This movie is worth viewing...
Oddly enough I would walk past it in video stores, as if I was walking past a tombstone with Clints face on it...
I just saw him as a old dried up actor far past his prime....
He prooved me totally wrong in Grand Torino...at least in this role and movie.
For some reason, the film works...here's why I think it works..
1. Instead of avoiding his old age, the film deals with it head on...
Instead of being cast in some heroric 'good cop' 'bad cop' role where
they use a stunt double for action scenes, he does all his own stunts in
this movie (not that there is any) but it's as if they want his age, and
the fact that he is getting older, to be apart of the theme...it works..
2. The movie also deals with the 'heir' aspect...kids and grandkids who
wait around drooling for their parents to pass so the can get the
goodies.(oddly enough, me and my siblings are in a similuar situation right now)
3. And it deals with 'punks' and how they can make life difficult for all of
us at different levels...and sometimes make you feel trapped and
cornered.
4. And the movie deals with 'bias' racial or ethnic bias held on by those
from the Koren, WW 2 and Vietnam era wars...for some, that would
be our parents...
5. And it brought a little redeming face to the Catholic church...
Put all that together, shake it up, and you have a pretty good movie...I enjoyed it and was glued to the screen the whole time...
And I didn't think I would....I seriously thought I would not like this film...
I love the old Clint...but in some of his recent films, he moved, and sounded like a 'corpes'...while pretending to be the Clint of old...
In this film...it's like he, or the character, comes to terms that 'yes, I'm finally old, but I'm still a warrior'....and that's an inner demon will all face, or will someday...
Grand Torino...a very enjoyable, heartfelt film....My hats off to Clint...
Oddly enough I would walk past it in video stores, as if I was walking past a tombstone with Clints face on it...
I just saw him as a old dried up actor far past his prime....
He prooved me totally wrong in Grand Torino...at least in this role and movie.
For some reason, the film works...here's why I think it works..
1. Instead of avoiding his old age, the film deals with it head on...
Instead of being cast in some heroric 'good cop' 'bad cop' role where
they use a stunt double for action scenes, he does all his own stunts in
this movie (not that there is any) but it's as if they want his age, and
the fact that he is getting older, to be apart of the theme...it works..
2. The movie also deals with the 'heir' aspect...kids and grandkids who
wait around drooling for their parents to pass so the can get the
goodies.(oddly enough, me and my siblings are in a similuar situation right now)
3. And it deals with 'punks' and how they can make life difficult for all of
us at different levels...and sometimes make you feel trapped and
cornered.
4. And the movie deals with 'bias' racial or ethnic bias held on by those
from the Koren, WW 2 and Vietnam era wars...for some, that would
be our parents...
5. And it brought a little redeming face to the Catholic church...
Put all that together, shake it up, and you have a pretty good movie...I enjoyed it and was glued to the screen the whole time...
And I didn't think I would....I seriously thought I would not like this film...
I love the old Clint...but in some of his recent films, he moved, and sounded like a 'corpes'...while pretending to be the Clint of old...
In this film...it's like he, or the character, comes to terms that 'yes, I'm finally old, but I'm still a warrior'....and that's an inner demon will all face, or will someday...
Grand Torino...a very enjoyable, heartfelt film....My hats off to Clint...
Last edited by starlite; 02-23-10 at 02:10 AM.