It wasn’t too long ago that the Coen Brothers’ True Grit teaser hit, and now that the full-length trailer is here, I don’t have much to say other than what I’ve already said. i.e., if you don’t want to see The Dude as a an eyepatch-wearing drunk shooting two pistols at people, I don’t what to tell you, other than that you’re a communist.  I’d rather limit today’s discussion to “OMG, OMG, THERE’S A BEAR ON A HORSE!”  (*flails arms above head, runs about the room*)

Also, I made you guys something VERY SPECIAL:

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If you saw the trailer for the Coen Brothers’ True Grit, you probably saw Jeff Bridges wearing an eye patch, firing pistols on horseback and thought, “Hot damn, has there ever been a single image that could sell an entire movie as easily as this one?”  Unless you were the actual Coen Brothers, in which case you thought, “F*ck you, we’re the Coen Brothers.  Our poster is going to have text.  You still gonna see it?  Yeah, that’s what I thought.  P*ssy.”

I’ve heard that on the set of their movies, instead of golf carts, the Coen Brothers just stomp around everywhere like the Bushwhackers.  True story.

[via InContention]

I know it’s a total cliché for a person who writes about movies for a living to love the Coen Brothers, but some clichés exist because they’re true.  The Coen Brothers are just really godd*mn amazing.  This is the trailer for True Grit (an closer adaptation of the Charles Portis novel, not a remake of the John Wayne movie, in case some punk at the local tavern starts talking crap to you about it), starring Jeff Bridges as a drunken old Sheriff named Rooster Cogburn who helps a 14-year-old girl hunt down her father’s killer.  It’s also got Matt Damon, Barry Pepper, and Josh Brolin, and little kids singin’ old-timey songs a lá O Brother Where Art Thou.  In fact, this children’s choir makes the children’s choir in the Social Network trailer look like two retarded kids playing snot kazoos.  If you’re not excited about this movie, you are communist and I hate you.

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What with all the trailers for Little Fockers and Jake Gyllenhaal curing Anne Hathaway’s Parkinson’s with love and boner pills (actual title), I don’t blame you for forgetting that there are still a few projects that actually look good. Namely, the Coen Bros’ True Grit, opening in December. I posted a few set pics a while back, but I believe this is the first official still.  The adaptation of the Charles Portis novel (which was previously adapted in 1969 with John Wayne) also includes Josh Brolin and Barry Pepper, and will tell the story from the point of view of the little girl (Hailee Steinfeld) who joins Sheriff Rooster Cogburn (Bridges) on the manhunt for her father’s killer.  But honestly, if you needed more than “The Dude plays an eye-patch-wearing drunk,” I’m not sure we can be friends.

Yes, I know it’s just a picture, but let’s face it, you’ve pleasured yourself to less.  Also, this one includes 14-year-old girl in pigtails. Hmm. What I meant to say was, “This looks good.”

[picture via Twitch]

"Hey, little girl, wanna see my pocket watch?"

I’ll be honest, folks: even though I’m a movie blogger and thus legally required to fan my fat face in nerdish anticipation at every story involving guys in spandex suits, I think I like Coen Brothers stories more.  On that note, here are the latest set pics (via this guy) of Jeff Bridges as Rooster Cogburn on the set of the Coen Brothers’ remake re-adaptation of the Charles Portis novel, True Grit.  It opens Christmas Day.

That’s Hailey Steinfeld as Mattie Ross, and in this version, like in the novel, the story is told from her perspective.  Josh Brolin and Matt Damon have supporting roles.  Also, one of the characters is named “Bear Grit.”  He’s named of course for the grade of sandpaper designed for use on surfaces covered in bears.  Anyway, all of this sounds good.  But, honestly, you had me at “The Dude plays an eyepatch-wearing drunk.”

Those are the best kind of drunks.  This project earns the FilmDrunk Seal of Approval.

[set pics via this guy, who has plenty more]