anticipate TRUE GRIT by the Coen brothers

fuck

hey mods plz add "now with spoilers" to the thread title plz?

good, not great picture. brolin was funny. matt damon is always charming. couldn't decide about lead actress. score was really banal.

overall... is this the coen brothers' most conventional film?

score didnt take me out of the film at all, cant imagine how it would unless you were expecting something jarring or yeah unconventional & yes this would probably be the most conventional film theyve done -- which imo is not a bad thing.

really unsure how u can be uncertain about the lead, she was great!

i do like pita inn tho so we will always have that

Mattie has to pay a price for wasting Tom Chaney

bingo. she says as much in the opening voice-over.

the score wasn't good - didnt take me out of the movie and ordinarily i like carter burwell, but this kind of thing isn't his strength - u could tell at a couple points he was trying to echo elmer bernstein's 'stirring' score for the orig and it wasnt working imo

Burwell has been ruled ineligible for a scoring Oscar, too many preexisting hymns.

Hoberman took Coens to task for using "Leaning on the Everlasting Arm" and thus invoking its use in a better film -- The Night of the Hunter. I thought that was quite intentional, as Mattie's severe, inhuman faith reminds me of the rather annoying Lillian Gish in that film.

its a film w similar themes so im sure it was intentional

'good not great' otm. lots of good laugh lines.

2nd tier coens still better than most stuff. relatively few overly coen moments/characters.

Agreed, No Country still had the Harrelson/Root moments, among others, to briefly hint at the fact it was a Coen bros film.

This was a very good genre exercise and had some great moments. I'd rewatch it sooner than a lot of films, and found the humor well-balanced.

so i went to see this today and the projector broke so i did not see it, ffs

also dim sum was an intolerably long wait

No grit for old cr?m

p sure btw the projector wasnt particularly broken just the guy who could sort whatever issue they were having wasnt there because it was christmas - they called him and he said restart it and it should work - i know this because the usher in detailing troubleshooting efforts described the projector as 'like a little computer'

saw this w/ my mom and the night of the hunter thing is the 1st thing she mentioned afterward

Aggressively OK-ish.

Did not realize that was Iris DeMent over the end titles!

btw i totally dug this. "second-tier coens" is right but ill take it. bridges, damon and the girl all kill it, barry pepper too.

Bridges takes the annual Winona Ryder Memorial Marble Mouth Award with ease

pepper was electric

i love the pepman

When Pepper was five years old, his family set sail in a homemade ship, navigating through the South Pacific islands for five years.[1][2] His education was completed in both public schools and correspondence courses. Due to the lack of television as entertainment, the family used sketch acting as a means of fun.

btw i totally dug this. "second-tier coens" is right but ill take it. bridges, damon and the girl all kill it, barry pepper too.

― max, Sunday, December 26, 2010 9:57 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

saw this tonight & this pretty much sums up my sentiments. I will add that Deakins also rules (as usual).

yah max otm

This was fun (Matt Damon was the surprise), but about ten minutes too long.

I could watch those two kids get kicked off that porch stoop over and over and over.

OTM.

hahaha I forgot about that part, so classic

I gotta say: Bridges was the weakest of the three leads, in that Damon and Steinfeld consistently surprised me and did the most with that wonderful dialogue.

Bridges became MVP briefly, though, during the cornbread shootoff.

I was not feeling the denouement much until the last line, which is so beautifully terse. The Coens can end their movies with the best of them these days. Four in a row now.

Okay, but not great. I just felt disconnected from the whole thing, like I was watching a well-acted and shot film made by people who didn't really feel like giving me anything to explore or care about. (nb: only Coen Bros. films I really like are Blood Simple and Hudsucker Proxy, and I haven't seen the latter in 10+ years)

;_;

I do not remember the last line of Spinster Mattie's v/o, just Cogburn's.

"Time just slips away from us."

well see, "I've grown old" does that better.

this was a kids movie, but v gory and raw, maybe how kids movies would be if parents werent such pussies - coens played it v straight, reminded me of when lynch went G rated - the whole thing was a lil wtf to me i must admit, well done but wtf

i think by kids movie you mean "not smirky."

it's a really beautifully photographed Disney western w/ nastier violence

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, December 12, 2010 3:07 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

idk morbs u tell me

Loved this but I unfortunately saw it on an Oscar-screener DVD, would like to ~rescreen~ in the theater or on a proper DVD with subs.

This was fun (Matt Damon was the surprise), but about ten minutes too long.

I could watch those two kids get kicked off that porch stoop over and over and over.

OTM.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ plus the guy in the bear suit.

kids /= Disney, joe

WAHT! outrageous

btw smirky is prob the most common quality of contempo kids movies, unfortunately

this one doesnt have a partic 'contemporary' feel given the debt to Portis's tone (tho I'm thinking they added the hush the hanging Indian joke?).

i guess it felt 'childrens' or ya fictiony to me cause of the lack of subtlety

god that dude in the bear suit was so great.

this was a kids movie, but v gory and raw, maybe how kids movies would be if parents werent such pussies - coens played it v straight, reminded me of when lynch went G rated - the whole thing was a lil wtf to me i must admit, well done but wtf

― ice cr?m, Thursday, December 30, 2010 11:29 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

heh i actually had a convo w/my friend yesterday where he declared that this was the Coens' Straight Story, i totally agreed - love it for that reason too

i guess it felt 'childrens' or ya fictiony to me cause of the lack of subtlety

you missed the adult, Rohmeresque nuances of Barton Fink and Fargo, huh

this didnt feel a lil more spelled out than those to you

im nto trying to be clever here, it really played like a kids movie to me, did anyone else feel this way

why is 'straightforward' = 'kids movie'

the deep complexities of a serious man, only to be comprehended as ~deep~ by adults

like if someone had said to me 'the coen bros made a kids film here watch this' i wouldve been like 'o ok p cool sort of violent for kids but thats rad in its own way'