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• Recently got around to seeing Gran Torino, great film, but-

  

  Honestly, this is one of the best films I’ve seen in a long time. To be honest however, some of the acting was seriously off. Clint Eastwood does a fine job acting as a bitter old man who just wants to be left alone (not original, i will admit). He comes across a Korean family and from there, things take a wild turn, I won’t ruin anything for anyone. I will however say that the two people of that family Clint talks to most need some serious acting lessons.

  But Clint must have known this before he decided he wanted to cast them! He wouldn’t have just let these two become the main actors of the film thinking they were great at acting, I really think that he did this on purpose maybe to show the distance between him and this family at the start of the film, and possibly to retain the originality of the film.

  What I like

  -Clint Eastwood does a great job acting

  -Blatant racism is terrible on Clint’s part, but still I am laughing.

  -Ending is original, excellent character development

  What I don’t like

  -Clint Eastwood thinks he is batman

  -Clint Eastwood thinks he can sing (spoiler in the video if you care)

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  23 Dec 2009