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04-19-2007, 11:27 PM
|  | bohemian artisan | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: bright lights...big city
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| | | running with scissors
who all loved it? i thought it was superbly brilliant and totally fantastic , not to mention true .i would have loved to have lived it. |
04-21-2007, 12:40 AM
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| | | I tried to read the book, but it was kind of depressing.. |
04-21-2007, 02:53 AM
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| | | I don't know about the film, but I love the thing.
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04-21-2007, 04:06 AM
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| | | it kind of felt forced, like too odd or weird. it tries too hard to be this weird suburban family comedy a'la american beauty. and some scenes were awful. annette bening started to annoy me. evan rachel wood was beautiful but her character too felt forced, when she cries on the phone and stuff. gwyneth was wasted. only jill clayburg affected me slightly. and i didn't like that the gay scenes were too tame, as if the actors were scared of doing stuff. but it was okay, i guess. it reminded me of this film called white oleander, which i preferred. |
04-21-2007, 05:16 AM
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| | | i read the book and didn't even know there is a movie.
i liked "dry" better. very funny book with really sad moments. |
04-21-2007, 05:36 AM
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| | | the movie was awful. about the only good thing was the soundtrack. havent read the book. |
04-21-2007, 04:05 PM
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| | | Loved the book. Hated the movie. |
04-21-2007, 07:23 PM
|  | glance, don't stare | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: vancouver area rug
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Originally Posted by seethelight  it kind of felt forced, like too odd or weird. it tries too hard to be this weird suburban family comedy a'la american beauty. and some scenes were awful. annette bening started to annoy me. evan rachel wood was beautiful but her character too felt forced, when she cries on the phone and stuff. gwyneth was wasted. only jill clayburg affected me slightly. and i didn't like that the gay scenes were too tame, as if the actors were scared of doing stuff. but it was okay, i guess. it reminded me of this film called white oleander, which i preferred. | this describes the movie's problems perfectly. |
05-10-2007, 10:32 PM
|  | fizzy lifting drinks | | Join Date: Jan 2007
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Originally Posted by seethelight it kind of felt forced, like too odd or weird. it tries too hard to be this weird suburban family comedy a'la american beauty. and some scenes were awful. annette bening started to annoy me. evan rachel wood was beautiful but her character too felt forced, when she cries on the phone and stuff. gwyneth was wasted. only jill clayburg affected me slightly. and i didn't like that the gay scenes were too tame, as if the actors were scared of doing stuff. but it was okay, i guess. it reminded me of this film called white oleander, which i preferred. | It should sound forced, since it frickin' WAS.
Here is an article from the January issue of Vanity Fair that I thought was very interesting regarding the credibility of Running With Scissors: Ruthless with Scissors: Fame & Scandal: vanityfair.com
And quite frankly, anyone who changes their name from "Chris" to "Augusten" when they get published can kiss my ass. |
05-10-2007, 10:36 PM
|  | Your mom loves me. | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: In the real world, as fucked up as it may be.
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Originally Posted by cricket It should sound forced, since it frickin' WAS.
Here is an article from the January issue of Vanity Fair that I thought was very interesting regarding the credibility of Running With Scissors: Ruthless with Scissors: Fame & Scandal: vanityfair.com
And quite frankly, anyone who changes their name from "Chris" to "Augusten" when they get published can kiss my ass. | Excellent!
I personally hated this movie. And I REALLY wanted to like it - it had so much potential. But it left me feeling cold ....
The best depressing movie that I've seen recently is "sherrybaby," with Maggie Gylenhaal. It was so fucking amazing ... I even cried. I hardly ever cry at movies, except for when I watched "The Green Mile." |
05-10-2007, 10:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Gold~Lion Excellent!
I personally hated this movie. And I REALLY wanted to like it - it had so much potential. But it left me feeling cold ....
The best depressing movie that I've seen recently is "sherrybaby," with Maggie Gylenhaal. It was so fucking amazing ... I even cried. I hardly ever cry at movies, except for when I watched "The Green Mile." | Re: Sherrybaby - YES. Loved it. |
05-11-2007, 12:34 AM
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| | | EVEN if burroughs is like james frey and made it all up and marketed it as a memoir (im not holding that against anyone ever anyway) the film was still a bad adaptation of the book in its present form
it was like the film failed to have any of the essential endearing parts of the book
i mean, natalie was "fat" in the book and i was really hoping to see her wandering around town in a mcdonald's uniform except the film just skanked her up in platform shoes and big doe eyes
the film totally decided to make this agnes/augusten relationship into something way more meaningful than was prevalent (in my opinion) in the book
and urgh neil bookman was all wrong
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05-12-2007, 01:15 PM
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personally i found it to be a very disappointing adaptation of an amazing book |
05-13-2007, 08:35 AM
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| | | it was really shit and im still sort of hostile about it.
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05-13-2007, 08:40 AM
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| | | i have the book and still haven't read it.
didn't know there was a movie, i will read the book first.
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06-16-2008, 03:56 PM
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| | | I personally loved the movie and I want to read the book very badly.
Has anyone came forth about Neil Bookman by the way? I know the Turcotte family has, but I wonder whatever happened to that guy... |
06-16-2008, 05:03 PM
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| | | the movie could have been so much better. i mean the book was fucking great. the movie had like none of the great detail sort of stuff that was in the book. very disappointing. |
06-16-2008, 05:18 PM
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Originally Posted by calalove i have the book and still haven't read it.
didn't know there was a movie, i will read the book first. | i still haven't read the book
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06-16-2008, 05:30 PM
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| | | affected pseudo weirdness.
MEH! |
06-16-2008, 07:22 PM
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| | | jesus christ, you're an idiot. "i would have loved to have lived it"? Uh, his childhood was pretty fucked, thats the whole angle. the movie sucks. augusten burroughs, as an author and as a human being is intelligent and hilarious. i love him because he reminds me of myself though. except for the whole gay male thing.
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