re: True Grit...

Good movie. Better than the original. I grew up near Fort Smith and I remember watching the original (which I loved) thinking it was stupid how they were traveling through the Rockies.

As an aside, you can go to Judge Parker's courthouse. In Jr. High we visited the gallows there. All the places, Winding Stair Mountain, etc are real places, just across the Oklahoma/Arkansas border. Most of the sets were in Texas and New Mexico but looked a lot like that area does or did back in the 1800s.

The best thing about the movie was the dialogue and accents. Bridges is incredible. Not a lot of violence, but the violence thats in there is brutal and believable.

I don't care much for Matt Damon but even he was pretty good as a cocky Texican.