The Curious Case of Gran Torino

time.com ^ | Jan. 26, 2009 | S. James Snyder

[Right Cal Gal]

Sugarfoot, right?

[Red in Blue PA]

I always think CLint was best int he westerns. Dirty Harry just doesn’t do it for me.

Two Mules for Sister Sara is another Clint classic. Din’t think I would like that one as much as I do.

[Right Cal Gal]

Works GREAT for Roger Ebert, too....

I always thought duct tape would work best for ol' Rog...

[Red in Blue PA]

LOL!

Never saw that one, but may have to. I only recently became a huge Eastwood fan.

[Waryone]

"A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More were the best filsm he ever made.

Oh, and Unforgiven."

I have to disagree with you slightly. I'd have to say The Outlaw Josey Wales and Unforgiven are the best Clint Eastwood westerns and probably the best of all his movies.

"Buzzard's got to eat same as a worm," and "Dyin' ain't no way to make a livin,'" are my two favorite sayings from Josey Wales.

I also like the Dirty Harry movies and some of his later movies like "In the Line of Fire" and "Absolute Power." Clint with Gene Hackman do some amazing work.

[King Moonracer]

[Red in Blue PA]

The Outlaw Josey Wales just does’t do it for me like his films from the Man With No Name series.

[John W]

December 12th in a few theaters.

The problem is, pussies vote for these nominations and this is the anti-pussy movie of all time.

[SFR]

Rawhide

[Islander7]

“...Back when Gene Shalit was on the Today show,...”

Another rule of thumb: Never trust anyone who wears a bow tie.

....but he did have a cool mustache.

[RetiredArmy]

A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More were the best filsm he ever made.

Oh, and Unforgiven.

What?????? You didn't like Bronco Billy?????????????????? :-)

[Brucifer]

Yeah, Bronco Billy was an odd one. What about Kelly’s Heroes?

[RetiredArmy]

Now, I loved Kelly's Heroes. The one scene, where Clint, Telly and Odd Ball come out into the street to face the Tiger Tank, and they play Clint's western music. Classic. Too funny.

[Two Kids' Dad]

My favorite line from Unforgiven is when Eastwood tells hackman “Deserve’s got nothing to do with it” and then proceeds to pull the trigger. Gawd, that was one hard, cold character.

And I saw Gran Torino last weekend with the wife and one of the kids - we all thoroughtly loved it. It’s worth seeing twice.

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

The Outlaw Josey Wales is my favorite Western of all time. Period. Although I have to say I like most of Clint’s Westerns.

And let’s be honest about Dirty Harry. It’s basically a Western set in 1970’s San Francisco.

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

And back to his current film, Gran Torino is very high on my must-see list, although I will probably wait until I can rent it.

[Obamageddon]

There is no "Best" Clint Eastwood movie. They're all great. I can't think of a bad movie he's made.

I think Clint is giving us a message in Grand Torino. The message is that he doesn't think much of over indulged, politically correct white American youth of today.

And neither do I for the most part. By and large, the yoots of today resemble the product of MTV and a communist indoctrination camp.

[meowmeow]

I can't think of a bad movie he's made.

What about that one with the chimp?

[Vicki]

A really good movie that is being ignored by Hollywood. We really enjoyed it.

[Mr. Blonde]

He made two, and it was an orangutan. I really liked both of them, but they are also two of my dad’s absolute favorites. He actually wanted to name me after Clint’s character in them. I’m glad mom overruled him there.