"True Grit"

[KellyH]

My son and I went to see the re-make of "True Grit" this afternoon.  We enjoyed the movie a great deal and felt we had to tell everyone we know or kinda know to go see it.  Most re-makes don't do so well in my book but this has the ability to stand on its own two (four) feet.   

I have already put my request in for a birthday gift when it comes out on BlueRay. 

[Jeff]

This is one I'm wanting to see.

[paul case]

i dont go to the movies much. not 2 times in the last 10 years but this one i want to see. thanks for the evaluation turbo man.   pc

[Dan_Shade]

i saw it the other night.  The movie is not so much a "remake", but a new interpretation of the book.  In some ways, I think this movie is more powerful than the one with John Wayne (and his version is one of my favorites). 

Excellent movie, I give it 2 thumbs up.  I want to read the book now.

[Jeff]

I saw an interview with Matt Damon and he was talking about having never saw the original when approached about the movie. He asked the Cohen Brothers if he should watch it and they said no, read the book.

[H60 Hawk Pilot]

I took my Son and X to see True Grit and enjoyed it as well. The John Wayne version is somewhat different from this version but has some of the same story line (in a way of saying).

John Wayne will always be in my top five actors rating. I like'd him because he was the real (mostly) deal and just read about him about two months ago.


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[Faron]

We probably haven't been to 10 movies in the 35 years we have been married.  However, we went last Thursday to see True Grit with our neighbors.  We actually liked it a little better than the '69 version.  I liked the ending of this version better. I haven't read the book, but I understand the movie follows the book much closer.

[gunman63]

went and saw it over christmas weekend, was very good i thought.

[Chris Burchfield]

Wife and I saw it Sunday.  It's a good movie and fair relay of the story.  I only knew Damon and Bridges for the actors.  I've never read the book, I've been told the movie follows the book version of the story.  It is different than the 1969 version with John Wayne.  Today, I'm taking Gdaughter to see Disney's Tangled in 3D.  She  @ 4yoa nor I have ever seen a 3D movie.

[ely]

3d movies are alot better than when i was a kid. we seen yogi the other nite, i liked it.

[KellyH]

This is a blast from the past in science fiction but the original "TRON" was good when I was a kid.  The new "TRON" is in 3-D and my son and I went to see it.  From a nostaligical point of view it was good but Sci-Fi is just that Sci-Fi.  My boy loved every minute of it!   Having some fun with my son, I can't complain about that. 

[Tom]

It's seldom that I go to a flick anymore.  I feel fairly comfortable with the movies of the 40's and 50's, but the '60's started a lot of morality-lesson films and that exasperates me.  The 70[s and 80's started this realism stuff and feel that there is enough blood and guts in real life.  I wanted to be entertained when I went to the movies and  yearned for safe fare.

Now I'm afraid to go see remakes because the changes are usually in the realism area and instead of people just disappearing from the plot, they are now realistically hung with a rope or have big holes blasted through their bodies.  Maybe it isn't as bad as I think, but I look for those kinds of descriptions from folks when they talk of a new movie.  I'd rather leave the film with a smile on my face, thinking that everybody lived happily ever-after.

Yeah, I sleep with my blanket over my head sometimes too. 

[Chris Burchfield]

Disney's Tangled in 3D was pretty good as far as animated goes. The chameleon and horse in the movie were both best supporting actors.  Gdaughter would laugh so hard sometimes.  I'd ask her sometimes if she could reach the character.  She'd be trying as there was an empty seat in front of her.

[Corley5]

We saw "True Grit".  I liked it a lot.  Dee wasn't as impressed    I haven't seen the John Wayne version in long time and need to watch it now 

[terrifictimbersllc]

Kept seeing short flashback bursts of John Wayne as I was watching True Grit yesterday.  It was good too, the girl, Matt, and Jeff are all great. Think I want to get the old one and watch it with my stepdaughter before she goes back to school.

[KellyH]

Tom - With genuine respect towards your feelings on the subject I will go ahead and tell you this movie isn't any different than the one's you have tried to escape.

The realism is very evident and clear in nearly every chapter of this movie.  I'm in total agreement with you on so many of the flicks of present day being too vivid.  Unfornately even the video games my son plays are fairly over done with realism and the like.  We live in a fast ever gaining more speed world out there.

Some of my favorite movies of all time are the "Herbie Love Bug" series.  So there you go! 

Happy New Year!   

[Bibbyman]

I’m not much of a fan of remakes.  They remade Stagecoach a couple of times.  The remakes were nowhere near as good as the original.   I think they would be turkeys without being compared to the original.  

Mary got a DVD off the $5.00 rack the other day titled “Wanted”.  The biggest draw was that it was an action movie with Angelina Jolie.  (She picked it – I didn’t).  I set through it one time – well, because it had Angelina Jolie in it.  (She would have looked better without all the tattoos.)  But it was not a movie for us.  It was a like a video game made into a movie.   Most preposterous ballistics and physical stunts made it laughable.  Yet the blood and gore in was splattered everywhere in slow motion.

I for sure won’t rush out to the theater and watch the new True Grit.  I’ll likely watch it when it comes to my home for free over Netflx or the like.

[Burlkraft]

We saw True Grit last night.

It was good, but I like the John Wayne version better.

[ErikC]

 I saw it last night too. I liked it better than the old one, I think due to the better dialogue

[woodhick]

Went and seen it yesterday.  Very good movie and well worth going to see.  John Wayne was my hero growing up as a small boy and still walks very tall in my book.  I agree that the dialouge in the new version is more for the period and I liked that.  I thougt Bridges done and excellent job as did the girl, cant say the same about  the Texa ranger.  All in all a good movie to see.  Probably the first movie I have seen in few years and I would recommend it.