Somebody should take away his record player to be certain.Although with Jeff Bridges as Cogburn this might just work.
― might seem normal (snoball), Thursday, 11 February 2010 19:19 (fourteen years ago) link
lol Cogburn, what a great name for a character
― Wrinkles, I'll see you on the other side (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 11 February 2010 19:23 (fourteen years ago) link
A blond bodybuilder is going to play the kid?!
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Thursday, 11 February 2010 19:24 (fourteen years ago) link
nrq was riffing on my dis of The Departed
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 February 2010 19:25 (fourteen years ago) link
(although you could peroxide the wolfboy from Twilight, but he's playing Stretch Armstrong)
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 February 2010 19:26 (fourteen years ago) link
We have first official photo:
http://twitchfilm.net/news/BridgesTrueGrit.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 19:43 (thirteen years ago) link
the original is a very good film
difficult not to suspect that the coens wasting their time with playful yet redundant rehashes after the success of srs man
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 19:49 (thirteen years ago) link
can imagine the casting discussions....
# Barry Pepper as "Lucky" Ned Pepper
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 20:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Trailer
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Monday, 27 September 2010 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn_N17JyPbc
― Excluding Skits and Such (Eazy), Monday, 27 September 2010 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link
ok, that actually looks kind of awesome.
― get off my lawn (rockapads), Monday, 27 September 2010 22:53 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't understand their remake fascination, but this has to be better the Ladykillers.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 27 September 2010 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm in.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Monday, 27 September 2010 23:04 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm in with anything True Grit related - the book, the movie, the remake. Sign me up!
― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 27 September 2010 23:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Love that trailer by the way. I need to watch the original again.
I shd probly read the book as I am only familiar w/ Wayne's parody
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 01:43 (thirteen years ago) link
stoked 4 the grit
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 01:46 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost Morbs, the book is wonderful...lots more color to the characters than the movie. Any of Charles Portis' novels well worth the time - my personal fave is Dog of the South, aside from True Grit.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 01:48 (thirteen years ago) link
btw earlier this evening our best beloved cankles posted this trailer on facebook, i subsequently loged a lewd comment, and he deleted it! of all people!
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 01:50 (thirteen years ago) link
thats not true grit
― If Airplanes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport (s1ocki), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 05:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Please, filmmakers! NO more Westerns!!!
― Oh man, schnitzelwich (admrl), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 05:20 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― salem witch bile (Tape Store), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 05:22 (thirteen years ago) link
more feminist westerns plz
there's like, what, one western a year?
COME ON ADAM R L
― If Airplanes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport (s1ocki), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 05:22 (thirteen years ago) link
also paging Barry Jenkins, we need a western to reexamine race
― salem witch bile (Tape Store), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 05:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Guess you never saw Young Guns? Lou Diamond Phillips? Throwing knives?
― drop s7ocki (bnw), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 05:39 (thirteen years ago) link
uh yeah this looks FUCKING AMAZING
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 28 September 2010 05:41 (thirteen years ago) link
they've been kind of on an epic roll and this looks dope imo
― ('_') (omar little), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 05:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I love their last three movies, esp. A Serious Man.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 28 September 2010 05:43 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost actually s1ocki there's probably at least 10 to 15 Westerns released on dvd a year, at least but they're all direct-to-video. But good Westerns? Yeah totally, they're scarce.
Not that I'm complaining...psyched for this. Love a good Western.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 05:45 (thirteen years ago) link
i hope this is good but it would be cool if it sucked and i got to use the hed TRUE SHIT
― If Airplanes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport (s1ocki), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 13:50 (thirteen years ago) link
You forgot the theme song!
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 13:51 (thirteen years ago) link
― Oh man, schnitzelwich (admrl), Tuesday, September 28, 2010 1:20 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
dude seriously, what the hell.
― kkvgz, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 13:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Personally I'm hoping they try their hand at a viking movie next.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 14:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Srsly. I've only read the book, but that John Wayne trailer is wtf. It's looks like a parody trailer like the happy Shining one.
And, those are some tall-ass mountains in Oklahoma.
