Hubby and I thought this was a great movie!
Go ahead, try and take my gun... Please!
Grand Torino affected my like no movie has done for a long, long time.
It would be easy to say the movie was nothing but Eastwood’s character learning how to get along with minorities. But what was not so noticable was another vein running in the opposite direction, telling today’s youth about work ethic, honesty, sacrifice, self-respect and pride - in yourself, your family, your neighborhood, and your country - whether native or adopted. Not walking around gangsta and destroying everything till there’s nothing left but criminal anarchy.
The best was the end when Walt, after teaching them a better way, sacrificing himself to give the next generation a future free of the thugs that were threatening the family, and the side-story of the priest after Walt’s death ditching his politcally correct, patronizing garbage and learning about real life and real people. A very very deep movie.
It was a really good movie. Clint was great as always. But those chinese kids SUCKED as actors. The evil Chinese were good. The black guys were good. The gramma was good.
Hubby and I thought it was a good movie and we are hard to please. We thought it would have been even better if the character had been a retired Gunny Highway and he would have taken some of the bad guys out with him.
Thanks for the Clint pictures. That always makes me feel better. Young or old, he’s a hottie. He is included in “The 10 Manliest Firearms”(see also “10 More Manly Guns”) by Michael Z. Williamson, an article posted on FR. In the .44Magnum section, they have Clint’s Dirty Harry picture with his .44 and give a nice description of how manly a man Clint is, and then they describe the gun. The whole article is a good read, as is the follow up “10 More Manly Guns”.
Gran Torino was awesome. Saw it on opening week with the husband. I liked it more. Loved it actually. Hubby said there was too much cussing. I said it was realistic cussing and was OK.
Loved the scenes with the barber. Clint and the barber insulting eachother because they liked eachother. Teaching the kid how to talk like a man etc.
I saw the last part of “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” on TCM a few nights ago. It was riveting.
I finally saw this over Easter weekend with some college students in Blacksburg and we all loved it. It was great to have a discussion afterwards about what it means to be an American and what the American spirit looks like in 2009.
We just saw this movie yesterday, and I thought it was stunning. Walking out of the theater, I was speechless. I recommend this movie. (not for children)
A really good movie.
He is a jackass. He calls calls people racist names. The punks he deals with are worse with the names.
He is a jackass. He helps a poor family with day to day living.
He is a jackass. He helps a young a boy with no father figure, how to be a man, and do right.
That jackass!
He doesn’t contribute anything useful to society.
What a jackass.
BTW, I loved the movie.