GRAN TORINO

MY VIEW:
Once again Clint Eastwood makes a great movie! The acting was well done. Clint Eastwood is still Clint Eastwood. This movie made me laugh and watch how he built a relationship with his neighbors, which ended up better than the relationship he had with his family. This was a great movie...go see it!!

SYNOPSIS:
Clint Eastwood stars as Walt Kowalski, a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Kowalski is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy an old man, who can't get along with either his kids or his neighbors, a Korean War veteran whose prize possession is a 1972 Gran Torino he keeps in mint condition. When his neighbor Tao, a young Hmong teenager under pressure from his gang member cousin, tries to steal his Gran Torino, Kowalski sets out to reform the youth. Drawn against his will into the life of Tao's family, Kowalski is soon taking steps to protect them from the gangs that infest their neighborhood.

TULSA

A great movie to have seen! A fiesty red head named Cherokee Lansing seeks revenge for her father's death. His cattle was killed when the Tanner Oil Co. was drilling for oil in a nearby field and oil leaked into the stream where Lansings cattle drank from and some of his cattle died. Lansing went to speak to Tanner Oil and was killed. Cherokee Lansing ended up drilling her own wells and which ended up in her seeking power and wealth. This film was done in 1949. Starring in it was Susan Hayward, Chill Wills, Lloyd Gough and Robert Preston along with many others who made this a great old time flick!

THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTONS

SYNOPSIS:

"I was born under unusual circumstances." And so begins 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,' adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. We follow his story, set in New Orleans from the end of World War I in 1918 to the 21st century, following his journey that is as unusual as any man's life can be. Directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett with Taraji P. Henson, Tilda Swinton, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas and Julia Ormond, Benjamin Button is a grand tale of a not-so-ordinary man and the people and places he discovers along the way, the loves he finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.

MY VIEW:
I would give this movie a 9 also!! Brad Pitt was perfect! This movie was also emotional for me. Then again I'm a crybaby at movies sometimes. This is one I will be buying the DVD for when it becomes available. I say go see it...you won't be sorry you did!
Brad Pitt once again pairs up with Tilda Swinton. I saw then together in the movie "Burn after Reading" which I didn't care much for after they killed Brad Pitts Character, I thought that movie went downhill after that.

7 POUNDS

SYNOPSIS:
An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.

MY VIEW:
I gave this movie a 9!! it was so wonderfully done!! Will Smith once again at his best! I enjoyed his acting as well as the story he told. This movie will surprise you. don't try to figure it out...just watch it!! It was great. I laughed and cried my emotions were touched. I would definately recommend this movie!!