Twenty minutes in and I haven’t stopped laughing. Great to hear Doug on the show again. Happy 300 Film Junk.

No voice mail?

HUGE laughs all-around for this episode. Great work, good times, and happy 300.

A follow-up voicemail message regarding prostate milking, can become a reality very soon. Glad I can help. And the winning remix – deservedly so. Hyssssterical stuff Brandon.

Magic FTW

Excellent 300th!

No bells and whistles, but it was still epic nonetheless. Hilarious moments, and it was great having the Dougster on. Keep it up!

You guys gotta have Nagy back for Thor and Transformers.

My favorite part was when Doug said “Blade is black and he has a fucking katana sword! That’s the way it is!”

I wonder what the next “rappin’ granny” in films will be. “Kick-Ass” wasn’t a big success, so I don’t think that the Disney Channel is going to bother to figure out a way to make it OK to have all of their child actors yelling “cunt” left and right (though it would certainly be a way to make “Hannah Montana” fresh again if someone like HBO decided to pick it up…), but soon the novelty WILL get old, and that’s about all the movie really had going for it in the end, as we were more or less left with a Spider-Man movie with Tourrettes. Can you guys think of any other films that had something in it like that that was a big deal at the time that no one really remembers now, whether it was through evvvvvveryone doing it afterward or people just not caring anymore once the next “rappin’ granny” came along?

Happy 300th FJ. A stunnung achievement.

Fantastic show guys. Congratulations on the mammoth 300.

Was I the only one hoping that the segment brought back was “Technocrats?”

I’ve seen the original (and Wayne shouldn’t have gotten the Oscar for “Rooster Cogburn”) but haven’t seen the new one. But from the commercials and trailer, I think the “Coenization” is more from mannerisms that actual words. Also, the Dude is a lot more gruffer than Wayne’s “aw shucks” cowboy, this girl isn’t quite as much of a tomboy, and Damon is more of a badass than the original marshal.

The “Coenization” I think comes from the “localization,” of this Western, much like Raising Arizona had a lot to do with white trash in Arizona, poor post-Antebellum Southerners in O Brother Where Art Thou, and Yoopers in Minnesota in Fargo.

It’s kinda like “Back to the Future III,” where Doc Brown’s idea of the West when he dresses up Marty in the 1950s to send him to the old West is like the original True Grit and what Marty actually finds is like the Coen’s version.

Happy 300!

It was so awesome to hear Doug on the Episodes. It was his ranting and specificaly the Goats of Odin on the Movieblog that got me into podcast-listening. As that show went downhill and Campea became more and more of a ridiculous self-absorbed douche, I have found filmjunk and am so thankful to have you guys. Happy new Year and keep the next 300 comin!

Let’s be honest about this: Doug’s contributions to this episode were all pretty embarrassing. Who is this lightweight?

Happy New year Everyone!

Nagy – nice.

regarding beards:
http://i.imgur.com/PHmF5.jpg

@ alechs – that is a chart to live by.

at – “Wayne shouldn’t have gotten the Oscar for “Rooster Cogburn”

my understanding is the Academy gave that Oscar more as a Lifetime Achievement type thing. At least that is what the True Grit Blue Ray extras state.

Congrats on #300 Guys. You are now the veterans in this racket!

It was good and fun..the $6 theater, where I saw it, didn’t have the sound loud enough! Had to stop eating my popcorn to hear dialogue – WTF! Like everyone else, I think the film succeeds on the two stars – that girl is amazing for so young. I did have some problems with it and I’m kind of amazed the Cohens made these simple mistakes.

By not directly introducing the audince to the killer at the beginning of the film, The Cohens took all the shock out of the river scene where Mattie stubbles onto Tom Chaney. I know why they did this, to get in to the story and remove the unnecessary typical killing scene, but they ruined a really good shock at the end. Cohens compound the problem by highlighting all the odd characters Rooster and Mattie meet along the path. The audience’s natural reaction to seeing the Chaney character in the river is to think he is just another odd character.

The film really loses a lot of energy when Mattie is captured. I really don’t even know what specifically is the problem, but when Lucky Ned takes Mattie up the hill it really becomes disjointed. I need to watch again but it feels the inventiveness, performances and quality go down a notch.

The rescue scene were Rooster rides with the snake bit Mattie was really poor – the shots of them both on horseback, with the green screen behind and mechanical horse below, was some of the worst physical/digital effects I’ve ever seem. The Cohens really should have talked to Peter Jackson on how to do this right. Why they didn’t get a mech. horse rig on a truck and shoot the scene in nature is bizarre. They can say it was to create a dreamlike quality but in my opinion they failed.

I hated the ending! Maybe it is more in line with the book, but I do not understand why you would lose the scene with Mattie taking Rooster to her family’s plot. Talk about loosing one of the best tear-jerking scenes in cinema. I guess the Cohens felt they would get criticized for copying this directly from original movie, but what they came up with is a real downer. They presented an amazing young girl taking on the world and then decide to leave the audience with a sad, one armed, bitter spinster! Thanks Cohens, you f*ckers!