saw true grit with my dad today.

[ke7trp]

Hands down the best movie i have seen in years .

[KB2WIG]

How'd it compare to the Duke's version??

klc

[ke7trp]

Far better.  THis has to be the best movie I have seen in years.  Please go see it.  We where just blown away.

C

[WBear2GCR]

The Coen brothers know how to make a movie...


                        _-_-bear

[W3SLK]

I have no desire to see it. It proves that there aren't any 'idea makers' in Hollywood anymore when they have to rehash old hits, as well as cartoons, (Yogi Bear???). I haven't been to a theater in close to 20 years and the crap they keep spewing now a days makes it look like it will be another 20 years. 

[N0WEK]

I have no desire to see it. It proves that there aren't any 'idea makers' in Hollywood anymore when they have to rehash old hits, as well as cartoons, (Yogi Bear???). I haven't been to a theater in close to 20 years and the crap they keep spewing now a days makes it look like it will be another 20 years. 

Yeah, there's a lot of crap out there, but with the huge number of movies made every year if even 1 or 2% of them are good, that's still a movie a month that's worth your time.

There have been quite a few extremely good movies in the past year or so!

There are really only about a dozen stories out there, but there are infinite variations on those basic stories and there are some really fine directors and writers, mixed in with a huge number of hacks!



YMMV

[ke7trp]

It is far better then the original.  My dad is the biggest Duke fan there is period. I am sitting in his den and its full of JW memorabilia.  Even he said that Jeff Bridges blows JW away in this movie.

I am like alot of you guys. I gave up on movies a long time back.  Nothing was good to me.  I had little interest in going to see a film.  They are so full of technical inacuracies.  Like bullets flying with the case still intact...ect..

This movie blew me away.  It gives hope for the theaters. 

C

[k4kyv]

I'll wait to see it when Redbox has it on Blu-ray so it will fill up the 1080p plasma screen  

If the plasma screen hasn't crapped out by then.

[ke7trp]

Yeah really..  My mom had a 60 inch plasma.  The cox cable guy came out to set it up since I live a state away.  He plugged the TV into the wall and not the cable box.  So when my mom turned off the Cable box every night the Plasma stayed on full black.  This compressed the 7 year lifetime down to 1.5 years and it was toast.

Today, I purchased a 42 inch Sanyo 1080P, 120HZ LCD for my Dad and step mom, as a gift. He already had Sat TV but was using a 15 year old standard TV.  He is loving life now! Watching the crab show in 1080I.

C

[Jeff W9GY]

But Strother Martin is SK...darn! Hard to get a good western off the ground without Strother (or for that matter "Cool Hand Luke" --'What we have here is failure to communicate')

[Jim, W5JO]

Today, I purchased a 42 inch Sanyo 1080P, 120HZ LCD for my Dad and step mom, as a gift. C

Why didn't you get an LED?  There are some out there that are very reasonable in the 40 inch range

[KM1H]

If anybody wants to see a different kind of movie fom the usual Hollywood crap go see "The Fighter". Its about a local area guy and his uncle is my mechanic. Ive met Mickey Ward several times and the guy is so down to earth its scary plus he is a big philanthropist to causes in Lowell, MA.

A couple of you may spot me in my 2 seconds of fame

Carl

[Jim, W5JO]

Today, I purchased a 42 inch Sanyo 1080P, 120HZ LCD for my Dad and step mom, as a gift. C

Why didn't you get an LED?  There are some out there that are very reasonable in the 40 inch range

50" and 60" plasmas are still better. LED TVs have gotten better, but they will never be as good as plasmas.

But don't they have a time limit within which they work well, plus they generate a lot of hash on ham bands, don't they?

[Bill, KD0HG]

About time the Western made a comeback. The movie is on my list to go see. I'm tired of terrorists, cops, machine guns and ambulances in movies.

[Mike/W8BAC]

Why didn't you get an LED?

The new LED TV's are actually LCD TV's with LED back lights instead of electroluminescent panels.

[KX5JT]

Don, KYV, Timtron HLR, Brandon IIF and myself (John, JT) had a great QSO a few nights ago about TV's and OTA and cable and netflix etc. etc.

It seems plasma tv's put out a heck of a lot of RF trash.  What's the experience you guys that own plasmas have with that?

My folks recently purchased a 55" LED 1080p and it looks great except for high motion scenes which tend to chop a little.  Don chimed in that he believes it more likely to be the TV quality as opposed to the medium delivering the content (HD cable or Blueray).  Any thoughts there?

I rarely pay to go see movies now that I have netflix streaming from the internet to the xBOX360 in the living room.  Awesome quality there and a decent selection of movies and even popular TV series.  I also enjoy the NatGeo and History channel documentaries that are available with the netflix.  If one doesn't have a modern gaming console like xbox, wii or sony PS3, there are some "internet streaming" devices available to hook up to the TV.

