12-28-2010, 03:59 PM
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.
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.
So much for the flickr badge idea. Dammit