― http://tinyurl.com/vrrr0000m (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 14:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Bnw ftw.
What can i say? Young Guns aside, the western is not my favorite genre. And it does seem like every filmmaker of note has to make one eventually. The Proposition is probably the only recent western that I've liked. Plus i've seen a LOT of horrible student Westerns and I've been reading all the festival hype about Meek's Cutoff and suspect that it will suck.
I do like the Coen brothers though.
― American History Mayne X (admrl), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 14:43 (thirteen years ago) link
meek's cutoff is rad
― If Airplanes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport (s1ocki), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 14:46 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not particularly fond of Westerns either.
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 14:48 (thirteen years ago) link
And it does seem like every filmmaker of note has to make one eventually
no? not since a long time ago anyway
― The Managing Director of Being (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
'western' is a little broad to make a value judgement on
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
to of my fav movies are westerns btw: high plains drifter & dead man
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link
srsly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4e3-YK3rVA&feature=related
― caek, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link
my word is iron, fuiud
that scene is amazing
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
i watched that movie because you posted that scene (to your bl☭g?)
― caek, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Love Outlaw of Josey Wales!!! Killer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdd07SDHv5Q
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
o ha lol xp
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I like Dead Man, too.
― American History Mayne X (admrl), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link
We'll see about Meek's Cutoff
I've still yet to see a Rooster Cogburn that resembled Grover Cleveland.
― http://tinyurl.com/vrrr0000m (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Saw this last night, it was ace, and lol-packed according to the theatre I was in, which
Totally entertaining movie, which makes it my favorite Coen thing since Lebowski (the last time they were willing to be totally entertaining, or maybe able to).
Morbz already cited Intolerable Cruelty, and I’d also throw in O Brother Where Art Thou, Burn After Reading, Bad Santa (which they wrote) and Ladykillers. Reading and Santa do also act like they’re ~saying something~ about human behaviour, but the text explicitly says not to bother taking that too seriously, and Ladykillers fails, but they certainly seemed willing to totally entertain there. (Haven’t seen A Serious Man.)
Like oh no, Mattie is about to be kilt by Tom Chaney and oh look, there's La Bouef from out of nowhere there to save the day.
The text has the grace to actually explain this retroactively though, and the set-up makes total sense once LaBouef lays it out
wayne's better for the part too cuz he actually was a fat piece of shit - bridges looks like a trainyard hobo and it sounds weird when people keep calling him a fat old man
Bridges looks OK upright, on horseback but they make sure to show you his giant fat gut spilling out of his underwear when Mattie has her first extended conversation with him, bargaining in the back of the Chinese grocers
― basically just a 2/47 freak out (sic), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 02:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I saw the original. I just saw the remake. I give the Coen Bros high marks for their version. Very entertaining stuff.
Wayne was a fat piece of shit, but he couldn't act like anyone but John Wayne saying lines from a script. Bridges can act. Therefore it doesn't matter if he's all that fat. His Cogburn has life. Wayne's just had sounds and motions.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 03:57 (thirteen years ago) link
i'd say the point of no country was to be 'totally entertaining' which is why its so frickin rad.
― basically just a 2/47 freak out (sic), Tuesday, February 1, 2011 9:36 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
eh i wouldnt call that a giant fat gut, its just a regular 60-year old man gut
strongly disagree about Wayne aimless
― My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 04:04 (thirteen years ago) link
There's lots of room to disagree about John Wayne. To me, he wasn't really an actor, but a movie star. He could fill a screen. He could carry a film with his presence. But his dismal failures (like that Ghengis Khan biopic) are pretty much of a piece with his best roles; they are cut from precisely the same cloth, delivered with the same inflections, the same facial expressions, displaying the same level of acting ability: it's the only John Wayne we ever got.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 04:21 (thirteen years ago) link
it's the only John Wayne we ever got.
you could say that about a lot of the greats. a memorable performer is a memorable performer, whether they're an 'actor' or a 'movie star'... i will agree that some performers are more notable for their star quality than acting ability and wayne's probably one of them, but i can't make that leap to his cogburn being lifeless
― My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 04:33 (thirteen years ago) link
It worked most of the time, and then...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX0GsD2K8tc
there were times it didn't.
