Movie Monsters - Tightarse Tuesday - GRAN TORINO

Hello Monsters,

It's time for yet another MM-TT (Movie Monsters Tightarse Tuesday) session. Here are the details:

We're watching GRAN TORINO at Greater Union - George Street, Sydney

It's the second movie of 2008 by hard working Clint Eastwood and has had great reviews from everywhere.

MM-TT
- Great movie
- Central city location
- Cheap Tuesday tickets
- The thrill of going to the cinema with random (but nice) people
- Pub and chats afterwards (beers not coffees on MM-TT)

Important - Please arrive between 6 and 6.15pm. At 6.15 we will proceed to the box office to buy tickets. Greater Union has allocated seating, so if you're late, you'll sit by yourself.

I will be outside the cinema (on the sidewalk) from 6 to 6.15 to meet you all. If you're running late, just get your own ticket and try to look for us near the candy shop. If you can't see us, watch the movie and meet us outside again on the sidewalk where we will wait for 10 minutes to regroup before heading to a pub.

And all you dormant monsters out there (we're 350 strong) - get off your tightarses and meet fellow monsters for a movie and beer mid week.

Cheers
Anurag
Founder Monster

PS: Always remember to check our site on the day of the movie in case the cinema has made any changes or for some unforeseen reason the organiser can't make it.

"Clint Eastwood’s performance as Walt is his best work as an actor in years, a return to all of the things that made him great as a younger man. He’s brilliant and imposing, shocking and so over the top he’s often funny. Unfortunately the rest of the movie’s cast isn’t quite up to the task of going toe to toe with them. They range in acting ability from bearable to plumb awful. Christopher Carley is the film’s worst offender as a concerned neighborhood priest and the gangbangers Walt takes on never manage anything better than thug stereotypes. Bee Vang and Ahney Her fair better as Thao and Sue, but it’s Eastwood that makes Gran Torino so compelling.

Gran Torino is a movie you must see. The PC police will almost certainly lambaste it, attempt to dismiss it as clumsy and cry out in shock at Eastwood’s willingness to portray a man so filled with hate and intolerance. Spike Lee, after publicly calling out Clint for leaving black men out of Flags of our Fathers, may have an actual coronary. Hey Spike, this time he’s surrounded himself with brown people and decided to scream ethnic slurs. Ignore the naysayers, they won’t be able to see past their own prejudices to what lies beneath. Gran Torino is smarter than it seems and it’s broader, funnier, and more straightforward than you’d expect. This is the Clint Eastwood we all remember in a perfect final performance. He’s riding off into the sunset scowling, snarling, and spitting blood. "