It comes out 12/22. I think this may be the first movie in years that I see opening night.
I hope it’s as good as No Country for Old Men. I saw that opening night and was completely blown away by it. That was one of the few movies that so totally engrossed me that time completely disappeared (the other was Pulp Fiction).
Can not wait!
We’re both BIG Jeff Bridges fans and Coen fans, so yes, I’m excited. We’ve gotten really slow with our Netflix movies lately but I hope we get to see the original first.
I’m not generally into Westerns and never saw the original, but it looks to be all unholy levels of badass.
Although I think Matt Damon may have been miscast. He just looks like Matt Damon with a fake moustache and a fake accent (and I’m positive he’s just channeling Matthew McConaughey anyway). I love the guy but he’s not necessarily right for every role.
I was hoping that Jeff might have some pictures of True Grit (and Tron) up on his website…not yet. He does have stuff up from Crazy Heart and Iron Man though.
I’m a Charles Portis fan and will certainly go see it.
The forner explains the latter. He was perfectly cast.
I second this.
Say what?
Fair 'nuff. I love watching the guy on screen anyway, so either way it’ll be fun.
carnivorousplant, he’s saying that if I had seen the original True Grit, I’d realize Damon was perfect for LaBoeuf.
I’m a huge Cohen brothers fan. I have some doubts about the casting in this one, but I look forward to it nevertheless.
Thanks! Glenn Campbell surely wasn’t. 
The trailer looks awesome. I’m definitely looking forward to it. Hope Bridges bags a second Oscar. But I must insist the movie include the classic line, “I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man!”
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In the trailer, the dialog when Matti Ross introduces herself to Rooster Cogburn seems to be the same from the John Wayne film.
My guess is that it’s that way in the book, too.
The original movie stuck VERY closely to the book, including much of the dialogue. The only place it departed from the book was the very end.
The courthouse scene in the trailer seems to hold to the original dialogue (of both the movie and book, I imagine), so I don’t think a lot will have changed.
“Shot, or killed?”
“Let us restrict it to killed so that we may then have a manageable figure!”
That right there makes me want to see the movie.
The first movie was about John Wayne in his older days, and his acquaintance with ‘Ha, om Glin Camel’. There’s a book with the same title, but it’s based on some fictional characters. I assume the new movie is based on the book, so some of these comparisons make no sense. If the new movie is based on the first movie, how could Matt Damon play Glen Campbell? Damon has no experience pretending to sing and play the guitar as Glen did, or look like he normally chews his cud. The first movie also had roles played by Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, Strother Martin, and TV regulars Kim Darby and John Fiedler.
If you noticed I used the term ‘first movie’, it’s because there was another True Grit movie, based on nothing. I’ve heard anecdotal evidence that watching that version makes people gouge out their eyes, and a persistent story that it’s star, Warren Oates, died of a heart attack simply from noticing the credit on his resume.
Otherwise, I might watch the movie out of curiousity. But it will be impossible to match the iconic scene, when the Duke, who had ignored the threats and attempts to murder him, finally got pissed off when Ned Pepper called him a one-eyed fat man, and shouted ‘Fill your hands, you son of a bitch’. In a 1969 G rated movie, this was the equivalent of a profanity so obscene that it hasn’t been invented yet, but since John Wayne was one of our founding fathers, his words were beyond rebuke.
I was not a big fan of John Wayne, but had to show that original version of True Grit about 30 times in a school where I taught as part of an ESL exercise. I got real sick of that film, real fast.
However, I might go see this version, out of idle curiosity, just to see what has changed - and will probably like it a lot more now that it does not have John Wayne it it.
I have always thought at Glen Campbell did an exceedingly poor job in the original. He was, after all, a singer trying to be an actor in serious movie. It showed. But from the trailers I’ve seen for the new one, Matt Damon plays his part just over-the-top enough to be an actor, playing a singer, trying to be an actor in a serious role. I can’t wait to see it. Should be a riot.
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Oh I can’t wait! It’s getting stellar early reviews (100% at Rotten Tomatoes, though I know it doesn’t mean much at this point), is already on several Best Of The Year lists, and people are even talking about a Best Picture Oscar nomination. I was already a huge fan of the book, the original movie, the Coens, Bridges, Damen and Brolin, but the more kudos I hear that this version is fantastic, the more excited I am.
Well, I’ll be a dissenting voice. I thought the original movie was good enough that no remake is necessary. I have no plans to see it anytime soon.