Matt Damon Archives

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My good friend,KM Wilsher, and I are heading out toHarkins Theatres each month to watch a choice movie.

We’ll let you know if it’s worth you spending your hard-earned money or not.

CLICK HERE for our rating system

Now…onto the movie.

TRUE GRIT

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Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. marshal she can find, a man with “true grit,” Reuben J. “Rooster” Cogburn. Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, sloth, and generally reprobate character do not augment her faith in him. Against his wishes, she joins him in his trek into the Indian Nations in search of Chaney. They are joined by Texas Ranger LaBoeuf, who wants Chaney for his own purposes. The unlikely trio find danger and surprises on the journey, and each has his or her “grit” tested.

My Review

Oh my, I’m not really sure where to start really. Slow is a word that comes to mind. Yep, VERY slow. As a writer, we’re taught to grab the reader’s attention with the very first line, paragraph, first page, first chapter.

I guess movies don’t follow that same rule.

Now, I’m not a fan of this genre, either (westerns) so the movie already had a strike against it just because it was of the cow-boy-boot-wearing-genre. But still, I figured I could watch it with an open mind.

I tried. Really, I did.

But the slow momentum and boring scenes just never grabbed my attention. The make-up was good, though. All those rotten teeth and such, probably took a long time to do. And Barry Pepper, I nearly didn’t recognize him at first. He did a nice job grossing me out with all the spit goobers and wrangled up teeth and lips.

I think the girl, Mattie, stole the show. She was awesome. Loved her. The rest of the cast…not so much.

So, I’m sorry to say, I have to give it our lowest rating:

: 1 ticket -Don’t go see it. Give your ticket away.

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Have you seen it? What’d you think?

Head on over to KM Wilsher’s blog and see what she thought of the movie.

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Welcome to Cinema Sound Off!

My good friend, KM Wilsher and I are heading out to the movies each month and letting you know if you should spend your money on the movie or not.

Our first movie was Green Zone with Matt Damon

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Okay, I was totally misled. From the movie previews I saw on TV, I thought this movie would be more like the Jason Bourne-type action movie.

I was totally wrong.

Sure, had I read the synopsis on IMBD like a good movie-goer should, I would have figured it out.

Yeah, note to self, READ THE SYNOPSIS on IMBD . . .

I’m so not a war movie fan, and this was so a war movie. I have to give credit where it’s due, though–great acting and great action scenes.

***BUT***

And yeah, I meant to put that in CAPS. . . I almost got sick, like, twice. It’s got the whole The Blair Witch Project bouncy camera issue going on.

Seriously. I had to look away for a majority of the movie for fear barfing my brains out.

So, if you like war movies and like jiggly camera views . . . then by all means go watch it.

I have to give the movie TWO tickets, just because the acting was fairly good and the action scenes pretty realistic.

Be sure to head over to KM Wilsher‘s blog for her review.

Have you guys seen the movie? What’d you think?