This looks like a Coen Bros. movie.
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 16:41 (thirteen years ago) link
u can totally vibe off this trailer
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 16:44 (thirteen years ago) link
so is the book totes awes or what
― If Airplanes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport (s1ocki), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 16:44 (thirteen years ago) link
should i read it
is it "true"ly "grit"ty
It's a fast read. It's funny. Mattie Ross is your typical Portis protagonist who's gotten herself way too deep into a situation she doesn't need to be in. There's a lot of action. The first quarter of the book is just her wandering around Fort Smith, and it's enough to keep you suckered in until the "good parts". Something not clear in the movie, but is in the book is that she's narrating the book as an old woman. So you've got this 14-year-old trying to avenge her father's murder all of a sudden namechecking Al Smith at times.
I usually hate remakes, but this new True Grit movie should be dead-on since "dark and funny" is pretty much the Coens' forté.
― http://tinyurl.com/vrrr0000m (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 16:54 (thirteen years ago) link
'western' is a little broad to make a value judgement on
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 28. September 2010 11:53 (1 hour ago) Bookmark
otm
― groovemaaan, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, September 28, 2010 11:44 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 28 September 2010 17:54 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not sure why the Coens didn't cast Meryl Streep as Cogburn.
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link
She doesn't look like Grover Cleveland either.
― http://tinyurl.com/vrrr0000m (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 18:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Meryl Streep
http://tarotquest.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/meryl-streep-as-jewish.jpg
vs Grover
http://www.visitingdc.com/images/grover-cleveland-picture.jpg
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
so this will be obviously great
― max, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 07:39 (thirteen years ago) link
and probably adamrl will see it and he will literally die while watching it, he will have a heart attack from how much it owns
― max, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 07:40 (thirteen years ago) link
oh no :(
― If Airplanes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport (s1ocki), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 13:26 (thirteen years ago) link
^^is that Brian Doyle Murray?
― andrew m., Wednesday, 29 September 2010 14:49 (thirteen years ago) link
I wish they would make only westerns
I will make allowances for horror westerns, this is a vital subgenre
― aerosmith: live at gunpoint (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 15:00 (thirteen years ago) link
are you excited about the film of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln,_Vampire_Hunter
― caek, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 15:10 (thirteen years ago) link
if you're not excited, then maybe the news that it will be produced by TIM BURTON will change that
Don't worry guys, I won't stop you liking westerns.
― Faerie Liquide (admrl), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 15:26 (thirteen years ago) link
I didn't say I don't think this will be good, I just said I am sick of westerns.
― Faerie Liquide (admrl), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link
go away adam
― max, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link
your kinds not wanted here
you dont display
TRUE GRIT
TRUE BRIThttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8bnjmxAoKnQ/S9OkvUJV2OI/AAAAAAAAADk/NhXuCYnZe2g/s1600/Michael+Caine.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1LpDmZz1Kw
― Faerie Liquide (admrl), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 15:41 (thirteen years ago) link
http://incontention.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/grit-bg.gif
― caek, Friday, 1 October 2010 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link
how awesome is this movie, i love westerns, and especially this one
― ice cr?m, Friday, 1 October 2010 23:50 (thirteen years ago) link
i wish that when im watching the facebook movie its this instead, even tho im quite sure to enjoy the facebook movie
i would rather see this movie once than this movie once and the facebook movie once
― ice cr?m, Friday, 1 October 2010 23:51 (thirteen years ago) link
thats how much i like it
im anticipating it
truly
grittily
― ice cr?m, Friday, 1 October 2010 23:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Truly, grittily, deeply
― VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, 2 October 2010 00:53 (thirteen years ago) link
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810153253/video/22265614
― caek, Monday, 4 October 2010 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
yeahhhhhhhh
― she's one intense bitch, she rides a unicycle (arby's), Monday, 4 October 2010 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I think my problem with westerns is that too many of them fall into the middle ground between adherence to the classic western and a radical break from it
Well what really inspired the revisionism was Vietnam + Peckinpah. And since we have since regressed to the most reactionary pop culture since the pre-rock '50s, obv there are gonna be a lot of faux-reviz westerns.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 4 October 2010 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
God, everything about now sucks ... so ... bad!
― Eric H., Monday, 4 October 2010 18:08 (thirteen years ago) link
this weekend i picked up a vintage paperback of the book ("soon to be major motion picture starring john wayne") which i plan to read before seeing this
― tangelo amour (elmo argonaut), Monday, 4 October 2010 18:12 (thirteen years ago) link
book is out of print in the uk ;_;
― caek, Monday, 4 October 2010 18:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I would hope that matt damon braining dudes with the butt end of his gun is a john wayne tribute.
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 4 October 2010 18:26 (thirteen years ago) link
also BEAR FACE
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 4 October 2010 18:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I was gonna say.
― http://tinyurl.com/hommphommp (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 4 October 2010 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
― she's one intense bitch, she rides a unicycle (arby's), Monday, 4 October 2010 19:38 (thirteen years ago) link
This is in Ireland granted but i've seen plenty of copies of the 2005 reissues of Portis's novels in second-hand bookshops.
― Number None, Monday, 4 October 2010 21:08 (thirteen years ago) link
ok, 1975-91 was pretty bad too, especially the pop music
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 02:38 (thirteen years ago) link
That's our Morbs!
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 02:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Hmm, and yet the western was mostly nascent during that time period. If only directors could've found a way to work in some crack and AIDS metaphors into Monument Valley horse operas.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 5 October 2010 02:53 (thirteen years ago) link
what about the Reagan White House?
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 03:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Some great Cliffnotes on Fort Smith, the Indian Territory and facts the Coen Bros are using to shape their film.
― http://tinyurl.com/koalalala (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 18 November 2010 17:45 (thirteen years ago) link
wow, thats a great read! thanks! holky ufuk im excited for this!!!!!! rrraAGHGUHHGHHGHGH *tears shirt off and screams*
― Onigaga (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 18 November 2010 19:53 (thirteen years ago) link