True Grit (2010)

Stefen · December 28, 2010, 05:47:01 PM

This was alright. It was pretty funny, which I wasn't prepared for and was kind of disappointed with. I wanted a badass western, but didn't get it. It was pretty badass, but the silliness of it made it less bad ass at times. Not really a big fan of the Coens, but I enjoyed this one.

Something that always bugs me about watching a Coens movie in the theater is how most of the time the audience can't tell when they're being funny and when they're being serious. They laugh at all the wrong parts. Some very serious parts in this one, the audience was just bawling with laughter. Audiences are idiots.

Reel · December 28, 2010, 07:42:41 PM

Quote from: Stefen on December 28, 2010, 05:47:01 PM
Some very serious parts in this one, the audience was just bawling with laughter. Audiences are idiots.

This is my biggest gripe against going to the theater for this kind of stuff, bunch of old fogies filling up the place "HA HA HA, I'm having a great time."

RegularKarate · December 29, 2010, 10:58:10 AM

Weird. I normally agree with Stefen about that sort of thing, but I went to see True Grit in Oklahoma... where people don't get ANYTHING and everyone laughed exactly where they were supposed to laugh. They even stopped talking once the trailers were over and the movie started.

CHRISTMAS MIRACLE

Champion Souza · December 29, 2010, 01:31:26 PM

The only thing I didn't really like about this was the score. It was really overdone. Every time the music would swell I was pulled out of the picture.

I Love a Magician · December 30, 2010, 02:53:46 AM

i grew up with all of the hymns the score uses/is based on so i really liked the music. gave it a strange edge that i can't explain too well. i've never been religious (even though i went to church for years when i was younger) but they are beautiful songs. sort of connected me to the characters because if they were asked whether or not they were christians they would've all agreed while at the same time be pursuing some heinous shit, like a lot of people i knew growing up (not on the same level of Heinous Shit obviously).

pete · January 02, 2011, 02:07:19 AM

I liked in the credit there was a joke that said "mr. damon's abs double: Buster Coen." that was one of the coens' 15 year old son.

liked it. loved the dialogue in the beginning but then sometime past the midway point the chattiness became exhausting.

Champion Souza · January 21, 2011, 09:31:47 PM

The Coens on the Creative Screenwriting podcast here.

picolas · January 23, 2011, 11:00:53 AM

my god that's an awkward interviewer. probably the most awkward part is where he asks about the Mike Yanagita Fargo scene and is like "now don't get me wrong, i loved the scene, but why is it in the movie? because it doesn't seem to contribute to the structure of the story at all.." coens: "uhhhh..." interviewer: "i mean, thematically, it makes marge go in for the second interview, but can you remember anything else about why you wrote that scene?" WHAT

I Love a Magician · January 26, 2011, 08:15:37 PM

don't think it's as bad as you're making it out to be. i've read plenty about that scene maybe not being crucial, so i'm sure the coens have as well. also kep in mind that they're never all that forthcoming with their answers so most interviews seem awkward.

SiliasRuby · February 25, 2011, 09:14:29 AM

Did a double feature of this and 'The Fighter' today.

Really awesome and much more fun that I thought it was going to be... Officially my second fav. Jeff Bridges performance. I was surprised that this was more in an Anthony Mann vein than the previous westerns I'd seen lately.

Alexandro · February 25, 2011, 11:32:29 AM

yeah, it's pretty great. I was surprised at how funny it is. Bridges is awesome. Everything is awesome here.
glad is being a hit too.