Two movies in 2 days - but oh so different! Gran Torino is a really good movie, political incorrectness yes, but ultimately it has a good heart. Clint Eastwood's best ever performance/direction? Maybe?
Revolutionary Road - superb performances from all! Di Caprio & Winslet - amazing(of course), but every single character shone , the neighbours, the office chums, Mr Pollack, Michael Shannon as the Giving's mentally unstable son... brilliant!
But it was so sad, so so dark, depressing! I did something I never did before - I left the cinema before the movie ended. When Mrs Wheeler ran out of the house and into the woods I contemplated leaving except I was sitting in a middle seat and didn't want to trample over everybody on the way out, but when she started to abort her baby I couldn't take anymore and left the Cinema(in tears). Don't know what the ending was? Maybe I will read Richard Yate's novel on which the movie was based! Maybe I shouldn't?
Still, it shows the amazing power of cinema. Now lets see, para manana - what else is showing in Cineworld in Parnell Street? Hotel For Dogs, The Pink Panther, Confessions Of A Shopaholic... ouch...
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ask me, will tell U the ending. well-I didnt think it was a bad movie;/
Not a bad movie, in fact it was an excellent movie, great acting, very authentic,captured the era really well (loved the scene where ALL the men going to work were wearing hats).
But it was a very very sad movie, very dark.. (I just hate rows and fighting anyway!)
In the cinema I like to escape from real life - and this movie was TOO real.
So what was the ending? I suspect Mrs Wheeler died - but I just hope she was saved and they found happiness???
I am grinning ear to ear at your blog title! Grumpy:) Eeeek! as she aborted her baby.. I'm cringing too!
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