The trailer for Gran Torino, Clint Eastwood’s 2008 Oscar grab*, has appeared on Apple, and in a truly glorious moment that will be forever sung about in the halls of Valhalla, Clint points a rifle at a Hmong kid and says
‘Get off my lawn.’
The trailer for the film actually makes the early rumors that this was a Dirty Harry sequel seem almost founded – there’s a real Callahan vibe to the proceedings in general, and an emphasis on impending violence.
This is where we make our guesses as to what happens at the end of the film. My money is on Clint’s character being dead by the finale, either from the gang or just a heart attack. Either way he goes out a free man and not in the jail of a retirement home. His next door neighbor drives off in that Gran Torino, towards a brighter future.
That’s my guess – put yours in the comments below.
* and with a number of potential Oscar movies vacating the end of the year, it looks like his picture, no matter the quality, is a lock.





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The Hmong kid is just a figment of his imaginiation…and the car kills people and heals itself.
I can't watch the clip (at work), but I'm willing to bet that it matches the hilarity of Harrison Ford saying "Get off my plane".
My bet for the ending? He ends up with just the car, the ganger ending up dead due to the inevitability of gang life, and Eastwood just sits on his porch mumbling like Nicholson at the end of The Pledge. (An underloved movie if ever there was one)
Clint kills the entire gang with his car, right. Then he cruises down to Florida, opens a bed and breakfast and brings in the Hmong kid as his 'cabana boy'. It's gold baby! Oscar gold!
haha this looks incredible
The Hmong kid dies in a drive by which is when Clint says, "Get off my lawn".
I think Clint based this role off my dad.
I bet it ends with Clint Eastwood counting his millions with his Oscar behind him on the mantle in his multi-million dollar mansion as Devin manages to bring up reasons why he doesn't like The Dark Knight in an article about the next Pixar movie with his hand stuck in a box of Fiddle Faddle in his shitty one-room apartment where he goes to bed alone and wakes up the same way.
After watching the trailer, I want to see this film. I've enjoyed Eastwood's acting in a number of films over the years and this should be another good role. Frogger's comment tackles the inevitable Devin BS that will surely come. Devin, what's your fucking problem with Eastwood anyway? It's like it is a personal grudge you have to vent on lately. It's creepy, frankly. Weird…
Agreed it does look a bit predictable but very good, it looks especially better then Changeling. I hope it ends with Eastwood going nuts and taking out the whole mafia in a street fight. It looks good though. Eastwood is a really good director.
It's all a dream sequence, and Clint ends up crying in a hottub next to Morgan Freeman.
Holy shit, I just went from total indifference to kinda stoked about this flick. The only thing this fucker is missing is Clyde.
The movie coasts on clint delivering lines that are not intentionally hilarious while framing a scene by the standards of Albert Pyun…shocking ending with a cameo by morgan freeman and clint will bend over that little gold stauette and give it what for right up the pooper!!!!AZAH!!!!!!!!!!
You guys are slacking. It took 7 comments before a Devin-bashing douche showed up.
I can only dream that the ending is more or less a shot for shot remake of the last Rambo movie with Clint taking out the whole neighborhood with that Flags of Our Fathers prop rifle.
It ends with Clint on his porch, incapacitated after taking the gang down. The Asian kid comes over to comfort him, and Clint mumbles "…go ahead…make my oatmeal." Then he falls over ala Godfather III. (By the way – Clint is ruler of all known and unknown universes.)
It ends with Clint wearing the U.S. flag (and nothing else, but fortunately it covers him) while holding the rifle in one hand, with two gorgeous women clutching to his legs. I'm pretty sure a pterodactyl flies by too, but Clint just does the finger-gun gesture (with the hand not holding the rifle) and the dino-bird shits itself and flies off. Then the credits.
"It ends with Clint wearing the U.S. flag (and nothing else, but fortunately it covers him) while holding the rifle in one hand, with two gorgeous women clutching to his legs. I'm pretty sure a pterodactyl flies by too, but Clint just does the finger-gun gesture (with the hand not holding the rifle) and the dino-bird shits itself and flies off. Then the credits." —- fucking winner. flying dinosaurs wins it every time.
watching that trailer is like getting punched in the face by clint eastwood for 90 seconds
I just wish Charlton had the balls to make the most unexpected ending, in which he learns nothing from his experience, which in facts makes him more racist, gunning down every one of the chinese neighbors. Afterwards, he sits on their porch, covered in blood, lights a cigarette and breaks the fourth wall by flipping off the audience while sporting a clearly visible hate crime erection.
AA: "watching that trailer is like getting punched in the face by clint eastwood for 90 seconds"
…and liking it.
It ends with the Hmong kid having to push Clint around in his wheelchair as his rappin' orderly, or "disorderly".
I don't know. It just seems like another over-simple take on the process of aging from Clint Eastwood. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I'd like to think that when I reach my twilight years, I'm not spending them reasserting my lost virility through acts of heroic violence. But then again, I'm only 25, so maybe when I hit 60 I'll have the sudden urge to purchase guns and stand for "Principles" while protecting the downtrodden. You never know.
even if it's not that great of a movie
it's fuckin eastwood as a miserable codgey bastard beatin the hell out of gangsters whats not to like?
this would have been great as a dirty harry film….still looks awesome though.
Doesn't this movie end with Clint's character losing the election to Barack Obama?
Sounds like Devin is already working on his sight unseen review for this one as well.
Where Eagles Dare!
There's no way he said 'get off my lawn' without realizing what was going to happen when people saw the movie. Please, for the love of God, let this be a comedy.
What's with the 'H' at the beginning if it's pronounced "mong?" The people who originally called themselves such certainly didn't use the Greco-Roman alphabet, so why add the unneeded characters? Why not just write Qing as "Ching" or Nguyen as "win?"
In any case, I hope this film ends with Clint leading the Asian gang against a Spike Lee-helmed Afromerican gang, with only the two leaders alive at the end. Lee's relative youth initially gets the better of Eastwood, but size, strength, reach, and charisma triumphs as Clint grimaces and says "punk" as he brings his steel-toed boot down with great vengeance upon Spike's curb-bound head.
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