Gran Torino

[DemonSlayer]

I saw Harry Brown, which has been called the British version of Gran Torino, it was pretty good, but Michael Caine's character did the opposite to what Walt does in Gran Torino, so you don't feel as much sympathy or admiration for the character.

[Catholic Fox]

[quote name='Sternhauser' date='16 May 2010 - 10:14 AM' timestamp='1274022863' post='2111422']
Tell that to Amadou Diallo, and tell that to the police. They do it all the time. And get away with it. Putting one's hand in one's jacket so quickly and causing someone to reasonably fear for his life makes such a reaction justifiable. But not usually not on the part of the police, who deliberately put themselves in those situations, often by unnecessarily stopping someone, backed up with the threat of violence, for a malfunctioning tail light or a safe rolling stop. There was a recent case of a man who had just about enough of police interference in his life. He was pulled over for not wearing a seat belt. He killed the aggressor officer (though I doubt it was a justified level of violence) with an M-1 Carbine. [b]He wasn't a violent criminal.[/b] He wasn't a druggie. He was an old man who was tired of getting robbed of $100 every time he chose not to wear a seat belt. It had happened multiple times before.

The thugs in the movie could have probably told a consistent story, even under individual questioning, about what this guy had already done that led to their belief that he was going to do them harm. A little "get off my lawn" incident with a Garand, for example.

~Sternhauser
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I'd call killing a police office a violent crime. But I guess we're different people.