The 15:17 to Paris

I greatly admire Eastwood as a director, Unforgiven is one of my favorite films, and I think it's pretty remarkable that he had a solid run of good-to-great films so late in his career in the 2000s. Nowadays though he seems to have really put into overdrive the kind of sappy, melodramatic tones that his movies have always had a touch of but not overwhelmingly so. This trailer looks like it took the sappiest moments from American Sniper and plugged them into yet another movie about soldiers, brotherhood, sacrifice, blah blah blah. But I get it, what else was he supposed to do? It was probably difficult to make a film solely about one train attack that took place over a few seconds. I just wonder why it's a movie that had to be made and by Eastwood no less. As for the actors, he's tried this sort of thing before when he cast Hmong people in central roles in Gran Torino. It didn't work out too well. I imagine this will probably work out the same since, well, they're not professional actors.

But like I said, the man is 87 years old. My oldest grandparent died when he was 72 and he could hardly walk. I don't hold lofty expectations for a guy who has already contributed so much to cinema and is in his twilight years but at the same time there's a part of me that would rather see no movie than a bad or contrived one.