EASTWOOD: CRY, MACHO, CRY! *SPECIAL EPISODE*

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S3 E16 - ROOSTER ROAD TRIP

A VERY special return to our Eastwood project! After watching every Eastwood for season's 1-3, Ken and Jack are back to talk about what may be Eastwood's swaniest swan song yet! Eastwood is 91 and probably working on half a dozen new projects but, mathematically, we gotta treat this like it may be his last, right? We are realists, not fatalists, and Eastwood would tip his hat to that, we hope.

CRY MACHO (2021) is based on the novel of the same name by N. Richard Nash, a screenwriter in the mid 1970s who wrote it as a script first and then, when he couldn't sell it, turned it into a novel that then became a hot screen property that has bounced around with some interesting names ever since.  That sounds great.... until you hear Nick Schenk of Gran Torino and The Mule did a polish. We love us some Torino but The Mule is badly written by any objective estimation. Eastwood says he had to wait until he was old enough to play the main character but... the dude in the book is almost sixty years younger than him.  Anyway, it's great story to remind us he said the same thing about his unassailable masterpiece, UNFORGIVEN. Is Cry Macho a return to form after the sloppy and missed opportunity of THE MULE? Is this the potential send-off we've been waiting for of the greatest screen legend of all time? Yes, all time. Fight us.  Or... is it more late era Eastwood where you wish it was good and 65 years of goodwill makes you give it a pass? We are the reigning podcast experts on Eastwood and will let you know!

THEME SONG: ANDI AGNEW. 

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