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The Best Movie of the Year
12/27/10 | Cinnamon Girl

Posted on 12/27/2010 11:55:37 AM PST by Cinnamon Girl

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To: Spok
"The new Mattie Ross looks like the picture on the cover of the novel."



Hailee Steinfeld --- pretty, but she is a nice Jewish girl, so I am partial.
41 posted on 12/27/2010 1:04:31 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Beware Obama's Reichstag Fire.)
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To: Cinnamon Girl

Better than Unforgiven or The Outlaw JOSEY WALES??

Surely you jest. I am not going to hand my hard-earned dough to liberal actors like Damon who hate my conservative guts.


42 posted on 12/27/2010 1:05:37 PM PST by max americana
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To: Mr. Jeeves
I don't think Damon improves on Glen Campbell at all

That may be the most cruel thing anyone's ever said about Matt Damon.

43 posted on 12/27/2010 1:05:40 PM PST by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred.)
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To: traderrob6
Let’s not forget Struther Martin, Robert Duvall and Dennis Hopper who all were terrific. The cinematography was superb and period vernacular was extremely entertaining.

Don't forget the outstanding musical score of the original True Grit. Really captured the visual elements of the film.

44 posted on 12/27/2010 1:08:40 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

“I got a fence post that can act better than Glen Campbell”

I gotta agree with ya there...but the Loss of General Sterling Price just may have me contacting my lawyer Dagget.

Still - I plan on giving it a look


45 posted on 12/27/2010 1:12:09 PM PST by DJlaysitup
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To: bushpilot1

Boy if you base all of your life soley on what the actor,actresss,the barber, theclerk the bank teller,teacher and such politics are that must get really tiring.

This is a great film on par with the best movie ever made ,Shane.

Geez the era of 1968-1978 is the best era of film making and all and I mean all of that era is dominated by leftists actors,directors all of them and I could care less.


46 posted on 12/27/2010 1:13:19 PM PST by lakewood man
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To: Cinnamon Girl

Haven’t seen the film but are you referring to a scene in the book where Rooster cuts the horse with a knife and rubs salt in the wound to make it run faster - so that Mattie will not die of the rattlesnake bite? Painful scene in the book; I know John Wayne does ride “Little Blackie” at the end of the movie but don’t remember if the horse dies.

It’s not “disloyalty” to John Wayne, really. It’s more the assumption that John Wayne only “played himself,” etc, and all that bunk.

Glad you liked it; I’ll give it a try.


47 posted on 12/27/2010 1:24:20 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: lakewood man

***Geez the era of 1968-1978 is the best era of film making and all and I mean all of that era is dominated by leftists actors,directors all of them and I could care less.***

Even Traitor Jane Fonda’s movies were being shown at military bases at that time!


48 posted on 12/27/2010 1:25:37 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (I visited GEN TOMMY FRANKS Military Museum in HOBART, OKLAHOMA! Well worth it!)
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To: max americana

“Better than Unforgiven or The Outlaw JOSEY WALES??”

Hard to believe, but I would opine “yes” -— and those are two of my favorite movies.

Best use of a Sharp’s Rifle in years.


49 posted on 12/27/2010 1:27:38 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Beware Obama's Reichstag Fire.)
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To: Cinnamon Girl

A fence post would emote more than Kim Darby did.


50 posted on 12/27/2010 1:27:57 PM PST by GSWarrior
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To: DJlaysitup

“Lawyer Dagget - she pulls him like a gun.”


51 posted on 12/27/2010 1:28:04 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: MeanWestTexan

“Once Upon a Time in the West”...The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”??


52 posted on 12/27/2010 1:29:05 PM PST by traderrob6
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To: Ozarkie

True Grit is terrific!

I think that the poster that stated it’s more of an homage to the original said it best. It’s not really a remake; it’s too similar to the original to say they’ve re-made anything.


53 posted on 12/27/2010 1:30:01 PM PST by Fletcher J
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To: MeanWestTexan

Ill give it a shot once it’s in DL form but Damon makes me want to puke for such an untalented hack.


54 posted on 12/27/2010 1:32:47 PM PST by max americana
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To: Cinnamon Girl

Going to the 7:15 showing tonight.


55 posted on 12/27/2010 1:34:28 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Gen. Burkhalter
And now for the worst movie of the year: Black Swan

Oh, come on. How bad can "Tchaikovsky meets Freddie Krueger meets Vince McMahon" be???

Seriously, I thought "The King's Speech" was good, mainly because of Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush's Oscar-worthy performances. Otherwise, less than great. "The Town" was also good, but I'd have to give Mark Wahlberg the Boston-based movie nod with "The Fighter". A shame that Christian Bale is going to have to deal with the Firth/Rush buzzsaw. Any other year and he'd be picking up a gold statue for his performance.

I must be the only person that thought "The Social Network" was a overblown geek-fest with a main character who would give O-Bambi a run for his money in the "Biggest Narcissist" category. Add to it the script by drug-addled Sorkin and it's a candidate for this year's "Avatar".

"True Grit" is on next week's agenda. With all these weekend holidays this year, it screws up the movie weekends a bit...

56 posted on 12/27/2010 1:35:56 PM PST by ssaftler
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To: MeanWestTexan
pretty, but she is a nice Jewish girl, so I am partial.

She's also 14 years old. Prolly best to keep your partiality under control.

57 posted on 12/27/2010 1:42:37 PM PST by r9etb
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To: Cinnamon Girl

Very well written review. I’m going to have to see this movie now.


58 posted on 12/27/2010 1:43:06 PM PST by behzinlea
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To: GSWarrior
Kim Darby also starred in a little known film called the Strawberry Statement. That movie had the unfortunate timing of reality biting Hollywood...those of Kent and Jackson State....
59 posted on 12/27/2010 1:45:34 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: r9etb; a fool in paradise
She's also 14 years old.

Paging Mr Jerry Lee Lewis. Please pick up a white courtesy phone.

60 posted on 12/27/2010 1:46:33 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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