Heartbreak Ridge

Of all time.

Heartbreak Ridge.

This movie is a great near and dear place to my heart.

My dad loves this film.

Man, they're making his eyes look

huge in those glasses.

You're in the Marine Corps and you don't even know about the Battle of Heartbreak Ridge.

That's really pathetic if you ask me.

And one of the things I'll tell any young officer is like, it's not your job to yell.

I have this theory that you and I were brought up in pre-internet with nothing but books and movies like The Great Santini and, you know, Full Metal Jacket and Gunny Highway and all these,

you know.

Oh, yeah.

To put it into some context, it was the year the US invaded Grenada.

Anybody wants to know that story, check out a film called Heartbreak Ridge with Clint Eastwood.

Very good film.

Factual and informative version of the story of the US invasion of Grenada.

And, um, yeah, In writing that piece that Jay is talking about, I kind of just like was interested in, I was like, oh, what if I was wrong about some of this stuff? And I mean, it wasn't like overnight, like I was very skeptical still of some of these movies that I didn't like when I saw them at first.

But sort of going back into, you know, some of like the 80s stuff and just being like, I wonder if any of this like Heartbreak Ridge, like does any of the themes that I saw in 1517 like appear in something like that? And then slowly over the years following, revisiting stuff like Million Dollar Baby, Gran Torino, American Sniper, and then seeing stuff like Bridges of Madison County and the one after that with the Father-Son movie.

uh, thinking of a

perfect world.

no yeah i i think not

a fan at all no very little redeeming

for you it it is rests around the same spot as something like hat or uh not i want to call it hacksaw ridge but uh heartbreak ridge yeah That's pretty

damning, in my opinion.

Okay.

We are going with quite possibly my all-time favorite Clint Eastwood film but also the most underrated film of Clint Eastwood's career – and we are watching our one of the first war films of this season and the only war film that we'll see this season we are watching heartbreak ridge ladies and germs

okay okay okay i i can't if i've watched that it was a long time ago with my grandpa so it would be

hardly i and i'm and i'm willing to bet you probably didn't watch it and you just remember it remember

And finally, Everett McGill, first noticed as a caveman in Quest for Fire.

He had prominent film roles in Dune, Silver Bullet, Heartbreak Ridge, among others.

He was Big Ed Hurley on Twin Peaks, and his Return to Wolf movie was Silver Bullet, based on the Stephen King story.

So there you go.

And he's a big dude.

He's in Heartbreak Ridge as the guy that's trying to get Clint Eastwood's girlfriend.

Well, you know, big Nordic-looking, good-looking guy.

Sadly... as part of the wide world of mystery TV series, he played Frankenstein and it's just Bo Swenson with some lines on his face and longer hair.

Western? Okay.

Heartbreak Ridge, which is a military movie.

Okay.

Bird, which is a movie about jazz.