"Heartbreak Ridge" has nothing to do with the actual Heartbreak Ridge from the Korean War but is instead an attempt to make it seem like the invasion of Grenada actually meant something. A headline reading, "Marines Waste Some Cubans and Have Some Great Sex with College Girls and Then Go Swimming in Grenada." That may work for porno but not so much for cinema.
The premise is that Eastwood, the battle-hardened old Marine, will convert a wild bunch of malcontents (i.e. free men) into obedient servants of the military. He demonstrates that failure to conform to authority has severe consequences (e.g. rips an earring from Peebles' ear) and he brilliantly rallies the men into a cohesive fighting force.
The regulars can easily predict the reaction from me on being forced to conform to anything, particularly for the purpose of killing people, so there's no point in writing the whole paragraph. The only reason for mentioning it is that $15,000,000 was spent to drive this message and, here's the beauty part, it made ten times that much in profit. We saw again with "American Sniper" that propaganda pays big bucks.
Eastwood has already thrown out a brilliant career as one of Hollywood's coolest tough guys and replaced it with being a second-rate director of crackwhore propaganda. Actually, he's a first-rate director of it as the films are highly-engaging but that's the horror of them. He remains a crackwhore for doing it, first-rate or otherwise.
There's no need to shrink him as first I don't care and second it goes nowhere. The easy answer is don't watch the movies but it's nagging as to why would anyone. Has the Pledge of Allegiance been beaten so hard into their heads that they actually think these movies have meaning. Freedom isn't the ability to kill people but rather it's holding a valid passport in your hand. If they can't stop you, they don't own you. That's freedom. For Eastwood it seems to be nothing more than collecting baseball cards as he makes one propagandistic piece of crap after the other.
Clint Eastwood ... first-rate director of second-rate propaganda
The premise is that Eastwood, the battle-hardened old Marine, will convert a wild bunch of malcontents (i.e. free men) into obedient servants of the military. He demonstrates that failure to conform to authority has severe consequences (e.g. rips an earring from Peebles' ear) and he brilliantly rallies the men into a cohesive fighting force.
The regulars can easily predict the reaction from me on being forced to conform to anything, particularly for the purpose of killing people, so there's no point in writing the whole paragraph. The only reason for mentioning it is that $15,000,000 was spent to drive this message and, here's the beauty part, it made ten times that much in profit. We saw again with "American Sniper" that propaganda pays big bucks.
Eastwood has already thrown out a brilliant career as one of Hollywood's coolest tough guys and replaced it with being a second-rate director of crackwhore propaganda. Actually, he's a first-rate director of it as the films are highly-engaging but that's the horror of them. He remains a crackwhore for doing it, first-rate or otherwise.
There's no need to shrink him as first I don't care and second it goes nowhere. The easy answer is don't watch the movies but it's nagging as to why would anyone. Has the Pledge of Allegiance been beaten so hard into their heads that they actually think these movies have meaning. Freedom isn't the ability to kill people but rather it's holding a valid passport in your hand. If they can't stop you, they don't own you. That's freedom. For Eastwood it seems to be nothing more than collecting baseball cards as he makes one propagandistic piece of crap after the other.
Clint Eastwood ... first-rate director of second-rate propaganda
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