Gran Torino

[tbradsim1]

Haveing watched this film about 20 to 25 times, Netflix arrived and wife says TBrad I"m gonna play Bingo tonight, can't watch it again. I realize I"m a lot like Walt maybe that's why I like it so much . Clint hit the nail on the head.

 

[ashdigger]

What a fantastic movie. There's great symbolism in it as well as great one liners.

 

[rigmedic1]

Reminds me of growing up.

 

[papipeguy]

Clint has the cranky old bastard thing down. One of my favorite movies by him.

 

[anthonyrosenthal74]

Great movie. I'd like to see Eastwood in another western. Or his son perhaps. His son looks a lot like him. I think he could pull off a remake, or a sequel to some of Clint Eastwood's earlier films.

 

[davet]

Clint hit the nail on the head.

He certainly did :clap:

 

[dmcmtk]

Would some mod please fix the title, Gran Torino.

 

[stickframer]

Great movie.

 

[jndyer]

One of my all time favorites. It has, for me, one of the best endings in all of Hollywood. Walt being a bad ass by pulling out a lighter is pure genius.

 

[fnord]

Bradley:
I could flip a coin and come a cropper with "Million Dollar Baby" or "Gran Torino" when it comes to his best acting/directing vehicles. And you probably ought to toss in "Unforgiven" as well.
If you think you're more like Walt Kowalski, that's fine. Go ahead and think that. Most of us who've been around here for a few years know better.
Jndyer, you're borderline on posting a spoiler alert. Believe it or not, there are some people who haven't seen "Gran Torino." My dad wrecked "Stalag 17" a bazillion years ago for me and I still haven't forgiven him.
Fnord

 

[jvnshr]

Yup, great one.

 

[cossackjack]

Clint raised being a curmudgeon to an art form in his characterization of Walt - a classic.

 

[newbroom]

Brad, I guess you embrace the appellation "cranky old bastard", that papipeguy mentioned?

That IS a surprise.

 

[pagan]

I could flip a coin and come a cropper with "Million Dollar Baby" or "Gran Torino" when it comes to his best acting/directing vehicles. And you probably ought to toss in "Unforgiven" as well.

Amen

 

[jerwynn]

Three cheers for Clint Eastwood all around!! Love all his work! And he's my role model for how to be 70s and 80s yo!!!

 

[mso489]

"Million Dollar Baby" was a tour de force. Films have a hard time attaining the level of tragedy. They waver between drama, melodrama, action, and dark comedy, whereas that one went to tragedy in the classic sense of Greek drama, right on the mark. Eastwood graduated altogether from the macho-heroic in that one. He was the master of macho-heroic, and nothing wrong with that, but this was something else altogether.
My other favorite was his directing turn with "Letters From Iwo Jima," which is among the great war films, to be rediscovered and elevated as such in the future.

 

[randelli]

I would like to see him play Roland Deschain!

 

[tbradsim1]

I did not mention the other reason I loved the film, I was alongside the Hmong in S Asia, a kinder, gentler people and warriors bar none. I used to squat at campfires and smoke their pipe that was passed around like our Native Americans. Sad what some of their young people turned into living The American Dream.

 

[stranger]

I saw this movie in the theater when it first came out, and I don't think I had seen a preview for it, the only thing I knew was that Clint Eastwood was in it. What a fantastic surprise! I will admit to using some of the lines from this movie more than I should....lol

 

[huntertrw]

One of my favorite exchanges:
Duke: What you lookin' at old man?
Walt Kowalski: Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have fu@k*d with? That's me.