True Grit

[yoco]

Release Date: December 25, 2010
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Screenwriter: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Barry Pepper, Hailee Steinfeld
Genre: Drama, Western

Fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross's (Hailee Steinfeld) father has been shot in cold blood by the coward Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin), and she is determined to bring him to justice. Enlisting the help of a trigger-happy, drunken U.S. Marshal, Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges), she sets out with him -- over his objections -- to hunt down Chaney. Her father's blood demands that she pursue the criminal into Indian territory and find him before a Texas Ranger named LeBoeuf (Matt Damon) catches him and brings him back to Texas for the murder of another man.

[slikrapid]

yet another remake, this time of an older western from 1969 starring john wayne (whose shoes cannot be filled so easily) that will probably end up as just another run-of-the-mill attempt at profiting from its predecessors, even though imo the 2 wayne movies involving the cogburn character aren't really that interesting in the first place and certainly not his top performance

here the choice of a non-hardened girl and damon as a ranger combined with coen brothers having no experience with westerns may prove as an additional obstacle

for great john wayne movies see:
The Searchers (1956) excellent
Rio Bravo (1959) excellent
The Alamo (1960) excellent
The Sons of Katie Elder (1965) very good
The Shootist (1976) very good, his last movie

for very good jeff bridges movies see:
Crazy Heart (2009)
K-PAX (2001)
Arlington Road (1999)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
King Kong (1976)

[dreamer]

trailer seems really unattractive..
didn't like No Country For Old Men too much either..
tooooooooooo slowwwwwwwwww!!

[yoco]

[mike_P]

This movie has grown dear to me it the last period...and it's not because of all the Oscar hype as i don't really find it to be the Oscar type of movie (allthough Bridges deserves it) but because it's simplicity and mostly because of the Bridges character. He's supposed to be a hateable character but somehow it reminded me of DArth Vader (funny i know)....bad-ass till the end but you always had the feeling he'll turn on his good side.