wendersfan

Mod note: Quit making personal attacks, unless you want to be forcibly spared the "idiocy" of others at this site.

Oh, and it's "you're" an idiot, not "your" an idiot. If I've learned anything about the internet, it's to at least do a spell and grammar check before insulting someone else's intelligence.

Mercury&Solace

Its attack (singular) attacks is plural. I only made one personal attack, not several. But hey you really got me there grammar police....or is it their.....

Oh man personal attack I am going to cry to the mods now. Where is this dudes warning?

Wrong, do your research 12.12.08.

If I gave a crap what you say......naaaa I don't.



Oh man your idea of a classic is severely skewed.


Say whatever you want about my thoughts on the movie, you guys just can't handle an honest, truthful opinion about the movie, you don't know what do do with yourselves when somebody steps foreword and disagrees with what the majority says/likes around here its typical on this site.

Mr. Salty

In the vast majority of the country it opened Jan. 9.

ianholm

Well, those 84 limited release theaters have stadium seating for a million people each.

frenchy

Just for the record it was mentioned that Sue did go to the hospital and it was also mentioned by the priest that the Hmong people keep quiet. It was probably hard to hear this with the steam coming out of your ears.

rw2516

I got pretty much the same thing out of it. I can't quite put my finger on it but it seems that Clint is a product of his environment, like gangs are. He rolled with the flow and joined. I think he knows a lot of his behavior is wrong and there were consequences to it that negatively affected his life. He sees the kid under the same peer pressures and steps in.
The kid's older sister could see through him a mile away.

Another scene(s) on the theme of respect

Maxflier

Saw it this afternoon in a packed theater, GREAT fucking movie.
A couple things:

WTF was with the chubby asian gansters thumb? It looked like he has an extra thumb growing out of it. Did anyone else notice that?

Was the dog played by the same actress who plays Vincent on LOST?
And speaking of LOST, doesn't Sue look like a younger Yunjin Kim?

Oh and one other thing, I don't care if you have a pipe wrench in your pants or how much of a badass you are, if you call a trio of black guys "spooks", you are getting the living fuck beaten out of you.

raven56706

Just finished seeing it... what a great freaking movie.

wow. i didnt expect it to be so good.

Freaking badass

Giles

I just noted his bad acting skills, other than that flaw, very good movie.

in regards to the spooks line, true, but when you're Clint Eastwood it elicted the most noted response from the audience I saw it with, kind of like that scene in 'The Brave One' where Jodi Foster kills the black guys on the subway train - that got a huge round of applause at the Uptown theatre.

Hank1215

Actually Clint had a .45 auto in his belt, which will trump anybody trying to give you a beating, black or white.

Maxflier

He did, but no one knew that until the very end of the scene. And he would never have gotten the chance to use it in the real world. In fact it would have probably ended up being used on him.

Solid Snake

DUDE! I totally noticed that..it wasn't important but...it fucking got my attention quickly. I was like...wait..what?

arminius

I don't think so. And even if they did get the weapon, they would have ended up shooting innocent bystanders a block away. There is a reason gangs use bullet hoses like mac 10s, tec 9s or Uzis. They can't shoot straight. Though I have to admit, pushing the weapon towards the target while firing may add a few FPS on the bullet and it looks really cool holding it sideways.

rw2516

Talking to someone today, he pointed out parallels to

JimRochester

To bring this discussion back to the movie and not the IQ of some of the people who saw it; I give it an A. I too thought by the trailer it would be retired Dirty Harry cleans up the neighborhood. But it ended up being much more drama and character driven regarding his demons. I've known people like the main character, not happy with themselves or most others, always grumbling under their breath. I felt the actors were decent enough. The young lady who played Sue was excellent. Very charming and likeable. Enough to soften up a bitter old guy. Unless it's a stellar year this will be in my top ten for '09.

yoshimi

I also really enjoyed the film. Wasn't looking forward to it at all but had to go with my dad who has a broken leg to make sure he was ok. Ended up enjoying the hell out of it.

fumanstan

I watched this today and enjoyed it quite a bit. It was a bit predictable, and I agree that the acting was poor from the kids (Sue talking to the black guys, the kid after he was locked in the basement in particular, although reading about the casting call makes me understand a bit) but I thought Clint was really good and my girlfriend being Hmong and knowing her family and how she grew up, a lot of the stuff on screen was pretty close to reality. The remarks on the previous pages about racism or the portrayal of Asians really seemed to miss the boat. A lot of the comments made me chuckle, and I was hardly offended as an Asian person as you see Walt, a veteran from the Korean war, show that despite the slurs wasn't really racist himself.

I'm not sure I'd consider this for Best Picture or Clint for best actor, but it was enjoyable.

hasslein

Question. Is this

Tarantino

Saw it tonight, loved it.

Some people feel the need to nitpick, but it's going to be that way with all popular movies.

Oh well.

= J

Solid Snake

The Beguiled...

islandclaws

^ For those of us who have seen this film and don't worry about spoilers for it... well, you just spoiled another movie for us.

I finally saw this last night and really enjoyed it. If this is indeed Clint's swansong then it's a fitting way to go out. The man is Hollywood royalty, but it's obvious his days in front of the camera are numbered. My only complaint is that the Asian actors were all pretty bad, especially next to Clint, but the message of the story was powerful enough for me to overlook that. I don't think this was necessarily an Oscar-caliber film, but Clint should have been given a nom for his role.

Solid Snake

I liked Sue's acting..it was good. While her bro..was kinda offish..especially him yelling at Eastwood.

Original Desmond

Interesting movie with a great performance by Clint. I feel it could have been edited down a bit.

The racism is what is said and happens in real life, i see no excessive stereotyping.

Clint's character was the most racist of all, but that isn't unrealistic given his war history

The most characters were the asian gang. They came accross as lightweight then all of a sudden they are rapists and murderers !

Anubis2005X

Had some cliches, some bad acting, and not a great film by any means, but was definitely impressed by Clint's acting. Can't say the same for his song at the end though, haha...

mndtrp

I just watched this last night, and really enjoyed it. Some was rather cliche, but it didn't bother me. I went along for the ride, and it was a good one.