anticipate TRUE GRIT by the Coen brothers

xpost actually s1ocki there's probably at least 10 to 15 Westerns released on dvd a year, at least but they're all direct-to-video. But good Westerns? Yeah totally, they're scarce.

Not that I'm complaining...psyched for this. Love a good Western.

i hope this is good but it would be cool if it sucked and i got to use the hed TRUE SHIT

I'm in with anything True Grit related - the book, the movie, the remake. Sign me up!

You forgot the theme song!

Please, filmmakers! NO more Westerns!!!

― Oh man, schnitzelwich (admrl), Tuesday, September 28, 2010 1:20 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

dude seriously, what the hell.

Personally I'm hoping they try their hand at a viking movie next.

I shd probly read the book as I am only familiar w/ Wayne's parody

Srsly. I've only read the book, but that John Wayne trailer is wtf. It's looks like a parody trailer like the happy Shining one.

And, those are some tall-ass mountains in Oklahoma.

Bnw ftw.

What can i say? Young Guns aside, the western is not my favorite genre. And it does seem like every filmmaker of note has to make one eventually. The Proposition is probably the only recent western that I've liked. Plus i've seen a LOT of horrible student Westerns and I've been reading all the festival hype about Meek's Cutoff and suspect that it will suck.

I do like the Coen brothers though.

meek's cutoff is rad

I'm not particularly fond of Westerns either.

And it does seem like every filmmaker of note has to make one eventually

no? not since a long time ago anyway

'western' is a little broad to make a value judgement on

to of my fav movies are westerns btw: high plains drifter & dead man

srsly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4e3-YK3rVA&feature=related

my word is iron, fuiud

that scene is amazing

i watched that movie because you posted that scene (to your bl☭g?)

Love Outlaw of Josey Wales!!! Killer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdd07SDHv5Q

o ha lol xp

I like Dead Man, too.

We'll see about Meek's Cutoff

I've still yet to see a Rooster Cogburn that resembled Grover Cleveland.

my friend is in this film...i'm not friends with jeff bridges. not anymore.

I think my problem with westerns is that too many of them fall into the middle ground between adherence to the classic western and a radical break from it, insistence on historical accuracy or wilful ignorance of it. There have been a lot of bloated, confused average westerns made in the last 15-20 years. This has also given birth to that cliche "take away the location and the time period of [film X] and it is in fact A WESTERN", in terms of structure, character, politics, etc. The Western being an entirely made-up genre for the most part, most of these may as well be science fiction - Westworld had it right.

dunno how anyone can say this "looks amazing", you can't tell anything from this trailer..

introducing

JOSH BROLIN

as

JOHN MARSTEN

JEFF BRIDGES

as

LANDON RICKETTS

the font looks amazing

I R EXCITED

STELLA MCCARTNEY

as

CLINT EASTWOOD

and JACK BLACK

as

BIGFOOT

dunno how anyone can say this "looks amazing", you can't tell anything from this trailer..

― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand),

kinda otm. That said, I'll go see this.

This looks like a Coen Bros. movie.

u can totally vibe off this trailer

so is the book totes awes or what

should i read it

is it "true"ly "grit"ty

It's a fast read. It's funny. Mattie Ross is your typical Portis protagonist who's gotten herself way too deep into a situation she doesn't need to be in. There's a lot of action. The first quarter of the book is just her wandering around Fort Smith, and it's enough to keep you suckered in until the "good parts". Something not clear in the movie, but is in the book is that she's narrating the book as an old woman. So you've got this 14-year-old trying to avenge her father's murder all of a sudden namechecking Al Smith at times.

I usually hate remakes, but this new True Grit movie should be dead-on since "dark and funny" is pretty much the Coens' forté.

'western' is a little broad to make a value judgement on

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 28. September 2010 11:53 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

otm

u can totally vibe off this trailer

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, September 28, 2010 11:44 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

I'm not sure why the Coens didn't cast Meryl Streep as Cogburn.

She doesn't look like Grover Cleveland either.

Meryl Streep

http://tarotquest.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/meryl-streep-as-jewish.jpg

vs Grover

http://www.visitingdc.com/images/grover-cleveland-picture.jpg

so this will be obviously great

and probably adamrl will see it and he will literally die while watching it, he will have a heart attack from how much it owns

oh no :(

^^is that Brian Doyle Murray?

I wish they would make only westerns

I will make allowances for horror westerns, this is a vital subgenre

are you excited about the film of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln,_Vampire_Hunter

if you're not excited, then maybe the news that it will be produced by TIM BURTON will change that

Don't worry guys, I won't stop you liking westerns.

yup.

holds up to multiple rewatches for sure. Gets better as time goes on, I think.

What a great movie. Guess I avoided it all these years just b/c it was a Western. Should have immediately watched it after I loved (most of) Buster Scruggs.

Just rewatched this last Saturday with my wife. The attention to detail was superb throughout and I appreciated that the Coens reclaimed this as Maddie's story, instead of Cogburn's.

just watched this a few months back for the first time. the cast is great is my main takeaway. will have to rewatch after some time passes, didn't see it as top-tier coens but not minor coens either.

this was the only Coen brothers movie - other than the ladykillers - that I hadn't seen. maybe I should take the plunge with that turkey soon

the ladykillers has one good performance in it by the black landlady and a total stinkeroo from Tom Hanks. I'd be surprised if you stuck it to the end, as it just progressively sinks to lower and lower levels of badness as the time drags on.

i love the Coens a lot and can't imagine wanting to rewatch The Ladykillers, but there's plenty of time so

I imagine the Coens didn't audition Hanks for the role in Ladykillers, because Hanks was too big a star to audition. Big, big mistake. His complete inability to cope with his role ruined the movie beyond redemption. But, as the Coens no doubt knew, you don't tell that to Tom Hanks during shooting; you swallow hard, take your lumps, and never work with him again.

I thought he was trying to one up Peter Sellers tbh, or, he seems like an OK guy, maybe it was a tribute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afRFR2UNYzI

Poor Hailee. Her handlers wouldn't even let her sing in her own voice. They had to run it through some filter and drown it in a sea of overproduction. She was v good in the movie, though.

She really was.

I like True Grit but feel like it was a good movie brought down a bit from the upper tier Cohen Brothers oeuvre by the completely useless presence of Matt Damon. I'm enough of a classic western sap to enjoy lots of it though.

I completely forgot Matt Damon was in this!

Matt Damon is fabulous! He handled the comedy like a pro.

yeah, Matt Damon is great in this

his comedy paedophilia wasn't enough to compensate for him being a shit boring actor imo!

This was the era when Matt Damon realized he was a blank and shrewdly started to manipulate it for max impactx.