I finally saw True Grit!

It was, okay. Not what I expected, that's for sure. I wonder how I would have taken it if I saw the original True Grit beforehand?

True Grit is about a bounty hunter, Rooster Cogburn hired by a 14 year old girl, Mattie to find the man that killed her father and bring him to justice. Rooster is played by Jeff Bridges, and he was awesome. Throughout the whole movie he was acting like the bad ass he is. Don't you think for a second that him having only one eye means he can't take you down.
This is a TALKY movie. Rooster constantly tells stories about his past bounty hunts. The only thing is that at some points of his story telling you can barely understand him since he talks out of one side of his mouth with a gruff, drunken voice the whole time. Should he take home the Best Actor Oscar? Compared to the other you-can-barely-understand-guy, Colin Firth, in The King's Speech, probably not.
Now Mattie, played by Hailee Steinfeld, was pretty good for how young of an actress she is! Her "won't take 'no' for an answer" attitude makes you root for her. Especially since a Texas Ranger (Matt Damon) comes in thinking he's the bees-knees and gets whatever he wants.
I'm not much of a Matt Damon fan, which is probably why I couldn't really take him seriously the whole film. I mean, he started spanking (yes, spanking!) Mattie with a stick when she back-talked him. It wasn't intense, it was hilarious and a little embarrassing. Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner? Nah.
I wish I could say more about the bad guys in the film, but they were pretty much absent. The man that killed Mattie's father, Tom Chaney (played by Josh Brolin), was on screen for probably 15 minutes out of the 110 minutes of story! Sure they mentioned him in every single scene, but it would have been nice for more cowboy fighting action between him and Rooster! Rooster doesn't even TALK to Chaney! Instead he's up against another outlaw, Lucky Ned Pepper, who I still have no idea how he was connected to the story at all. I think he was Chaney's boss? Oh, who cares. The action was sparse. That's my point.

Should you see it? If you like Jeff Bridges and westerns...then yeah I suppose. I heard from customers at work that if you saw the original True Grit, you wouldn't be too happy.

Best Feature Film winner? Nope. It was good, but just not as good as I hoped.


I'm finding that when I see a movie, then wait till the next day to write the review I remember a lot more. The whole thing about the bad guys barely being in the movie was something I JUST thought of...gotta let what I saw sink in, I suppose.

Oh, my point: Review of Black Swan tomorrow.