True Grit

[fusnik]

Its fantastic, the best show of the year, IMO. It is a movie that takes you through the entire range of human emotion.

Few things:

The acting was top notch from top to bottom and it was cast perfectly.

Extremely humorous and I laughed out loud multiple times. The writing was superb.

All the old people that I went with preferred it to the first.

[oxcoug]

To be honest though, it's just not really an R-rated story, especially if they're trying to do a faithful adaptation of the novel. I'd actually be a little worried if they'd felt they needed to add content just to score an R rating.


Not a fan?

Same. The fetish for the R rating is kind of amusing. What's the problem? Not seeing blood geysering out of a severed artery somehow undercuts the integrity of the story?

No need for an R rating to do this story right. And, BTW, they did it right. It's a masterpiece.

[UtahDan]

I thought it was a fantastic movie. Bridges played it just right IMO. He was not John Wayne, but he was a world weary, bleary eyed relic of the Civil War and he did it very well.

I really found very little wrong with the film. Two big thumbs up from me.

My biggest complaint was with the audience. It seems like a very high percentage of people younger than 30 treat movie theaters like their own frontrooms, speaking loudly, having side conversations etc. I used to think they were just rude, but I have come to think that they are just not raised to think of moives as any experience different than watching a film at home on the big screen.

I am also always a little dispapointed in how yougner crowds react to violence. For example, last night when Cogburn

Spoiler for spoiler:

shoots the guy in the face most of the youngish crowd we were seeing it with laughed out loud. I dont think that was supposed to be funny and the close up on bridges' vacant, weary, hollow looking gaze, with the little drops of spattered blood on his cheek was not intended to be amusing, but still they chortled. Sad.

We have recently had a theater open near where Surfah lives that has VIP seating. Basically it is a balcony where you pay for a $15 ticket but it is over 21 only (because they have a nice, full bar up there), you buy a particular seat in advance and the seats are all huge love seats. It seems like a lot for a ticket, but it solves all my complaints about movies. There are no idiots talking up there (you can't even see the masses below), it is totally comfortable with plenty of leg room, and even on opening weekend in a packed theater you can show up 5 minutes late and the usher takes you right to your seat. If you have something like this near you I can't say enough how worth the extra money it is.

[Viking]

I thought it was a fantastic movie. Bridges played it just right IMO. He was not John Wayne, but he was a world weary, bleary eyed relic of the Civil War and he did it very well.

I really found very little wrong with the film. Two big thumbs up from me.

My biggest complaint was with the audience. It seems like a very high percentage of people younger than 30 treat movie theaters like their own frontrooms, speaking loudly, having side conversations etc. I used to think they were just rude, but I have come to think that they are just not raised to think of moives as any experience different than watching a film at home on the big screen.

I am also always a little dispapointed in how yougner crowds react to violence. For example, last night when Cogburn

Spoiler for spoiler:

shoots the guy in the face most of the youngish crowd we were seeing it with laughed out loud. I dont think that was supposed to be funny and the close up on bridges' vacant, weary, hollow looking gaze, with the little drops of spattered blood on his cheek was not intended to be amusing, but still they chortled. Sad.

I saw it last night here in the big city. A couple of Columbia students were yapping and the guy behind us said: "please shut the f--- up."

I love NY.

And the movie was...in a word...balanced.

Even throughout. I was stunned that a little more than two hours passed so quickly.

I enjoyed it thoroughly though I was having a hard time with the geography...if they were near arkansas, were those supposed to be the ozarks? Since I'm from that neck of the woods, generally, I found it less credible to see a geography that look a lot more like new mexico or southern colorado.

Follow up: I should have known Choctaw country was SE OK. I've been there as a scout through the Ouachita Mtns, which I'm presuming is what the film depicted.

[pellegrino]

We have recently had a theater open near where Surfah lives that has VIP seating. Basically it is a balcony where you pay for a $15 ticket but it is over 21 only (because they have a nice, full bar up there), you buy a particular seat in advance and the seats are all huge love seats. It seems like a lot for a ticket, but it solves all my complaints about movies. There are no idiots talking up there (you can't even see the masses below), it is totally comfortable with plenty of leg room, and even on opening weekend in a packed theater you can show up 5 minutes late and the usher takes you right to your seat. If you have something like this near you I can't say enough how worth the extra money it is.

what an aesthete!

[I.J. Reilly]

We have recently had a theater open near where Surfah lives that has VIP seating. Basically it is a balcony where you pay for a $15 ticket but it is over 21 only (because they have a nice, full bar up there), you buy a particular seat in advance and the seats are all huge love seats. It seems like a lot for a ticket, but it solves all my complaints about movies. There are no idiots talking up there (you can't even see the masses below), it is totally comfortable with plenty of leg room, and even on opening weekend in a packed theater you can show up 5 minutes late and the usher takes you right to your seat. If you have something like this near you I can't say enough how worth the extra money it is.

Some of the Larry H. Miller Theaters have assigned seats. It is basically the best thing in the world. No waiting in line, you know ahead of time if your seat is good or bad, you don't have to deal with one guy saving a row of 15 seats, etc.

While one is still forced to sit with the holi poli, it enhances the enjoyment of the pre-movie start time by a factor of 5.

[SoonerCoug]

I thought it was a fantastic movie. Bridges played it just right IMO. He was not John Wayne, but he was a world weary, bleary eyed relic of the Civil War and he did it very well.

I really found very little wrong with the film. Two big thumbs up from me.

My biggest complaint was with the audience. It seems like a very high percentage of people younger than 30 treat movie theaters like their own frontrooms, speaking loudly, having side conversations etc. I used to think they were just rude, but I have come to think that they are just not raised to think of moives as any experience different than watching a film at home on the big screen.

I am also always a little dispapointed in how yougner crowds react to violence. For example, last night when Cogburn

Creekster, we had the very same experience. People were laughing outloud throughout the movie at things that clearly weren't meant to be laughed at. And I can't stand people who talk during movies.

[RC Vikings]

I really found very little wrong with the film. Two big thumbs up from me.

I enjoyed the film. The only flaw I saw was after Maddy had crossed the river with her horse she was dry.

[UtahDan]

There would be rioting in NY if they did that. Showing up 40 minutes early to get a good seat is just part of life here. And it's part of the fun of going to the movies here.

Thry don't sell box seats to anything there?

[Green Lantern]

I'm so glad my wife and I managed to get out and see this on Christmas. Man, that might be the most flat-out entertaining movie I've seen all year. So much of the excellent dialogue was taken directly from the book that I had a smile on my face nearly the whole time and all of the performances were excellent.

A few favorite moments:

• Learning everything you need to know about LaBoeuf's self importance by the jangle of his spurs
• Mattie "negotiating" with Stonehill
• Barry Pepper looking almost completely unrecognizable as Lucky Ned.
• That dude in the bear skin

[RC Vikings]

Also Bridges did a great job as Cogburn and Damon and the girl were way better than Glen Campbell and Kim Darby.

[jay santos]

Considering taking a 15 year old to this movie. Bad parenting?

[falafel]

Considering taking a 15 year old to this movie. Bad parenting?

PG-13. Do you have a 13 year old you could drag along?

[SteelBlue]

If you have something like this near you I can't say enough how worth the extra money it is.

I've been clamoring for something like this for years. It won't happen here for a long time, but $15 is cheap for what you're describing.

[USUC]

Considering taking a 15 year old to this movie. Bad parenting?

Shouldn't be a problem. There were a couple of violent scenes but I don't think it would be edited if shown on network TV. Some of the dialogue might go over a 15 year old's head but I can't think of anything that would engender moral corruption.