Mark and I had a date night last night. Yeah, we were pretty cute, wandering around Irvine Spectrum together. He was a great date. He bought me a ticket to the movies, and bought me ice cream. He didn't open my car door for me though, so that will need some work... :-P
Seriously though, we went to see Gran Turino... the movie by Clint Eastwood, starring Clint Eastwood. It was a decent enough good vs. bad guy drama. The story line, while completely predictable, was actually your average fun plot. It was made better by some of the quite humorous (and totally racist, non-pc) comments by Clint. I did actually laugh out loud at many of them.
However, while he's definitely NOTICEABLY old, and his acting wouldn't nominate him for any awards (nope... not a one), his performance was STELLAR, relative to the Acting Class 201 students that made up the entire remainder of the cast.
You read that right... the ENTIRE rest of the cast. I'm not kidding, the other acting was pathetic. Seriously. I really felt like I was watching actors in a school play who were in their first or second year of classes.
All that said though, the plot was entertaining enough to enjoy it, in spite of the pathetic cast. Additionally, Clint's grumpy old man one liners were entertaining enough, purely because grumpy old men spitting out bigoted comments is rather entertaining to me.
Anyway, save your bucks kiddo's. This is a wait for DVD (or perhaps even wait for HBO) movie.
My New Language
5 years ago
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Not sure how I feel about you being entertained by racist comments by old men... i guess maybe it is like laughing at those kinds of jokes when you are at the improv??? Who knows, guess I had to be there... but wait I was not there... you were on a man-date with Mark. Boo hoo that you did a date night with Mark, but tonight on our date night I was ditched for you to do work with and for your dad. Boo HOO... I feel a "i'm sorry my lovely wife" foot massage coming on!!!
(For Wendy, sorry D. Clever writing though!)
Sarah screwed you out of getting a pedi, David screwed you out of getting a date night, man Wendy, this is just not your day!
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