Gran Torino (2008)

Posted : 2 months, 2 weeks ago at Aug 24 13:27

This movie is great. I loved and i laughed alot to.
I dont konw y but the terms he used were actualy funny and wat he said to the priest. i have no idea y i think that though. It was great though.

Rating : 10/10

Posted : 3 months ago at Aug 10 11:40

One of the few directors that makes me wanna watch all of his movies. This in particular is very special and probably one of my favourites, if not the favourite that he directed. It tells a history about a war vet called Walt Kowalski that after an event starts to get closer to his neighbor a young Hmong, Thao. Clint is amazing as always and touching as usual. The character needs a tough man, brave and most of the times rude but he shows all of that and still the soft side that every human being has with some people. He's a lonely man that never got over all of the facts from the past. The relationship with Thao is really simple and with likely father and son moments that are funny and real. They make each other a better person and with everything that happens in the movie, the problems, ...Read more

Rating : 8/10

Posted : 8 months ago at Mar 10 6:59

I was very surprised with this latest from Clint Eastwood. Slumdog Millionaire may have won for Best Picture at the Oscars this year, but if I had watched this beforehand I would have easily thought Gran Torino had a shot. Although it seems this was a role perfectly suited for Eastwood as his frown seems permanently etched on his face, the performances of nearly everyone in this film were believable and moving. Bee Vang was exceptionally humorous and was able to create a space for himself in the movie instead of just being dwarfed by Eastwood's talent. About the only problem I had with this film was Father Janovich, played by Christopher Carley. He may not have been given a lot to work with, but I found myself dreading scenes with him as Sue Lor and Bee Vang's scenes were much mor...Read more

Rating : 8/10

Posted : 8 months, 1 week ago at Mar 3 14:48

''Yea? I blow a hole in your face and then I go in the house... and I sleep like a baby. You can count on that. We used to stack fucks like you five feet high in Korea... use you for sandbags.'' Disgruntled Korean War vet Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, a young Hmong teenager, who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: his 1972 Gran Torino. Clint Eastwood: Walt Kowalski Gran Torino comes from someone who has considered some of his highly praised directorial works as over appreciated, I was absolutely in awe and pleasantly surprised with Gran Torino, a exquisite film and compelling story to boot. Eastwood stars as Walt Kowalski, an ill-natured racist Korean War veteran living in the heart of a run-down and heavily Hmong-populated area of Michigan. When his 17...Read more

Rating : 9/10

Posted : 9 months, 3 weeks ago at Jan 20 18:20

Clint Eastwood stars,directs, and produces this wonderful film.Eastwood plays Walt Kowalksi an old predjuiced man who moved into a detroit nieghborhood in Michigan before it got shitty. And thus this moves the plot forward in traditional eastwood style by not showing us a flashback (but is not needed here). Gran Torino could be considered Either a Comdey or a Dark drama (at times). when at first a chinese gang is taking young Thao (Bee vang) away by force do they cross his property and does Walt decide to do anything about it . He takes his old rifle from when he fought in korea to get them off his lawn. this event leads to many of highlights shown in the trailer for this magnificent film. the acting is superb from the entire cast. the only other american actor who plays father Janovich is...Read more

Rating : 10/10

Posted : 9 months, 3 weeks ago at Jan 17 20:22

"I blow a hole in your face and then I go in the house and I sleep like a baby." Unofficially billed as Clint Eastwood's swansong to acting, Gran Torino is an arresting and poignant drama infused with Eastwood's brilliantly distinctive filmmaking style. Eastwood's second directorial undertaking for 2008 (previously helming Changeling) and his first screen performance since 2004's Million Dollar Baby, Gran Torino is an excellently written, well-performed character study of racism and redemption that fits contentedly beside the rest of Eastwood's cinematic oeuvre. This is a potent, effective and emotionally affecting drama - it's slow-paced yet subtly engaging, moderately unexciting yet it's virtually impossible to lose interest and it's never boring. Working from a script penned by first...Read more