Comments on: Movie Review: True Grit http://reeldealblog.com/2010/12/movie-review-true-grit/ Your source for movies and more! Sun, 26 Jan 2020 03:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 By: Ian Phillips http://reeldealblog.com/2010/12/movie-review-true-grit/#comment-178 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:33:26 +0000 http://reeldealblog.com/?p=326#comment-178 Earl-
While you might make a good point, it doesn’t work because it is wrong.
First off, people do not worship the Coen Brothers like you so claim. That is a myth currently being set off. If people were willing to forgive the Coens for all their flaws, then why did Intolerable Cruelty, The Ladykillers, and Burn After Reading receive negative reviews? Entertainment Weekly even gave O Brother, Where Art Thou an F.
The thing is, if True Grit was directed by Joe Schmo, it is likely it would’ve gotten worse reviews not because of his name, but because of his style. Basically, the Coen Brothers have developed a unique style all their own and had someone else directed True Grit, it would’ve been a totally different movie. Don’t be so quick to judge. Plus, True Grit didn’t receive the highest praises ever. True Grit was a good movie and it was hard to refute what a good movie it was. It was very well done, but not incredible like other Coen movies.
My point is, it’s about style, not name. To me, the Coen Brothers are still not Hollywood royalty, but two Jews from the Midwest continuing to bring awesomely original ideas into the mainstream.
Stay classy
-Ian

]]> By: Suge Knight http://reeldealblog.com/2010/12/movie-review-true-grit/#comment-177 Sun, 30 Jan 2011 08:03:19 +0000 http://reeldealblog.com/?p=326#comment-177 Eye-In, mah man, what this film does well is highlight the subservience of our society.

I would have loved to see movie fans and critics alike slam this piece of garbage had it been directed by Joe Blow…

…but it’s the Coen Bros.

We must bow down to them and worship the ground they walk on.

Seriously…

The Coen Bros. could film a guy taking a dump and the sheep would still call it a masterpiece cuz they don’t know better.

Complete and utter joke.

What a POS formulaic, predictable movie with one-dimensional characters and a gay score.

The pacing was horrid. It was like Jim Honeycutt wrote the script.

Cliche ridden as all hell, too.

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