List of reasons Christmas can't come soon enough:

I'll start with This

Looks awfully, awfully compelling, pretty to look at and well acted. Whee could I possibly be wrong?

jg

That looks AWESOME!

I love the Coen brothers.

It has possibilities...I never saw the original, so I won't be quite as annoyed about the destruction of a classic

Never knew there WAS an original lol. I think it looks good, I always appreciated a good western.

If you haven't seen the original ... I don't know what to say. It really was a good movie. One of my top five favorite movies of any genre, ever. And I'm not a big John Wayne fan.

I'll see the new one, even if it looks like a near word-for-word remake in some scenes.

The girl is no Kim Darby, though.

HOLY BMW E36 M3! Thanks for the link, JG! Maybe I've been playing too much "Red Dead Redemption" on xBox..but that thing looks great. Bridges looks fantastic as Cogburn.

IMO, if the Coen Bros. did so well at remaking Homer's ancient Greek tales ("O Brother, Where Art Thou?"), then they should have no problem remaking an American tale.

slantvaliant wrote: If you haven't seen the original ... I don't know what to say. It really was a good movie. One of my top five favorite movies of any genre, ever. And I'm not a big John Wayne fan. I'll see the new one, even if it looks like a near word-for-word remake in some scenes. The girl is no Kim Darby, though.

Slant, that's actually what I'm hoping the Coen Bros. do. Dang near the same script, but delivered in the modern "method acting" way. A classic story, but more "realistic", maybe?

Anyway..I can't wait.

Kim's got a web presence:
http://www.kimdarby.com/home.html

Like women often do, it seems that Miri and Yeoman Rand became friends after finally figuring out Cap'n Kirk could be a shiny happy person, when it comes to his relationships with women..

"Big talk for a one eyed fat man."
"Fill your hands, you son of a bitch!"

One of my faves. I figure if anybody can do it without ruining it, its the Coens. Apparently they are writing it from the perspective of the girl, less so from Cogburns point of view.

I have been waiting, nervously, since I first heard about it a couple weeks ago.

I'm not a big John Wayne fan, I wouldn't TiVo the original if it came on, and pretty much every re-make ruins the original....but this actually seems decent. Jeff Bridges could do at least a decent (or very good) Rooster Cogburn and the "supporting cast" has to be pretty bad to be worse than Glen Campbell and Kim Darby.

I posted a thread on this a while back, but the search won't let me go back far enough.

The courtroom scene was shot in Blanco, Texas. My dad lives a few miles outside of town from there.

True Grit and the Coens is like beer and peanuts. Damn, this could be good. I would not have though of replacing The Duke with The Dude, but it's totally obvious.

While my grandpa was in Hawaii prior to heading out for the war, John Wayne sat down next to him in a bar. While at the bar, a guy made a pass or some sort of thinly veiled comment at my grandpa and Wayne and my grandpa threw him through a window. I do not condone homophobic attacks, but I do condone bar fights with John Wayne.

Obviously I have no idea it's true, but making it up would have been out of character. Crazy sumbitch had enough verifiable stories as it was. But, if you somehow discover it ISN'T true, please don't tell me. I'd rather live with the lie.

"Apparently they are writing it from the perspective of the girl, less so from Cogburns point of view."

The book is from Matty's POV, and includes the occasionally stilted language of the time.

Man, I don't know much about what you all are talking about, but I'm looking forward to Christmas too, because I'm heading out of snowy Ohio and heading to sunny Florida for two weeks.

The Coen brothers are the absolute best movie writers/directors/producers ever. Sure, in the words of Willie (Bad Santa), "They can't all be winners," but I'll never miss a Coen Brother's movie again.

I didn't know the genius of "O Brother" until I saw it on video. I immediately went out and bought it. My wife saw a part of Bad Santa and immediately went out to buy the movie so I could see it. Sure, Burn After Reading wasn't one of their best, but it still had the dry wit and dark comedy that only these two could come up with.

The absolute best music concert I ever saw was Down From The Mountain: Music from O' Brother Where Art Thou. Musicians included:

John Hartford, Alison Krauss, Ricky Scaggs, Patty Loveless, Emmylou Harris, Del McCoury, Rodney Crowell, Gillian Welch, Chris Thomas King, The Cox Family, Fairfield Four, Union Station, Colin Linden, The Nashville Bluegrass Band, The Peasall Sisters, Ralph Stanley, David Rawlings, The Whites.

slantvaliant wrote: "Apparently they are writing it from the perspective of the girl, less so from Cogburns point of view." The book is from Matty's POV, and includes the occasionally stilted language of the time.

Never occurred to me it was adapted from a novel. May have to search that out.

Looks like a good remake. And with Spielberg as executive producer. The trailers look like it's a good remake, that is, not messing up the plot. And hopefully there is still a plot, unlike other Coen bros' pictures like No Country.

I'll have to look for the book as well. The whole story takes place just south and west of here, Ft. Smith and into OK.

Another good book pair are the ones that the movie The Outlaw Josey Wales was based on: Gone to Texas and The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales, by Forrest Carter.

The movie is apparently more like the book rather then a remake of the original movie.

aircooled wrote: The movie is apparently more like the book rather then a remake of the original movie.

That actually sounds like something the Coen Bros. would do. I have to admit, I've never read the book..but I'm certainly enough of a film fan to see how badly Hollywood can screw up a good story, sometimes..(three movies based upon Richard Matheson's "I Am Legend", anyone? )