Gran Torino -- the old Clint Eastwood is back!

Seriously, it looks really good, but it is kinda funny to watch 80yo eastwood kicking ass :D

I love how on the apple trailers site, all it says is Director: Clint Eastwood, Cast: Clint Eastwood
 
Woo hoo! Looking forward to that.
Cheesesailor77 said:
Seriously, it looks really good, but it is kinda funny to watch 80yo eastwood kicking ass :D

I love how on the apple trailers site, all it says is Director: Clint Eastwood, Cast: Clint Eastwood
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I totally disagree. I think it's a believable progression of the type of character Eastwood has been playing all his life.

He's not beating up The Rock in hand to hand combat. He's a grizzly old mean sum'***** with a pipe wrench that knows more ways to kick your ass and kill you than the 17 year olds who are just learning to be hard know ways to wipe their bums.

At least that's what I took from it. You could see it in the gangbanger's eyes - holy crap - if this old white dude is crazy enoough to step to us like this maybe we SHOULD be scared, maybe he knows something we don't. I mean it seemed like they were evaluating - I should be able to take this guy, but something tells me I better think twice.

Also the kid they showed him beating on was like twelve.

Finally, when the priest says "what are you gonna do?" he says "I don't know but whatever it is they won't stand a chance." To me that means it's not gonna be a fair fight because he's eighty. But smarter, more experienced, and most importantly - meaner by a lot. :)

A lot of his characters are not badass by physical might or being a the best fighter, but rather being cooler headed to the point that it's scary. As his character descibes in Unforgiven I think, the trick to winning a gun fight is not to be the faster draw, but to be the more accurate, steady draw. So while these kids will be crapping their pants when he comes at them, he, perhaps even more so at this stage of his life, will be totally nonplussed at anything they can throw at him "Kill me? Big deal, the good years are over." "Torture? You can't begin to imagine what I went through as a P.O.W.r" He's got nothing to lose and he's been through it all.
 
Gang Banger's and their gutless drive-by shootings. They don't have the balls to stand in front of a man and throw down.
Their first mistake was that they missed. Big mistake. :)
Now he's pissed and in his right to kill their asses.

I'll definitely go see this.
Clint is the man!

80 or not. If he gave me that look..... I wouldn't mess with him. :eek:
 
78 and still kicking ass, he really is one of the last Hollywood icons we have now. I hope the film does well.
 
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Preview at first kind of reminded me of Crash with that whole over dramatized thing, but I think if Clint punched me as hard as he could he'd hurt himself more than me.
 
That's where the pipe wrench and the gun comes in :)

I hear you though, he does look more frail than we've seen him in the past.

Sean Connery - still waiting for the movie where I don't buy him as being able to throw a punch.
 
Heh! when I was sixteen working on a farm the old farmer was around eighty and could tighten up a large set of vice grips and with one hand he could snap off the head by squeezing so hard. Not everybody is so strong but you might be surprised if Clint reached out and smacked you right in the mouth. That old boy has been in a lot of real knock down dragout fights. Go ahead piss off a guy that doesn't believe in PC and you could be picking yourself up off the ground.

Well milking 40 head of cattle every day by hand will make and keep you strong.
 
Yep saw this too the other day, looks great. I look forward to this one. :) Clint is awesome, no wonder a lot of women still find him attractive even in his age. He's a REAL MAN, not some wuss...
 
This film lokoks awesome.

And hell .. stand up if you think you can take 'old man' Clint in a scuff.

Thought so.
 
I found somebody's online opinion on the trailer, and I kind of agree:

Seeing the preview was really interesting. It just seemed like a chance to show Clint Eastwood beat the crap out of minorities. Kinds like "The Brave One" with the same lame catchphrases "Get off my lawn" / "I want my dog back," same damn thing. It doesn't seem provocative, just lazy. Bet he throws in a couple of racial epitaphs, and then his heart is warmed by the loving Asian family so he must confront his racist ways. Then the whole priest problem, just stems from he same conflict Eastwood has in "Million Dollar Baby" (I guess if it earns you an Oscar, you gotta milk it for all it's worth.)
 
I don't agree with any of that. I think it's an opportunity for Clint to address the whole vigilante theme of the Dirty Harry movies in a more honest way, the same way he tackled violence in westerns with Unforgiven. Clint is too smart of a filmmaker to play it for cheap racist thrills.
 
Jim Klatt said:
I found somebody's online opinion on the trailer, and I kind of agree:

Seeing the preview was really interesting. It just seemed like a chance to show Clint Eastwood beat the crap out of minorities. Kinds like "The Brave One" with the same lame catchphrases "Get off my lawn" / "I want my dog back," same damn thing. It doesn't seem provocative, just lazy. Bet he throws in a couple of racial epitaphs, and then his heart is warmed by the loving Asian family so he must confront his racist ways. Then the whole priest problem, just stems from he same conflict Eastwood has in "Million Dollar Baby" (I guess if it earns you an Oscar, you gotta milk it for all it's worth.)
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i actually would agree with this, but it doesn't make me want to see it any less. I don't really understand why it's a bad thing :D
 
Between watching Clint Eastwood, Harrison Ford, Slyvester Stallone or The Rock, Vin Diesel, and Paul Walker.

I choose Clint, Harrison, and Stallone every time.
 
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