Gran Torino (2008)

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

I got a sneak preview in Toronto for this film, which doesn't hit most cities for a few weeks.

I got to start off in saying this movie contains extreme language, most of which is from Clint Eastwood's mouth, in the racist variety towards Asians. With that said, the film was absolutely brilliant in terms of story of a lone die-hard American being the last one left in his neighborhood over taken by Asian people. The character played by Eastwood starts off by disliking his new neighbors, who are Hmong (a culture). He then takes on the boy to do some chores after he attempts to steal some of his property, where Eastwood begins to grow an attachment to the young boy and teach him how to defend himself, and become a man.

I'll stop there and say anymore might ruin the film, but what a truly great film this was indeed! Everyone I went with to see the film really enjoyed it, where we all got a good laugh out of the film with the use of strong language. If you are a fan of Clint Eastwood, this appears to be his last film, determining from his slow, still movements made during the film, from which his age really shows.

Excellent film, with a very good story line to it all.

9/10

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I was a little disappointed to be honest. It seemed to made on a real shoestring budget, not that I generally care, but the acting of the supporting cast seemed fairly brutal. Like most of the cast were picked from a high school drama class.

It certainly had its moments and at times felt more like a comedy than anything.

6/10

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I was a little disappointed to be honest. It seemed to made on a real shoestring budget, not that I generally care, but the acting of the supporting cast seemed fairly brutal. Like most of the cast were picked from a high school drama class.

It certainly had its moments and at times felt more like a comedy than anything.

6/10

Maybe because those people really talk & act like that?

I thought it was one of Eastwood's best movie. I expected an Unforgiven like shootout in the end, but it ended much better.

8/10

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Awesome movie

Probably, one of the best movie of 2008.

9/10 from me.

But some ******* mod at other forum spoiled the ending. Yeah a moderator spoiled the ending without using any spoiler warning.

That sucks, but you can see what is coming roughly 5-10 minutes before it happens. Just be lucky he didn't ruin "Old Boy" for you, that ending you will never see coming

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I actually went to see this movie thinking it was going to be stupid, whoa, was I in for a surprise. I have to say this is an amazing movie, the dialogue you can't help but chuckle at, and the drama that takes place, wow. Finally a good movie with some classic Eastwood acting. I'm not a movie critic so I'm sorry if I can't come up with the right words, just go see it!

9/10!

**Please adhear to these black spoiler tags!**

*** When Su walked in after she got beaten up, my jaw hit the floor, I had no words... ***

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in the scene where the kid is washing his car and and Clint is talking to his sister on the porch. If you look closely for a split second you can see the microphone boom come down from the top into the frame.

I went back to that scene 3 times I see no boom.

I thought the movie wasn't that great. The acting was very poor throughout. Why does he growl so much? Maybe 15-20 times, he just growls. Very awkward. The conversation between the sons at the mothers funeral felt so forced. So much quiet, strange conversations that have no place. Also, sloppy cuts between scenes, so random and out of place. I think the editing and directing was just odd. The only guy that felt natural in his part was the barber.

The scene at the bar when the preist and Clint are talking, was terrible, it felt like the young red head preist was reading lines just to read them. It was horrible. Also, when Clint locks the kid in the basement, that bit of acting from the young kid was appaling. He was literally shaking his head around like in a Stooges episode almost. He was screaming and banging like a 10 year old in a closet in a Halloween movie.

The end was cool. I felt it was like, he's done enough killing, he's going to help this family, but without killing, he'll let the gang ruin their own lives by sacrificing his.

The Wrestler 10/10

Milk 9/10

Slumdog Millionaire 8/10

Gran Torino 5/10

is how I see it.

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This was great. It goes to show Eastwood still has it. Sure some of the younger actors weren't marvellous, but to be honest I think that added to the simpleness of the story in a way. It was just a great story - no special effects or cgi - just a good old fashioned movie.

9/10

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I think I had read somewhere that this movie was Thaos' actors first time acting. Not half bad, i'd say.

I rate it a 9/10, any movie that puts me to tears is a 9/10 or 10/10, the ending can be seen a mile away but it still just came in like a wrecking ball.

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