Solid 6! Way better viewing experience than Gran Tarino, which was AN EXPERIENCE.
This was exactly what I expect from a Clint Eastwood movie by Clint Eastwood, to the point where I almost wanna rate it even higher for nailing that theme. It felt like Clint had a checklist in hand, and every scene was supposed to check off at least one of his goals or favorite tropes or one liners.
I don't think it pulled off any kind of emotional investment, but unlike Gran Tarino it wasn't trying to be quite as IMPORTANT so that worked out alright. It was a fun movie if you watch it like a fun movie.
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And I'm so happy that Earl lived at the end and went to prison and the story had to go for the "happy"(??) ending. Gran Tarino's weird old white man who dies trying to prove to the hmong how bad gang is violence left me with a BAD TASTE so this movie where the self-sacrifice was him serving his deserved sentence for his crimes after kinda (not really) getting his shit together was refreshing.
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Overall it felt a little forced and a little CHECKMARK-y but I enjoyed watching it | actually here's the story of me watching gran tarino since i mentioned it in the rabbit chat:
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I was in the historical reenactment nerd club at college, which was really small and just a handful of us who mostly just watched movies and drove around maryland at night. One night after a meeting one guy in the club, Rob, who was kinda weird and way too into the civil war said he was gonna go see gran tarino with a friend at the theater and asked if any of us wanted to go. I don't put the proper amount of value on my personal safety so I agreed to go, and so did the guy who somehow figured out my phone number to text me constantly about LOST, txts. I was worried his other friend would be the only other friend I knew either of them had, Creepy Paul, who was banned from the club, but I was briefly relieved to discover it wasn't. But creepy paul probably would have been a better 4th because instead it was this real sketchy guy who didnt go to our college who didnt tell me his name and was creepier than txts and more racist than rob and even more into firearms and knowing every local law about armed militias for some reason
Also Rob had me meet him a bar off campus to pick me up because he couldn't drive on campus with all the guns in his trunk. He had over 20 guns just floating around in his trunk. Somehow I just thought "oh classic rob" and didn't question it but now I realize that was maybe a little weird
We watched the movie and rob and rob's terrible friend cheered at every one liner (txts was a little more film cricket), and when the movie was over it was just this big discussion between the 2 of them (and txts kinda) just going on about how all the black guys in the movie were spooks after all and just a lot of shitty opinions
Anyway it all turned out fine despite me going 'wow this was a terrible thing to agree to' the entire time i was in the car with them, and in the end it was just 4 nerds watching a movie. Not my worst theater visit at college OR the creepiest incident involving txts and other people creepier than txts
but what a contrast between running commentaries on clint eastwood movies
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