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I was looking for a shoot-em up film to watch on the last night of my bachelor week, and came across Michael Caine in Harry Brown, in which an ex-Marine takes on a gang of hoodlums that are terrorizing his neighborhood. Now, while that sounds like the same setup as Clint Eastwood in Gran Tornio, which it is, the two movies are a terrific study in contrasts.

Caine is exhausted and immobilized by age and tragedy, while Eastwood is full of barely controlled rage waiting to get out. Well, maybe that applies to both old men. Harry Brown is one dark and moody movie though, and it fails to deliver the feel good ending that Gran Torino manages. Watching it got me thinking that a week long “Geezers with Guns” movie festival would be interesting.

• Monday: No Country For Old Men kicks off the week with Tommy Lee Jones pissing and moaning about getting old.
• Tuesday: Second Hand Lions with Michael Caine and Robert DeNiro lighten  up the mood with a distinctly odd couple and their boy
• Wednesday: Gran Torino lets Clint utter the deathless line, “Get off my lawn.” while holding a carbine at the ready.
• Thursday: Harry Brown give us a darker take with yet another Michael Caine movie, this one set in the UK.
• Friday: Red with Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich and other fun actors let us settle in for a popcorn frenzy to sit back and enjoy having survived the week.

I’m open for alternative suggestions or films for the weekend. What have you got? True Grit? Rooster Cogburn?