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Gran Torino

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Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, Thao Lor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino. From TMDB

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  • Owen Dennis: Infinity Train/Among Us Show creator @owendennis.comBluesky · Jul 19, 2026

    In the movie Gran Torino, Clint Eastwood sacrifices himself to save some local family from some gangsters or something. There’s a shot where he’s dead on the ground and blood is streaming into his palms (very obvious visual metaphor) and an old woman in the audience gasped and yelled “it’s Jesus!”

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  • Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.comBluesky · Jan 20, 2026

    This is mentioned in the film Gran Torino

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  • Megaweapon @megaweapon5.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 15, 2026

    I don’t know if it’s the best, but “Gran Torino” is a good movie that conveys a conservative pro-immigration message very well.

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  • Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 27, 2024

    I mostly think “you could never make x today” is the lowest form of conversation but you probably couldn’t make Gran Torino, a movie about Clint Eastwood being mad too many Hmong people live in his neighborhood but in a cool way

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  • Megaweapon @megaweapon5.bsky.socialBluesky · May 30, 2026

    You could make a movie like “Gran Torino” that’s really right-wing (and well-made) but it would get Clint Eastwood death threats these days because it dares to portray an Asian immigrant family in a positive light.

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  • Sam @griggs79.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 6, 2026

    #LetterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched 📽️ boxd.it/94Euv 1. The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek – Screwball chaos firing in all directions 2. Gran Torino – Grumpy redemption arc, heavy on the sermons 3. The Hunt – Civilisation collapses faster than expected 4. Gimme Shelter – When the dream curdles live

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  • Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 7, 2026

    Gran Torino is an excellent movie. I love it.

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  • Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.socialBluesky · May 30, 2026

    Gran Torino is a *weird* film. (I also think that there's some antecedents here in the Dirty Harry films)

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  • Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 24, 2025

    I’m also confused why “Romani” is the theoretical example here, like how Clint Eastwood had his racist character in Gran Torino up against the Hmong so the movie wouldn’t be called racist by as many people

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  • SynDuo ✨️ @synduo.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 6, 2025

    👋 Once again it's time for me to ask for movie or series recommendations I've seen the ones suggested to me the last time I asked to give you an idea of what I vibe with 👍Primal 😍Gran Torino 😍Hannibal 🙂Reacher I'm about to start watching Frieren , and already checked out CITY the Animation 1/2

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  • fluffy tufty puppylynx @lynx.t4tkiss.ingBluesky · Jul 16, 2026

    the second date i went on with my first ex boyfriend was really nice. it was a kinda typical at movie date and getting drunk thing that turned into fucking for hours. the funny bit is that the movies were Gran Torino and Fat Albert

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  • The Hog Crank @hogcrank.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 9, 2026

    "Hmong" is the only noun used in the movie Gran Torino that isn't actually a slur

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  • Jack Kost @jackkost.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 12, 2025

    On this day in movie history: Gran Torino directed by Hal Ashby released December 12, 2008. Cast: Clint Eastwood, Christopher Carley, Bee Vang, Ahney Her, Brian Haley, Geraldine Hughes, Dreama Walker, Brian Howe, John Carroll Lynch, William Hill, Brooke Chia Thao, Chee Thao, Choua Kue. #Noir

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  • Paulietheboy @paulietheboy.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 17, 2025

    #musicchallenge #detectivesongs Day 17 - Vigilante Jamie Callum Gran Torino Could be argued that it's a vigilante film? (Video - spoiler alert of sorts) youtu.be/cdZkHYiXuZU?...

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  • Stars and Cars @starsandcars.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 27, 2025

    Here’s something a little different for #FordFriday - Clint Eastwood and his fabulous Ford Gran Torino Sport from 1982, powered by a 351 Cleveland Cobra Jet. Clint’s 2009 movie ‘Gran Torino’ is his second highest grossing film to date. #ClintEastwood #GranTorino

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  • Quitadaserenequeen @quitadaserenequeen.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 11, 2025

    This brings to mind the Clint Eastwood movie Gran Torino when he says there's always someone badder than you out there. Terribly paraphrased but you get the idea don't you Elon 😂😂😂

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  • Delbert Grady Seasons @delbertgseasons.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 18, 2026

    Clearly a paid outside agitator. Clint Eastwood made a whole ass movie about how the midwestern Hmong are cool. He gave his Hmong friend the Gran Torino and everything

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  • Megaweapon @megaweapon5.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 1, 2026

    I cite “Gran Torino” as a very good conservative film a lot, but because MAGA is a personality cult built around a racist buffoon, Matt Walsh would incite death threats aimed at Eastwood for daring to portray an Asian immigrant family in a positive way.

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  • Craig Staley @craigstaley.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 7, 2026

    But Gran Torino is a good movie. Trouble with the Curve is where he started making garbage.

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  • Allan "Pealed Grapes" Mott @houseofglib.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 4, 2024

    GRAN TORINO is a film about a man who lets go of his bigotry and chooses to support and defend a community of marginalized immigrants by sacrificing himself (and deliberately not using a gun in the process). I don't quite see how that matches up with the current GOP playbook.

