What did you guys think of the new "True Grit"?

[bulldog75]

The girl that played Mattie great.

I would have rather seen Sam Elliot play Rooster.

As for Le Bouef, Seriously Matt Damon, but he is better that most of the sissies in hollyweird.

[Timothy]

Got tired last night so watch about an hour and went to bed.  Just finished watching the rest.

Unimpressed!

Pepper playing Pepper was a nice touch if it was intended and I thought Pepper did a good job reprising Duvals character.  I didn't read the book either and whether this was a closer representation of the novel vs the original I don't know.  I suspect that they made Cogburn out to be the cad he was rather than the likeable John Wayne version.

Only cost me a buck so for that, I'm good!

[Ulmus]

I think the new version is much better than the original.  It's darker and more realistic.  I also liked how jaded  Mattie became later on.  I also liked how the writer's let her be a little girl in the way she tried to ease the tension between Rooster and La Bouef during their ,I believe, first night on the hunt.

I also liked noticing the huge cultural differences between the two movies.

The John Wayne movie is so optomistic it's unreal.  It's chock full of the "We're number one and can do nothing wrong!"  attitude that we got after winning WW-II and having a huge boost in our economy.  (As a note:  I am not saying that as an insult or slam.  I am noticing the differences here.)

The new one fit's todays outlook.  Tough and gritty.  Character's full of weaknesses and problems, yet still willing to get the job done.  ANd they actually smoked on screen.  When was the last time you saw that?

[PegLeg45]

Just finished watching it. Haven't figured out all of the reasons why, but I thought it was very poorly done. I have not read the book, so I am guessing that the highly unsatisfactory ending (IMHO) was part of the original story.

Random thoughts -

- The music was mostly just awful; the scene where Le Bouef says he misjudged Mattie and offers her his hand was almost drowned out with syrupy sappy music; just awful; OTOH, the Iris Dement song at the end was wonderful

- It seemed to drag in a lot of areas, including the parts that were not in the John Wayne version so they should have been interesting as they were new

- What is the point of filming crucial scenes at night in really dark darkness? Kinda hard to see what's going on unless you have a real theater with no windows - maybe

- Josh Brolin phones his miniscule role in - and he got 3rd billing in the credits; Hailee Steinfield was like 10th and she was in almost every scene

- Matt Damon was just about the worst possible person to play the role of Le Bouef; OK, maybe Rosie O'Donnell or Timothy Dalton; I liked Damon in the Bourne movies,  but man, in this he sucked;


Of course, just today I was accused of being a old fuddy duddy . . . 

Please, tell us how you really feel...................                  

[PegLeg45]

Ran across this, it might interest some folk because, as noted, some of Cogburn's speech is somewhat indiscernible.



http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/True-Grit.html

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[Ichiban]

Ran across this, it might interest some folk because, as noted, some of Cogburn's speech is somewhat indiscernible.
http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/True-Grit.html

[Pathfinder]

Somehow, it always seems to come back to Blazing Saddles!!!! 

[tt11758]

Somehow, it always seems to come back to Blazing Saddles!!!! 

Just one more reason to love this place!! 

[MikeBjerum]

Somehow, it always seems to come back to Blazing Saddles!!!! 

Reverend!!!

[MikeBjerum]

Somehow, it always seems to come back to Blazing Saddles!!!! 

It is the DRTV version of the degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon:  How many posts on a movie does it take to get to Blazing Saddles?