Was this movie serious?

Rating: 3/10 (11 April 2010)

Alright, well I don't usually write reviews for movies, but after watching 'Gran Torino' I felt compelled to run to the roof tops and tell the world about the bullshit that I had just witnessed.
So there I was, flicking through cable TV, I had just finished watching Futurama and was in a pretty good mood. You know those moods where you think nothing can bring you down, because you're having a hell of a day? Yeah well I was in one of those moods. I clicked on the 'movies' option and quickly went through three pages with nothing good on, when suddenly there it was, 'Gran Torino'.
I had heard of this movie, I had no idea what it was about though, but I was pretty sure it was a gangster/mafia type thing, the thought alone of watching a 'Godfather' type movie rocked my socks off and I quickly pressed 'select' without hesitation, (see I don't like reading the information section of the movie, it usually ruins it for me, so I just went right ahead hoping, no, expecting the best).
First thing I saw as soon as I selected the channel was a grumpy, old Clint Eastwood at a funeral, my first reaction was "YES! Clint Eastwood! This is going to be AWESOME!". Oh how wrong I was... As time went by (painfully slowly) I realised this wasn't a gangster movie, my hopes went up a bit when some Mexican and Asian gangs almost had a show down, but that quickly passed, shooting down my hopes and dreams.
Next thing I new I was watching some crap about racism... Yuck... I could already sense that this movie had a moral to it. I hate movies with morals to them.
Anyway for about an hour or so this douchey Asian kid kept doing douchey things and Eastwood kept talking about the war in Korea. Which I do believe was a POLICE ACTION, so get off your high horse man, it's not like you were in Vietnam or any REAL WAR.
And the camera would zoom up into Eastwoods sagging, wrinkly face every 5 minutes whilst he made a growling sound. That's right, he actually made growling sounds... I think that is actually what ruined it for me, the growling noises! Who the hell actually growls when they're angry? that's some of the worst acting I have EVER seen, I really wasn't expecting this from Clint Eastwood... I may as well have been watching 'Neighbours' or 'The Bold and the Beautiful' if I wanted to see acting of similar quality.
So yeah, I got bored, changed the channel and watched 'The Life Aquatic' to try and cheer me up after this horrible movie. I didn't even have to watch the rest to guess that the old grumpy asshole would realize that everybodys equal.
So yeah, all in all, don't bother. Diarreah is more fun than this movie.