Top Ten Heartbreak Ridge Insults - RANKED!

10) “You couldn’t take care of a wet dream.”

9) “The only thing you could build is a good case of haemorrhoids.”

8) “Go hump somebody’s else leg, muttface.”

7) “Keep dreaming, shitball.”

6) “If I was half as ugly as you, sergeant major, I’d be a poster boy for a prophylactic.”

5) “Maybe some communist bastard is gonna make an appointment to pop you a new asshole in your forehead.”

4) “Did your nightstick file for divorce?”

3) “Webster, if Powers ever comes to a sudden halt, your head is gonna end up halfway up his ass.”

2) “You pull another suckhead play like that, the only thing that’s gonna beat you…

Clint Eastwood as an aging marine instructor making men out of Mario Van Peebles and a bunch of other young recruits. It is all brash comedy with an action climax. Lots of insults intercut with scenes of camaraderie between the soldiers. The entire thing is the closest to a 60s John Wayne film Eastwood was ever involved with. Almost everyone (from the recruits to Everett McGill young officer who just doesn't get it including the veteran friends and Marsha Mason's ex-wife) are very stock, but there's something very moving about Eastwood soldier on his last legs. Heartbreak Ridge is a movie predicted in the disconnect between the vulgar comedy and the old man forced to acknowledge his own mortality. Between…

It’s crazy how many of these 70s and 80s Eastwood semi-bangers end in a helicopter shot with Clint and a woman just wordlessly walking away from a crowd. I guess that’s Eastwood’s watermark?

I had always heard the long distance credit card call in the heat of battle was a true story. Gotta look into that. But not now, it’s late and I’ve still got 36 more titles out of my 43 Films Of Clint Eastwood Collection for $49.99 on AppleTV to watch. 

Why do I like this film, exactly? I don’t know, but I did see it in the theater with my Dad when I was 14. He had the same rank of Gunnery Sergeant as Clint does in…

By the time Clint Eastwood started winning Oscars, he was the epitome of classical craftsmanship outclassing the rest of Hollywood. But you only need to go back to the mid-80’s and find a pic like Heartbreak Ridge to see how ragged a director he could be on his worst day. Eastwood also stars as a semi-disgraced marine sergeant assigned to muscle-up a bunch of yellow belly recruits (Mario Van Peebles as a weekend rock n’ roller is the only entertaining supporting character). None of these boys know how to keep their own barracks clean and there’s nothing about them that screams “unit” until hardass Eastwood crams toughness into them.

Eastwood gets off the bottle, reads some womens’ fashion mags to…

Clint Eastwood A Retrospective - Week 31

Marine Sgt. Thomas Highway (Clint Eastwood) is a decorated veteran of two wars. On his last posting before retirement, he is surrounded by officers with no combat experience who view him as an odd, even dangerous, holdover. Highway is assigned to train a group of undisciplined recruits including Cpl. Stitch Jones (Mario Van Peebles), a slick hustler who has previously encountered Highway. As the old soldier prepares his men for a war they don't believe will come, the U.S. invades Grenada.

An aging Clint Eastwood, playing a discipline-challenged U.S. Marine Corps gunnery sergeant named Tom Highway (as in, "it's my way or the Highway"), gets a new lease on military life by being…

“My name's Gunnery Sergeant Highway and I've drunk more beer and banged more quiff and pissed more blood and stomped more ass that all of you numbnuts put together.” - Highway

Heartbreak Ridge was one of those movie I used to watch over and over again when I was a kid. I found the movie endlessly entertaining and quotable. This was my first rewatch in a very long and actually the first time I saw it with the original English language track. And I have to say, this is one of those rare movie where I actually prefer the German dub. Clint’s quips and insults are even funnier there.

But I also enjoyed the original version. At least the first…