"True Grit" is beyond good

i dunno i like josey wales.c'mon the part where he says .you a bounty hunter?mans gotta do something for a living.dying aint much of a living boy.classic

young guns series was pretty good also

tell ya the truth i havnt seen true grit in a long time

Just watched the original grit again last night. Be interesting to see how Bridges pulls off Rooster. The rest of the movie with the exception of some of the minor characters wouldn't be all that hard to top.

From what I've read the Coen Bro's were reading True Grit the book to one of their kids.  And said holy moly this is right up our alley.  Then they pulled most of the dialog word for word from the book.  And based everything off the book, not a remake of the John Wayne version.   Which should be interesting.  I'll probably watch it over the holiday.  (the nerd won out and I watched Tron II first)  Which was good, but wasn't...

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Just watched the original grit again last night. Be interesting to see how Bridges pulls off Rooster. The rest of the movie with the exception of some of the minor characters wouldn't be all that hard to top.

The Duke probably didn't have to do much of any acting in that movie... 

ha i didnt know there was a new version out.

gotta check it out.bridges was awesome in the movie vanished

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Just watched the original grit again last night. Be interesting to see how Bridges pulls off Rooster. The rest of the movie with the exception of some of the minor characters wouldn't be all that hard to top.

The Duke probably didn't have to do much of any acting in that movie... 

You are aware that the Duke won the best actor Oscar for that role right? LOL

Fishtaco

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Just watched the original grit again last night. Be interesting to see how Bridges pulls off Rooster. The rest of the movie with the exception of some of the minor characters wouldn't be all that hard to top.

The Duke probably didn't have to do much of any acting in that movie... 

You are aware that the Duke won the best actor Oscar for that role right? LOL

 

Fishtaco

gee, do I have to EXPLAIN EVERY THING I joke about to you? 

It was a joke saying he (like charlie sheen in 2 and a half men) didn't have to do much acting to play their roles in the film because he was basically playing himself...  That is why he was soo good at it... 

Any Movie that forces Pontius to post here must be damn good.

My neighbor saw it today and was raving about it.  I rented the orginal last week and plan to see the remake this weekend.

The sequel to true grit Wayne did was a lot better movie. I wonder if this Grit does well if they will take on  the second one.

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The sequel to true grit Wayne did was a lot better movie. I wonder if this Grit does well if they will take on  the second one.

Who on earth could they cast to play Katherine Hepburn's role, she was beyond good in that movie.

Fishtaco
 

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Just watched the original grit again last night. Be interesting to see how Bridges pulls off Rooster. The rest of the movie with the exception of some of the minor characters wouldn't be all that hard to top.

The Duke probably didn't have to do much of any acting in that movie... 

You are aware that the Duke won the best actor Oscar for that role right? LOL

 

Fishtaco

I think they were referring to the fact that the character Rooster Cogburn and the real John Wayne were both fall down drunks. It was well understood that you didn't film John Wayne past 11am because he would be too drunk after that time.

someone got the joke! 

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The sequel to true grit Wayne did was a lot better movie. I wonder if this Grit does well if they will take on  the second one.

Who on earth could they cast to play Katherine Hepburn's role, she was beyond good in that movie.

 

Fishtaco
 

Hell, they cast someone to play John Wayne's part...  lol

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The sequel to true grit Wayne did was a lot better movie. I wonder if this Grit does well if they will take on  the second one.

Who on earth could they cast to play Katherine Hepburn's role, she was beyond good in that movie.

 

Fishtaco
 

Yep, be tough

Got the 10:10 showing tonight.

Thought it was really good as well. I would like to give a __ out of 10, but I can't, for that I would have to rank it compared to another recent films in the same genre, and what is there? (I don't really like comparing films of different decades directly against each other. They're shot for different audiences in different societies). Anything off hand, like 3:10 to Yuma, or The Book of Eli, there's really no comparison, it's way better.

The film itself, Hailee Steinfeld (Mattie Ross) tried to steal the show, but Bridges absolutely nailed the role of Rooster. Some parts could have been a little better, I didn't buy the scenery, at times it felt like we were deep in a forest in the Rockies, then out on some prairie in Kansas in the next scene, then out in some desert in New Mexico. And to be quite frank, I thought Matt Damon only did so-so. Not bad by any stretch, and it was a little bit more of a oddball role for him. But these are just little nuisances in a really great film, and perhaps even help the film achieve a pure Western feel, blending the right amounts of this and that. What would normally be seen as brutal violence, 'fits' right into the film and perhaps, again, harps back to help get an honest Western feel. For example in any of Tarantino's films when you see someone actually getting shot on screen, and/or the shooters face get splattered with blood, it's downright bone-chilling.  Where in True Grit, the cabin scene for instance, after Moon gets stabbed, you're almost waiting for the shots to be fired, and resolve the scene.

I dunno where the movie story is set but if you watch the original it was all filmed in Colorado where you can go from rocky mountains the the plains and even sand dunes in a few hours drive.

we are planning to go see it this afternoon with some friends.i think the last time i was at the movies was transformers the first one

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I dunno where the movie story is set but if you watch the original it was all filmed in Colorado where you can go from rocky mountains the the plains and even sand dunes in a few hours drive.

If there is one thing I know, movie producers aren't aware of geography.  For instance, if you remember that scene in kill bill, the one where the sherrif is driving up to the church where everyone got slaughtered.  The radio says "el paso" but he's hundreds of miles away from el paso, where that church is set to be.