Author Topic: "True Grit" (Read 3039 times)

KellyH · « **on:** December 27, 2010, 10:42:39 pm »

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 · « **Reply #1 on:** December 27, 2010, 10:44:57 pm »

This is one I'm wanting to see.

paul case · « **Reply #2 on:** December 27, 2010, 10:47:03 pm »

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 · « **Reply #3 on:** December 27, 2010, 10:49:33 pm »

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 · « **Reply #4 on:** December 27, 2010, 11:19:43 pm »

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 · « **Reply #5 on:** December 28, 2010, 12:26:34 am »

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.

Avery

Faron · « **Reply #6 on:** December 28, 2010, 07:17:59 am »

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 · « **Reply #7 on:** December 28, 2010, 07:48:23 am »

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

Chris Burchfield · « **Reply #8 on:** December 28, 2010, 09:18:56 am »

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 · « **Reply #9 on:** December 28, 2010, 09:22:08 am »

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

KellyH · « **Reply #10 on:** December 28, 2010, 10:15:22 am »

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 · « **Reply #11 on:** December 28, 2010, 10:46:37 am »

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 · « **Reply #12 on:** December 28, 2010, 03:56:08 pm »

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 · « **Reply #13 on:** December 28, 2010, 08:13:49 pm »

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 · « **Reply #14 on:** December 28, 2010, 09:16:53 pm »

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 · « **Reply #15 on:** December 29, 2010, 12:54:31 am »

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 · « **Reply #16 on:** December 29, 2010, 04:13:05 pm »

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 · « **Reply #17 on:** December 30, 2010, 09:06:21 am »

We saw True Grit last night.

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

ErikC · « **Reply #18 on:** December 30, 2010, 11:52:47 am »

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

woodhick · « **Reply #19 on:** December 31, 2010, 07:52:53 am »

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.

Bibbyman · « **Reply #20 on:** June 18, 2011, 05:14:54 pm »

Mary and I just watched True Grit. Got it from Netflix.

Great movie in itself. I come to enjoy everything I’ve seen the Coen’s do although I’ve not seen them all.

Too bad they wasted all this effort to make a remake of an already great movie. I’m much rather it’d been a different movie.

Slabs · « **Reply #21 on:** June 18, 2011, 08:10:51 pm »

Tom and Turboman

I side with you on the "excess fantasy" angle of contemporary films. I ran a slaughterhouse in an earlier life and got enough blood, guts and gore there.

Along with the carnage, I object to the radical emphacis in foul language/profanity. Witness was one of the most beautiful movies I have ever seen except for the excessive profanity.

There's a better way. I just wish Hollywood realized it. The cop shows on TV could tone the autopsy rooms back a bit also, especially since I normally eat supper somewhat late.

jim king · « **Reply #22 on:** June 18, 2011, 08:14:37 pm »

Slabs :

You need to adjust your sense of humor at supper time.

Bobus2003 · « **Reply #23 on:** June 18, 2011, 11:13:13 pm »

Honestly i thought it sucked, and would really like that 2 hours of my life back.. Maybe thats cause i really like the John Wayne version (seen it prolly 30 times)

Ernie · « **Reply #24 on:** June 19, 2011, 01:04:36 am »

Now, I'm of two minds, unfortunately neither have much in the way of recent memory capability, We have been to two movies in the 40 years we have been married, one was the Last Samarai, only because some of our cattle were in it and the other escapes me right now. I remember well the old days when every Saturday night , Mum and Dad would load us all into the station wagon with a big brown paper grocery bag of freshly made popcorn from home and we would head off to the drive in. OH for the good ol' days.

stumpy · « **Reply #25 on:** June 19, 2011, 09:11:43 am »

My wife and I really enjoyed it. I thought Jeff Bridges was a great choice for that role. Last night my wife wanted to see the original, so we rented it. I think John Wayne was much better, but the rest of the movie seemed hokey to me. Maybe it's cause I really hated Glen Campbel in that role. Also didn't like Kim Darby that much. I was also surprised at how identical the movies were. I would have expected the Coens to change their quite a bit. All in all, both movies are worth watching again.

Jeff · « **Reply #26 on:** June 19, 2011, 09:52:04 am »

I got the blueray from my Daughter for Father's Day this morning. I've not watched it yet, but have been wanting to see it.

Mooseherder · « **Reply #27 on:** June 19, 2011, 11:27:16 am »

We are going to watch it this afternoon.

It has been here a few days waiting on the right time from netflix.

DouginUtah · « **Reply #28 on:** June 19, 2011, 12:38:24 pm »

I watched it a couple of nights ago. I enjoyed it up until the snake bite. Then it was downhill--like they ran out of time or money and needed to end it.

