01-18-2009, 11:49 AM
Gran Torino
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The acting was terrible all the way around. The racial slurs seemed gratuitous after awhile. It's like they had an exhaustive list of slang terms for Asians and they just had to use them all.
The moral of the story was good but would have been better had he not been dying from emphysema in the first place. That he would lay down his life for the people he had come to respect would have carried more weight if he didn't already have a death sentence. Either way it was noble.
The will reading was predictable. Yes his kids were selfish but he was a prick and that's what happens to children of pricks. He stuck it to them in the end but suffice it to say he stuck it to them their whole lives so why not go out the same way?
Spoiler alert: highlight below this to read.
The acting was terrible all the way around. The racial slurs seemed gratuitous after awhile. It's like they had an exhaustive list of slang terms for Asians and they just had to use them all.
The moral of the story was good but would have been better had he not been dying from emphysema in the first place. That he would lay down his life for the people he had come to respect would have carried more weight if he didn't already have a death sentence. Either way it was noble.
The will reading was predictable. Yes his kids were selfish but he was a prick and that's what happens to children of pricks. He stuck it to them in the end but suffice it to say he stuck it to them their whole lives so why not go out the same way?
Go fuck yourself. Hard.