I've not read any of this thread. Is this film a biopic based on "Il Grande Torino", the nickname given to the Torino football team in the Italian post-war period, usually acknowledged as one of the greatest club level teams in association football history, who all died in the Superga airplane tragedy in 1949? Is Eastwood playing Valentino Mazzola?
― Mare Street tour guide (Dom Passantino), Friday, 30 January 2009 01:33 (fifteen years ago) link
SCARF LOL
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 30 January 2009 01:54 (fifteen years ago) link
if you squint at the poster you can see osteoporotic gran torino in her head scarf hunched over the steering wheel, clint plays her taciturn son brian.
― estela, Friday, 30 January 2009 04:39 (fifteen years ago) link
this was a ridiculous and preposterous picture, and i felt the only "real" character outside of the misanthrope CE plays and the most interesting one was the girl Sue...everything else was just perpetuating a stereotypebut i have to admit i was entertained, it was almost self-parodic at times
― Vichitravirya_XI, Friday, 30 January 2009 10:56 (fifteen years ago) link
some rly bad acting in this movie (basically everyone who isn't eastwood)
― cozwn, Saturday, 28 February 2009 21:32 (fifteen years ago) link
this is one of the worst films I can remember seeing.
so many stereotypes, awful acting, really clunky lines, massively convoluted themes with no point to any of them, tacked on violence. so fucking awful.
it was like "denis" with violence and racism. what was the point of the whole thing? this kid just needs a damn good stint of hard work and to call some people jerks and assholes, that'll straighten him out. maybe if racist old men ran this world we'd be in a lot better shape, they call it like they see it!
― Local Garda, Monday, 23 March 2009 22:12 (fifteen years ago) link
best thing about this film was it had someone shouting "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALT" in it
― Local Garda, Monday, 23 March 2009 22:16 (fifteen years ago) link
was it worse than "grumpy old men in space"?
― unexpected item in bagging area (sarahel), Monday, 23 March 2009 22:26 (fifteen years ago) link
good luck england
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 18:38 (fifteen years ago) link
I liked "grumpy old men in space"
― Past a Diving Jeter (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 18:52 (fifteen years ago) link
^^ so did my parents, but I suspect part of its appeal to them was "seeing themselves reflected in the characters". I actually haven't seen it. I just like calling it "Grumpy old men in space"
― unexpected item in bagging area (sarahel), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 18:58 (fifteen years ago) link
england??
― Local Garda, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 19:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Sounds like I was right to dismiss this as a piece of shit. When all of my racist older relatives went on and on about how great it was, I knew to avoid it like the plague.
― legendary North American forest ape (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 19:39 (fifteen years ago) link
It's better than the Oscar winner.
― Past a Diving Jeter (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 19:43 (fifteen years ago) link
I've successfully avoided that one too.
― legendary North American forest ape (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 19:45 (fifteen years ago) link
This film is fantastic. It made me cry, as few films do.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 21:21 (fifteen years ago) link
This movie is certainly some kind of object. Given its status as a hit, by Eastwood standards, I'd go so far as to say it might stand aside Network and JFK as examples of "zeitgeist goes batshit."
― Nurse Detrius (Eric H.), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 21:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Though neither as batshit nor as zeitgeist as those two, obv.
(Nor as good.)
(In fact, fuck this movie.)
maybe he shoulda done an anti-hillbilly 1930s boxing picture again
― Past a Diving Jeter (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 March 2009 09:33 (fifteen years ago) link
or grumpy old men with snakes
― unexpected item in bagging area (sarahel), Thursday, 26 March 2009 10:15 (fifteen years ago) link
this movie is awful
clint eastwood is a truly terrible filmmaker
― s1ocki, Monday, 8 June 2009 13:17 (fourteen years ago) link
"positive power of racism" theme is kind of a new one tho
the whole movie reminded of the truly terrible hilary swank's family stuff in million dollar baby... just such ungenerous, lazy, self-righteous writing.
― s1ocki, Monday, 8 June 2009 13:18 (fourteen years ago) link
I sort of agree and disagree.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 8 June 2009 13:23 (fourteen years ago) link
i did like the growling!
