Well Steinfeld did it even better the second time around.


I think the remake is leaps and bounds better than the original. John Wayne is John Wayne, and he played a few good parts in his day but I think Jeff Bridges plays a much better Rooster Cogburn. No comparison between Glenn Campbell and Matt Damon.

These things are always a matter of opinion and taste, but I've always been a huge John Wayne fan so my pick is the original. I will agree on the Matt Damon/Glenn Campbell thing. As much as I always loved Glenn Campbell's music, he was just awful in True Grit. They should have stuck with him singing the theme song and been done with it.
I did see the new one when it came out and overall it was a good movie. My big gripe with Jeff Bridges is that I couldn't understand a good bit of what he was saying. For my taste, I'll stick with the original.

One of the great movies of all time, both versions.

Jeff Bridges was incredible. And the girl (actually the screenwriter for her part) was an inspiration to what the English language (and home schooling now) can be...

And Barry Pepper (aka Ned Pepper) made an admirable, likeable bad guy. Josh Brolin - meh.

'Huge fan of the remake.

Barry Pepper will forever ( to me ) be the sniper in "Saving Private Ryan"


I can't watch him in anything else hardly, and he's been in a few decent films

That was his pinnacle. Quoting Scripture while working the bolt...incredible.

Haha,this is like who was better in Van Halen...Sammy or DLR?!

Two different bands with the same name.

David lee’s Van Halen was surface level glam rock.

Hagar’s band was more intellectual, intelligent and refined.


As an aside, did you know that David lee Roth was an EMT for many years after Van Halen? Imagine getting into a car wreck and diamond dave shows up to stabilize you and whisk you off to the ER.

I do have respect for him for that

Dave was great but I was already a big fan of Sammy before he joined the band.He was already a pretty big star in his own right. So it was like a dream come true for me when I heard he was joining VH.

I hope his EMT pants didn't fit the same as his pants when I saw them in 81.

I've been to the old Maddie Ross house on Last Dollar Road in Colorado, very pretty place.

Rooster Cogburn is on INSP tonight. Think I will watch it again.

Wow again.

I watched the remake last night and it is really good

I enjoy the original. I have just learned there is a remake. Blashempy!

Count me in the camp that thinks the remake is better than the original as well.

Yep. The book is better than either movie version and both versions are very good. I probably prefer the newer one.

"If ever I meet one of you Texas waddies who ain't drunk water from a hoofprint, I think I'll... I'll shake their hand or buy 'em a Daniel Webster cigar"

The newer True Grit was not intended as a remake. The Coen Brothers wanted to make a new movie that more closely followed the book by Charles Portis.

The older one is a John Wayne western which happens to use the general storyline from the book.

Personally, I like the old John Wayne movie the best.

I liked both movies (with the exception of Glen Campbell). If I had to choose one over the other I would choose the second one. Primarily because of Glen Campbell.

Glen Campbell played the "texican" right? What was so bad about him?

To me his character was suppose to be an outsider to the territory he was in and fit fine. If its because of his acting lord we better watch out or all the older movies are junk.

Put me down as favoring the old version. I don't much like Jeff Bridges in the remake, seems very fake and cant understand him.

If you can watch that movie and not cringe at Glen Campbell’s feeble attempts at acting then you are a better man than me. His performance comes off exactly like a 12 year old in their first ever school play.

He was one of the best musicians in the business. He was not an actor.

To me his character fits the part of what he plays in the movie. Sure they girls is annoying as all get out too, but she is suppose to be. To me campbell is suppose to play an idiot from texas which he seems to pull of fine.