D Hagens · « **Reply #29 on:** June 19, 2011, 01:02:04 pm »

I burnt it last night, I wasn't all that impressed

I think for this day and age it could have been done a lot better.

miking · « **Reply #30 on:** June 19, 2011, 10:58:58 pm »

I saw it three times when it was in the theaters. I first heard about it in Arizona when I took a tour of Old Tucson Studios, where Wayne filmed several movies. The tour guide said Jeff Bridges was the only actor that could have pulled it off in a remake and I think he was right. The original made an appearance on the big screen close to here this spring and I missed it but did go and see Stagecoach and The Searchers this weekend on the big screen.

Jeff · « **Reply #31 on:** June 19, 2011, 11:03:00 pm »

I just finished watching it. I liked it.

pigman · « **Reply #32 on:** June 19, 2011, 11:28:04 pm »

Don't tell me the ending, I am going to see it tomorrow for free at out library.

Raider Bill · « **Reply #33 on:** June 20, 2011, 09:11:56 am »

Quote from: pigman on June 19, 2011, 11:28:04 pm

Don't tell me the ending, I am going to see it tomorrow for free at out library.

John Wayne dies

miking · « **Reply #34 on:** June 20, 2011, 05:26:52 pm »

Without saying too much about the ending, they could have had the two aging gunfighters near the end of the movie played by original cast members, Robert Duval and Glen Campbell but they didn't. Too bad!

DR_Buck · « **Reply #35 on:** June 20, 2011, 05:37:50 pm »

Quote from: Burlkraft on December 30, 2010, 09:06:21 am

We saw True Grit last night.

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

Ditto

Mooseherder · « **Reply #36 on:** June 20, 2011, 06:19:20 pm »

We liked the Movie but I got aggravated at the 5 previews of junk movies at the start.
There's ten minutes of my life I can't get back.

Then the DVD stopped at a fork in the road and I had to get up and hit play quite a few times before it would start for some reason the DVD remote commands weren't working.
This is the first time something like that has happened.
I think Paramount Studio is trying to get me peaved.

pigman · « **Reply #37 on:** June 20, 2011, 09:41:50 pm »

I saw the movie tonight and Raider Bill was wrong, John Wayne did not die at the end.

He was dead before the movie started.

I am sure the part Jeff liked the best was the snake scene.

MrMoo · « **Reply #38 on:** June 22, 2011, 02:01:24 pm »

We saw it at the theater a while back. I thought they did a good job with it.

Bibbyman · « **Reply #39 on:** June 22, 2011, 05:18:05 pm »

I appreciated that they didn’t go for all that stylized camera work and CGI like so many of the modern movies. The costumes looked right for the most part but looked too new and clean most of the time.

James Gammon would have been perfect for Rooster Cogburn part!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0304000/

Slabs · « **Reply #40 on:** June 22, 2011, 08:00:53 pm »

Quote from: jim king on June 18, 2011, 08:14:37 pm

Slabs :

You need to adjust your sense of humor at supper time.

My last line was humor. It would have been recognized back when I was humerous.

thecfarm · « **Reply #41 on:** June 23, 2011, 08:12:31 am »

I feel the customs look to new and bright on alot of movies. Some of those westerns they had some good soap and water.

DouginUtah · « **Reply #42 on:** June 23, 2011, 10:28:14 pm »

Quote from: miking on June 20, 2011, 05:26:52 pm

Without saying too much about the ending, they could have had the two aging gunfighters near the end of the movie played by original cast members, Robert Duval and Glen Campbell but they didn't. Too bad!

Glen Campbell has Alzheimers.

Patty · « **Reply #43 on:** June 25, 2011, 09:02:05 am »

We watched the new True Grit movie last night.

I guess I'll stick with the advice that if I can't say anything nice, then say nothing at all.......

Bibbyman · « **Reply #44 on:** January 02, 2012, 03:03:10 am »

FYI, Netflix has both "True Grit" movies available streaming.

FYI.2, I still like the true, "True Grit" better even though it had a number of technical flaws.

paul case · « **Reply #45 on:** January 02, 2012, 09:36:29 am »

I saw the ''new True Grit ''' over thanksgiving.
I hope they quit trying to remake any John Wayne movies right there.

PC

zopi · « **Reply #46 on:** January 02, 2012, 03:00:34 pm »

If I ever see another movie, where there are no contractions in the dialog, I'm going to look up the writer/director and beat them with a nice stout piece of hickory. My god, but that was annoying.

Bibbyman · « **Reply #47 on:** January 02, 2012, 03:35:48 pm »

I’ve seen two newer versions of Stagecoach. Neater one was worth a spit. At least the 1966 version had Ann Margret and Slim Pickins. The 1986 version with Johnny Cash and company was really bad.

We found a couple of great old John Wayne westerns before Christmas I told Mary to wrap up for me. One was Red River, and the other The Cowboys.

paul case · « **Reply #48 on:** January 02, 2012, 07:20:23 pm »

Those are worth watching again.... and again. PC

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