Gran Torino
- Started 16 years ago
- Last post 16 years ago
- 46 Responses
- fooler20
watched it Friday night. It's a solid 75%.
I wondered what any minorities thought of the movie.
he does say some pretty horrible racial words.- but the movie is as far from racist as you can getmonospaced
- exactly. I thought it was a good film fwiwtheredmasque
- tank020
Its good, my girlfriend liked it to, she's asian and the she thought 'the racial slurs' where funny. Especially the klikklak, ding dong and yahoo part in the basement ;)
- monospaced0
egg roll
click clack
ping pongnew racial slurs that made me lol
Eastwood must have grumbled "ehhhh" about a thousand times during the film. It was awesome.
- simple_space0
i think it's great, depending on what you wanted to get out of it. I laughed my ass off; it's CE the way you imagine him. Slit eyes and speaking with out moving his teeth.
Also, I just feel like the entire production is so Eastwood. Like, everything flows through his filter...all decisions, shots, etc. Not exactly creative.
- 5timuli0
Just watched it and I loved it. I think Eastwood sounded exactly like Snake from the MGS games.
The movie was anything but racist. Don't know why people say that as all I heard were a some (ok, a lot of) racial slurs relevant to building his character and the story. It's not like they were gratuitous in any way. All this PC fucking OTT bullshit really gets my goat.
Sure, the next-door neighbor acting was pretty wooden, but Clint was spot on as always. Laugh-out-loud funny at several scenes.
I almost started crying at the end, but mainly because I was thinking about his old dog now having the only two people he loved die and now having to be looked after by a stranger :'(
- letters20
Its a solid film in a sea of mostly movie theatre rubbish lately. Surrender to it a bit and you'll find Clint's character arc is pretty clear and resonant. And yeah, it is amazing how this film manages to make bigotry both wrong and funny at the same time as delivering a powerful narrative.
- dinnum0
great movie. the complete opposite to racist. of course his character is to start with, but that's the whole idea of the movie.
- airey0
it's ok. it was a little 'movie of the week' in a few parts. the acting isn't great - eastwood is good as always but it felt a little ham-fisted in parts. worth seeing through. my 2cents.
- dewilde0
haha, did he sing the closing song? wow.
- gramme0
I thought it was great. Yes, he plays an old racist asshole, but he gets right in the end.
- bulletfactory0
I gotta go, good day, pusscake.
- MrT0
I thought it was excellent. Clint is a hero and now also behind the camera.
If you can't see the racism and how it fits in the plot then stick with Michael Bay and his visual vomits.
- beetsy0
I thought it was hysterical- absolutely loved and nice to see something a bit different for a change! Just have to be in the right frame of mind...
- instrmntl0
i thought it was great
- akoni0
was B- but Identity is right about the asian actors, they were pretty terrible
- Mellimelvin0
I liked the movie, but I noticed there was one racial slur he wasn't willing to play with. And it wasn't like he didn't have a chance.
I'm surprised spike lee wasn't up in arms about this movie.
- mydo0
It seemed to me it had been made by someone who had never been to America. Or if they had they had spent their whole life living in hollywood where everyone is a stereo type. There wasn't even a car chase or any stunts.
- Projectile0
nah its not racist in essence.. it's about racism. there's a big difference. Very old storyline, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. But also, eastwood's the only actor in it. the little boy is the worst actor I've EVER EVER EVER seen!!
still worth a watch tho