True Grit

The penalty for remaking a John Wayne movie should be death.

Wow, how can you be on the wrong side of *EVERY* single topic, BD?

I could ask you the same question.

From what I have heard about this one, it should be excellent. Done well, can't wait to see it.

IR, just let the tool wander back to his shed, if you give him attention he may just think he is being validated.

If you watch old movies you'll find the majority of new movies are remakes.

from what little i've seen of this movie.... it looks like a great one!


i personally am not a JW fan. wether it's a cowboy or army war movie.

"Shhhhhaaaannnnnneeee"

Cant wait to see 'True Grit'....Gonna be GOOD!

I never thought of JW as being that good an actor. Never been able to understand his reputation. He seemed pretty run-of-the-mill to me, but I'm generally not easily impressed.

I also look forward to seeing the new True Grit. Good call by Hankster for a remake of Shane. A contemporary version would likely be pretty graphic.

Sg

IR, didn't you, just the other day, request we not feed the trolls?

You have to watch JW's early films. Did all of his own stunts and was a stud.

Not all of his own stunts:

The most hazardous stunts were usually performed by Yakima Canutt, one of the most famous of all the stuntmen.

Born in Colfax, Washington in 1895, he was a ranch hand from boyhood and worked in rodeos and Wild West shows that toured the country. He became World All-Round Rodeo Champion in 1917, and again in 1919, 1920 and 1923. Soon after, in his early 20's, Hollywood called upon him to fill in for the many handsome male cowboy stars, who with the increasing popularity of the Western movie, needed somebody to perform the dangerous stunts that their films called for, and he quickly became known as Hollywood's premier stuntman during the 1930s.

He and good friend John Wayne created a new technique for filming screen fights more believably, and Canutt created or refined most of the stunt techniques used in westerns and action films for years to come. He was the first to do the "horse transfer" stunt, transferring from a galloping horse to another moving object.

As well as Wayne, Canutt performed stunt double work for Gary Cooper, Gene Autry, Clark Gable, Errol Flynn and a host of others, in such dangerous activities as jumping off the top of a cliff on horseback, leaping from a stagecoach onto its runaway team, being "shot" off a horse at full gallop and other such potentially life-threatening activities. He became expert at staging massive events such as cattle stampedes and covered-wagon races, as well as Cavalry and Indians battles on a grand scale.

Canutt's real name was Enos Edward Canutt, but it was in the small rodeo town of of Yakima, Washington that he'd made his name and that was the name that stayed with him. It was acknowledged by most in the Industry that Canutt performed the most dangerous and the most spectacular stunts ever seen on the screen. He retired from active stunt work in 1943 and became a much sought after Stunt Coordinator and 2nd Unit Director. He created some of the most memorable action sequences in film history, with perhaps the most famous being the spectacular chariot race in Ben-Hur (1959). He was awarded a special Oscar in 1966 for his contributions to film. He died at the age of 91 in 1986.

"If I had known this, I would've put that patch on thirty-five years earlier." (1969, Academy Awards speech for Best Actor in True Grit.)

I like John Wayne, but I like the Coen brothers way, way more.

"No Country for Old Men" was sort of a "western" feeling moving and it blew my mind. Any time that they try and give a movie a "feel" it generally works.

I actually told my wife that we were going to go out and see this one, in the theater. I never do that.

Nope but Clint didn't fish.

So who ended up with the money at the end???

See my signature on this one.

Ain't Bridges in this movie, though? That's what I meant by that.

Did any of you senior members ever wet a line with JW? I saw what I was told was his old boat (a retired mine sweeper I believe) up at Sucia about 15 years ago. Big ass cool boat.
We have John Wayne Marina over on the pen and John Wayne Iron Horse trail.
Seems like he spent some serious time up here. I've never really heard anything about his times up here.
There's gotta be some stories.


And that stunt man seems like a badazz.

OK, whole lotta' JW movies I never heard of, let alone seen. I don't know that I ever saw any that were pre-WWII.

Sg

I had heard that he had a game preserve on one of the San Juan islands.

wow yakima wash. never knew of the stunt man story before. thats very cool. been to yakima a few times.

fav John Wayne movie was The Cowboys-Click here

For this remake True Grit...you cant go wrong with the Coen Brothers

+1000

Fish on...

Todd

Saw True Grit yesterday--"Two Guns Up!!"

Certainly one of the better westerns to hit the big screen in a few years!

Bridges did a great job!

Keith

May have to set aside theater boycott, or wait for Netflix.

I know what you're speaking of... Drives me nuts to spend the money to sit in a theatre.. Much rather wait, but the previews were capable of getting me back into the theatre for the first time in nearly 2 years... It was well worth it.

Keith

Another trailer...
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/true-grit-2010/trailers/11122344

The only time my Grandpa took me to the movies was to see High Noon in '53 and I've been hooked on them since. John Wayne was in tough shape when True Grit was made. He was only 62 but he'd lost one lung and couldn't walk more than 30 feet or so without getting winded. He made about 10 movies after that so he really was tough.

The price of admission for this tale--this remake is well worth it---not accounting what SG is talkin about. I remember seeing movies that you got to catch a cartoon, a 3 stooges click. I agree..but you will not leave this flick dissapointed..Coen Bros make quality movies.

The 'almost grown" kids came up for Eugene to visit the old parents and we went to see True Grit tonight. 4 thumbs up! A very nice remake of the original.

John Wayne was a movie star!!He couldn't play every role, but did an amazing job at performing what he did best.

I could see remaking an ok movie, but a classic??

I won't watch i in the theater.. I might see it on netflix...