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[DemforBush]

Hadn’t heard of this, but I’ll be sure to see it if it runs in my area. Eastwood’s one of my faves.

[Michael.SF.]

Actually, I think the first review on Gran Torino was in Hemmings:

[the invisib1e hand]

what, no euthenasia apologetic this time?

[Poser]

I went to the web link and it launched a pop-up. You know the one. It was the one that says you have spyware and tries to get you to install the Vundo virus.

[TheConservativeParty]

I saw the trailer for “Gran Torino” this week. It looked OK. The trailer had many good lines from crusty old Clint. Was set in some urban hell hole though. Waiting for good reviews before forking over the bucks to see this one.

PS-saw “Australia” and if you like old American Westerns, this aussie western is sure to please. Very long movie...go easy on the soft drinks!

[macamadamia]

Just watched the trailer. It’s like Eastwood went back in time and was asked to direct an ABC Afternoon School Special. A PC morality play.....with an EDGE! (Why is it EVERY SINGLE trailer now begins with one of those ominous echoey bass drum sounds, lol?)

[norton]

Reviewer couldn't help loading up on President Elect bull sh*t;

"In a way that clearly could not have been intended, Eastwood could be said to have inadvertently made the first film of the Obama era.
followed by...
Eastwood has dealt very intelligently and matter-of-factly with race throughout his career..."

In fact, this sounds to be entirely in keeping with just about everything Eastwood has done throughout his career.
Good guys and bad guys came in all colors long before the media discovered the O'Messiah.
Eastwood recognized that long before Barry bought the "president elect(ancy)".

[SoConPubbie]

Of late, I have really disliked Clint’s movies. Seems as he gets older, he gets more and more liberal and PC-orientated.

He also doesn’t seem to miss an oppurtunity to direct a movie that is somehow negative or deals with an issue in from an immoral perspective.

I can safely say I will not bother watching this one because it will also have some Liberal message buried in it that you won’t find out about until you have wasted the $10 on the ticket.

[weegee]

Religion hovers in the background; a very young priest (Christopher Carley), determined to fulfill the final request of Kowalski's wife to get her husband to confess, keeps getting the door shut in his face, the old man feeling he knows a lot more about life and death than this green seminary product. Climax is heavier and more sobering than expected, but it's quietly foreshadowed by narrative and character elements.

We've gone from Talkies to Preachies.

[narses]

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Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”

[lainie]

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Beginning to take an interest in his young charges, Kowalski learns from Sue that, among Hmong kids in the U.S., "The girls go to college and the boys go to jail." Once he spends more time with the siblings and sees their desire to raise themselves up, Kowalski admits that, "I have more in common with these gooks than with my own spoiled, rotten family."

ugh

[mysterio]

This movie is on my must see list.