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“Retribution”: True Grit Trailer And Review



Dec 25, 2010 11 Comments ›› Pat Dollard


First-timer Hailee Steinfeld

Big Hollywood:

‘True Grit’ Review: A More Than Worthy Remake of a John Wayne Classic

There are some films considered so sacred they should never be remade. “Gone with the Wind” would be one of them, “Citizen Kane” and “Vertigo” still others. But the new Coen Brothers’ take on “True Grit” presents an interesting challenge to the idea that you can’t possibly top greatness.

But the new “True Grit,” while sharing the same basic plot and characters, is defiantly its own film – a darker, funnier, more intense take on the hunt by Cogburn and the 12-year-old girl Mattie (Hailee Steinfeld in a stunning debut performance) as they and a bounty hunter named LaBeouf (Matt Damon) search for the gang led by Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin). It’s also a more spiritually layered film, with the trio’s mission a quest for divine justice and retribution against the wicked who once traveled across the Wild West.

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  • Sgsaur

    I’ll stick with the original. There’s nobody in this movie fit to carry The Duke’s jockstrap.

    • DC

      I’ll see it just for curiosity…but you’re right…These nobodys aren’t a patch to the Duke! :wink:

  • Axel

    Oh Why can’t they leave the classics alone? :gun: I hate hollywood.

  • Pull

    Dopeywood has no originals anymore just wannabees.

  • http://www.snorgtees.com/media/catalog/product/i/m/imtrippingyou_fullpic_1.jpg T-Bagg

    You know the scene, “Fill your hands, you son of a bitch!”

    Gone. I read they didn’t put it in.

    But damn right I’m going to see this.

    • YERMOM

      it’s in there, not the same as the original, but it’s in there.

  • Gary in Midwest

    Matt Damon is as manly as Fabio. Walter Brennan could kick his ass.

  • tanicacid

    At least it aint using a friggin shoulder camrea that wobbles all over the place. I get motion sickness from some of the movies and progams on TV. Must be hoping for a second season to afford a stick to steady their cam on. If a movie or TV progam has a rating right on an important decision number, that 1% of pissed of viewers could make the difference. Thank God this movie went for paying a professional camrea crew.

  • Chuck O

    Just about anything you could make a movie about has been done. All that’s left is to remake the old ones. The rest is utter crap, I mean look at the Saw movies. Who thinks this shit up?

  • http://www.snorgtees.com/media/catalog/product/i/m/imtrippingyou_fullpic_1.jpg T-Bagg

    Except this is not a remake. It’s a different movie based off of the same book.

  • Bhost1

    Jeff Bridges does a passable job of playing the part of a drunken, slack-jawed Federal Marshall, but he hardly captures the heart, now does he?
    Matt Damon is an even worse actor for the Texas Ranger part than Glen Campbell was, but at least Glen didn’t besmirch the good name of the Rangers by acting like a greedy scumbag instead of a LEO.
    Hailee Steinfeld played her role wonderfully, and managed to endear herself to the viewer much more than the original. She definitely portayed the head-strong and mouthy bitch, but she’s cute – so it evens out.
    My main disappointment with the film is the ending; Rooster’s death with no closure between him and Mattie, and Mattie losing her snake-bit arm and remaining a bitter, dry-hole mouthy bitch her whole life.
    I won’t bother to see it again, even for free.