True Grit
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As much as I think it's a travesty that they are remaking a John Wayne movie...the cast and directors made me take notice. I was going to come in and ridicule this mercilessly, but I think it might be pretty good. Been a while since we've had a real honest-to-God western that was worth a shit. I think the last one was 3:10 to Yuma, which was another remake.
Last original GOOD western? Dunno.
Last original GOOD western? Dunno.
Silverado or Blazing Saddles.
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It looks nice. I don't have sound so I can't pass judgment yet. Jeff looks a little too hairy for a US Marshal though.
I never understood why that film did not get a wide release. Probably the studios don't think Americans will sit still for a slow paced drama.
I'm actually looking forward to this. I was upset someone was remaking a personal favorite. The trailer looks pretty damn great (except for Damon).
Some not so recent favs: Open Range, Deadwood, The Jack Bull, Lonesome Dove, Tombstone, Wyatt Earp, Unforgiven, The Searchers, Rooster Cogburn
All time fav = Stagecoach
I didn't really care for Appaloosa or 3:10 to Yuma.
Some not so recent favs: Open Range, Deadwood, The Jack Bull, Lonesome Dove, Tombstone, Wyatt Earp, Unforgiven, The Searchers, Rooster Cogburn
All time fav = Stagecoach
I didn't really care for Appaloosa or 3:10 to Yuma.
Not a remake per se, but the Gunfight at the OK Corral has been done on the order of 20 or so movies.
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and drawn, not many people will put Wyatt Earp down as a fav... I thought I was one of a few that liked it.
That should take some 'splainin' but I don't really care for an answer.
Unforgiven?
Not sure how i feel about this. They could have called it anything since it looks and feels so little like the original I think I am comfortable looking at it as not being a remake.
But now, 40 years later the Cohen Brothers can work from the novel more closely than the director could then.
I've just never enjoyed any of their movies. I find them slow moving, pretentious art-for-the-sake-of-being-different. It's like reading King Lear. No one does it because they hope to be entertained by it, it's just well-written. I prefer to be entertained.
I guess their humour is just so dry that I don't get it. I like my humour like I like my women, slippery!
Unforgiven?[/QUOTE]
That was going to be my suggestion.
Adammon prefers Meet the Spartans.
I was entertained by King Lear. None of Shakespeare's plays (to me, ignoring what professors say) were done to be literature in the centuries to come, they were made to entertain. Tastes have changed over time, but the stories are still strong, even if they're cliche. I'll readily admit crying at the end of King Lear in the James Earl Jones version I saw.
Unforgiven?[/QUOTE]
That was going to be my suggestion.
Adammon prefers Meet the Spartans.[/QUOTE]
Hur hur, it's fun to take things to extreme to make points, hur hur. I just don't get their humour or their notoriety.
No, yes, no, yes, yes.
Favourite comedies of all time: Airplane, Dr Strangelove, Arthur, Pink Panther (Sellers), Caddyshack, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Shaun of the Dead, Royal Tenenbaums, etc.
I gotta rent Unforgiven again. Damn good movie.
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Never seen the John Wayne movie but this looks mighty interesting.
Hold off on the John Wayne one, and watch it after seeing this one. I want a fresh view at the 2 films.
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good the bad and the weird was a lot of fun
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Huh. I loved the original. Big fan of westerns. You know which one I loved when I was a kid? High Plains Drifter. That's one creepy movie because of the supernatural element. And
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Fun fact: My dad had a huge crush on the girl in the original and told me in great detail every time we watched it. She looked like a boy to me. Maybe my dad was trying to tell me something...
the way they painted the town red and renamed it Hell to throw off the bad guys
Fun fact: My dad had a huge crush on the girl in the original and told me in great detail every time we watched it. She looked like a boy to me. Maybe my dad was trying to tell me something...
What's funny is that High Plains Drifter isn't supernatural, though it wants you to think that - Pale Rider /is/. And which girl, Verna Bloom or Marianna Hill? Neither of them appeared particularly boyish.
I like some Coen brothers films, but not others.
I thought 3:10 to Yuma was really enjoyable - taut and well acted, though I knew as soon as Alan Tudyk showed up that he'd wind up dead.
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I thought it was clear Eastwood's character died at the beginning. After all, no one seemed to recognize him.
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Even the wiki page calls it supernatural, and calls the Stranger an "embodiment of the spirit or reincarnation" of Marshall Duncan.
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In true grit, I'm talking about Kim Darby. Sorry, I switched back to True Grit. My fault.
Here she is, in all her boyish charm:
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Even the wiki page calls it supernatural, and calls the Stranger an "embodiment of the spirit or reincarnation" of Marshall Duncan.
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In true grit, I'm talking about Kim Darby. Sorry, I switched back to True Grit. My fault.
Here she is, in all her boyish charm:
This movie had me at "Coen Brothers".
Also, Adammon, it's so weird you list Royal Tenenbaums as a favorite. It's much more dry than half the Coen Brothers, and definitely more "pretentious for the sake of being pretentious".
Also, Adammon, it's so weird you list Royal Tenenbaums as a favorite. It's much more dry than half the Coen Brothers, and definitely more "pretentious for the sake of being pretentious".
I maintain that any movie with Ben Stiller cannot be pretentious, by definition. Plus Gene Hackman is awesome. (I wish he'd been cast in Shit my Dad Says instead of Will Shatner)
I saw that in theater and started rocking back and forth in my chair excitedly
Barton Fink?
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