True Grit trailer looks good.

[Swede]

http://gawker.com/5655148/true-grit-no-country-for-even-older-men

[ceile]

1. Whoa.

Looks realllllyyyyy good.

[Archae]

2. No bloody way.

John Wayne and Kim Darby did that movie, and they did it GOOD.

This is just another "Gee, we're too stupid to come up with anything original, so we'll copy a good movie from 40 years ago."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN-j4GDqjv4

[ceile]

3. That may be true.

But for those of us with a serious dislike of John Wayne, this is will be as good as it gets....

[Swede]

4. This the Coen brothers using the book as source material.

This will be awesome.

[Blue_Tires]

5. +1000

I've been begging the movie gods for a moratorium on remakes for at least a decade now...

[jobycom]

7. El Wrongo, Bubba!

The first movie was one of my favorites, but it was different than the book in several ways, including a different ending. The book had a lot more dark humor, like much of what the Coen's direct. This is a case where the same original source material is being used for a different movie, not a remake of the first movie.

Seriously, you think the Coens are having problems with originality? Or with sales? They are the best filmmakers in Hollywood these days, in terms of consistency, quality, and marketability. They don't need a gimmick. If they are doing it, it is for the right reasons.

And sorry about the "Bubba" thing. Just an attention grabber, not a comment on you. :)

[fishwax]

12. I'm guessing this will prove better than the original

[Crankie Avalon]

6. Well, there's definitely room for improvement from the first film version...

...which was mostly OK but then made a complete travesty of the ending, opting for a crappy Hollywood-type finish instead of what was in the book (which was a perfect ending...read the book if you haven't and you'll see). Hopefully the Coen Brothers will finally right that particular film wrong.

Plus, it looks like the girl cast this time is actually the appropriate age for the character.

[jobycom]

9. That's their stated intention.

They wanted to make a new movie that follows the book, including the tone of the book. I've never read it, I'll have to take your word for it, but the only thing I didn't like about the old one was the ending. It seemed like a great, dark movie that they just tacked an easy ending on. Like "I Am Legend" or Demi Moore's "The Scarlet Letter."

[jobycom]

8. Looks bloody wicked.

I won't forget the John Wayne version (yeah, I liked it, sue me), but I'm looking forward to this one.

[Trailrider1951]

10. A bit of trivia here

Some of the town scenes were shot a few miles down the road from me in Granger, Texas. It took them about three weeks to film there, and one afternoon I arrived home in my little town of Bartlett to find the streets of "downtown" blocked off by local police. I asked about it, and they said that the Coen bros. were shooting one of the final scenes of their movie, and would be gone after that. This is only one of the reasons I look forward to seeing this movie.

[El Supremo]

11. Wow!!

One of my favorite movies remade even better?

The girls sing the music are the same ones who sang in "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?"

Here is Johnny Cash's song "God's Gonna Cut You Down": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG7aS07dAN0