I’ve seen the previews and they look great.
Except, Jeff Bridges doesn’t look like a fat slob. He’s not even close to what Rooster Cogburn should look like. I’m not sure if Wayne deliberately gained weight for the role or not. Wayne was much thinner in his other 60’s roles (Alamo, Sons of Katie Elder, War Wagon).
I want to see the movie. I sure wish they had stuffed some padding in Bridges’ costume.
long preview here.
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/36671675/ns/today-entertainment/
A good recent piece on Bridges: Jeff Bridges on 'True Grit,' working with the Coen brothers, and the legacy of 'The Big Lebowski' - cleveland.com
The True Grit previews reminded me how much Eastwood borrowed for Unforgiven. Both involve a washed up guy helping someone get revenge. Rooster a fomer lawman and Eastwood’s character a gunfighter.
I hope this new version of True Grit doesn’t over do the violence. Shoot outs are fine. But, the graphic stuff they did in Unforgiven was way too much for me.
"Where’s the fuckin’ money… pilgrim?"
"It’s down there somewhere, lemme have another look, …one-eyed fat man.
True Grit is on my must-see-list since I’ve heard who was involved in the project; wouldn’t mind at all to discover it in the next sneak preview.
I’m curious. Did some seismic event occur when you decided to put John Wayne and Liberace into the same sentence?
This deserved a second mention.
True Grit opens tomorrow! Some theaters are having midnight shows tonight and if I didn’t have to get up early in the morning I’d be there. I’d planned on seeing it tomorrow night until I found out another theater is having a free showing of the original Tron, which I’ve never seen at all. I know it’s not supposed to be a very good movie, but I did want to see it before seeing the new one, and this is my only chance to see it on film. Thursday is out, I’m seeing a 1968 Japanese horror classic, Kuroneko, and it’s my last chance to see Enter The Void. Friday is out, so I’ll be seeing it Christmas Day. So much for “I’ll be there Opening day!” Sigh.
The novel is narrated from Mattie’s perspective and is about her True Grit, rather than Marshall Cogburn’s.
Have you ever seen a picture of the two of them together?
I’d say more but we’d both be in serious danger- though I will say that the famous Wayne/TRUE GRIT line “Fill your hands you son of a bitch” did NOT originate with Wayne.
I wonder if we’re just used to fatter people today. In the old west, people who were “fat” may have been only pleasantly plump by today’s standards.
Anyway, I CAN’T WAIT to see this movie. I love the book in a wholly unnatural way; I read it before ever seeing the original movie and I definitely think the Coens will do a superb job in upping the quirky quotient in keeping with the book. It reminds me in some ways of Addie Pray, the book upon which they based the movie Paper Moon. It’s a decent movie, but stops before the story realllly gets good. I’d love it see it in the hands of the Coens!
Hey, I read Addie Pray a few months ago and really enjoyed it. Paper Moon is a wonderful movie, but there’s a lot more good stuff in the book.
I just love Addie Pray. I appropriated many of the sayings in that book as my own, like “nervous as a cat with deaf kittens” and “he could sell doodlebugs for doorknobs.”
Whoever first sees the new True Grit, please start a spoiler-laden new thread.
I went to the midnight show after all, and started a new thread, though I request that spoilers and comparisons be kept in spoiler boxes, at least for a while.
Thanks!
You think the movie wasn’t about Mattie’s true grit? It was about the grit of both characters, same as the book. And as I said, the movie followed the book almost line for line.
I guess not enough people are anxious to see it, because the closest place to me playing it is all the way in Wells, Maine. That’s more than 30 miles from here, jeez. Dad’s gift isn’t coming until the 28th despite their promise to deliever today because the people at Bob’s Furniture are a bunch of [insert pit material rant] so I’m sort of hoping True Grit will show up some place a little closer by Tuesday 
I’m busy with family stuff right now, but hope to see it in the next week or so.
CNN’s reviewer loved it: Review: 'True Grit' resurrects a classic - CNN.com
I think the last paragraph answered the question it doesn’t really ask:
It’s a big fat slice of America - the Golden Globes are the Foreign Press Association. They don’t relate.
I’m going to to see it today, it’s my Christmas present to myself.
True to the book, and outstanding.
I’m also a fan of the John Wayne version.