True Grit - Great Movie for the Season

Vanity | Dec 23rd, 2010 | Self

[tuffydoodle]

Chen Lee. And the cat was General Sterling Price.

[Scythian]

Thanks for the review, sounds great, I'm a big western fan, Eastwood was my guy though, Bridges was great in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (though this wasn't a western).

[Richard Kimball]

Chin Lee and the cat was General Sterling Moss.

[Inyo-Mono]

Chin Lee

[tuffydoodle]

General Sterling Price.

[Inyo-Mono]

Thank you for your service to our country! I know you probably didn’t hear it then.

Now you and I are almost the same age as Wayne was when he played Rooster Cogburn.

[redshawk]

My Mistake. Your are correct. Hell, I could be a senator with all the mis-speak....hahaha..

...but, but...I was close...right?

McCaskill goes down in 2012.

[redshawk]

That is one of the classic lines.

[raygun]

Nobody will call you Marneener to your face. There will be whispers hehind your back though.

Question is: are they talking about your Marneener-ness, or are you just sensitive to the fact you may actually be a 'marneener'

LOL.

Neener. Neener. Neener! How do we know?

I believe you're in the closet 'bout being a 'Neener.

LOOK: I'm just trying to help.

Just so I'm clear on the issue, just what are 'Neeners?

[tuffydoodle]

My kids hate watching that movie with me, since I quote all the dialog along with the characters. Drives ‘em nuts.

[redshawk]

You got that one down too. Seems that you are a TrueGrit fan.

[Inyo-Mono]

“Your partner done kilt cha’ and I done for him.”

[tuffydoodle]

“Send my traps to my brother, George Garrett. He’s a methodist circuit rider down in Austin, Texas.”

[tuffydoodle]

I can barely add and subtract but by golly, I know my True Grit quotes!

[mylife]

I am buying a couple of tickets to see it.

[FrogMom]

In many ways, better than Connery.

NOOOOoooooo! He'll always be Bond to me!

[Inyo-Mono]

That scene (shootout at the dugout) was filmed about 20 miles from my house at Hot Creek, near Mammoth Lakes in the Eastern Sierra of California

[Scoutmaster]

How bad was Glen Campbell's performance in the original film version of True Grit?

Well, my brothers and I saw True Grit in a theatre when it was released in 1969.

Earlier this year, we were together in the home of a relative after a funeral. In the shallow post-funeral conversation, a few of the women were discussing a movie they had recently seen. As the conversation drifted, the words "bad actor" were uttered.

Spontaneously, 41 years after the fact, my two brothers and I simultaneously said "I ain't dead yet, you bushwhacker" in our best/worst Glen Campbell impersonation.

Glen Campbell. True Grit. Acting so bad it stayed with the three of us that long.

*shiver*

[tuffydoodle]

You’ll love this, it’s True Grit scenery and places, then and now. It’s absolutely fabulous video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EUP9rOLf30

[TruBluKentuckian]

Just got back from watching it... it's very good... but...

I wasn't all THAT impressed with Jeff Bridges' performance, mainly because he sounds just like Karl from Slingblade. That just put me off from the beginning. I also saw a couple of sloppy edits, one in the back of Chen Lees' store early where Rooster is wandering around looking for a match (you hear him talking but his lips are not moving at all) and then at a campfire you can see Mattie talking but nothing's being said.

Also did not like Bridges' delivery of the "fill your hand" line, it just lacked something.

I'm nitpicking though, as I said, it's very good.