True Grit (2010) * FULL LENGTH REACTION
Added 2024-03-09 00:01:09 +0000 UTCSurprise!!
I know usually these come out on Wednesday, but this month is going to be all over the place so expect random uploads 😁
This was the winner of the Remake/Reboot poll we had last month 🤩
I love the characters in this, they are all so different yet all so well done. An unlikely trio sets out on an adventure 🥰 The comedy was right up my alley, nothing over the top and it fit so well together.
If you've seen the original, do you prefer one over the other?
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- Vero 🐴🤠
Comments
Barry Pepper was in a really good film called “The Snow Walker” I think. It’s been overlooked from what I can see, but it’s really worth looking at.
Scott Howard
2024-10-16 03:46:17 +0000 UTCI'm so glad to hear that you liked both and can say what things you liked about them. That is something that is hard to find (at least judging by youtube comments, but that's not really a great thing to compare anything to!). I'm very curious to see the original, especially since John Wayne won an Oscar for it.
Verowak
2024-10-15 16:27:53 +0000 UTCThis version is closer to the book it's based on. For me, I would like the versions mixed together and get something in between if you know what I mean. I definitely liked John Waynes rooster better that Jeff Bridges. But that doesn't mean I didn't like Jeffs acting and interpretation of the character because I did. I didn't like the originals sound track (with the exception of the Glen Campbell song, which was great). Overall I liked the original better but it's close. I just think the character acting in the original was better. I also liked that in both movies they used the dialect that was in the book. I saw a youtube docu that was examining the way people talked in the old west and they had some samples and they sounded a little bit like what you heard in the movie.
Scott Howard
2024-10-10 17:57:24 +0000 UTCI'm fine with a mix of styles and tones, cinema changes over time so I don't expect westerns made in the 60s to be the same as some in the 90s. Same goes for every genre. The acting style also plays a huge factor in the tone of the movie, no matter what genre it is lol
Verowak
2024-03-18 14:48:35 +0000 UTCThere are several styles of westerns over the years, so if you just watch them at random without any context, you might be confused by a mix of styles and tones. - The oldest "classic western" is pre-1960, with a transitional period in the late 1950's. A few in this style continued to be made into the 1960's and 1970's, but not many. These tend to be more "good guys vs bad guys" with little or no grey areas. - The "western" or "mid-century western" started appearing in the late 1950's transitional period alongside "classic westerns" and has a darker tone, either showing some morally grey areas or less "good guys always win" stories. The 1960 "Magnificent Seven" is considered by many to be the archetype of this style. - The "modern western" style started appearing in a transitional period in the 1980's, and pretty much all westerns made in the 1990's and later are of this style. There are a number of remakes such as this 2010 version of "True Grit" and the 2007 "3:10 to Yuma" that show the same story as an older version but in the new style and are pretty good in their own right. Many consider the 1993 "Tombstone" and 2007 "3:10 to Yuma" to be archetypes. - There are a few that introduce elements of otherworldlyness or supernatural in the western setting, either as a serious piece such as the 1999 "Purgatory" or as a comedy/spoof element. Also the prequel "Tremors 4: The Legend Begins" is not supernatural, but you can guess how it goes. - "Unforgiven" is a unique style which I would call "modern western noir". I would recommend watching a number of other mid-century and modern westerns before Unforgiven in order to really be able to recognize and appreciate it's uniqueness. - There is also a related "neo-western" category which has a story that fits the western genre, but is in a "modern" setting (mid- to late-20th or early 21st century) These would include the 2007 "No Country for Old Men" and 2016 "Hell or High Water", but not a western set at the turn of the 1900's like "The Wild Bunch" (1969) or "The Professionals" (1966). Some like the 2019 "The Highwaymen" kind of straddle the line between "neo-western" and 1920's-1930's setting crime/gangster movies. - Another unique offering is the 1-season series (1993-1994) "The Adventures of Brisco County Jr."; modern western style, set in the 1890's, with alternately serious, comedic, and even elements of Victorian steampunk sci-fi/technology. It actually bears some stylistic similarities to the Canadian "Murdock Mysteries" set in 1900's Toronto.