That said, I occasionally enjoy the theatre experience if the movie is really good or something that offers great visual appeal.  Avatar in 3D was interesting.  My son was wanting to take me and his brother to a movie sometime during the holidays and I think True Grit might just be the ticket, not for the visual aspect, but just because Clark is recommending it. *grin* Actually I did see the trailer and it looks pretty good, besides, I'm not paying.

[N8UH]

It seems plasma tv's put out a heck of a lot of RF trash.  What's the experience you guys that own plasmas have with that?

My folks recently purchased a 55" LED 1080p and it looks great except for high motion scenes which tend to chop a little.  Don chimed in that he believes it more likely to be the TV quality as opposed to the medium delivering the content (HD cable or Blueray).  Any thoughts there?

I rarely pay to go see movies now that I have netflix streaming from the internet to the xBOX360 in the living room.  Awesome quality there and a decent selection of movies and even popular TV series.  I also enjoy the NatGeo and History channel documentaries that are available with the netflix.  If one doesn't have a modern gaming console like xbox, wii or sony PS3, there are some "internet streaming" devices available to hook up to the TV.

That said, I occasionally enjoy the theatre experience if the movie is really good or something that offers great visual appeal.  Avatar in 3D was interesting.  My son was wanting to take me and his brother to a movie sometime during the holidays and I think True Grit might just be the ticket, not for the visual aspect, but just because Clark is recommending it. *grin* Actually I did see the trailer and it looks pretty good, besides, I'm not paying.

I have a high-end Plasma monitor and line-doubler/video processor. It consistently fools people into thinking I have a blu-ray setup. This is while playing normal DVDs.  Makes me happy, because DVDs are cheap!

It does, however, spit out a bit of RF. Fortunately, it is not on too much. I'm with many others here in saying that cable or satellite is just not worth it. I haven't had cable for over 12 years, and I don't miss it a bit. In fact, when I do see it, say over at a friends house, it reaffirms my decision to live life without television.

Netflix is something I do enjoy. Rent the movies you want to see on the home entertainment system. Stream the movies while working on the computer or laying in bed.

But, back on topic, I am really looking forward to seeing True Grit. I just have to convince myself that it's worth the expense to see it in the theater! 

[KX5JT]

Netflix is something I do enjoy. Rent the movies you want to see on the home entertainment system. Stream the movies while working on the computer or laying in bed.

Yes you can watch the streams on the computer, but with an xbox, wii or sony ps3 OR a device like a ROKU, you can send the stream from your wireless router (or wired) to the device that plays it on the TV.  We have the XBOX 360 hooked up in the living room to the TV and surround system and so we can watch the streaming movies there.  Awesome.  

ROKU HD boxes can be found for around 100 bucks if you don't already have a compatible gaming console.  If you don't care about HD (for instance, I only have a 36" CRT Toshiba) you can find the standard ROKU boxes for about 60 bucks.

Now, you won't get 5.1 surround from the netflix streams but you DO get PLII decoding which is pretty decent, better than just stereo for sure.

http://www.netflix.com/NetflixReadyDevicesDetails?pdid=2

[W1TAV]

Merry Christmas,

Well I remember seeing True Grit at the the drive in back in 1969 -- It was the 1st time I ever heard someone swear on the Big Screen. (SOB's)  I was 10 years old.. Still love that film.. I was up in the air on seeing the new one.. MY XLY had asked if I want to see it.. She was not aware it was a remake. (younger women!)

Read the AMFone review page  I am now looking forward to going..

73 all Steve

[John K5PRO]

Last summer I regularly drove past one of the locations of filming that lasted for about 6 weeks, near Black Mesa, on Santa Clara reservation land in Santa Fe county. Its 3 miles from this QTH (see little photo of 851 in front of Black Mesa). The other New Mexico location was down south of town, north of I-40. They filmed there for many weeks also. Jeff Bridges last hit Crazy Heart was also filmed around SF.

I'm going to see it in a few days, just looking at the trailer online was great. Sounds like he did have a lot of chaw inside his cheek when he talked. Coen brothers deliver classics, other times, not so. Fargo, Big Lebowski, Brother Where Art Thou?....True Grit

[WU2D]

I remember seeing the original True Grit with my Dad in the American Theater in Canton NY as a kid. Looking forward to taking my son tomorrow.

Mike WU2D

[KB2WIG]

M,

Isn't Canton a bit of a drive?


klc

[W7POW]

See the remake...it will blow you away!  The original pales in comparison.

[WBear2GCR]

The Coen bros on Charlie Rose said that they followed the book, not the "screen adaptation" that was the John Wayne movie... so a different thing entirely, not a "remake" exactly.

I dunno, I have not seen the movie.

                        _-_-bear

[ke7trp]

That makes sense. I am going to order the book and read it. 

C