Clint Eastwood's "Gran Torino"

[The Bread Guy]

Just watched it on DVD last night - an outstanding film about a politically-incorrect warrior helping those who need help.  I won't say more lest I spoil it.

IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1205489/

YouTube feature with clips/interview bits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVYWxEF49PQ&feature=fvw

 

[Teeps74]

Great movie. An emotional rollercoaster. I laughed, I cried, even got angry at one point. Greaty movie.

Definately a must see movie.

 

[eurowing]

That movie took me for a ride as well.  Highly recommended!

 

[jmbest]

Great movie. An emotional rollercoaster. I laughed, I cried, even got angry at one point. Greaty movie.

Definately a must see movie.

Agreed. It's an excellent movie.

 

[Brasidas]

Agreed. It's an excellent movie.

The dialogues between Eastwood and the priest were great.

 

[PMedMoe]

I watched it Thursday night.  Excellent!

 

[1feral1]

I got it out on DVD here recently, and watched it. I thought it was very well done. Hard to believe ole Clint is pushing 80!

Cheers,

OWDU

 

[Nfld Sapper]

Saw it back in FEB at FT. PICKETT and we nailed it by saying:

"Gunny Highway goes civy"


Great movie...... might have to run out and get it......

 

[George Wallace]

Saw on Air Canada back in May.  A little slow at the start, but turns into yet another Clint Eastwood classic.

 

[Brasidas]

Hard to believe ole Clint is pushing 80!

Cheers,

OWDU

Meh. Didn't find it hard at all to believe the guy on screen was old enough to've been in Korea. A pretty spunky 80 year old, though.

 

[updatelee]

Awesome movie, one of the best this year.

 

[danchapps]

Saw on Air Canada back in May.  A little slow at the start, but turns into yet another Clint Eastwood classic.

Here's to hoping it's still on the Air Canada flight I'm on in 3 weeks. It's one of those movies I could watch a million times and still enjoy it. Rates a 10/10 on my Spaceballs factor. This is the factor I base movies on, how many times in one day I can watch a movie and NOT throw the DVD out the window. This sucker could be on repeat for a long while.

Only thing I found lacking was the Padre actually. I can tell he is new to acting, but I can actually see his talent increase in parts of the movie. I peg this on Clint's ability to cast young and rising actors though, I give the kid props as it's not easy going up with a legend.

 

[PMedMoe]

Only thing I found lacking was the Padre actually. I can tell he is new to acting, but I can actually see his talent increase in parts of the movie. I peg this on Clint's ability to cast young and rising actors though, I give the kid props as it's not easy going up with a legend.

He was okay.  I looked on the IMDB link and saw that he's been in some TV shows.  However, an interesting note is that only one of the Hmong actors had ever been in a film before.

 

[danchapps]

He was okay.  I looked on the IMDB link and saw that he's been in some TV shows.  However, an interesting note is that only one of the Hmong actors had ever been in a film before.

To quote Robert Deniro's character in the Recruit, "A scary judge of talent."

 

[mariomike]

Just finished watching it on Pay Per View. It wasn't "The Sound of Music".  Clint made my wife  :'(
We were hoping Clint was drawing flamethrower instead of a Zippo.

 

[traviss-g]

I thought it was "ok". I thought everyone's acting was horrible...with the exception on Clint that is. Good story though. I feel Clint Eastwood made the movie the decent movie that it was though.

 

[VIChris]

I heard the working title of the movie was "An Hour and a Half of Ethnic Slurs," though I could be wrong. In my mind, it was a solid and relevant premise, moderately well written, and generally poorly acted - Eastwood being the exception, though I'd say he's done better work. And in the closing credits, I honestly thought it was Grover, and not Eastwood singing. On the whole I'd say it was a 7 of 10. He's done better work, though I absolutely have to give him credit for doing as much work on a movie as he did in Gran Torino at his age. That's the real story in my mind.

 

[NL_engineer]

It is a great movie, I seen it in theaters, and we watched it the other night for "movie Night".

 

[Kmess]

I loved the movie. I'm not sure if the racial slurs were meant as a joke or not, but some of them were quite funny. I recommend this movie  :nod:

to Clint Eastwood

 

[George Wallace]

I don't think they were meant to be funny, but to portray him as a bigoted WASP.  NO PC there.