A man's GOT to know his limitations. - Dirty Harry

It's the Tarantino Tough-guys versus the Eastwood-Bronsonians. Pretty apt given that Dirty Harry's original nemesis Scorpio was a smug and chatty murderer.

Tarantino's antiheros are the natural enemies of Harry Callahan. Even Gene Hackman's character in Unforgiven is a loud mouth to the moment he dies complaining life ain't fair, he was building a house. *BLAM*

Thanks, Bono, that connected some hero/antihero dots for me.

Thanks for all of the replies. That makes sense, that it could be genuine if the "surprised" actor was the first to be filmed, while the offscreen actor throws in an ad-lib when saying his lines. Then the director likes the improvised line, adds it to the script, then films the 2nd actor later.

Sometimes the IMDB trivia section can be a graffiti wall of pretty stupid stuff, take this gem from "Dirty Harry" for example:

The sniper calls himself "Scorpio" which is the Zodiac sign for people born between October 24th and November 22nd. November 22nd 1963 is the date that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by a sniper in Dallas, Texas, a killing that the Clint Eastwood character in In the Line of Fire (1993) would be directly involved in.

I'm glad this thread had a Hollywood ending. ;-)

Fuckin' A Dirty Harry!!! Barrel was like a mile long!

The Howitzer Taking a Shit sound of movies like Dirty Harry is pretty silly. I guess the "crack" sound all handguns make, some just louder than others, isn't very sexy.

"Dirty Harry (Schtung Chinese New Year Remix)":

Erhu: Hou Shih Chieh
Keyboards: Johnny Yim
Percussion: Tung Tang
Guzheng: Morton Wilson
Chorus: Jaxqueline Fu, Mazy Yap, and the Lok Sin Tong Primary School
Rap: MC Yan
Chorus Lyrics: Chantal Sun
Programming & Mix: Tung Tang
Produced by Ann Yeung & Tung Tang
Executive Producers: Morton Wilson & Hans Ebert
Mixed at Schtung Music Ltd, Hong Kong.

Available on 'D-Sides', I'm told.

My problem with movie guns is the "hand cannon" sound. Like in all the Dirty Harry movies. Every pistol shot seems to sound like a 50cal Barrett sniper rifle in a sewer pipe.

As cool sounding as it is wrong.

Apparently, yeah.

I would have called it more than a little unrealistic, but that does indeed appear to match the fantasy the pro-gun fanatics live in. They actually seem to believe they're each and every one the next Dirty Harry or Martin Riggs, and that as long as they have a gun, they're invincible.

Right, instead boring and hot air was replaced with sad, confusing, and just a little disturbing. He looked like he was going senile up there and it's definitely not how I want to remember Dirty Harry.

As for the LEGO™ Playset don't bother looking for it, it got the required votes, but I'm afraid LEGO™ has a stick up their ass about it. Its just zombies for hells sakes! Let people have their fun, I'd get my kids that, assuming they think zombies are cool.

I'm sure they have police Playsets that of course are really age inappropriate considering the amount of shear violence in the movies and television police roles portray... Do we really want are kids to become police? They seemingly shoot more often than soldiers in war movies--I'm not kidding, pick a fairly violent cop drama and compare a semi-average war drama (nothing over the top for both or you'll end up with things like Dirty Harry vs. Rambo). But LEGO is happy to portray them non-stop... (yes, I know this is all a tongue-in-cheek response, but I really would like one to stick in the corner of the room, it's awesome, just look at it!).

I still love my LEGO™s, especially now that they can get so damned complex.

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Re: The Genji Files

While I don't appreciate the needless name-calling, I still admire your commitment to your ideals. You're not the first to be upset with the inherent unfairness of a human-designed political system which reflects the inherent unfairness of life.

Dirty Harry said it best: I hate the goddamn system, but until someone comes along with changes that make sense, I'll stick with it.

If you think you have a Better Way, then start your own political party. The Libertarians did. The Greens did.




Sidenote: Obama ordered the assassination of a U.S. Citizen WITHOUT A TRIAL OR CHARGES, even.

Couldn't care less. The "victim" wasn't some tea-sipping hipster in SoHo, he was a committed jihadist vermin overseas, networking alongside other jihadist vermin. Don't pity him, he died doing what he loved: being an America-hating muslim shitbird. hahahahaha.

Did they leave out the classic line from Dirty Harry "you don't listen, do you asshole?" or did I miss it?

We no longer have a cat problem. It seems the cat version of Dirty Harry has shown up. We do not know who owns this cat. Or even If someone owns it. Every cat for for 5 blocks avoid our area like hell it self is parked there. The Neighbors cat next door will no longer even leave the house. The cat does not seem to bother the dogs and on a side note. NO dogs bark at it. Ever. I've seen stray dogs enter the area and it just ignores them but one cat and its ON. I've even watched it take an a few cats at the same time and win. Every once and awhile we leave a little something out for it every now and then. Now I just need find a way for it to treat the idiots who like to break in to cars as other cats and everything will be perfect.

I don't care what Dirty Harry says. Crack is cool. Even the Facts Of Life girls know drugs are cool.