60? 70? 80? It was never said.

Biden talks to trees

That chair was his only friend for a long time after.

Ha - the problem is not with the quality of the story - the problem is with horrible acting in this film by pretty much all parties involved - and yes, director is more responsible for that than anyone else.

Clint has always been a bit of a minimalist, to put it mildly. He doesn't storyboard, doesn't do shot lists, doesn't do rehearsals, or even second takes. To be honest, most of the success of his films shouldn't even really be attributed to him. All he does is just pick a script he likes, shoot it the exact way it was written, while also giving his actors as little to chew on as possible. Not to mention, Clint himself has admitted that he doesn't like to think or intellectualize his films much, and that he usually works from a place of pure gut instinct. Basically, what that means is, if you think a film like American Sniper is pro-war or anti-war, either way, Clint himself probably doesn't know and nor does he care.

In short, the success of Clint's movies has always stemmed more from the people he hires, and much less to do with Eastwood himself. He just so happened to have had a lucky run in the mid to late 2000's, with films like Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, Letters from Iwo Jima, Gran Torino etc, that fooled people into thinking Clint was an actual director with talent. As a whole, Clint is probably one of the least authoritative or demanding directors out there, hence his inconsistent quality of work.

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