{"id":2279,"date":"2011-07-21T22:27:38","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T03:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.e357.net\/beingernest\/?p=2279"},"modified":"2011-07-21T22:28:21","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T03:28:21","slug":"geezers-with-guns-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/geezers-with-guns-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Geezers with Guns Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[amazon_carousel widget_type=&#8221;ASINList&#8221;  width=&#8221;535&#8243;  height=&#8221;200&#8243;  title=&#8221;Geezers with Guns Movie Marathon&#8221;  market_place=&#8221;US&#8221;  shuffle_products=&#8221;False&#8221; show_border=&#8221;True&#8221;  asin=&#8221;B0000YTP02, B003T6LHWC, B003ASLJO0, B003V5K0HY, B003Q6D2B4&#8243; \/]<\/p>\n<p>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 <strong>Harry Brown<\/strong>, 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 <strong>Gran Tornio<\/strong>, which it is, the two movies are a terrific study in contrasts.<\/p>\n<p>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.<strong> Harry Brown<\/strong> is one dark and moody movie though, and it fails to deliver the feel good ending that <strong>Gran Torino<\/strong> manages. Watching it got me thinking that a week long &#8220;Geezers with Guns&#8221; movie festival would be interesting.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Monday: No Country For Old Men<\/strong> kicks off the week with Tommy Lee Jones pissing and moaning about getting old.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tuesday: Second Hand<\/strong> Lions with Michael Caine and Robert DeNiro lighten\u00a0 up the mood with a distinctly odd couple and their boy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wednesday: Gran Torino <\/strong>lets Clint utter the deathless line, &#8220;Get off my lawn.&#8221; while holding a carbine at the ready.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thursday: Harry Brown<\/strong> give us a darker take with yet another Michael Caine movie, this one set in the UK.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Friday: Red<\/strong> 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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m open for alternative suggestions or films for the weekend. What have you got? <strong>True Grit<\/strong>? <strong>Rooster Cogburn<\/strong>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[amazon_carousel widget_type=&#8221;ASINList&#8221; width=&#8221;535&#8243; height=&#8221;200&#8243; title=&#8221;Geezers with Guns Movie Marathon&#8221; market_place=&#8221;US&#8221; shuffle_products=&#8221;False&#8221; show_border=&#8221;True&#8221; asin=&#8221;B0000YTP02, B003T6LHWC, B003ASLJO0, B003V5K0HY, B003Q6D2B4&#8243; \/] 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2279"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2288,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions\/2288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}