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    Default 01-26-2009, 10:58 AM
    The wife and I went to see this movie Saturday night. Awesome movie. Possibly Eastwoods best performance (Unforgiven being the only one close). Anyone who hasn't seen it, go, it's worth the price of admission. Definitely a quotable movie, which is always a plus for me.

    A couple of good quotes, without ruining the movie.....

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    Walt Kowalski(Eastwood): Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have fucked with? That's me.


    Walt Kowalski: Oh, I've got one. A Mexican, a Jew, and a colored guy go into a bar. The bartender looks up and says, "Get the fuck out of here."
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    Default 01-26-2009, 03:22 PM
    Yeah, I saw it with my parents a couple weeks ago. Apart from all the obscenities and racial slurs slung around, it was a really enjoyable movie.
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    Default 01-26-2009, 03:28 PM
    I saw it with my Mother yesterday pretty damn good only fault IMHO is they slung those racial epitaphs a bit to much but other then that it was very good.
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    Default 01-26-2009, 03:30 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by Lars1701a View Post
    I saw it with my Mother yesterday pretty damn good only fault IMHO is they slung those racial epitaphs a bit to much but other then that it was very good.
    It's definitely not for those with tender ears.
    I feel that once a black fella has referred to white foks as "honky paleface devil white-trash cracker redneck Caspers," he's abdicated the right to get upset about the "N" word. But that's just me. -- Jim Goad
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    Default 01-26-2009, 03:31 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by Rebel Yell View Post
    The wife and I went to see this movie Saturday night. Awesome movie. Possibly Eastwoods best performance (Unforgiven being the only one close). Anyone who hasn't seen it, go, it's worth the price of admission. Definitely a quotable movie, which is always a plus for me.

    A couple of good quotes, without ruining the movie.....

    Duke: What you lookin' at old man?
    Walt Kowalski(Eastwood): Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have fucked with? That's me.


    Walt Kowalski: Oh, I've got one. A Mexican, a Jew, and a colored guy go into a bar. The bartender looks up and says, "Get the fuck out of here."
    I like the scene with the three black guys and he reaches in and pulls out his hand shaped as a gun and pretends to pull back the trigger and then goes back into his coat and pulls a real gun out lol
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    Default 01-26-2009, 03:31 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by Lars1701a View Post
    I like the scene with the three black guys and he reaches in and pulls out his hand shaped as a gun and pretends to pull back the trigger and then goes back into his coat and pulls a real gun out lol
    That was priceless.:D
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    Default 01-26-2009, 04:47 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by Lars1701a View Post
    I saw it with my Mother yesterday pretty damn good only fault IMHO is they slung those racial epitaphs a bit to much but other then that it was very good.
    I'm going to see it this Friday.

    Could you see a movie like Blazing saddles being made today? That's reality...that there's hate and that people actually say those things.

    No one has any problems with showing the dark side when it comes to sex or violence. So why should we get all conservative with epithets?
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    Default 01-26-2009, 04:49 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by Molon Labe View Post

    No one has any problems with showing the dark side when it comes to sex or violence.
    or racial slurs directed at straight white men.
    I feel that once a black fella has referred to white foks as "honky paleface devil white-trash cracker redneck Caspers," he's abdicated the right to get upset about the "N" word. But that's just me. -- Jim Goad
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    Default 01-26-2009, 08:56 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by Molon Labe View Post
    I'm going to see it this Friday.

    Could you see a movie like Blazing saddles being made today? That's reality...that there's hate and that people actually say those things.

    No one has any problems with showing the dark side when it comes to sex or violence. So why should we get all conservative with epitaphs?
    My problem is not that they said them, I thought they went overboard to try to sell to the audience that this guy is a racist.
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    Default 01-27-2009, 08:00 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by Lars1701a View Post
    I saw it with my Mother yesterday pretty damn good only fault IMHO is they slung those racial epitaphs a bit to much but other then that it was very good.
    Racial epitaphs? They had racial remarks carved on people's gravestones?

    Could you possibly mean epithets?
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