Coens remaking True Grit

[ShogunRua]

Well, the second trailer just hit. It's WAY better than the first. Night and day.



Really, whoever cut the original teaser deserves to be fired.

[TheDenizen]

Hell yeah.

[Anomaly]

Just watched the original last night, and the story is fairly good and adventurous but the actual film itself was mediocre. Spotty acting, bad sound editing, odd pacing and weird transitions. Schnofel's review sums it up pretty good:

A spirited adventure, but heavy-footed, with acting all over the place. Should be dirtier and funnier. Cue the Coens.

Coens can certainly deliver on both dirty and funny. Interesting to see how the violence will be portrayed in the remake, since there's some pretty strong violence here for a G-rated western. I mean Dennis Hopper's character [spoiler]gets some fingers chopped off and is stabbed[/spoiler] all right on screen. Let's see if the Coens make it more gruesome.

[Melvin Smif]

Great film. Bridges was as great as I expected him to be. Brolin was hardly in the thing though, so that was disappointing.

Hailee Steinfeld was very good, and deserved a name on the poster. I could have done without meeting the bitter old maid she turned into. I'd rather remember her as a spunky girl myself.

[Stewball]

I could have done without meeting the bitter old maid she turned into. I'd rather remember her as a spunky girl myself.

Yeah, my one downgrade for the movie. Should have left the ending off or come up with something else.

[Melvin Smif]

I could have done without meeting the bitter old maid she turned into. I'd rather remember her as a spunky girl myself.

Yeah, my one downgrade for the movie. Should have left the ending off or come up with something else.

True, I haven't read the book so maybe they are remaining true to the source.

[omgfridge]

Found it disappointing. Saved by the humor/performances of Bridges/Steinfeld. That flash forward was pretty horrible.

Decent but I'm not going to go out of my way to recommend it.

[Anomaly]

Most people seem to be agreeing on the ending. I personally didn't find that change too terrible, but it was out of place. Otherwise pretty strong.

[tef]

I think the end is to reinforce that the girl is just a plain, unremarkable girl and that her thirst for vengeance was a one time thing, and not a defining trait.

[ayall]

Found it disappointing. Saved by the humor/performances of Bridges/Steinfeld. That flash forward was pretty horrible.

Decent but I'm not going to go out of my way to recommend it.

I agree, pretty disappointing and almost a completely failure for Coens if it didn't have their trademark humor and good performances by Bridges/Steinfeld.

In short, it looked like they were trying too hard with this "western style" they developed with Tommy Lee Jones in No Country for Old Men.


Not sure what the original ending is, but the ending the Coens used with the old bitter one armed lady is a huge anti-climax and shoulda been cut.