Comments on: CLINT EASTWOOD SAVES HIS BIGGEST FOR LAST!: ‘Gran Torino’ grabs his best-ever wide opening with $29M! Could a Best Actor nomination be next?

By: Jones

Jones — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:40:02 +0000

Clint Eastwood is up there with John Wayne; you can say he went out with a bang. BLONDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Aetius

Aetius — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:06:19 +0000

There was a time when Rev Road might have been a piercing look inside the American culture. Unfortunately, that time was fifty years ago. Its diagnsis of married suburban life is tired and outdated, to say the least.

By: Rowane

Rowane — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:13:36 +0000

What do you mean by editing, censorship?

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Weekend Box Office « The Rhetorican — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:30:59 +0000

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By: Alexander

Alexander — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:52:32 +0000

Revolutionary Road is “Excellent”? My understanding is it is yet another attack on the family and suburbia how does this align with the supposed values of this site?

We need some editing here as this thing gets off the ground

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Sun, 11 Jan 2009 04:10:50 +0000

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By: Polter

Polter — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 03:13:52 +0000

skip and phaedrus – enjoyed both of your comments

Saw it tonight at a standing room only packed theater…. big applauses – standing O at the end

Worth seeing for sure…

I got a bit teary eyed at the end myself, lots did.

By: Lord Corn

Lord Corn — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:03:00 +0000

I would rather watch Clint Eastwood make a bowel movement than watch Tom Cruise, George Clooney, Matthew McConaughy, Colin Farrell and whatever other d-bag passes for a star actor these days act.

This effeminized, emasculated, Obamified, mouth-breathing society that worships at the alter of Ryan Seacrest every week NEEDS Clint Eastwood.

By: Maverick Mom

Maverick Mom — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:36:48 +0000

To get off the Gran Torino subject momentarily, from a sociocultural standpoint, may I ask why reviewers take offense to female-oreinted comedies, snottily and condescendingly taking such movies to task for stereotyping and “setting women back a decade,” when they make no such mention of the male-driven counterparts which regularly turn women into stupid drunk sluts and are nothing but 2.5-hour-long dirty jokes at the expense of women? Those movies may get bad reviews, but I never see cries of sexism!mysogyny! in those reviews. The hypocricy and disdain towards female-driven comedies is starting to get on my nerves. What’s most annoying is that you know the reviews were formulated and written before most critics even saw the movie. For its genre and what it was trying to achieve, I’d give Bride Wars 3 out of 4 stars. I might even give it 3.5 stars just to annoy those high-brow male critics who seem to know so much about the “proper” treatment of women in film. Ha.

By: Phaedrus

Phaedrus — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:06:24 +0000

The movie is not awful, not by a long shot. There’s more to it than the superficial attention being paid to racial comments. The audience was moved to tears so it must have been effective for some of them. Don’t like Clint Eastwood, don’t go see it. In some ways it is a mirror as a good number of us use the same kind of language although not continuously like Walt. Some of us use different terms like Nazi, fascist, in addition to the well known vulgarities. It makes you think about foolish we look throwing out the best insult we can come up with. I’m naive but the ending surprised me. I expected a Dirty Harry ending. I think the actors cast as neighbors were picked because they weren’t supposed to be smooth characters in the story. The fact that some of the expert critics panned it is exactly why I went to see it. I still like to watch Kelly’s Heroes (mostly because I like the song)so what do I know.