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| seagull |
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Mamma Mia! is the most fun they ever had at the movies. Which is a pity, really.
To explain, The film is testament to how much the millenial generation owes its sense of style to abercombrie and fitch. |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 12:02 am |
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Nancy wrote: lady wakasa wrote: I remember being really impressed with The Machinist, and impressed but a little freaked by American Psycho (well, I read the book first, and that goes much much farther), but I can't really say *what* it was I found so good anymore.
I tried, really tried, to read American Psycho, but it was so boring that I couldn't finish it, so I never saw the movie. Bale has been good in a number of movies, though. I did see The Dark Knight this afternoon, and thought Heath Ledger absolutely stole the movie. He was amazing.
I just saw American Psycho and afterward kept thinking how sorry I was that I hadn't read the book. Thanks Nancy and Lady. I feel like a huge weight has been taken off my shoulders. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 8:10 am |
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Nancy wrote: lady wakasa wrote: I remember being really impressed with The Machinist, and impressed but a little freaked by American Psycho (well, I read the book first, and that goes much much farther), but I can't really say *what* it was I found so good anymore.
I tried, really tried, to read American Psycho, but it was so boring that I couldn't finish it, so I never saw the movie. Bale has been good in a number of movies, though. I did see The Dark Knight this afternoon, and thought Heath Ledger absolutely stole the movie. He was amazing.
Well, it also killed off any desire I might have had to see the movie. So it nearly saved me the cost of the book. |
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| tirebiter |
| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 8:34 am |
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| If typing "Bart Easton Ellis" makes that bile rise, imagine how much worse typing "Bret Easton Ellis" would be! |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 8:38 am |
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tirebiter wrote: If typing "Bart Easton Ellis" makes that bile rise, imagine how much worse typing "Bret Easton Ellis" would be!
Or at least, that's my story - that and I cannot be bothered to actually look up the actual spelling. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 11:55 am |
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*LOL*
@ bart
*sigh* |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:34 pm |
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I read a little of American Psycho. There was an expert that came out at the time of release, which I thought wasn't bad but created in me no need to read more. And about a decade later, I sat down in a bookstore and began the first chapter out of curiousity, and found it obvious and dull. The work might have made a decent Hawthornesque short story, but there's just the one little idea to ponder, not a complex analysis to unfurl. It needed a light touch and darkly humorous treatement—it's just this little playful awareness of moral vacuity among the denizens of Wall Street—and Ellis is incapable of this. He is indeed a terrible, obvious writer.
The book was helped enormously by the giant wave of PC which at that time descended on anything/everything. Female typesetters refused to finish work on the book, they were so offended, and that sent up a huge (and quite serious) argument that the book should not be allowed to be printed. Of course, anyone with any belief in the Constitution, or simply anyone in any country with a belief in free expression, rushed to the novel's defense (not a defense of it's artistic integrity, just the right to exist). The result being the book was not only saved from oblivion, but destined to be a huge bestseller. Rarely has a novel or novelist deserved it less. On the other hand, it was great to see the Big Brother (and Sister) that then tried to control our country get it right in the face. |
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| Nancy |
| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 7:53 pm |
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| Reading American Psycho felt a lot like watching Last Year at Marienbad. And that's not a good thing. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 9:10 pm |
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| LOL! |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 9:13 pm |
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ehle64 wrote: *LOL*
@ bart
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He should be so lucky.
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| lshap |
| Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 3:48 pm |
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| Never read American Psycho. The film was a Ferrari-smokin' hotrod for Mr. Bale. He was awesome. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 3:57 pm |
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| mmmmm, sometimes I likey da Christians |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 5:58 pm |
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Nancy wrote: Reading American Psycho felt a lot like watching Last Year at Marienbad. And that's not a good thing.
I haven't read the book but from the sounds of it, that's not what would dissuade me from reading it. I thought LYAM was excellent. I've seen it a few times.
For me it was like poetry on film. Having a Poe-like quality. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 7:01 pm |
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| I am so into Poe. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 7:13 pm |
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| Have you seen Last Year at Marienbad, Wade? |
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