Dear NoseI've just read a review of the Coen Bros' 'True Grit' which has wound me right up. See, the original is a fave movie of mine cos my dad *is* John Wayne to me and whilst I heart the Coen Bros' unique screenplays I don't consider the original to be a bad movie, per se. You can't tell me the excellent William Goldman's 'Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid' screenplay of the same year had any gritty realism at all when it just made my mum go gaga, while at 'True Grit' she had to take my sis out of the cinema when a dude got his fingers cut off. That's true 'gritty'. I feel certain Goldman would've been well-chuffed with himself if he'd written the iconic line, 'Fill your hands, you sonofabitch!' And as for realism, that's the real John Wayne, the bloke who really kicked cancer's ass in real life twice, really up on that real horse at the end jumping that real 3-rail fence.
So, dear Nose, is it worth registering just to tell the reviewer to go fuck himself?
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Thu 9 Dec 2010, 14:32,
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So, dear Nose, is it worth registering just to tell the reviewer to go fuck himself?