True Grit

Maddie Ross is a insufferable character.

If I was that horse trader I would have shot the horse in front of her.



She makes the movie almost impossible to watch

Not sure the movie is as good as it is if she’s not insufferable....but Strother Martin was greatness as Stonehill.

The original, of course....never cruised through the re-make.

I call that bold talk for a one eyed fat man.

Fill your hands you son of a B*+~%

I think the remake is better than the original.

I aim to kill you in one minute, Ned. Or see you hanged in Fort Smith at Judge Parker's convenience. What'll it be?

Read the book twice. Loved both movies.

He made a lot of characters memorable. Through his supporting roles he also made a lot of mediocre stars famous.

Strother Martin, was a champion swimmer.....
He even help train Olympic swimmers.... (If I'm remembering his bio.)
I read years ago...….One of the best supporting actors, of all time...….
I loved him in "The Wild Bunch"...…
"Come on T. C. help me get his boots".....
Him, and L.Q. Jones, were life long friends...….

Never been a big John Wayne fan. Don't dislike him though.

I guess being From Kentucky is why you think that way.

Baby sister, I was born game and I intend to go out that way.

Damn you, Bo. First time you ever give me reason to... cuss you.

Mattie Ross: Do you know a Marshal Rooster Cogburn?
Col. G. Stonehill: Most people around here have heard of Rooster Cogburn and some people live to regret it. I would not be surprised to learn that he's a relative of yours.

Col. G. Stonehill: I will pay a total of two hundred dollars to your father's estate when I have in my hand a letter absolving me of all liability from the beginning of the world to date!

LaBoeuf: You're lucky to be where water's so handy. I've seen the time I've drank out of a filthy hoofprint - and was glad to get it.
Rooster Cogburn: 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.

Who said I was from Kentucky?

Lmao

One of his, and best lines ever, from “Cool Hand Luke”...

“What we’ve got here...is a failure to communicate.”

The old one is better.

I like Maddie, she's sharp.

You did..

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Hannie Caulder was my favorite movie he was in.



But that's only because he was in it. Still would have been great even if they casted Mickey Mouse

I'm a big Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon fan so I kinda prefer the remake myself. BTW the reason Maddie told Frank James "keep your seat trash" at the end of the remake was because James was a traitor/double spy during the Civil War.

Love the wild bunch...one of my favorite all time movies.

Im more for the guns n roses version

Me too.

Love that movie!

Her character was supposed to be obnoxious and irritating and she pulled it off with ease (Kim Darby in the original/real one).

John Wayne won the only Oscar of his career for True Grit. They say the only reason he won it was he was dying of cancer at the time. Won it for that and not the Shootist? SMDH

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.

Let’s be honest with ourselves for a bit. We all like John Wayne for who he was. His acting and movies in general were not that great.

James Stewart is another good example. Good guy but his characters were almost cartoonish

John Wayne was such a strong presence/personality that he really didn’t have to act - especially as long as it was a western. Which is the reason 90% of his movies were westerns. That said, he had become a pretty dang good actor by the 70s. He did a great job in The Shootist (IMO his best performance).

Jimmy Stewart was a good actor. Yes some of his roles were over-the-top, but he was a fine actor. “Rear Window”, “Mr. Smith Goes To Washington”, and several others are excellent performances. IMHO.

This sums Glen Campbell up very nicely.

It was widely acknowledged by all involved with the film that he was hired solely to cash in on his musical popularity at the time and that his acting was terrible. The director called it “wooden, at best”. Glen himself said this about his performance: “I had never acted before, and after “True Grit” I think my record’s still clean.”

I read the book twice. The first movie followed the book the best.

It's a really short book. Click here and you can upload it to your Kindle


https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MXBL7Y8/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Absolutely correct, one of the best

Hate to nitpick but the line is actually "failure to communicate",, not "A failure to communicate". For years I also thought it was A failure to communicate.

To be fair, Ricky Nelson wasn’t any better than Glen Campbell.

Looking at the list of singers who turned actor(and the list is long) the only ones who impressed me are Sinatra and Streisand. Honorable mention to Mark Wahlberg.

Kris Kristofferson did a pretty fine job....Jes sayin....

Kris Kristofferson is a much, much better actor than a singer.


I know he is a talented songwriter but his singing is atrocious.


Honorable mention to Dwight Yoakam In the actor/singer category. He was great in sling blade although I don’t know how much of that was actual acting. I think he is one of the greatest singers of our generation

Dwight Yoakum is one of my favorite singers, and he was thoroughly entertaining as Doyle.

Neither film production used the correct scenery. Oklahoma doesn't have snow-capped peaks. I'm surprised the John Wayne version wasn't filmed in Monument Valley.

Watch him in Crank.


You would never, ever believe he is a country singer let alone a very talented one

Lol yes that always bothered me also. Starting out, they go from Arkansas to the Rocky Mountains in one day’s ride (even though they call it Oklahoma).

Yes, Dwight is a great actor! I really liked him in the Newton Boys.