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I won't review it...just see the movie. Well worth it.

I agree it was better than the original IMHO.

That young lady was "truly gritty"

I wanted to see it but it was between "True Grit" and "The Fighter". Chose "The Fighter". I don't regret that decision but I still want to see "True Grit". I've heard it is great.

See "The Fighter" too BTW. Incredible story and acting.

Like John Wayne in the original movie, Jeff Bridges WILL win an Oscar over this performance of Rooster Cogburn.

Two different epochs in Hollywood. Two GREAT movies. I loved the first and love the second too.

Interesting that the second is a bit more raw, fitting modern times, and also closer to the original script of the novel by Charles Portis.

Interesting year for Jeff Bridges with two good but radically different movies: TRON and True Grit. What a great actor he has become. His best movie EVER, though, was TUCKER.

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Redskin in Canada wrote:Like John Wayne in the original movie, Jeff Bridges WILL win an Oscar over this performance of Rooster Cogburn.

Two different epochs in Hollywood. Two GREAT movies. I loved the first and love the second too.

Interesting that the second is a bit more raw, fitting modern times, and also closer to the original script of the novel by Charles Portis.

Interesting year for Jeff Bridges with two good but radically different movies: TRON and True Grit. What a great actor he has become. His best movie EVER, though, was TUCKER.

I enjoyed him in Iron Man as well, but I'll always remember him for Star Man!

Yea True Grit was awesome. Well acted all around.

That girl should definitely take home an oscar. Bridges should too but he might not since he won last year. Not to say that would bias anyone but it could.

VetSkinsFan wrote:

Redskin in Canada wrote:Like John Wayne in the original movie, Jeff Bridges WILL win an Oscar over this performance of Rooster Cogburn.

Two different epochs in Hollywood. Two GREAT movies. I loved the first and love the second too.

Interesting that the second is a bit more raw, fitting modern times, and also closer to the original script of the novel by Charles Portis.

Interesting year for Jeff Bridges with two good but radically different movies: TRON and True Grit. What a great actor he has become. His best movie EVER, though, was TUCKER.

I enjoyed him in Iron Man as well, but I'll always remember him for Star Man!

Come on Vet....you know you liked him best as that Lover Boy in "Against All Odds"

Sing it Phil Collins....

Remake of True Grit? Why?

Presumably, so that we could actually have a version on record which features an actor in the lead role?

That's right folks - I never thought John Wayne could act. Or maybe I just didn't like his acting, which is slightly different.

Either way, I'll be interested to see the new one.

True Grit was awesome. Saw it twice, and I HATE overpaying at the movies.

Hooligan wrote:True Grit was awesome. Saw it twice, and I HATE overpaying at the movies.

A tip: in Myrtle Beach, SC, you can see any movie before noon for only $4.50. That's how I saw the Coen Brothers True Grit twice.

I've also watched most of the Henry Hathawy / John Wayne True Grit, and read the book.

Curiously, the old True Grit is closer to the book in plot, and uses much of the book's language. The Coen Brothers change the plot but in ways that feel more in the spirit of the book.

Hathaway directed his first movie in about 1932, and it was a western. John Wayne had starred in A-movie westerns since about 1939, so what you have is the ultimate Hollywood western, sweeping music and all.

The Coen Brothers give us a movie that feels like the book, which, incidentally, is narrated by Mattie in about 1928 describing a hunt in about 1875 and a wild west show in about 1900. Nifty book.

The original is on right now on AMC. It's on tomorrow afternoon also apparently.