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“blah blah blah races were sterotyped blah blah”
Hate to break it to you buddy but yeah, some of those stereotypes are stereotypes for a reason. I like how you mention all the minority stereotypes but miss the stereotype where white people just throw their elders in retirement homes, but wait, you’re only mentioning minority stereotypes cause you like to manipulate information to make your point across. You must be a fan of John Stewart. To bring another stereotype in, I thought Asians were supposed to be smart; too bad you can’t spell or use a spellchecker.

“gangester got these huge machine guns….hahahahha [...] hmong people don’t have enough connection to get those type of weapons”
Wow, I never knew an Uzi was a huge machine gun, being that it is actually a submachine gun, slightly larger than a pistol and fires pistol rounds. Let alone, all of the other gangsters had handguns. And wow, aren’t you stereotyping your own race by saying that? Quite contradictory to your claim that the movie was stereotypical which is a negative. Hate to break it to you again, but money is the only “connection” that you need to get anything in this world.

“again I only saw clips of the movie.”
Wow, your review means a lot. Thank you for contributing your vast knowledge and experience.

One I have not seen the movie being meantion, but too the effort to read most of the comments before it too boring, so who ever wrote the first half of the comments on this page, I read yours.

So I didn’t watch it, but I did watch some clips/scene on youtube and I agree Hmong people are horrible actors. So yeah I’m hmong. I don’t ever plan to see this movie.

Not only is there acting horrible, but most of the races were sterotyped/archtyped through out the movie. Blacks being the gangesters that walk on the streets and group over innocent victims, the gangster Latinos, asians and how they willing except people so easily or someother crud…again I only saw clips of the movie.

But I heard something funny from some person who watched the movie…how at the end the gangester got these huge machine guns…hahahaha man that was funny…hmong people don’t have enough connection to get those type of weapons LOL I am so dissing my own people.

And about the Asians who are offended by the movie…*shrugs*…I don’t really care, since it’s just a movie based off a book by some guy, causcasion guy. It’s not like it’s real…I wished that during the selecting process they picked people who knew how to act…but it’s not like I watched it.

Oh, Gabriel, you’ve just explained why I probably like Gran Torino so much. But I get the nagging feeling that everyone else thinks they’re sane and they think I’m the idiot in the room.

Seriously, I don’t think the positive reviews are any more justified than the negative reviews. To have a positive opinion about Gran Torino doesn’t make your opinion about something else more valid even though the majority may be on the positive side.

All of the really thoughtful and insightful reviews of this film are positive, while the negative reviews seem to possess that awkward laughter that comes out when you don’t really understand why a joke was funny, even though the joke seems obvious enough.

To the baffled haters of this movie; surely the fact that just about everyone -loves- it has to give you pause, that maybe there’s an element or a dynamic to it that happens to be lost on you.

I found this film to be an unparalleled display of integrity, on Walt’s part. He isn’t bitter because he’s weak and weathered, he’s bitter because -everything and everyone else is-. He gives voice to men with standards, who are too polite or apathetic to go on the constant offensive. I think it may be a lack of integrity or self respect that cause people to wonder what’s so great about this film…because if you’ve never felt like you were the only sane person in a room full of idiots, with 100% conviction, you’re really not going to understand his motives.

SHUT UP PUSSY! This film is for people with balls.