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True Grit: It's quite gritty!

MrMonroeMrMonroe passed outon the floor nowRegistered User regular
edited January 2011 in Social Entropy++
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Guess who put off studying for two hours and just got back from an advance screening of the new Coen Brothers' film, True Grit?

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this guy

First 45 seconds spoiler:

This is a sort of "stranger comes to town" story, only the stranger has already left town after having killed the protagonist's father over a matter of two California gold pieces. While yet only fourteen, she decides she's going to hunt the fucker down and kill him, be it the dead of winter or no. That's her in the poster up top.

This movie features:
  • Beautiful scenery
  • Funny accents
  • Top-of-the-line Coen Brothers writing and directing
  • Unrepentant violence and theivin'
  • Seriously, it's gritty stuff
  • Like thirty-five solid minutes of Jeff Bridges drunkenly verbally abusing Matt Damon and another thirty-five of Hailee Steinfeld, in her film debut role, doing the exact same to anyone fucking else who has the displeasure of being the object of her ire

I recommend you go see it. (when it comes out on December 22nd of this the year of our lord 2010) It's funnier than The Hudsucker Proxy, (you know, for kids!) less irreverent than O! Brother, Where Art Thou?, not quite as cerebral as Barton Fink, and you can actually look at Jeff Bridges and not just think of the Dude. I'd say A- territory.

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  • Sweeney TomSweeney Tom try The Substance it changed my lifeRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    MrMonroe wrote: »
    • Like thirty-five solid minutes of Jeff Bridges drunkenly verbally abusing Matt Damon and another thirty-five of Hailee Steinfeld, in her film debut role, doing the exact same to anyone fucking else who has the displeasure of being the object of her ire

    sold

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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I am going to watch the fuck out of this.

    It is a fact.

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Oh mah gaaaaaaawd

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  • KochikensKochikens Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    As much as I don't like Jeff Bridges I need to see this movie and I need to see it hard

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  • SquallSquall hap cloud Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    so when is it out, OP

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  • DelzhandDelzhand Registered User, Transition Team regular
    edited December 2010
    gotta see this movie

    here, let me save lazy folks the terrible trouble of typing True Grit trailer into youtube

    no, no, don't thank me

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUiCu-zuAgM

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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Kochikens wrote: »
    As much as I don't like Jeff Bridges I need to see this movie and I need to see it hard

    :[

    :[

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  • MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Squall wrote: »
    so when is it out, OP

    good point

    the rest of you will have to wait for the 22nd of this month

    I'll add it to the OP

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  • Sweeney TomSweeney Tom try The Substance it changed my lifeRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Smart Hero wrote: »
    Kochikens wrote: »
    As much as I don't like Jeff Bridges I need to see this movie and I need to see it hard

    :[

    :[

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  • MugginsMuggins Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Kochikens wrote: »
    As much as I don't like Jeff Bridges I need to see this movie and I need to see it hard

    Oh I see it is Bizarro day today

    Goodbye Bizarro Kochikens

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  • KochikensKochikens Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    stop making those faces at me gosh I have my reasons ok
    He is an amazing actor!!
    GET OFF MY NUTS
    I AM SEEING THE MOVIE. O<

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  • DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    as punishment

    Kochi will forever remind me of Jeff Bridges

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  • GeoMitchGeoMitch Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    gotta see this

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  • SquallSquall hap cloud Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Smart Hero wrote: »
    Kochikens wrote: »
    As much as I don't like Jeff Bridges I need to see this movie and I need to see it hard

    :[

    :[

    i always think this is supposed to emote a stroke

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  • msuitepyonmsuitepyon Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I'm going to be seeing this.

    I'm wondering how well Jeff Bridges will fill The Duke's role.

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  • KakodaimonosKakodaimonos Code fondler Helping the 1% get richerRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    So, was it better than the 1969 version?

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Cannot waaaaaiiiiiit.

    Going to revitalize the tradition of seeing the Coen Bros. movie over Christmas break with my friend from high school that started with No Country and ended... with No Country.

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  • KeldonusKeldonus Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I'm in.


    The Coens know how to make a goddamn movie. No Country was a killer western. They want to make some more? Please.




    Also, A Serious Man 2: A Very Serious Channukah.

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  • MugginsMuggins Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    what's a GD movie

    is it like a good movie

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  • KeldonusKeldonus Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    changed that. works better spoken aloud.

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  • ArtreusArtreus I'm a wizard And that looks fucked upRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Pretty excited for this

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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Kakodaimonos wrote: »
    So, was it better than the 1969 version?

    From what I understand, this one stick closer to the book's grim humor.

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2010
    I came in here to say how much I want to see this but now I have to ask...How the fuck can you not like Jeff Bridges? Beau Bridges and his giant fat face I could understand. But Jeff? This doesn't compute.

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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Squall wrote: »
    Smart Hero wrote: »
    Kochikens wrote: »
    As much as I don't like Jeff Bridges I need to see this movie and I need to see it hard

    :[

    :[

    i always think this is supposed to emote a stroke

    it might as well be

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  • AneurhythmiaAneurhythmia Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Kakodaimonos wrote: »
    So, was it better than the 1969 version?

    Am I weird for thinking this is a weird way to refer to the original?

    It makes some interior fold of my brain itch.

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  • MagnumCTMagnumCT Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    The first movie I ever took my future wife to see was "Open Range." The fact that we got married anyway means my luck is up, so I'm definitely seeing this one on my own.

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  • KakodaimonosKakodaimonos Code fondler Helping the 1% get richerRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Aneurhythmia wrote: »
    Kakodaimonos wrote: »
    So, was it better than the 1969 version of the 1968 serial?

    Am I weird for thinking this is a weird way to refer to the original?

    It makes some interior fold of my brain itch.

    How's that?

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  • StaleStale Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Kakodaimonos wrote: »
    So, was it better than the 1969 version?


    That's a tall order.

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  • CrashmoCrashmo Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Kochikenz what are you even say-typing with your face-hands?

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Film of the year right here.

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  • JarsJars Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I thought this was a thread dedicated to white nfl players

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Jars wrote: »
    I thought this was a thread dedicated to white nfl players

    There aren't any left

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  • SupraluminalSupraluminal Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    This movie comes out on my birthday! I'm gonna go see it with friends, probably after eating some super-delicious thai food. Pretty excited.

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  • MagnumCTMagnumCT Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Oh man, Birthday/Christmas. How much has that cut into your haul over the years?

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    From the preview, it sounds like the guy playing the lead antagonist is going to try desperately hard to be robert duvall, which will be good if he succeeds.

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    MagnumCT wrote: »
    The first movie I ever took my future wife to see was "Open Range." The fact that we got married anyway means my luck is up, so I'm definitely seeing this one on my own.

    But Open Range was a good movie, especially for a modern western. In fact, I would say it was the best western since Unforgiven, at the time.

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  • MagnumCTMagnumCT Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I agree, and I loved it. My wife is girly though, and this was a Kevin Costner joint. So not only was it not for her, it was long.

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Kochikens wrote: »
    As much as I don't like Jeff Bridges

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsogswrH6ck

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Oh, ok, that makes much more sense.

    Man, I really want to watch Open Range now. It has one of the best ending action scenes I have ever watched.

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  • MagnumCTMagnumCT Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Perhaps he's thinking of Jeff Daniels. I don't like him in serious roles. Just Dumb ones.

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