Just came back from seeing Gone Girl as well and enjoyed myself thoroughly. I powered through the book prior to watching the movie -- it's a fairly faithful adaptation, but with slightly different pleasures. While not necessarily softening the (many, many) blows from the book, it manages to be quite funny, which surprised me. The casting is dynamite.
No studying? Damn! Next thing they'll tell me is I'll have to eat jelly doughnuts or sleep with a supermodel to get things done around here. I ask you, how much can one man give?
Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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Vonnie K - Oct 05, 2014 12:16:35 pm PDT #27842 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Amy - Oct 05, 2014 1:07:15 pm PDT #27843 of 30000
Because books.
I'm amazed how often I have occasion in my day-to-day life to say, in my best melodramatic Winona voice, "Take me away from all this death" except "death" becomes something like "paperwork" or "silly client chatter" or "report writing".
AWESOME.
megan walker - Oct 05, 2014 5:28:36 pm PDT #27844 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I think they did a good job with Gone Girl but I think I would really hate the ending if I hadn't read the book. It will be interesting to see what the reaction of the average non-reader is.
Tom Scola - Oct 09, 2014 9:59:38 am PDT #27845 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Brad Bird's Tomorrowland: [link]
Polter-Cow - Oct 09, 2014 5:14:43 pm PDT #27846 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I'm so in.
tommyrot - Oct 10, 2014 6:29:49 am PDT #27847 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
sumi - Oct 10, 2014 7:56:44 am PDT #27848 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
Article with an extended trailer to the documentary "We Are A Horse Nation".
It looks really interesting.
It's too bad it's coming out too late for the Equusfilmfestival. (Looks like a wide range of movies in that festival. Based on an earlier Horse Nation story.)
Rayne - Oct 12, 2014 6:55:58 pm PDT #27849 of 30000
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire
I just got back from seeing Gone Girl, and really liked it!
I'm now a huge fan of Carrie Coons after her performances in Gone Girl and The Leftovers.
I also thought Nick Dunne was quite a bit more sympathetic in the movie. I walked away from the book thinking "What a douchebag!"
I was also surprised at how many times I laughed during the movie.
Consuela - Oct 12, 2014 7:24:03 pm PDT #27850 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I took Dad to see The Judge with RDJ and Robert Duvall. It was too long, and a bit overdramatic, but the performances were all very good. Good family movie, basically.
SuziQ - Oct 14, 2014 9:31:41 am PDT #27851 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Just nod if you can hear me.