January 14, 2009

Gran Torino

I haven’t been keeping up with reviewing the movies I’ve been watching, and even this is more than a week late.¨Ü Clint Eastwood plays an old man that hates Asians but lives in an Asian neighborhood in Detroit.¨Ü And it’s awesome.¨Ü Before we went, Jerry said it was pretty funny, which you really can’t tell from the preview.¨Ü I haven’t laughed as much since watching last summer’s great set of comedies.

Jerry also warned us that some of the lines are pretty bad, we’ll know what he means.¨Ü He don’t lie, they’re really bad.¨Ü Apparently, Clint Eastwood wanted Hmong people playing the Hmong family rather than Asian actors pretending to be a Hmong family.¨Ü Interesting decision, but some of the acting gets distracting.¨Ü My friends could probably pull of similar performances given a few weeks to rehearse.¨Ü Especially the asian thug life parts.