True Grit - From the Coen Bros

[Opaque]

This movie was great.

GREAT.

[nixhex311]

This movie was great.

GREAT.

What he said

[Frogacuda]

Alright, so this wasn't the dour remake I was expecting it to be. The trailer made it seem that the Coens were going to give True Grit a kind of No Country treatment, but it surprised me in a couple of ways. Firstly, it sticks really closely to the same story as the movie, and (I assume) the novel, hitting a lot of the same plot points, scenarios, and, shit, dialogue. So, having recently re-watched the original, the movie seemed to dance too much along a familiar line. The best parts where it wanders into newer territory Like encounters with a hanged man high in a tree, and a surreal medicine man.

The other thing that surprised me was that this movie is funny. Not funny enough to warrant calling it a western/comedy, but it's definitely playing for laughs. Brolin's casting is especially tricky because he looks like such a steely eyed badass in the trailer, but turns out to be the same goofball that's in the original movie, with a jarring goobery voice. So if you're coming to this hoping that the Coens are making True Grit into Unforgiven, you're going to be disappointed.

At times it seems like a kind of rote remake, but the humor and the acting make up for it. Bridges is great as Cogburn, Damon is surprisingly funny and there are a slew of well acted small parts, which is typical for a Coens movie.

I liked it.

This is pretty much spot on

Don't go watching the original right before this, it's better if you don't sit there and compare. It's definitely a great classic-style Western, the dialogue is fantastic, and it's very funny. It's much more dialogue-driven than most movies in the genre, though this is nothing new for the Coens. If you're there as a fan of True Grit or as a fan of the Coens, it hits the mark perfectly.

[JBNagis]

Watching it today. cant wait.

[Drewbacca]

Same bro

[JBNagis]

Loved it.

[Drewbacca]

Same bro.

Everything I wanted and more. I had a big goofy grin on my face walking out of there.

[Opaque]

I had a big goofy grin on my face walking out of there.

I was quoting lines the whole way home and cracking myself up like some jackass.

[Drewbacca]

The cornbread competition was the best.

[JBNagis]

I loved him asking if he wanted him to rip out the rest of his tongue. That was funny as shit.
All the "WTF" looks Jeff Bridges was giving people cracked me up the whole way through.