I just finished watching Gran Torino with Christine and I must say It was a fantastic movie.  The trailers did not do that movie justice.  Clint was fantastic as the acting role.  But more importantly, for all the racial slurs and political incorrectness, the movie comes around full circle.  Clint befriends a family of a culture he does not understand.  and at the end [spoiler alert] gives his life for their well being.  I was really left with a lasting impression and cannot shake this movie out of my head.   Real or fictitious, I feel I understand veterans a little bit more.  It also gives me something to aspire to, namely my grumpy old man syndrome.  I can only hope that I am as cool as Clint was in the movie when he gets enraged by the youth of today.  Immediately after I checked to see in Gran Torino was nominated for an Oscar. What the hell.  Now I have not seen most of the Oscar Nominated movies but i cannot imagine that all of them are better than Gran Torino.  Oh well.  What am I gonna do about it.