I'm going to watch true grit tonight. I haven't seen

The original is shit and John Wayne is beyond overrated. The remake is decent. Watch that.

>>80853097
Reboot has great cinematography, acting and directing
Original is nowhere near as good

>>80853097
Reboot. Definetly.

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>>80853097
>John Wayne
>>YFW Jeff Bridges is a better actor then Wayne
>>>YFW Bridges has more military experience then that draft-dodger John Wayne
>>>>YFW Bridges is a perfect Rooster Cogburn

I'll be a dad soon and I want to name my kid Rooster Cogburn.
Do you think she's gonna like the name?

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>people shittalking the original

Jesus Christ

>>80853562
We just said the remake is better.

The original is decent, but honestly the Coen Bros knocked it out of the park with the remake. YOu can't beat it.

Basically, the original is a good John Wayne movie, but the remake is a better movie in general terms. If your gf likes John Wayne, then you're set. If not, then skip ahead to the remake.

I watched it last week. It's really good, bridges is incredibly watchable as an actor

>>80853136
This. I've seen the remake 3x now, which is a joy to sit through, and the original once, which is a strain to sit through.

"Why you ain' no bigger'n a corn nubbin."

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>Violence and sarcasm are overvalued in the Coen Brothers" reputation. Shallow evaluations of the Minnesota-born filmmaking team always, mistakenly, refer to Blood Simple, Fargo and Miller"s Crossing as career highpoints, as if to turn the Coens into elegantly acerbic hipsters, the Steely Dan of filmmakers. But their new film, a non-sarcastic remake of the 1969 Western True Grit, confirms the Coens" underappreciated seriousness and their ongoing winning streak. True Grit"s neo-folktale follows Mattie Ross, a 15-year-old girl out to avenge her father"s death by bringing his killer to justice or final judgment. It"s a sincere story on the personal costs of retribution; too good to be cheapened by those who want the Coens to ratify their own smart-ass cynicism. As ever, the Coens outwit cynicism. They are slyly humorous's pairing officious little Mattie (Hailie Steinfeld) with Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges), the booze-bag old bounty hunter she hires to help her manhunt's but they"re also concerned with moral consequences. More than simply a remake, this True Grit shows the Coens responding to the classical Western, a genre they updated in No Country For Old Men. In True Grit the Coens take on the myths by which Americans establish their customary principles. Mattie"s aggrieved innocence and determination thrusts her into a world of compromised virtue and desperation, interacting with Cogburn, Texas Ranger Labeouf (Matt Damon) and various wilderness miscreants encountered on the road.

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>>80853136

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>This American odyssey is textured with religious overtones from the hymn â??Lean on Jesus, introducing martyrdom in the dark opening image of a cabin lit only by a hearth fire that resembles a crucifix. Through adult Mattie"s memory-narration, the Coens mournfully reexamine Wild West archetypes. This includes Henry Hathaway"s original film along with John Ford"s essential contribution to the Western"s legacy. At certain points, the Coens and ace cinematographer Roger Deakins evoke iconography from Ford"s 1957 The Searchers, which has become the cynic"s model for the Western"s depiction of race, violence and Manifest Destiny. When Rooster looks into an abandoned mineshaft, his silhouette recalls The Searchers" final image of John Wayne"s Ethan Edwards, memorably framed as an unregenerate outsider whose transgressions exempt him from communion in the American home. The Coens" new image obliterates home, an unsentimental perspective, fully aware of the moral compromise Old Rooster, a white man who kicks little Indian children, represents. Later, that silhouetted viewpoint is repeated when Mattie commits an act of violence and falls into a pit, cast into a moral void: She lies trapped next to a human carcass with snakes slithering through its skeletal chest cavity

>Moments like this deepen the Coens" vision beyond elegant hipster sarcasm. They stir a graver response than the dread critics cherish in Fargo and No Country For Old Men. The old-timer"s wisdom Sam Elliott parodied in The Big Lebowski is sincerely intended here. It"s part of a forgotten temperament, like the Coens" fond use of period lingo and arch expressions (â??He has abandoned me to a congress of louts ) that call up Mark Twain as much as The Bible for the traditional moral terms it implies. When Rooster cradles a delirious, snake-bitten Mattie, her struggling suggests a realistic resistance that Ford left out of the moment John Wayne rescues Natalie Wood in The Searchers.

Original is trash and a complete bastardization of the book.

New one is a faithful representation with decent actors, kino storytelling and cinematography, and a bombass soundtrack.

Coen brothers really did it justice.

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>Instead, the Coens" rescue sequence imagines a fevered long night of American moral agony. This way, True Grit speaks to our current moment of vengeful, moral uncertainty. It continues the same revamped Americana that distinguished the Coens" sophisticated remake of The Ladykillers's a truly original religious-political hybrid. When Mattie sleeps in a mortuary, the story consecrates her existential stress, connecting cynicism to a spiritual, cultural foundation as in their half-satirical Yiddish prologue to A Serious Man. This view of the Western"s brutality challenges recent cultural standards regarding violence and sarcasm as established by Quentin Tarantino. Now, True Grit is no longer just a tall tale; it clarifies the Coens" feelings about violence and America"s spiritual history. After a confrontation with two suspicious men in a cabin, Rooster looks shocked at the up-close violence's something no Q.T. character ever does. And Mattie"s jolt at witnessing killing restores the humane response that Tarantino nihilism has neglected.

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>In Jonah Hex, Neveldine-Taylor"s Western reboot provided catharsis for its explosive vision of very modern-seeming moral turpitude. The Coens" depiction is not necessarily better, just subtler: Deakins" exteriors contrast daylight in trees with moonlight spreading across a blasted landscape. It envisions the Western as American history"s moral testing ground. Bridges previously essayed this in Walter Hill"s 1995 Wild Bill, a more psychologically probing Western; here, he describes a complex, realistic figure within John Wayne"s mythic largeness. Moral complexity is the Coens" point, as when Labeouf gets a man in his gunsights then prays before firing, like the sniper in Saving Private Ryan. Their genuine solemnity's and True Grit"s depth's comes through in Mattie"s old age but especially in the scene where a wounded Labeouf confesses to young Mattie, â??I am considerably diminished. It is a prophetic statement of what retribution does to the body as well as the soul.

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>When the music crescendos and she yells 'STAND UP TOM CHANEY'

Holy fuck my morale was lifted.

>>80853625
The very first post called it shit

>>80853136
Screw that noise, the original has some flaws, but it's still quite a good movie. John Wayne was definitely meme-tier though; Jeff Bridges was a much better Rooster.

I preferred the original ending though.

>>80853562
The original is shit.

>pop star as Lebeouf
>a boy looking girl that only got the part because JW wanted to fuck her
>JW only gets oscar because he has stage 4 asshole cancer
>sound track is garbage
>final shootout seen is John Wayne on a mechanical horse filmed with quick cuts

Fuck off

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>people say the OG was better

>>80854237
swn grab your long gun

>the movie world

What the fuck is this

>>80853097
Probably the best movie remake ever made