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You touched on two of my three favorite westerns: Hell or High Water ( the restaurant scene is 5 thumbs up), True Grit (also Jeff Bridges), and No Country for Old Men. I love the dialogue in all three, but especially True Grit. And No Country is close enough to Cormac McCarthy’s book that it’s great.

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Yeah I love all three of them. True Grit is one of the few remakes I enjoy more than the original. I honestly think writing original westerns is becoming something of a lost art, which is why we get so many remakes and adaptations.

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The Coen Brothers have a gift for getting the dialogue perfect. In True Grit, the cadence, the formality, and the accents are wonderful.

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I really liked « Dead don’t hurt, » a western that used subtitles.

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Haven't had a chance to see it yet but it looked good and I like Vigo.

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Viggo and Krieps are an amazing couple. Both are immigrants in a western. A novel take.

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