True Grit

I'm going to see this tomorrow. It's a remake of the John Wayne movie from 1969.

Anyone else gonna see it?

EDIT: I saw it earlier and thought it was very good. For an Coen Brothers "serious" movie, not a massive amount of violence, but then it takes it's material from the source book, rather than the 1969 movie with John Wayne.

Story of Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) who sets out to avenge her father's death by hiring US Marshall Rooster Cogburn (Jeff "The Dude" Bridges) to bring Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin) to justice. They are joined by Texas Ranger LaBoeuf (Matt Damon).

Roger Deakins cinematography is stunning as usual - surely it's his year to get an Oscar. The story moves along apace and has good humour. The central relationship between Rooster and Mattie is very good. Matt Damon continues to impress.

Everytime I see Josh Brolin, I just think he looks like his daddy. The Academy love him, and I thought that his role in this was only so so, but then what do I know. I still think Christopher Nolan was ROBBED!

Anyway, a pleasant way to spend a couple of hours, and a good remake but not a best picture nominee, but then again the Academy also love the Coen Bros. and I'm never too sure about them (Blood Simple was excellent as was Raising Arizona). Intolerable Cruelty was the equivalent of sticking a million pins in my eyeballs then making me try to blink and having my eyeballs scraped from the inside.