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  • Berg on a Wire @bergonawire.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 30, 2025

    #AugustMovieChallenge Landline phone in a film Gran Torino (2008) Clint Eastwood is not impressed when his kids gave him one of those phones with the huge numbers for his birthday

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  • Mark @mark-heritage.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 1, 2026

    #EcksteinsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 1 》Movie Outro/Credits • Gran Torino end credits youtu.be/-U_e7FBQ-wk?...

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  • observerbs.bsky.social @observerbs.bsky.socialBluesky · May 31, 2026

    What guys like Walsh and Shapiro want is every movie and TV show to be Yellowstone, Top Gun, Master and Commander, Jack Ryan and Gran Torino, except with fewer strong supporting characters who are women/POC. That is their "vision." And the organizers of the "fair" should have just gone MAGA C&W.

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  • 🔥The Quirky Pastor🔥 @quirkypastor.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 27, 2025

    If you’re a movie fan and ever watched Gran Torino and the mung girl says the Lutherans are who helped her, THIS is the organization she was referring to. “Everybody blames the Lutherans.”

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  • Anthony Kaan @anthonykaan.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 31, 2024

    Dune II (Denis Villeneuve), The Sounds of Music, Sister Act (Whoopi), Empire of the Sun (Spielberg), The Matrix, Pacific Rim (@realgdt.bsky.social), Gran Torino, Overlord (some blood, but SO good), Indiana Jones 1, 2, or 3!!! #Grandparentmovies #Teenmovies #Film #Filmsky #Latinfilmsky #Blackfilmsky

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  • Will Thomas @willthomas-usa.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 31, 2024

    Gran Torino was made fundamentally a small-c conservative movie, but its immigration politics have aged interestingly in light of where the GOP has gone lol

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  • Megaweapon @megaweapon5.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 19, 2024

    Somehow he managed to make a right-wing movie that was PRO-IMMIGRANT in “Gran Torino”. I assume JD Vance started crying and sucking his thumb when he saw it.

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  • Guy with a beard and opinions @whowhatnow56.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 5, 2023

    There is a literal scene in the racist Clint Eastwood movie Gran Torino where he says it to some young black men and everyone looks at him all confused. That racist ass movie knew it was so archaic they play it for laughs.

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  • 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓛𝓾𝓷𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓬 𝓥𝓲𝓫𝓮𝓼 🦋 @thelunaticvibes.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 25, 2025

    Tonight's movie: Gran Torino. #ClintEastwood ❤️ m.imdb.com/de/title/tt1...

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  • Ali @muggage.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 15, 2025

    Eastwood is huge blindspot for me so I'm hoping to get to some this year, watched Gran Torino and that's a damn thorny movie

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  • Casimer @casmortis.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 26, 2024

    Thread🧵 Can I just gush about how I finished all the #Polar volumes, including the Black Kaiser book and holy shit man I just love BK so much. The last volume was giving me the same feelings as Gran Torino and already I love that movie so I was HEARTBROKEN and THRILLED. @victorsantos.bsky.social

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  • Goreville Shriek 😱 @amcnal.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 2, 2024

    Premium content from the facebook fan page for the film Gran Torino

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  • Anita 🎬🎥📺🎶📚 @gemini53.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 23, 2026

    #Bales2026MovieChallenge Movies that... June 24 - are about making an unexpected friend Gran Torino #filmsky #moviesky ...after Thao tries to steal his prized 1972 Gran Torino, Walt, a disgruntled & prejudiced Korean War veteran seeks to redeem the boy and himself...

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  • seamiracles @seamiracles.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 14, 2026

    They learned nothing from Gran Torino. If anything, they want to be Clint Eastwood at the beginning of the movie and just stay there and escalate to violence

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  • Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 9, 2026

    "Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have f**ked with? That's me." 🎞 #OTD in #Film #History 9 January 2009, #ClintEastwood's GRAN TORINO, starring Eastwood, #BeeVang, and #AhneyHer, premiered in Burbank, California.

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  • Don Swaynos @donswaynos.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 22, 2025

    Eastwood has two: Unforgiven is the unofficial fourth film in the Sergio Leone spaghetti western trilogy and Gran Torino is the final Dirty Harry movie. I don’t think anyone would say either are the best in their franchises

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  • David the Kamado 🚙💨 @kamadodavid.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 10, 2025

    I would counter with his own film Gran Torino - highlighting the prejudice against the Hmong in the US.

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  • Twisted Sister✨️ @ehnvhee.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 1, 2025

    My last movie of 2024: Gran Torino (2008) My first movie of 2025: Gran Torino (2008)

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  • 🔞🎃Senor🎃🔞 @senorincognito69.bsky.socialBluesky · May 1, 2026

    Gran Torino is such a deeply evil movie

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  • Alexander the Fine @alexrineh.artBluesky · Jan 31, 2026

    Juror #2 led me to a re-watch of Gran Torino, a remarkable film marred by a few truly terrible line deliveries. I felt like I watched one actor improve in real time. It's incredible how great the movie is despite this!

