It is of course unbelievable that Clint Eastwood still making movies. The legendary actor/director is now 91 years old, but still happily continues. Now comes his movie again Cry Macho off, but according to filmmaker Paul Schrader this is a big failure.
Schrader, known for First Reformed and the yet to come out The Card Counter, has lashed out at Eastwood’s new project in a Facebook post. Cry Macho, a neo-western in which Eastwood plays an ex-rodeo star, was already poorly received by the press, but Schrader takes this one step further.
Response
Thus he says: “I understand people tend to be lenient on Clint Eastwood, but isn’t Cry Macho simply the worst movie from a major American director since Howard Hawke’s “Man’s Favorite Sport”?(a film dating from 1964).
Schrader continues: “Cry Macho is a failure on every level: screenplay, lighting, locations, sets, props, costumes and casting. In the beginning you see a shot of a boot hitting the ground, filmed from underneath a car. I thought Eastwood was going to comment on the macho western style, but that was the last interesting image composition of the film“.
Worthless
Schrader wasn’t done yet: “Clint’s character does make some cliche statements about the futility of macho behavior, but they only have value because they’re mouthed by a shrunken Dirty Harry“.
“These kinds of insights were worth something thirty years ago. It was like listening to a criminal apologize to his victims’ families in hopes that the judge would give him a more lenient sentence“.
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