Are you referring to his two Iwo Jima films? IMO if Eastwood did nothing else his entire career but those two films he'd be a legend as much as Orson Welles was for Citizen Kane.
I personally think the best part of Eastwood's career has been the last decade or so.
I do like those movies, but he still hasn't surpassed Unforgiven. Not even close, my friend. He's a talented dude, but he's more recently become Stephen King of the cinema world: predictable, formulaic, hollywood gloss. He makes effective stuff in terms of getting box office but it's pretty much the same picture over and over hitting the exact same beats and emotional triggers in one dependable package.
Hero Worship: I'm thinking American Sniper on the more obvious front, with his "grumpy old man" genre pretty much being the same type of hero worship flick: Gran Torino and the uh, the Amy Adams baseball scouting one.