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If you are a fan'o'clint (who isn't?) or If you are a fan'o'ford (who is?) you will enjoy Gran Torino
the film title is derived from the main character's mint condition GREEN 1972 Ford - an automobile that HE himself worked on when he was on the line at the Ford Motor plant. Mr Pep and I saw it yesterday - we both thought is was worth the time & money .... just thought I'd pass this along to any Eastwood lovers in MB land. review in Variety One of the more interesting relationships is the mutual respect that (slowly) develops between the old man (Eastwood) and the young priest.
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When I get cut, I bleed Detroit automotive blood. This film was shot in location in my playground.
I am happy to read that you give it the proverbial thumbs up.
Also, it appears that this film is return for Clint into his "wheelhouse", the kind of film that made him "The Man with no name" and Dirty Harry.
I've not been a fan of Clint's efforts to make artsy films like Million Dollar Baby and Letter's from Iwo Jima, certainly a talented director but for me these films missed. But when Clint uses his talent to make an action thriller, well, nobody does it better.
Detective: “God this stuff is getting to me - the shootings, the knifings, the beatings. Old ladies being bashed in the head for their social security checks.”
Harry Callahan: “Nah that doesn't bother me. But you know what does bother me? You know what makes me really sick to my stomach? It's watching you stuff your face with those hotdogs! Nobody - I mean nobody puts ketchup on a hot dog!”
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Very few 78 year old guys can look capable of, and be believable, when scaring the pants off some young teen punks. Clint can.
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When I get cut, I bleed Detroit automotive blood. This film was shot in location in my playground. Hey Mr. G, it sounds like we might be neighbors!  Mrs. W
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I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
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Thanks for the review Pep. I liked what I saw in the preview.
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Mr GS: I have to ask along the smae lines as Mrs Wondering: When I get cut, I bleed Detroit automotive blood. This film was shot in location in my playground. They actually shot the film in Detroit? Looking at the street addresses in the trailers it has to be out near the Grand River/Southfield Fwy area... Just a thought. I won't be able to see the film in theaters, but I plan to get the DVD after Apr 15th. LG
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H and I went to see the movie this weekend and it was great. Loved it, loved it!
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Many a good man has failed because he had a wishbone where his backbone should have been.
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
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Was it Clint Eastwood who starred with Merryl Streep in the movie "Bridges of Maddison County"? Whoever played the part of the photographer for National Geographic did a brilliant job of it.
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Yup, that was Eastwood. Folks can say what they want about him but he is not my favorite actor.
Not even in Bridges.
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I love Eastwood in the spaghetti westerns and as Dirty Harry. Bridges is not a movie I would recommend to anyone. What a waste of film, glorifying adultery like that!
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"Gran Tarino" is excellent, we saw it this weekend and loved it. It's hilarious and very touching at the same time...definitely worth it!
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I'm stillllllll trying to figure out why everyone thinks Eastwood is so marvelous. Doesn't do a thing for me. Maybe I just haven't absorbed whatever was in the kool-aid.
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We really liked the Gran Torino too. I thought Clint did a great job in it.
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