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 04:40 (thirteen years ago) link
haha are you kidding that looks AMAZING
"that gun's not licensed, McQ!"
"...neither am I!!!!"
― My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 04:44 (thirteen years ago) link
"I don't like bears."
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 04:45 (thirteen years ago) link
But you could say this about many Hollywood actors then and now. Why hold his failures against them?
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 11:57 (thirteen years ago) link
plus, as Pleasant Plains suggested, writing that "He could fill a screen. He could carry a film with his presence" is certainly one way of defining screen acting. What do you think Cary Grant and George Clooney do?
To my eyes, the Method has dated far worse than Wayne's star power.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 12:03 (thirteen years ago) link
I'll take Wayne's worst over Pacino and DeNiro's worst, thanks
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 12:38 (thirteen years ago) link
I somehow didn't know that Deakins has never won an Oscar.
http://carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/03/a-q-and-a-with-roger-deakins-the-susan-lucci-of-cinematography/?ref=movies
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 February 2011 12:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana discuss:
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2011/feb/08/talking-about-true-grit/#
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 18:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Thanks for posting that Morbs, that was pretty cool. Kind of wish they had a video version of the discussion...they change gears pretty sharply in the transcript, lol.Ossana bringing up the way the story harkens back to childhood adventure novels, but with a girl in the lead kind of hones in on what I love about the movie, and the book...just the fact that this gutsy, serious, determined girl can lead these two men on an adventure, and us...I mean, it shows the possibility of the genre, of female protagonists and it's done in a way that isn't condescending.
And I'm with Larry. I don't really see how it's a story of Rooster's redemption either. Saving Maddie is some kind of redemption but spending the last of his days in a touring gun show with the James brothers hardly seemed redemptive to me, it almost seemed to suggest that maybe there are only acts of kindness, that you can never truly gain redemption? I dunno. But it never seemed as cut and dried to me.
― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 10 February 2011 03:28 (thirteen years ago) link
http://jeffbridges.com/true_grit_book/
― max, Thursday, 3 March 2011 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Finally saw this last night, loved it pretty much unreservedly. It was more brutal than I expected, I had to close my eyes at the tongue wrangling scene. The scene where Rooster Cogburn was galloping through the night to get Mattie treated was both otherworldly and viscerally exciting.
Haven't saw any mention of the sniper scene where LaBeouf says a prayer before shooting Lucky Ned Pepper. I'm sure that's a nod to Barry Pepper's character in 'Saving Private Ryan'.
― Cluster the boots (Billy Dods), Sunday, 13 March 2011 12:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I read the Portis last week and was amused to discover than Cogburn is in his early 40s (the headstone at the end of the Coens film follows this too), but "built like Grover Cleveland." So he should've been played by Paul Giamatti.
― Fuck bein' hard, Dr Morbz is complicated (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I liked Bridges in this, but Giamatti would have been a good choice too! But he doesn't have much box office draw power, so --
― lowfat dry milquetoast (WmC), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 16:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Watching this for the first time and just realized that our own pleasant plains looks a lot like Barry Pepper.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 20 February 2012 05:09 (twelve years ago) link
Oh and this rules. The little girl is awesome as are several others.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 20 February 2012 05:14 (twelve years ago) link
yay! I love this movie so much!
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 February 2012 05:17 (twelve years ago) link
god this was a great movie ... love how the dialogue was written in a kind of an obsolete vernacular. most fascinating dialogue in a movie in a while, for sure.
not sure what the best line was, maybe a toss-up between "that is to say ... your eye" or "that's a good name!"
― the late great, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
Most of the dialogue came directly from the book, that's what made it so great. If you haven't read it, you should check it out.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
^^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj1DZKOeZhI
― Diary of Anne Frank, Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen (scottfree), Thursday, 1 March 2012 00:34 (twelve years ago) link
"Vámonos, amigos," he whispered, and threw the busted leather flintcraw over the loose weave of the saddlecock. And they rode on in the friscalating dusklight.
