Yes I'd almost forgot about that movie but I remember it was good. I can't imagine Hollywood didn't want him for projects and for whatever reason he didn't do much of that at all. Part of the appeal with a Clint Eastwood movie, they always feel a tad different from the big studio productions yet delivers a similar level of brilliance you don't find in most independent efforts.

I guess it makes sense for a guy like Clint to be turned off by the Hollywood environment but I don't know if that's the reason he kept away from it. Maybe he just wanted to do his own thing.

Just saw Unhinged.

Russel is another one of my favorite actors. Always had massive respect for both his movie star persona and his acting skills. Obviously I didn't expect to see anything ground breaking in a movie like this but the dude kinda impresses me here. He sells the role completely and I'm left wondering who else in Hollywood could pull this off? Most of the hot shot actors today can forget about it. Leo couldn't do it, maybe. Bale even less so. Tom Cruise? Nah, he would channel is Collateral character I think.

As a movie though it is just okay. They really needed a strong name actress here to pull off all those intense emotional scenes. Emily Blunt would have been perfect. The script it pretty good, the director less so. Lack of directing talent these days in Hollywood. The ending was pretty terrible. You can't have a cliched happy ending in this movie because there's no way you can bring yourself to hate Russel Crowe. He's the reason you are watching the movie in the first place, because you want to see him. He's gotta win somehow. 

Talking about Clint, do we know why he basically always did independent movies? He's the only major name in Hollywood I can think of that basically never did a Hollywood movie.

It was 2005 I'm pretty sure.

The fact they played a leaked gnr song on the radio and nobody fucking recorded it is mind boggling.

There's a new Russel Crowe documentary out. Looks to be quite good! 

I'm going to watch the new Nicolas Cage movie tomorrow. He plays himself as a fading actor. For once my expectations are quite high.

Thelma is...good, but the feminist angle feels incredibly forced. Ridley has come a long way since then.

Funny, I think Tom Cruise is much more of a natural playing a bad guy than a hero. Matches his personality somehow. What ruins the movie for me is the ending which feels tacked on. After the two first daring acts we suddenly land in a cliched action finale and I think it's a wasted opportunity.

The Insider - to date the only movie I watched in the theater completely alone. It was just me and my father and 500 empty seats around us. Strange because this movie is just perfect. Everything is 10/10. Fantastic cast, great cinematography, music, writing. Perhaps Mann's best work. This type of movie just doesn't exist anymore.