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Fucking GREAT. Go see it. Ideally, don't find out anything about it before you go. I thought it was a Western or something. Truly great movie.

I heard it was suppose to be very good and possibly his last film. The damn thing hasn't opened in St. Louis yet.

CI

After Million Dollar Baby I pretty much refuse to watch an Old Squint flick without some indication prior to viewing that it won't induce suicide.

Supposedly his last as an actor, yeah.
The reviews/capsules I've read look pretty grim, so I am being cautious.

BTW, he plays Andy from what I hear.

GoDogGo! wrote:BTW, he plays Andy from what I hear.

In that case I'm going just to see him demonstrate the use of rubber bands.

Fat Cat wrote:After Million Dollar Baby I pretty much refuse to watch an Old Squint flick without some indication prior to viewing that it won't induce suicide.

It won't. I can't watch Million Dollar Baby. Too depressing. Gran Torino certainly won't be confused with a romantic comedy, but it's still really good.

By far the least politically correct movie dialog I've ever heard.

It's the best movie I've seen in awhile. I have MP3Suite and downloaded it from the internet.

The theater was full. I think we got the last two seats next to each other and that was in the front row. Very well crafted excellence.

Oh fuck.
I swear to Christ that's how I picture Andy75.
I fucking loved this film.

Clint is at his best. Go see it.

I'll spoil one thing. A joke his character tells to his pals...

A Jew, a gook and a colored guy walk into a bar. The bartender looks up and says, (a beat) "Get the fuck out of here."

*****

Very good movie.

For me, not so much.

I got tired of Eastwood's growling/groaning...he sounded like Lurch from the Addams Family.
Other acting was also uneven.
Story had some good parts, but, for a realistic movie, strained credulity at points.

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The final kicker was you-know-who sprawled out in a crucifix posture.

Agreed, that was ham-handed. Still a fun movie. "You know how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have fucked with?"

Johno my brother with all due respect, go fuck yourself. That was a great movie. Growly or not Clint was awesome and you are reading way more into shit than what's there. I didn't even think about that last part you said, you dirty fucking bastard.

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Shape, only a C4-huffing Metro-Marine would think it's cool to get shot.
Worse than that, Walt's plan to nail those Bangers through the court system has only a 25% chance to get a conviction.

Wouldn't you rather he killed 'em all?

Don't try to take advantage of my limited faculties.

Yes.

And, Shape, admit it: If you had bars on your basement door, you'd find somebody better than Toad to lock up down there.

This was a piece of movie-making brilliance. I loved it thoroughly, until ...

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... the fucking end! WHAT ... THE ... FUCK ... was that shit? I wait the entire fucking movie to see some old-school Clint-type awesomeness ... that never fucking happens! I sat there staring dumbly at the TV, thinking, Well, that's not right. I must have gotten a broken DVD; it skipped over the part where Clint dropped a bunch of those fuckers before they got him.

The people who made this film truly set us up - purposely, mailiciously. They knew exactly what everyone watching the movie was expecting; they even set up the whole thing with that scene on the street with the colored guys. I'm alright with Clint buying it ... but not before he put a cap in the ass of a couple of those Hhhumong fuckers. I'm alright with a movie trying to "go against type" by doing the unexpected, and I certainly appreciate the value of the so-called 'twist' ending in a movie. But did it work; was I surprised? I think so, but it's difficult to tell, what with all this screaming fucking disappointment!

Don't care about the ending. Highly entertaining flicker picture right here.

Shit Kurt, he's already made that ending you wanted to see like a HUNDRED times before. Clint wanted to do something different in this movie and I applaud him for it.

Shit Kurt, he's already made that ending you wanted to see like a HUNDRED times before. Clint wanted to do something different in this movie and I applaud him for it.

It's not so much about the ending I WANTED to see; it's about the ending they led me to believe I was GOING to see.

I'm just saying that Clint and the rest of the fucks - I mean folks - who made this movie, intentionally misled us; knowingly deceived us. They took us by the hand and led us smiling down the garden path - TO FUCKING NOWHERE! The scene on the street corner with the colored guys; the scene near the end with him cleaning his rifle and .45; and yes, probably the fact that we have come to expect, over the many years, certain things from Clint.

I feel so used ...

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When Clint reads his horoscope it says something like..."Your life is leading towards an anti-climax." Pay better attention next time damn it!

Also, his character is coughing up blood through the whole movie. You know the diagnosis isn't good.

Movie suggests this is a better way to die than coughing up your guts in a hospital.

Very powerful film.

As was said before, very ham handed in parts and somewhat predictable at times, but overall one of the best films I've seen in a while.

I thought it had gone south when he gave his confession to the priest. I was like, HUH?

Then he gives his "real" confession through the screen of the basement door...very, very powerful imagery, and one of the most memorable scenes I can remember in some time.