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 1 March 2012 00:45 (twelve years ago) link
;-D
― the late great, Thursday, 1 March 2012 01:08 (twelve years ago) link
This might be a bit obscure but if you're interested in more background on Quantrill's Raiders, Cole Younger & his involvement with the James gang, this CBS radio docudrama from the 50's does a pretty good job of it:
http://archive.org/details/OTRR_Crime_Classics_Singles - episode 28 "The Younger Brothers and Why Some Of Them Grew No Older" (geddit hur)(can listen to the ep here online, or it's available on itunes for download too)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 4 August 2012 02:50 (eleven years ago) link
just watched this again
i liked it when i first saw it, but i somehow failed to notice that it is unbelievably great
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Monday, 17 December 2012 06:15 (eleven years ago) link
yeah! i rewatched it a few months ago remembering that i liked it a lot when it came out but had still filed it away as minor coens... it really isnt though, its top tier. choked up at the end
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 17 December 2012 06:39 (eleven years ago) link
yup.
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Monday, 17 December 2012 06:40 (eleven years ago) link
holds up to multiple rewatches for sure. Gets better as time goes on, I think.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 17 December 2012 06:43 (eleven years ago) link
What a great movie. Guess I avoided it all these years just b/c it was a Western. Should have immediately watched it after I loved (most of) Buster Scruggs.
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Thursday, 23 April 2020 15:46 (three years ago) link
Just rewatched this last Saturday with my wife. The attention to detail was superb throughout and I appreciated that the Coens reclaimed this as Maddie's story, instead of Cogburn's.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 23 April 2020 18:48 (three years ago) link
just watched this a few months back for the first time. the cast is great is my main takeaway. will have to rewatch after some time passes, didn't see it as top-tier coens but not minor coens either.
this was the only Coen brothers movie - other than the ladykillers - that I hadn't seen. maybe I should take the plunge with that turkey soon
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 23 April 2020 19:55 (three years ago) link
the ladykillers has one good performance in it by the black landlady and a total stinkeroo from Tom Hanks. I'd be surprised if you stuck it to the end, as it just progressively sinks to lower and lower levels of badness as the time drags on.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 23 April 2020 20:00 (three years ago) link
i love the Coens a lot and can't imagine wanting to rewatch The Ladykillers, but there's plenty of time so
― clap for content-providers (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 23 April 2020 20:02 (three years ago) link
I imagine the Coens didn't audition Hanks for the role in Ladykillers, because Hanks was too big a star to audition. Big, big mistake. His complete inability to cope with his role ruined the movie beyond redemption. But, as the Coens no doubt knew, you don't tell that to Tom Hanks during shooting; you swallow hard, take your lumps, and never work with him again.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 23 April 2020 20:11 (three years ago) link
I thought he was trying to one up Peter Sellers tbh, or, he seems like an OK guy, maybe it was a tribute
― clap for content-providers (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 23 April 2020 20:13 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afRFR2UNYzI
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 April 2020 20:30 (three years ago) link
Poor Hailee. Her handlers wouldn't even let her sing in her own voice. They had to run it through some filter and drown it in a sea of overproduction. She was v good in the movie, though.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 23 April 2020 20:41 (three years ago) link
She really was.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 April 2020 20:42 (three years ago) link
I like True Grit but feel like it was a good movie brought down a bit from the upper tier Cohen Brothers oeuvre by the completely useless presence of Matt Damon. I'm enough of a classic western sap to enjoy lots of it though.
― calzino, Thursday, 23 April 2020 21:00 (three years ago) link
I completely forgot Matt Damon was in this!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 April 2020 21:50 (three years ago) link
Matt Damon is fabulous! He handled the comedy like a pro.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 April 2020 21:51 (three years ago) link
yeah, Matt Damon is great in this
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 23 April 2020 21:53 (three years ago) link
his comedy paedophilia wasn't enough to compensate for him being a shit boring actor imo!
― calzino, Thursday, 23 April 2020 21:54 (three years ago) link
This was the era when Matt Damon realized he was a blank and shrewdly started to manipulate it for max impactx.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 April 2020 21:56 (three years ago) link