JAKH
2024-03-16 18:00:53 +0000 UTCIn addition to "Saving Private Ryan" and "Green Mile", you recently saw Barry Pepper in "Flags of Our Fathers".
JAKH
2024-03-16 17:12:13 +0000 UTCIf you play WoW or World of warcraft and ever heard the jokes about Chuck Norris. Chuck was an OKIE born and raised less than 1 hour from me. Though 1 generation before me! I think in any dispute I auto win right? I could give multiple other examples. But Chuck wins right??? :) :) If people doubt me I do have receipts! :) That is not all about Texas! Matt Damon...team America etc.....I will stop the unhinged Tedtalk to people. :) Hope I made you curious to look into the history deeper. It is literally thousands of years of human history compressed into 200 years!
Daniel Looney
2024-03-12 00:41:37 +0000 UTCThink of it as Saving Private Ryan. Fictional story BUT everything else around is real. I am Okie. No one cares in Oklahoma who cares (But a slur word up to 2003 in California). Just trust me I was spit on when I was out of military clothes when people heard me speak ...come to think of the they did too even when I was in Uniform in 2003.
Daniel Looney
2024-03-12 00:36:01 +0000 UTCHahahaha I love the enthusiasm to share though!! Just you wait for Arcane, it may be closer than you think 🕵️♀️ Hailee Steinfeld was really amazing in this, so much dialogue and she nailed it all!!
Verowak
2024-03-11 21:14:13 +0000 UTCThanks, historical fiction is something I enjoy watching/reading but haven't gotten to do much of it so this is a nice movie to watch :D
Verowak
2024-03-11 21:12:37 +0000 UTCDomhnall Gleeson keeps surprising me with his roles! All it took was the Star Wars sequels, then Ex Machina, and now he is just in so many movies!! I love seeing actors show up in movies randomly :D As for Dakin Matthews, I looked him up on IMDB and instantly recognized him from House!!! He played a mall santa in one episode and is prescribed cigarettes (though with House's bad handwriting, he reads it as "co-ja-ry-is")
Verowak
2024-03-11 21:10:24 +0000 UTCSuch a great movie, I really love it. Despite all the great actors in the movie it was totally Hailee Steinfelds show, the movie that put her on the map...🤩 I have one small but important nitpicking though: This is not a remake of the John Wayne movie. It is a different take on the same book. The Coens did not watch the first movie and were adamant they did not a remake.... And now I heard you reading it out loud...😂 I really should listen to the end before I write a comment. 🙈 Great reaction, can't wait for "Arcane"...😅😊
silverarrow06
2024-03-11 20:37:33 +0000 UTCTexans talk a big game but most of them are all hat and no cattle. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in OKC not Texas. The US Marshalls Museum is in Fort Smith AR and so it is old federal courthouse and gallows. If anyone is driving cross country on I40 those places are worth stopping at, and all are within 10 miles of I-40.
Daniel Looney
2024-03-09 18:09:13 +0000 UTCNice reaction. Movies and Book are historical fiction. Judge Parker was a real judge out of Ft Smith Arkansas from 1875-1896.He hanged 79 people the most in US History. Indian Territory is now Oklahoma, and it was a lawless place after the civil war. And too this day has 39 Tribal HQ still in the state.
Daniel Looney
2024-03-09 18:06:43 +0000 UTCThanks for your reaction - a very enjoyable watchalong for "True Grit" (2010)! I'm glad you recognized Domhnall Gleeson. The first time I watched "TG", I did not recognize Domhnall but saw his name in the credits and had to think for a moment. He surprises me with the scope of his work. He's worked in another Western of sorts, "The Revenant" (2015). I first learned Domhnall's name was when I watched "Ex Machina" (2014), which is one of (at least) two films where he worked with Oscar Isaac. In "TG", I also see the ever-reliable Dakin Matthews as Col. Stonehill, the businessman/horse trader who was left flustered by Mattie Ross. I've seen him most recently in the HBO series, "The Gilded Age", but first noted his work as one of the shifty nightclub owners in 1989's "The Fabulous Baker Boys", starring Jeff and Beau Bridges, with an Oscar nomination going to a young Michelle Pfeiffer.
ButtercupsTrueLove
2024-03-09 03:12:08 +0000 UTC
