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Watched Tucker and Hannity a bit, then switched over to watch True Grit.

No John Wayne, no Kim Darby, no Glen Campbell and no fuggin good.

WTF has happened to the fugging US neighborhood?

No wonder youngsters think True Grit is no good.

I gotta agree, Sir.

Dont think much of the newer version. I wanted to like it.

Try not to miss the original.

My uncle, a cowboy, a favorite, put a bullet through his head in his back yard when he landed on not being pleased with where things were heading. He was 73. This was near twenty years ago. One would be hard pressed to find a tougher, yet kind, man.

Stupid sons a biotches thought the would use some drughead
Jellos and make a John Wayne remake.

Ygbsm. Lord id love to spit in their face. That pos remake is just a disgrace.

Yep, Glen Campbell was not an actor, but his incongruity made the show special.

Yer right Will.

For, those who have never seen it. Please see the real True Grit.

Sorry to hear of that, Ed.

Read Tucker is taking over Bill O's spot on FOX monday night. One of his guests will be Jenner.
Why does anyone give that freak the time of day.
I don't understand it, and him as a guest will be the number one reason I wont be tuning in that show much.
Besides it is to easy to watch what interests me on Tucker on youtube and not spend a hour watching 20 minutes of commercials, and other things I don't give one hoot about.

Hey now. Y'all gotta be thinking I'm a youngster @ 32. The remake was good (for a movie). I saw the remake before making a point of watching the original. Sure enough, like most movies and things we see on the big and small screens, the original was better.

Sometimes remakes are better. I have yet to see the new "Kong: Skull Island" but somehow I think it will be better than all the previous ones. Why? Special effects and (the former crackhead) Samuel L. Jackson, John C. Reilly and John Goodman. You do have to respect the 1933 original. The 'franchise' is nearly 100 years old. But CGI and hi-def and great sound "bring you into the movie" more than good camera angles. I'm not holding up the new King Kong except as an example of an instance where the new version/remake is better than the original IMO. We're talking 1933 acting and special effects vs. CGI and hi-def sound and image.

In a movie like True Grit, one has to ask oneself how CGI, Bridges and Damon made it better than John Wayne in 1969. No real benefit from CGI or better acting - not saying contemporary acting is better. In fact, the "old" (to me) westerns hold a dear place in my heart. The first one I watched and really paid attention to and liked was "High Noon." Netflixing that one soon as I hit SUBMIT.

Ra-ra-ra-ra-ratings. I don't have FOX on my cable plan. I'll be YouTubing it after to see what Tucker did to him (the eunuch with makeup). Don't want to see what's become of Bruce Jenner, don't care. Wanna see if Tucker skewers him. So far I have liked Tucker. I'm glad they gave him O'Reilly's spot regardless of what I think of BO and his firing.

You're going daft old man!!!
Bridges is a far better Rooster than Wayne's lame old one lung azz ever was!

I will concede Damon is a Peter Puffer of the highest order. He damn near ruined a great movie.

The Jeff Bridges version matched the book better than Wayne's version.

So? It still sucked!

One nice thing about being an old stick in the mud is, the mud stuck opinion is correct, always. Chalk Mudstuck up for Wayne, and Cambell.

I may have to adjust to a lot of new things, but some things are just the way they ought to be. (rant on pause)

I don't think anyone could remake a John Wayne movie and make it better. Remember Stagecoach? It's been remade twice since the 1939 original, and got worse each time. Same way with Red River. They made a remake starring James Arness, who I liked, but he was not Duke, not by a longshot. By the way, went to sleep in my recliner last night, and woke up to see the original Red River coming on. Had to watch it again, for probably the 88th time, and it's still just as good as it was the first time. Same way with all of them. I'd guess I've watched The Searchers more than any of Wayne's films, and could sit through it again a 100 more times.

My parents took me to see the original True Grit when it came out. It was great. I took my kids to see the Coen brothers version when it came out. After several year's reflection, the newer one is better. Bridges is a talented actor who is no stranger to westerns. I didn't think either Campbell or Darby sucked, as many did, but their newer counterparts were better. I don't know who the actor was who played Col. Stonehill, but there was no way you could best Strother Martin. Tom Cheney played by Josh Brolin was much more menacing than Jeff Corey. The scene at the end with Cole Younger and Frank James was just killer-even though I don't know how you could top John Wayne jumping a fence with his hoss.

The two movies are very different, and the Coen brothers wouldn't call theirs a re-make, just a different take on the same base material. Neither followed the novel exactly.

The Searchers transcends the genre and is the best movie ever made. [bleep] watching some rich guy die clutching a snow-globe.

Much was made of Stagecoach and Red River. I've never thought either was that great and I flat-out have never liked The Shootist. Wayne was a good-enough actor who could take essentially silly material like The Cowboys, and make it watchable. He could also remake the same movie several times, Rio Bravo, El Dorado, Rio Lobo, and make a decent movie each time.

The third True Grit, (the second starred Warren Oates as Rooster) had much better weapons also. It was incongruous to hear Bridges' Rooster talk about using two Navy Colts in New Mexico, but then use two Dragoons instead, in the shootout with the Pepper gang. They should've used Navies in it and he should've used a Dragoon in Wild Bill in the Springfield shootout.

The WTF is called Public Education

I noticed just yesterday during a downpour that water seems more wet now than it was 40 years ago. I'm also pretty certain the sky is a slightly different color blue.

Fcking liberals