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True Grit - Greg_phpbb3_import1 - 12-28-2010
Took the parents to see this as I remember seeing the original with them when I was just a wee lad. I think I slept through most of it. Ah, nostalgia.
As with all remakes, especially in the hands of the Cohens, it's much grittier than the original. It couldn't be less gritty than the original, because the original had Glen Campbell as Le Beouf, the Texas Ranger. You could say it's Grit was . . . never mind.
It was good. Stuck to the story. Jeff Bridges was good. The little girl was Good. And I really liked Matt Damon's take on Le Beouf. Josh Brolin was the funniest thing in the movie. The violence is ultra when it happens, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of it. The Bear Man was also fun.
The Cohen say they never saw the original but went back to the original novel for their inspiration. But the original was playing on TMC and I caught a bit of it. Comparing the two, the story seems exactly the same, right down to the dialogue.
It wasn't in 3-D. We didn't have to pay the usurious IMAX fees. And I don't think there was any CGI. This makes it all right in my book.
I probably would have enjoyed this... - Drunk Monk - 05-07-2012
...but my damn appleTV kept stuttering. It does that every once in a while - plays like a minute of footage and then stalls with that little meter bar and that little swirly timer telling me that the device is actually doing something beyond just wasting my time. When it gets bad, it's like 20 sec of footage, then 10 secs of processing. Of course, it didn't decide to go all buggy on TG (not to be confused with tg) until I was way deep in the movie, and then it was just frustrating. I had like half an hour to go and it kept stalling out - took me the whole week to finish it as after 20 minutes or so watch, stall, watch, stall, I'd get fed up and switch to Letterman or telenovelas.
That being said, I think I agree with Greg on the above. Damon, in particular, was good. As for Bridges, the burnt-out character actor ala Nolte or Rourke is getting old on me. It's like 'ooh, they are so cool now because they've lived that life.' They're just burnt-out party boys with a lot of scar tissue. I know enough people like that in my real life that it just doesn't play for me in film. It's the same with vampire and zombie films. I deal with enough vampires with my work. I constantly bump into zombies here in the suburbs. Why would I want to watch a movie about that? While I am amused by the drunken cowboy schtick, at least enunciate enough so I can understand what is being said.
No sword fights, but a great knife attack that was very Coen-Brother-worthy.