This weekend was great. I spent Friday night at work. Then on Saturday Jeremy, Justin, Becca, and I went around the different guns shops around Utah Valley. It was fun. Our last stop was Cabela's where we had lunch and spent a good two hours looking at guns. I saw an AR-15 that I want to purchase but decided to hold off on that for a little bit as I am purchasing a Nikon D90 in the next week or so. It was Jeremy's birthday so I bought his lunch. Afterwords I came back home and took a nap.
I was woken up a couple of hours later by my cell phone ringing. Jeremy was on the other line and wanted to know if I wanted o join him and our other friends Andrew for a movie. Our choices were Slumdog Millionaire, Taken, or Gran Torino. The past week I had heard so much about Gran Torino from co-workers and from neighbors that we decided to see the later.
I had only seen clips of the trailer and got vauge reviews from friends who had seen it. They all said it was great. The word great in defining that film is an great understatement. I fell in love with the movie and with the characters in the film most particularly, the bitter old racist war vet character of "Walt Kowalski portrayed by the great and legendary Clint Eastwood. The score of Gran Torino is great as well and like most films, the movie would be nothing without the magical score which in certain scenes combined with the great performances helps pull at your heartstrings. The music is composed by Kyle Eastwood and Jamie Cullum.
During the film I laughed, felt angry, sad, and cried! It is an amazing movie and I highly recommend it. I do not know how this movie was over looked by the Academy this year.
Sunday was great as well. I had a great day at church and afterwords some people from the ward came over we watched a movie and then I went and hung out with Andrew and Jolyn and had dinner and watched a few episodes of South Park Season One. After all that I am charged and ready for this new week.
Here is the trailer for Gran Torino in case you have not seen any ads for the film.
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