Anyone got a light? I got a light. ...

If you like High School Musical 3, Ne-Yo and/or Gossip Girls, then you probably won't like Gran Torino. If however, you're a God-loving American that hates rap, loves a nice tight hair cut and early morning dew with a side of Pabst, you'll love this movie. Clint Eastwood has brought to light all racial/gender/religious/age tensions in his newest film, Gran Torino. While the story was a bit unoriginal, the humor and racial taboos it brought forth kept it strong.

Eastwood's acting was, of course, phenomenal. Sadly, I can't say the same for about 95% of the other actors throughout the entire film. Granted, many were first timers to a big league movie like this, but come on, if you're on the same screen with Dirty Harry, man up. I will give props to John Carroll Lynch (Fargo, Zodiac, The Drew Carey Show) though, his role as trash talking barber was nothing short of hilarious. Everyone else could use some more practice - 4th period high school drama at least.

So the ending was a bit anti-climactic, the acting by most took near all sincerity out of emotional scenes (though not enough to keep a fat woman next to me from sobbing uncontrollably), and many scenes were useless and/or cheesy, but Gran Torino proves Clint Eastwood is still a bad ass. This movie touches on so many of the racial problems that are wrong with America and the story of one man's reluctant quest to overcome them. If that's not your thing, you can still hear ol' Clint call someone a gook.

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Here's some food for thought. Gran Torino opening weekend brought in $271,720... from 6 theatres. That's an average of $45,287 per theater. For comparison's sake, The Dark Knight, the highest opening film of all time, had a per screen average of $36,283. BURN. Alright, alright you naysayers. Yes, it's probably true that if The Dark Knight was packed into 6 theaters there would be all sorts of fire hazards and riots/mass histeria and according to economics it probably could have made more than $45,287... but can we give Mr. Eastwood some credit? This is quite a feat.

Oh, and Frost/Nixon garnered over $60,000 per theater. Booya!


...And I'm bringin' it back, "How am I not myself?"