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Sunday, December 26, 2010

Monter Movie Club: True Grit


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Posted by Chris Trash at 12:54 PM
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8 comments:

  1. werttrewDecember 26, 2010 at 11:28 PM

    I saw this today! I liked. It was kinda grim and talky, but very good. One of the ten best I've seen this year.

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  2. Frank Lloyd WrongDecember 28, 2010 at 9:23 PM

    This movie needs a snake warning. So um... snake warning.

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  3. mcjakeDecember 29, 2010 at 3:15 PM

    Maybe its just because I live in a small country town and have grown up around mumbling, drunken rednecks my entire life but this movie didn't do anything for me. True Grit just kind of dragged along and ended with a whimper. Now trust me I don't have to have action happening all of the time (I actually liked Sofia Coppola's Somewhere) but it didn't seem like the film had anything to say and had no reason to be remade.

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  4. mcjakeDecember 29, 2010 at 3:16 PM

    oh and I guess I should add a lot of it was shot about 20 minutes from where I live

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  5. OrangutanDecember 30, 2010 at 12:17 AM

    I liked it a lot! I love old Westerns, and Jeff Bridges is wonderful. Maybe I just have a special place in my heart for mumbling drunken rednecks?

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  6. dafsDecember 30, 2010 at 10:15 AM

    I DO NOT KNOW THIS MAN

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  7. DeleteMeDecember 31, 2010 at 4:47 PM

    I enjoyed this, but having read the book, everyone should read the book?

    It's told from the POV of Mattie as a scripture-quoting spinster looking back (the movie opens and closes with her narration, but reading the whole book in first-person is obviously a whole different deal) and it is as grim and scary as the movie but there is also such a PROFUSION of character-based unintentional humor that (to me) it comes across as much warmer and with a lot more heart.

    Charles Portis has written five books that are digressive, absurd, deadpan, sometimes violent and all either first person or practically first person accounts from narrators that are just smart enough to be too smart for their own good, and I would include all of them among the best books I’ve read (Dog of the South might be a personal favorite if you get done with your bookgum selection early). OK!

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  8. DeleteMeDecember 31, 2010 at 4:59 PM

    ALSO: a passage from the book (and in the original movie) when Mattie's at the boarding house was cut, and we are worse off for it (paraphrased):

    OLD MAN: Watch out for that chicken & dumplings. It'll hurt your eyes.
    LA BOEUF: How's that?
    OLD MAN: It'll hurt your eyes looking for the chicken!
    LA BOEUF: You squirrel-headed bastard!

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