I bought the DVD sometime ago. Thought it was a good movie, but agree that it's not Clint's best! I thought the moments at the barber shop and with the construction owner were nicely done. And Clint is still alive and kicking on the director-side of the fence!
I think he's 80? now? and hope he sees no less than 20 more. Clint was as much of a part of my growing up as Duke was.
Carl, that's what you expect in a Clint Eastwood movie. This was totally unexpected and actually brilliant! I was blown away, and it showed a Clint we would never expect. Brilliant!
CheersHondo
Heh heh, to be honest with you-I too didn't expect what the movie ended with ;-)) Ill get the DvD when I can afford it though ;-))
I finally got to see Grand Torino and thought it was a good Clint Eastwood movie but-not in his best 10. I hated seeing him die in it-and ESPECIALLY thanks to some punks. I wioshed that he would have at least "gone out" Jonah Hex (Dirty Harry) style-and that is-with guns blazing.
If you thing California is bad, you should come to New York. Over 60% of the workforce is employed by the government (and it gets worse and worse as more and more private sector people leave by the day). Downright disgusting.
Hi EJ, your quite welcome to come here to Texas-it's not as bad here as elsewhere----yet, but I think ther are trying to catch up a it. 
I have heard a lot lately about Californias woes. I think you all are probably getting taxed out of your homes to pay for all of their spending.
Speaking of Clint-just watched The Outlaw Josey Wales for the 3rd time this week. A local station seems to have a fix of somekind on that movie and Clint Eastwood. It's OK but I have not seen any local station play any of Dukes movies-which is irritating in the least. >:-((
That is FAR more important in the scheme of life!! Way to go!
Proud to know you,
Chester
I fully agree-Bob is a rare exception to the case ;-))
Howdy Carl,
Yeah, I know what you mean. A lot of the folks I worked with seemed to share the same opinion, that the higher you go in the DOC, the more you know about less and less, until you reach the highest rank and you wind up knowing absolutely nothing about everything. My biggest complaint was that the higher one went in rank (at least once you passed sergeant) it seemed that you had to be willing to sacrifice more and more of your morals and principals. When I was asked why I didn't take the lieutenants test, my standard answer was, "I can't. My sense of justice is too well defined." Needless to say, not many lieutenants and above liked me. But at least I can still look at myself in the mirror and have a clean conscience.
Hi Bob, I applaud you for keeping ones self dignity and morals intact. I pretty much did the samehting when I was asked why I never tried for Sergeant rank. MOstly it was because as you said-the higher one went up-the less they knew and or were willing to admit to-with rare exceptions. I was topped out as a CO III-and I was comfortable with just being one of the masses. Also, at the time I worked there-a Sergeant made only $50 bucks more a month than I made as a COIII-plus they had all the extra responsibilities that supervisors get. It wasn't worth the effort then but, about 6 months after I resigned-the State gave everybody across the board-a $10,000 a year raise. I might have stayed if we had been given that raise a year or so earlier. When I first started working-I took home only about $700 a month after taxes. Needless to say, after paying rent and other bills-the average COI/COII at the time-no matter how we watched our spending-were always broke 1-2 weeks before the next check arrived. It took me at least 2 7 1/2 years of working there-before I could actually keep money in my bank account.
I still have not seen it but will buy the DvD as soon as I see it hit shelves here.
Colorado Bob-you and I share something. I too spent some time as a C.O for the State of Texas. I KNOW exactly where you come from and my opinions are exactly the same as yours-where criminals are concerned. My career wasn't as long as yours-I got tired of it all-both inmates and bad supervisors I like to call: "Stuporvisors."
I heard it was good so i'll buy the DvD someitme after it comes out.
