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Re: New Grit
« Reply #10 on: January 03, 2011, 05:22:11 PM »
Hey Shooter32!  Was that you playing the part of the dentist?
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Re: New Grit
« Reply #11 on: January 03, 2011, 05:33:04 PM »


This is a good video showing a lot of the original shooting locations of the original 1969 "True Grit". They've changed a bit, but many are still there. You get a real sense of the 41 years that have passed. I was a senior in high school working at my first job then, a movie theater usher earning $1.00 an hour. I saw this movie at least 50 times. The theater where I worked ran it for 3 weeks. I had at least 90% of the lines memorized back then. Many I still have.  Bill T.
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Re: New Grit
« Reply #12 on: January 03, 2011, 05:48:10 PM »
Quote from: kilopaparomeo on January 03, 2011, 02:22:24 PM
PegLeg -- I love westerns as well...my wife makes fun of them because of the bad sets, bad costume and (often) bad acting.  But I've always liked them even though they are usually formulaic.  The best ones teach life lessons and address the classic good/evil conflict.  And that there is often a fuzzy line between the two.

While you are right, only a few westerns have come out, there have been some decent ones:

Quigley (1990)
Unforgiven (1992)
Tombstone (1993)
CrossFire Trail (2001...but ok, it was a TNT movie)
Open Range (2003)
3:10 to Yuma (2007)


Absolutely.
Too many years worth of gaps between good movies.

Also, Wyatt Earp came out the same year as Tombstone.
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Re: New Grit
« Reply #13 on: January 03, 2011, 08:11:31 PM »
"The Desperate Trail", was also a TNT movie, but Thell Reed was the armorer in that movie and did an unbelievable job with the shooting scenes. I'm surprised TNT doesn't show it more. Monte Walsh was another good one that doesn't get much airplay.  Bill T.
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Re: New Grit
« Reply #14 on: January 03, 2011, 08:17:21 PM »
I'll still sit through the original "Lonesome Dove"...

I'm going to see this film but I can't read any more of these posts.  Someone is going to give away more than they intend too.....
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Re: New Grit
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Re: New Grit
« Reply #15 on: January 03, 2011, 08:20:20 PM »
If you search for "free movies online" there are lots of new movies including this one.
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Re: New Grit
« Reply #16 on: January 03, 2011, 08:36:27 PM »
Quote from: jumbofrank on January 03, 2011, 08:20:20 PM
If you search for "free movies online" there are lots of new movies including this one.
Who wants to watch a movie on a 15" monitor? I only go to the giant screen Muvico type theatres, unless the flick is only playing at an arthouse or a Cinema@Draft House type place. If I can't get a giant screen and good speakers, I'd rather watch from the comfort of my own couch. You wait a bit, but you save ten bucks and can hit pause when you go to the head. Plus, there's beer and snacks.
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Re: New Grit
« Reply #17 on: January 03, 2011, 08:42:37 PM »
Quote from: fightingquaker13 on January 03, 2011, 08:36:27 PM
Who wants to watch a movie on a 15" monitor? I only go to the giant screen Muvico type theatres, unless the flick is only playing at an arthouse or a Cinema@Draft House type place. If I can't get a giant screen and good speakers, I'd rather watch from the comfort of my own couch. You wait a bit, but you save ten bucks and can hit pause when you go to the head. Plus, there's beer and snacks.
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I haven't been to a theater in about nine years.  Goldmenber, I think....

I watch them for a buck plus tax.....from a 20 buck dvd player from Target...on a twenty year old TV that was given to me, sitting in my broken, duct taped recliner.....ten feet from my refer and a cold one....

Life is good..... ;)
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Re: New Grit
« Reply #18 on: January 03, 2011, 08:48:16 PM »
Quote from: Timothy on January 03, 2011, 08:42:37 PM
I haven't been to a theater in about nine years.  Goldmenber, I think....

I watch them for a buck plus tax.....from a 20 buck dvd player from Target...on a twenty year old TV that was given to me, sitting in my broken, duct taped recliner.....ten feet from my refer and a cold one....

Life is good..... ;)
Right there with you. If I see three movies a year in the theatre, its a banner year. Still, some things really are better on a big screen.
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Re: New Grit
« Reply #19 on: January 03, 2011, 08:50:07 PM »
Quote from: fightingquaker13 on January 03, 2011, 08:48:16 PM
Right there with you. If I see three movies a year in the theatre, its a banner year. Still, some things really are better on a big screen.
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I agree wholeheartedly but the little lady can't go 30 minutes without peeing!

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