True Grit

[Shoe]

My favorite line...."Thats bold talk for a one-eyed fat man." That line cracks me up every time i hear it.....ha...Shoe

[Dale Moser]

Would have been cool to see Tommy Lee Jones in this one. He was great as Woodrow Call in Lonesome Dove, a role the Duke turned down.

WHAT??? Who told you that?


True Grit is my favorite "Duke" film of all time.......even with the annoying Matty Ross charachter. I've got 20 or so of his movies in the collection, some I got for my birthday and havn't even watched yet. I have a picture of the Duke from Sons of Katie Elder hanging in my deer blind.....you could say I'ma fan.

You could never expect anyone they run out there now to hold a candle to John Wayne. And as bad as I hate Jeff Bridges, he is a fine actor, and one of few who could make a run at this. Matt Damon can't be beat in many roles, and Josh Brolin......well it's just too bad Tom Cheney wasn't a bigger part of the story because he's greatness.

I've wrestled with this since I heard about it, but for the sake of trying to keep an open mind, I think I'll go see it.......Blair will like it too, so it'll be worth the 35 bucks a ticket or whatever they get now.


BTW does it **** anyone else off whenever they talk about every new movie that comes out being the "highest grossing movie of all time"????? Well no **** Sherlock, that's because tickets cost 14 bucks now, where they were 5 when I was a kid......and probly a quarter or somethin when some of you old farts were goin!

"Ya can't serve papers on a rat, Baby Sister. You either got a kill'im.....er let'im be......."

[Hooper]

My favorite line will have to be "Good Party, No whiskey... we go home now!"

Gotta love the McLintock!!!

[fox1]

Ok i know i will be bashed for saying this but the first true grit kinda sucked IMO.
Glen cambell was not a good actor plus that girl was just flat out annoying.
If the new one puts a darker edge to it it might be really good.
I do agree the duke cant be remade.

[shaft]

no glen,ok but with out his song, ( one of the best) and lawyer dagget!! ill see it but the original cant ever be as good.

[gbeard]

it was fun watching them make it even though they did have the town tied up for quite sometime.

we rented them the lot that the stable scenes were shot on, and I was really supprised as to how kind and curteous the crews were. They were a pleasure to deal with.

[gbeard]

Also got to work on the guy who fell off the gallows. I set up the helo LZ

[whakm]

It'll be good. It won't be the same as the "original" but that may be a good thing. I loved John Wayne in it but Glen Campbell needed to be shot. Wasn't real thrilled with Kim Darby either. They say the new movie is more like the original book. It's all good !

[whakm]

I wish they'd make a remake of Jeremiah Johnson. I like the original but if they'd remake it and stay close to the original book ( Crow Killer by Raymond Thorpe) it would be great. Jeremiah was a straight BAD ***!

[Take Dead Aim]

I have had a chance to see the new True Grit movie and it is something special. It is not the same as the original. The Coen Bros went off of the book and did their own interpretation. They did not just remake the original movie. So if you go into it open minded and not try to compare it to something it is not, I think you will enjoy it greatly.

[Dale Moser]

I wish they'd make a remake of Jeremiah Johnson. I like the original but if they'd remake it and stay close to the original book ( Crow Killer by Raymond Thorpe) it would be great. Jeremiah was a straight BAD ***!

Agreed! Great book.


"I'm bear claw Chris Lapp, blood kin to the grizzer that bit Jim Bridger's ***.........and YOU are molestin my hunt!"

[kaizen]

I watched the trailer. I will definitely go see it. I liked the old westerns but many seemed to lack a grittyness that it takes to make the situation seem real. Of course, they are movies from a different time and style of cinema. I hope the remake some more. Now, Ben Afflack as the Outlaw Josey Wales and I would probably hang myself.

[easeup]

True Grit

Do you think this is a remake of the original? or just a suedo remake; where some of the story line and dialogue is revised?

surely no one is foolish enough to try to identically replicate the Duke!

[Archery1st]

You can't duplicate the Duke...

However - everyone else in the original SUCKED!! So I'm going to go out on a limb here, though not very far and say from a pure cinema experience this is going to be one to see. I hope Jeff Bridges at least does the Duke justice.

[TX_Hoghunter]

I guess that I will watch it but I think it would have been better with Robert Duvall in it again..this time as Rooster.

-john