Looks great - Jeff Bridges is a worthy successor:

Hot Trailer: ‘True Grit’ – Deadline.com

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I love that movie. By the looks of the trailer, it sticks to the story.

It'll bring True Grit to a generation that never saw the original.

I'll do like I always do and wait for it to come out on DVD to watch.

GF

Superb actor. He should be excellent in the film. Loved him as the Dude in The Big Lebowski.

The Dude plays the Duke

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That looks like a remake worth watching. He's not John Wayne, but then again who is?

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I'll be seeing this.....Rio Bravo is on my tube as we speak (type). I'm a purist for the Duke, but Jeff Bridges is an actor that I like. Oddly enough, I'd like to see Lucky Ned Pepper (Robert Duvall in Rooster Cogburn) play the Duke in True Grit. Since they were already on-screen together in person, I think this would be great.

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I'm sure it will be a great remake...but it's almost sacrilegious. There was only one Duke. I still resent Mike Venturino trying to cop the nickname...

No matter how many wannabes come along, John Wayne will always be the one and only in my book!

John

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I've given this some serious thought, it looks like a good movie and it is a western. I grw up watching John Wayne, saw the original True Grit at the outdoor.

I will go see this one if it comes to Racine, I don't like Matt Damon but I can put up with him to see a western.

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The biggest problem I'm going to have with it is not seeing the breathtaking cinematography akin to great movies of the past. I know of course this wasn't true to the book or where the story was set. The original John Wayne True Grit was just like the earlier John Ford movies with its integration of majestic landscapes as part of the movie experience itself.

It may feature great or even better acting, but in regard to setting and backdrops, I am prepared to be terribly disappointed, underwhelmed and disenfranchised...just in case.

I will go see it...somewhat begrudgingly. In ways I want it to be good, but in ways I don't. Does that make sense?
We had a post about it quite some time ago when they announced it was being made. I want them to make more great westerns...just not remakes of old ones. I hope this does ok, because I want to see more made, but I don't want them to belittle the Duke's performance.

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Nobody but nobody beats John Wayne in my opinion. It does sound like a good movie and I will go see it. Don

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I think the Coens and Bridges are great! Especially together. Everything looks fantastic here. But one thing, and this isn't a complaint. In the original Cogburn mentions Judge Parker from Fort Smith. That was in the late 1880's-90's. There's no way a lawman in those days would pack a pair of Colt Dragoons like Bridges does. So I wonder. Was the book set in the early 1860's or around there?
Whatever the case, he looks great charging with those big guns and I'll be first in line when this comes out.

If you have time...take a look at this that someone did that chronicles where the original film was taken. If you look closely, the meadow is the same for several other westerns including How The West Was Won.

I hope you enjoy this as much as I have...I need to take a trip out there.
YouTube - John Wayne in True Grit, Then and Now, Extended Video

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Possible, but not likely. Have you seen No Country For Old Men? The Coen Bros and their cinematographer knocked it outta the park on that one. They captured those big TX and NM expanses in a spectacular fashion and those craggy, stark landscapes were so well filmed they almost seemd like a character in the film.

I agree 100%. I was mildly embarrassed for him the first time that I saw that in print.

As for the remake, I am sure that it is competently done, but I just am so sick of Hollywood just remaking things! Make something original!

This was great, Ang! I love this kind of stuff having visited the sites where Shane and Butch Cassidy was filmed. That was great stuff.

As a cyber fan of your posts, John, it saddens me to disagree. My Dad's hunting buddy across the street was a tough, wiry guy nicknamed Duke (it sure beat Lionel) and I never heard a reference to John Wayne once. Who knows how Venturino got the nickname. And if it was based on John Wayne it's fine with me. But I'm pregidous in favor of Venturino having met him once at his house in Livingston, Mt. where he was a great guy showing me a bunch of his guns (Triple Lock Target included) even though he never met me before.

Ok, now I must rant, not aiming at this one in particular, but I wish they would quit makeing movie remakes! If a movie is remake worthy it must have been a good movie to begin with so leave it alone. There are so many good books and ideas out there to bring to the big screen so why play it safe and remake a movie to be viewed by unsuspecting victem's?

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The John Wayne version is one of my favorite movies, but I look forward to seeing this one too.

But just for the record, the original story from the book starts in Yell County near Dardinelle, Arkansas (more or less west central Arkansas). Of course, Fort Smith is on the Arkansas/Oklahoma line, and then the pursuit was in Oklahoma (which was Indian Territory at the time). My point being, from what you can see in the short movie trailer it looks like they moved the Rocky Mountains 4 or 5 hundred miles into eastern Oklahoma. They did the same in the original version of the movie, which was filmed in Colorado, and there just ain't no mountains with snow covered peaks in Oklahoma or the Arkansas River Valley in Arkansas. The scenary is pretty, just not accurate.

But, I guess if John Wayne can make the sun set in the east in the movie Green Berets, moving the Rocky Mountains to Oklahoma and Arkansas should be no real feat.

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When I clicked on the original post's link for the preview, I was wondering if I would like a re-make of True Grit. The first part of the preview had me pretty excited. It looks very good. It does bother me a tiny bit to be re-making a John Wayne classic, but I think I could get over that.

Then I saw Matt Damon and Josh Brolin are in the movie and both are shown with guns. These two actors are extremely anti-gun and that bothers me a whole bunch!

To me, it's like having Jane Fonda play a Vietnam war hero. It's just wrong.

While I'd love to see the movie on the big screen, my inner being is screaming for me to wait for the $1 rental at Redbox or until it comes on HBO....

It'll probably be a great movie in it's own right.....but morally they shouldn't have made it. If they had to make it....it should have been Tom Selleck....but they shouldn't have made it.

After seeing the trailer I have to say that I'm looking forward to seeing it.