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Gran Torino

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Simon_Cowbell, Dec 12, 2008.

  1. NoOneLikesUs

    NoOneLikesUs Active Member

    I'm downloading it as well.

    Hollywood sends out tons of review copies of potential award winners around this time. Many - if not all - end up on the Internet.

    You could go fishing for the stuff via bittorrent or other p2p options, but I've abandoned that method as it's slow and potentially unsafe. I now pay a nominal fee to download the stuff from usenet (the first message boards of the Internet).
     
  2. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

     
  3. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    Tremendous film.

    I'll go as far as to say it's the best film I've seen this year. I seriously doubt it will receive the awards that some of the others will, but I've watched this, Frost/Nixon and Milk in the last week and this is by far the best of the bunch, and I loved the other two.
     
  4. crusoes

    crusoes Active Member

    I remember having this surreal argument with a coworker who claimed that "The Crying Game" should have won the Best Picture Oscar that year. It still makes me shudder.
     
  5. Huggy

    Huggy Well-Known Member

    Went to see Sudden Impact the first night it came out (I was still in high school then). The place was packed and went nuts at the first scene of Dirty Harry walking into the courtroom. The "Har-ry, Har-ry" chants were heard everytime he shot somebody or kicked their ass. Maybe the most meorable time I've ever had at a movie.
     
  6. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    He is a colossal badass in Gran Torino.
     
  7. daveevansedge

    daveevansedge Member

    I'm with you on that point, mg, except to perhaps add:

    He is a colossal badass in damn near everything he's ever done.

    And Pallister, you definitely need to see Unforgiven. Not exactly the bright, cheery holiday flick, but a damn good movie.
     
  8. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    When someone is pushing 80, pulling off being a colossal badass get increasingly hard to do.

    Not for Eastwood.
     
  9. The best compliment I can give Unforgiven is that it is just millimeters from being as good as McCabe and Mrs. Miller, and it's the only "modern" western I've ever seen that's even in the conversation.
     
  10. Tommy_Dreamer

    Tommy_Dreamer Well-Known Member

    Perhaps if he had mentioned the movie title in the thread instead of a quote from a movie that sounds like something Mr. Wilson would say to Dennis the Menace, then perhaps you wouldn't have started another thread on it.
     
  11. Simon_Cowbell

    Simon_Cowbell Active Member

    That was my thought.
     
  12. Tommy_Dreamer

    Tommy_Dreamer Well-Known Member

    This is the reason for so many damn d_b's on this board. Not everyone opens up every new thread started. If I do a d_b it's because I've went back two pages and didn't see it. But I digress.
     
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