#they are a lot of curmudgeonly old farts

[slimewad]

neon sign wlw or vintage poster wlw sweet candy wlw or sour candy wlw mint wlw or cinnamon wlw pancake wlw or waffle wlw asking the important questions

thank u bby!!!!!! 💖

-OH IDK i have lots of vintage posters in my room but i love neon signs too!!!

-mm i’m a curmudgeonly old fart and don’t really like ~candy~ but i guess sweet

-cinnamon :o) i’d die for spiced chai

-waffles! i haven’t had waffles in so long... really want em now

[eyeliketwowatch]

True Crime - Another Eastwood Mis-Step

Between 'Unforgiven' and 'Mystic River', Clint Eastwood's efforts as director seemed to be in a 10 year slump. This one dates from around the middle of that period, and is a servicable, but unfocused mish mash of storylines that seem cobbled together from 3 or 4 other films. Is it a "Newsroom Melodrama", a "Bad Parenting" film, a treatise on the inhumanity of Capital Punishment, a 'Crime Mystery', a character study of a Louse?

Eastwood plays a recovering alcoholic (not recovering from very long ago by the sound of it), and a compulsive adulterer (which was hard to swallow, considering the age differences and Clint's fading sex appeal), and a 'damn fine reporter', to use the words of his editor (played in ridiculously over the top fashion by James Woods), plus he's an unrepentant smoker, sexual harrassment in the workplace advocate, and curmudgeonly old fart who all the males seem to hate but the women all think he's hot stuff. He lands a 'human interest' interview assignment after a fellow female reporter (who he was trying to get in bed through plying her with lots of drinks the previous night) ends up crashing her car on 'dead man's curve'. Obvious from the earliest scenes is the fact that this man on death row is innocent, he's a like-able family man, and pleasant to the guards and warden, although a little shaken up about being executed that evening.

Meanwhile, Eastwood is sleeping with the City Editor's wife (the editor played deadpan by Denis Leary), and is having troubles at home with his own young beautiful wife and a very young daughter (who he barely has time for because of his crusade to uncover the truth in this 'human interest story' -- and why, because he doesn't end up meeting the guy until much later in the film, and even then, barely connects with the character, preferring the 'story' I suppose). A cheesy last minute race to the finish line to stop the execution ensues and everything works out fine in the end.

A couple of interesting cameos, Lucy Liu in an early role as a toy shop girl, and a couple of old farts we haven't seen in a while, Anthony Zerbe as the Mayor and long time TV actor William Windom as the bartender. The daughter was played by Eastwood's actual daughter Francesca Fisher-Eastwood. 'Spinal Tap's Michael McKean plays a meddling priest at San Quentin who desperately wants the death row inmate to confess remorse for the crime he didn't commit (another unneeded subplot to this convoluted story).

2.5 stars out of 5

Released 1999, First Viewing September 2010