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  • Richard aka Master Trowa 🇨🇦 @mastertrowa.bolasgang.comBluesky · Jan 28, 2026

    365 Days of Films Day 327 Gran Torino 2008 The way this movie makes you hate and love the same character is crazy. It's genuinely a great movie about a sad truth of a generation. #filmsky #movies #moviesky

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  • ☠🏴‍☠️The Dead Don't Die🏴‍☠️☠ @railroadofsin.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 19, 2025

    Gran Torino. Old racist befriends some Hmong family and gets his gun out. Amazing movie. The Mule was also good!

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  • Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 31, 2024

    That'd be a great essay to read, please do when you can. A standout film of his for me was 'Gran Torino.' It still haunts me as a story about intersections between our reverence of American "war heroes" & their inner traumas, as well as fears of cultural diversity vs. our shared humanity.

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  • 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓛𝓾𝓷𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓬 𝓥𝓲𝓫𝓮𝓼 🦋 @thelunaticvibes.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 29, 2023

    tonight's movie: Gran Torino starring Clint Eastwood. www.imdb.com/title/tt1205...

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  • John oder Seán @john-tweet.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 24, 2026

    GRAN TORINO - (2008) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Last night's #Movie Directed by and starring Clint Eastwood with a fine Hmong American supporting cast (a 1st for an American film) incl. Bee Vang & Ahney Her. There is much to confront in this film, and its themes certainly unpalatable at times, but remains a great film.

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  • Kai After Kai @kaiafterkai.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 16, 2026

    101. Gran Torino The absolute zenith of boomer slop, at times so on-the-nose I genuinely couldn't tell if I was watching a parody or not. Either way, this film gave me absolutely nothing, which is almost worse than any of the absurd slurs flying past Clint's mouth. Those are bad too though. 1.3/10

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  • Anything Can Happen @anythingcanhappen1.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 8, 2026

    Movie Quote 🎬💬 Gran Torino (2008) 👍🏻 "Get off my lawn" - Walt Kowalski...

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  • ʇᴉɯᴉl ɐɯǝɥɔs® @timforgot.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 26, 2026

    this is the entire plot of Clint Eastwood's 2008 movie Gran Torino

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  • Booort @senatorgiggity.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 21, 2026

    I have a theory that Clint Eastwood made Gran Torino, at least in part, so he could call his son a pussy on film

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  • RandyLittlesMovies @randylittlesmovies.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 4, 2026

    My ★★★★½ review of Gran Torino on @letterboxd: boxd.it/ozHWX

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  • Open Mike 🇨🇦 @openmike79.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 5, 2026

    Top Secret! Halloween ET: The Extra-terrestrial Gran Torino Oceans Eleven Dumbo Fargo All Quiet on Western Front The Muppet Movie Hoosiers Empire Strikes Back Raiders of the Lost Ark

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  • woodpeckerfan.bsky.social @woodpeckerfan.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 22, 2026

    I never enjoyed the Dirty Harry movies. I prefer Eastwood in Kelly’s Heroes, the various spaghetti westerns, Million Dollar Baby, Gran Torino and his best movie ever; Heartbreak Ridge.

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  • Carol @cloish.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 25, 2025

    Now Watching Gran Torino with Clint Eastwood. Yes, I enjoy the film.

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  • FemzForever 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 @femzforever.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 9, 2025

    Gran Torino was quite the journey. Makes me feel like there’s some racial empathy there (if I’m remembering the film correctly)

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  • Nyx @nyxdemonica.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 22, 2025

    Gran Torino is a terrible date movie

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  • Derek Halliday 🇨🇦 @dthalliday.bsky.socialBluesky · May 31, 2025

    ...and he's made a lot of different kinds of films in his time, but his 70s films seem to be very concerned with being shocking and transgressive of good taste, which is something that would come back in GRAN TORINO. HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER is a great film (in my opinion) because it sort of earns...

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  • Alexander Wiggan @alexwiggan.bsky.socialBluesky · May 1, 2025

    This month’s Movie Reviews Special is all about Clint Eastwood and includes reviews for: 📺 Where Eagles Dare 📺 Escape From Alcatraz 📀 Pale Rider 📺 Unforgiven 📺 Gran Torino 📺 The Mule #Movies #Films #MovieReviews2025 #ClintEastwood #ClintEastwood95

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  • DOOMSTADT VON STONENSCHLONG @supermachojedi.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 15, 2025

    you ever see "Gran Torino"? fuck of a movie

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  • Brain Glitches @cinemajules.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 1, 2025

    Imdb is now out 5.2 but it wasn't that bad. Absolution 2024 with Liam Neeson. The guy still can act (I was curious). The film deserved a 6.3 maybe Idk. A bit too long, too slow and déjà vu. It's Gran Torino without the twist and turns. Films often needs a little magic to come all together.

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  • Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 16, 2024

    Just going to start calling random movies Christmas movies. Gran Torino is my favorite Christmas movie.

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