True Grit is Pretty Awesome - Page 5

Went to True Grit on Friday. It was decent but not sure what the big deal is. Should have waited for it to come out on DVD.

I think I read somewhere that snakes don't like the feel of the rope. Google says this isn't true, but it is/was a common myth.

I doubt if anyone ever has been able to hit a tossed biscuit in the air at 20 feet shooting from the hip with any degree of of consistency--not Ed McGivern, not Bill Jordan...nobody.

As has already been said, the business about the rope providing safety because the snakes didn't like the rough surface is a myth. However, it was a widely believed one in the old days. Back in the '50s I knew a family that would go camping in the desert and always surround their sleeping bags with ropes. I don't know whether anyone still believes it or not. Given the rough, rocky terrain snakes traverse with ease, it was a pretty stupid idea from the get-go.

However, people will believe the damndest things about snakes. I had a boss who believed in the existence of the dreaded "hoop snake." He said his pappy had actually witnessed one of these creatures in action back in Tennessee.

I found that I was laughing pretty consistently throughout the whole movie.

Very impressed. Hadn't read it, hadn't seen the John Wayne version. Loved it.

Tron was great, really suggest it.

Agree. Loved 99% of the movie except for the drawn on sequence of Bridges riding with and carrying the girl back. Background in some of those scenes looked like they were green screened in and were distracting.

Really liked this, except for the lame and unrealistic cgi snake scene.

I'd like to see someone have Bridges do the news in character. With the eyepatch too.

I know Wayne was older when he did the character, though it's been so long that I don't remember most of the details from that version. However, I believe Bridges's Cogburn was supposed to have been closer to that age, just extremely haggard from a hard and bitter life. Recall that the very end was twenty-five years after-the-fact, and he'd just died. It's possible he could have lived into his late 80s or 90s back then, but I doubt that was what they were going for.

Oh, and I really, really enjoyed this film.

No I liked that part. I'm talking about the final framing scene.

I really enjoyed the movie, myself.