While certainly not the grittiest of performers today, Jett has recently found a kinship with singer Miley Cyrus.
The idioms, excrement and heavy-metal flourishes certainly goose up the gritty realism, but they also undermine the movie's moments of grandeur.
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In Oakes's version, the story is certainly a lot grittier than in the 1953 Fred Zinnemann movie as it follows the intertwined fortunes of three soldiers.
It was certainly gritty, brutal and lavish with the ladyflesh; but between the bedrooms and the shoot-outs, it delved into questions of loyalty, virtue and justice, coming up with no simple answers, and confronting topical issues - including racism and police brutality - without flinching.
Of course, there can be good and high-minded reasons why progressives or idealists might be hesitant to engage in the gritty, contact-heavy sport of politics, and we can certainly respect legitimate reasons for choosing other paths.
But in the event Aagaard completed an utterly topsy-turvy week, in which he'd won both his Blacks but lost both his Whites with the possibly "lucky" but certainly gritty win against Flear.
Certainly Mo Yan does, as without them he would have a bigger challenge: to tackle the gritty realism of his fictional world.
The Heat and the Pacers certainly played their dramatic parts to a T in Tuesday night's Game 2, Indiana perfecting the gritty underdog role with a bunch of guys who somehow slipped into the playoffs without anyone noticing.
With rooms starting at $299 a night, it is certainly not cheap, and the price delta is more obvious because of its location just off the gritty Tenderloin district.
