Gran Torino

[TangoJuliet]

I saw a lot of movies in 2008 and save it for the last one to be the best.

Eastwood is vintage in the movie and played the role great. The Asian family living next door made you really get into the story as well.

At first I was not really interested in the flick but got coerced into watching it by my inlaws Christmas day. About 20 minutes in I was hooked and didn't want it to end.

Now let me saw this is not the best movie EVAR but it was the best one I saw in 2008. There are some parts that are a little hokey, there are some racial slurs thrown around so if you are offended by that sort of stuff maybe this isnt the movie for you.

Next on the list to see is Benjamin Button.......

 

[waggy]

a buddy of mine went and seen it. he said it was great. one of the best movies he has ever seen (he usually hates every movie out). from the previews it looks great. if i can find a baby sitter im going to drag my wife out to see it


benamin button? is that the one where the guy ages backwordS? that looks good also.

 

[TangoJuliet]

Originally posted by: waggy
a buddy of mine went and seen it. he said it was great. one of the best movies he has ever seen (he usually hates every movie out). from the previews it looks great. if i can find a baby sitter im going to drag my wife out to see it

cool, if you go out and see it dont forget to post something here

i dont want to post any spoilers but there is a scene with the italian barber that is great....

 

[calvinbiss]

Also, SLumdog Millionaire.

 

[KLin]

Open casting calls for Hmong actors were held in Hmong communities in Detroit, Michigan; Saint Paul, Minnesota; and Fresno, California. None of the Hmong actors in the cast had acted in a film before except Doua Moua.

Interesting.

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

 

[TangoJuliet]

Originally posted by: waggy

benamin button? is that the one where the guy ages backwordS? that looks good also.

yep, thats the one. i had to wait until my local theater had new coupons before i went to see it.

 

[TangoJuliet]

Originally posted by: KLin

Open casting calls for Hmong actors were held in Hmong communities in Detroit, Michigan; Saint Paul, Minnesota; and Fresno, California. None of the Hmong actors in the cast had acted in a film before except Doua Moua.

Interesting.

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

They did a great job!

 

[LS8]

I was able to see the film last week and it was superb. Movies like this are proof you don't need a ton of special effects to tell an incredible story - hell, you don't even need big name actors as these "amateur" (excluding Eastwood) were phenomenal to watch.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: TangoJuliet

Originally posted by: waggy

benamin button? is that the one where the guy ages backwordS? that looks good also.

yep, thats the one. i had to wait until my local theater had new coupons before i went to see it.

yeap want to go see that one also. might wait until its on netflix though.

this year for movies has been pretty good. only movie i think i wasted money on seeing was walle

 

[TangoJuliet]

Originally posted by: LS8
I was able to see the film last week and it was superb. Movies like this are proof you don't need a ton of special effects to tell an incredible story - hell, you don't even need big name actors as these "ametures" (excluding Eastwood) were phenomenal to watch.

I agree with you 100%.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Still waiting for Gran Torino to open at our local theatre. I am beginning to wonder if they will even pick it up. I really hope they do, I have been wanting to see this movie since first seeing the previews a few months ago.

 

[zoiks]

Eastwood is da man.

So is this movie about some chinese dudes and their family racing around in some souped up cars?

 

[LS8]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
Still waiting for Gran Torino to open at our local theatre. I am beginning to wonder if they will even pick it up. I really hope they do, I have been wanting to see this movie since first seeing the previews a few months ago.

It should be in almost every market on Jan 9, 2009. I think the early limited release was so the film could compete for the various 2008 awards.

 

[The_Dude8]

Originally posted by: zoiks
Eastwood is da man.

So is this movie about some chinese dudes and their family racing around in some souped up cars?

No it's not. It's about the Hmong family and their Hmong cousin's gang driving around in a souped up white civic.

 

[n7]

I have a hard time believing this is better than Benjamin Button.

 

[buck]

Great great great movie. Awesome performance, best movie I saw this year.

 

[LS8]

The movie is about an old, racist, Korean War Veteran who is stuggleing to live with the actions he was forced to take during the war and his relationship (or lack thereof) with his two sons. There IS more, much, much more but lets not go into any spoilers please.

Go see the film!

 

[The_Dude8]

Originally posted by: n7
I have a hard time believing this is better than Benjamin Button.

Benjamin Button was a freaking long ass movie @ 2hrs and 47 minutes.

 

[TangoJuliet]

I cannot compare it to Button as I have not seen it yet. I plan to see it on Friday but no matter what Torino will be my favorite movie of 08 because I will have seen button in 09. I'll compare the two after I see them both

 

[xanis]

I want to see it real bad but no theaters in like a 50 mile radius are showing it.

 

[purbeast0]

i thought it was WWWAYYYY overhyped and overrated like the majority of clint eastwoods movies.

the acting in the movie is just terrible. the 2 neighbor kids were terrible actors, as were the gangsters in the movie. the white thugged out kid made me laugh he was so bad.

and i just wished the neighbor kid would have at least put some damn water in his hair or something when he woke up, it was all over the place!

the movie wasn't terrible by any means, but FAR from being one of the best movies. but that's pretty typical of all these movies that are up for awards.

 

[purbeast0]

Originally posted by: KLin

Open casting calls for Hmong actors were held in Hmong communities in Detroit, Michigan; Saint Paul, Minnesota; and Fresno, California. None of the Hmong actors in the cast had acted in a film before except Doua Moua.

Interesting.

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

wow that explains the terrible acting that i talk about in my post lol.

 

[mugs]

Yeah I thought it was really good. The ending wasn't entirely unexpected, but it still satisifed me. I didn't much care for last year's Oscar-hyped films (No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood), but I really enjoyed this one.

 

[zinfamous]

"______ is the best movie I've seen all year" thread #5.7 of ATOT in 4 days.

keep 'em coming.

:beer:

 

[BurnItDwn]

Haven't seen Benjamin Button or Slumdog Millionaire yet .... but I will agree than Gran Torino is the best movie I've seen it at least a year. IMO Eastwoods best since Unforgiven. This movie has a lot of "heart" in it. Sorta like Bronco Billy and A Perfect World. Fantastic movie, nothing was too surprising throughout the movie, and some of the actors did less than perfect work, but the movie brings out some pretty strong feelings, and it does a damn well job of it too.

I hope this isn't the last great masterpiece from Clint Eastwood. I believe he's still got a swansong or two left in him if he wants.