Posted on 12/28/2020 7:40:50 AM PST by Kaslin
I hated the 2010 version of True Grit. Nothing can compare to the John Wayne version.
In other words -- the movie is total crapola.
Really? I thought the 2010 version was a vast improvement, and very true to the book as well.
Tom Hanks and his obsession with young girls is beginning to creep me out...
Hanks do this before or after he ran away to Greece?
I think casting Glen Campbell, who had never acted a day in his life, in such a major role, really brought down the original. He was awful.
I’m not a real expert on US 19th century history, but I think if you’re looking for examples of prejudice in that time frame, you could look at the Jim Crow south, controlled by Democrats, or else the industrial Northeast and it’s uncomfortable dealing with immigrants, Catholics and Jews.
The West, as I understand it, was a place for immigrants, blacks, and army veterans (North and South) could go and live as they wished. A hard life, but one in which people mostly looked out for each other.
Now, the relationship with Native Americans is a whole other story. But, in general, I mistrust any movie which shows the West as a great example of how prejudiced this country has always been. Just PC garbage.
I liked the 2010 version too.
I was in love with Kim Darby!.....................
Yes 2020 political correctness in 1870 destroyed this movie! And news flash to the producer /director and cinematographer, there are NO MOUNTAINS between Wichita Falls and Dallas!! And the Hill Country is not that close to Dallas!! More like Fake News of the World !!
Piss on Tom Hanks. Don’t give the enemy money.
I liked the dialogue in the new version. As far as comparing it to the great John Wayne version its almost like two separate and distinctly different movies IMO.
I usually enjoy most everything the Cohen brothers have done, I find their dark humor hilarious. However I’m beginning to have an aversion to hanks.
For some who may not know, this is a sampling of Cohen brothers movies:
Raising Arizona (1987)
Miller’s Crossing (1990)
Fargo (1996)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
No Country for Old Men (2007), Burn After Reading (2008)
A Serious Man (2009)
True Grit (2010)
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018).
I thought it gave his role authenticity.................
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So awful that John Wayne’s performance looked Oscar-worthy.
So there’s that.
Its hollyweird bro....of course its gonna contain liberal messages. Won’t be seeing it either. Lol
It’s showing here in a $5 Pizza theater.................
Who cares? It's a movie western. Monument Valley, Utah is not in Texas either; but in John Ford's westerns it sure is.
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