― s1ocki, Monday, 8 June 2009 13:32 (fourteen years ago) link
the way the slutty granddaughter nosing around after the car gets her comeuppance for being a terribly-drawn character in the end is just so gross
― s1ocki, Monday, 8 June 2009 13:33 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah this was pretty bad. even the best parts seemed like a cliche we've seen 1000 times before. old guy tutoring boy.. liked the scene with the hairdresser though. lazy ending too. and Eastwood's acting was the low point. (i* hated the growling)
*heh, that looks cool with the bb code. i mean before it appears cursive err.
― Ludo, Monday, 8 June 2009 13:34 (fourteen years ago) link
When a director with Eastwood's past makes a back-to-basics move like Gran Torino, he's reduced to first principles: vigilantism and a creeping case of the cutes.
― Bud Huxtable (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 June 2009 13:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Can't quite fathom how anyone thought this anything other than hilarious/terrible. Most people I know who saw it all expected something more serious but all just gave in to it and had to laugh.
And then the few moments of bad things really jar because you're all "that doesnt really have any place in a comedy does it?"
― Suedey 2, Monday, 8 June 2009 13:59 (fourteen years ago) link
his plan at the end was pretty dumb too
― s1ocki, Monday, 8 June 2009 14:00 (fourteen years ago) link
i cant wait to see this and judge for thyself, everyone on ilx hates it, everyone i've spoken to irl has loved it.
this should be interesting
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Monday, 8 June 2009 14:37 (fourteen years ago) link
it is a completely retarded movie and i enjoyed it
― caek, Monday, 8 June 2009 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link
This was so terrible. I can't really comprehend how this was so well received.
― doom shit (circa1916), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 08:52 (fourteen years ago) link
haha i thought this was awesome
― mark cl, Saturday, 21 November 2009 16:56 (fourteen years ago) link
can't believe clint hasn't discovered how to make movies that please the auteurs of ilx yet, GET A CLUE CLINT
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Saturday, 21 November 2009 23:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Gardena man allegedly shoots teen for taking shortcut through his yardDecember 2, 2009 | 9:53 am
Frustrated that kids were using his property as a shortcut, a Gardena resident shot a teenager in his driveway, police said.The teenager survived and the property owner was arrested.
― mayor jingleberries, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link
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― goole, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link
hell yes this movie is awesome. thread is crazy.
― sonderangerbot, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link
main problem was the devilish gang bangers who are dead set on having a kid clearly not cut out to be useful in criminal life, in their gang, up to the point of raping a family member to prove the point, somehow. the whole thing turns on this motivation and it's really stupid.
― goole, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 20:30 (fourteen years ago) link
lol @ this movie, dumb but even dumber to get mad at it imo
― buzza, Saturday, 17 July 2010 03:38 (thirteen years ago) link
what's there to get mad about? it's a piece of shit.
― abstract sand patterns, representing water (corey), Saturday, 17 July 2010 03:47 (thirteen years ago) link
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Monday, June 8, 2009 3:37 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark
This has been my experience with ILX for years. Good flick.
― thirdalternative, Sunday, 14 November 2010 21:41 (thirteen years ago) link
I loved it. People are more likely to write about things they hate.
― Alba, Sunday, 14 November 2010 21:58 (thirteen years ago) link
this movie was so, so bad
― thomas smangalter (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 14 November 2010 21:59 (thirteen years ago) link
@Alba, I think you are right, that's why I can't ever trust customer on line reviews, the Internet brings out everyone's inner crank.
― thirdalternative, Sunday, 14 November 2010 22:47 (thirteen years ago) link
this is on tv. the scene where clint takes the azn kid to the barber to "man him up."
― M*A*S*H Rules Everything Around Me (get bent), Monday, 5 September 2011 03:09 (twelve years ago) link
truly terrible film
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 5 September 2011 04:36 (twelve years ago) link
the acting is pretty bad
― buzza, Monday, 5 September 2011 04:38 (twelve years ago) link