The Wrestler and Gran Torino

[St. Brett]

Watched Gran Torino.Being a fan of Eastwood, and not one to bag him.....hmm......this was kinda...a let down?All I can say is - Clint's best work is in his past.I tried to enjoy it and liked Daisey the dog watching him in the bath but it was -I dunno.I'm not fussed about it.The part where he ties the dog up with the old lady and leaves it with her - he never returns - and the next time you see the dog it's still waiting for Clint to come home on the ladies porch.Spider was a piss ant baddy as was the rest.I thought the Latino vato's were pretty good.The old lady spitting was ok, I guess. It's just...there was no one else involved with this film like there was no outside world. Hey...there was a ''coming soon'' poster in the cinema that had a guy in a hat peeping out of a red dogs paw: part 2 is all it said. It wasn't Get Smart so I take it it was Planes Trains & Automobiles was it? It looked like Neil Page on the poster.The other day Bob Rogers played a song by a guy with a crinkly voice and said it was Clint Eastwood. I didn't believe it but as the credits rolled to Gran Torino just then it turned out to be true.He sounded like Kermit the Frog with throat cancer.What ever illness Eastwood was suffering from in the movie (spitting up blood) I thought that was how he was gonna go down in the end.Gran torino 6/10 ?????Not wrapped to buy it on DVD when it comes out.

 

[God-King Dean]

Watched Gran Torino. Good movie, not as good as the hype though.

It was worth it for the one liner racial slurs.

" Bunch of spooks... "

 

[Ridders]

Wrestler was great. I enjoyed the little bits of humour they injected into the movie, lightened things up a bit, but didn't take away from the overall mood of the movie.

 

[Misanthrope]

I've seen and loved both. I'm a wrestling fan, so I might have taken a little bit more of of The Wrestler than your average movie-goer will - but it's a poignant story wonderfully acted by Rourke and Tomei (who looks f**kin' fine as a stripper) and it moves along well.

I liked Gran Torino quite a bit. Eastwood manages to be both sympathetic and scary and the central ideas of racism and community are well explored. The support from 'unknowns' is strong in some cases and a frustrating in others - but it's bittersweet and enjoyable. Probably by favorite movie of the last month or so.