Keep in mind it's Saturday nite and the 2 year old has worn our ass out today with a fucking blueberry festival and an afternoon at the pool. I assume,
then, that No Country may be too intense? Seen either of the others? Need suckage factor.
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Kite Runner/Atonement/No Country For Old Men |
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Posts: 1183 Jun 28, 2008 5:07 PM Registered Member |
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Posts: 124 Jun 28, 2008 5:12 PM |
read all three books, but have only seen no country the movie. atonement was good, but extremely slow. and i hear the movie was the same way. kite runner was
an excelent book, but i have a hard time seeing how some of it could be properly translated to a movie. i actually want to see it so i can compare the two. no
country was very intense, but very much worth it.
"What we got here is a failure to communicate."
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Fogell |
Go with No Country | #2 | ||
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Posts: 513 Jun 28, 2008 5:19 PM Pop Culture Moron |
Atonment is good, but slow and depressing.
Kite runner is also good, but the main character is kind of a pussy, and at one point I wanted to jump through my television set and punch his pussy ass in the face.
"Polk's professional accomplishments far outweigh Vaught's." - Dan Tannah, alleged Ole Miss fan
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 Oxford Godfrey |
Not a good selection for exhaustion | #3 | ||
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Posts: 2664 Jun 28, 2008 5:22 PM
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"No Country" is brilliant but it's not an "easy read" even as a film. I'm actually forcing myself to watch "Atonement"
tonight, it's clogging up my Netflix queue (that and "Once," which the girlfriend begged to rent and never watched). I'm a film snob but have
zero interest in watching "The Kite Runner." You might want something a little lighter tonight. I'm no Marky Mark fan, and Joaquin is hit and
miss, but "We Own The Night" is a solid, middle of the road cop thriller in the NYC 1980s. No cinematic achievement, but these days I'm actually
opting to dumb it down by some people's perceptions. "There Will Be Blood" was a great piece of abstract cinema, but it wasn't really fun.
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rebelrouseri |
I thought Kite Runner was 3/4 of a great book. Just too much w/ the "bad guy" at the end. | #4 | ||
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Posts: 2909 Jun 28, 2008 5:25 PM Registered Member |
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Optimus Prime 4 |
I'm watching the new Futurama movie tonight. I tried to read Atonement and quit a third in | #5 | ||
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Posts: 6933 Jun 28, 2008 5:32 PM Shogun of Harlem |
I just couldn't do it. I've also got Spider Man 3 in , is that worth a shit?
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Optimus Prime 4 |
oh, and I'm totally going to see Wall-E tomorrow | #6 | ||
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Posts: 6934 Jun 28, 2008 5:33 PM Shogun of Harlem |
I just can't go see a kids movie by myself on a Saturday night.
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MisissippiTimes |
Wanted is good | #7 | ||
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Posts: 1410 Jun 28, 2008 5:37 PM NAFOOM Mascot |
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NorthLamar |
Spiderman3=Sucks, New Futurama=Brilliant | #8 | ||
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Posts: 137 Jun 28, 2008 5:43 PM |
that is all
There's always money in the banana stand
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CoolHandLuke |
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Posts: 125 Jun 28, 2008 7:57 PM |
atonement actually picked up a bit when robbie left for the war. the last 2/3 of the book moved a whole lot better than the terrible beginning. i would have
also put it down, but i just can't force myself to put a book down when i've started it. i will say this without hesitation. atonement was worlds
better than "on chesil beach." that book made me want to break a lot of shit. that book takes the whole "don't go up the stairs, don't
open the closet door, don't say what you're thinking, don't do whatever" to a whole new level.
"What we got here is a failure to communicate."
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Optimus Prime 4 |
well I stopped before he left. I usually can't quit a book or movie, but it was when I moved | #10 | ||
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Posts: 6936 Jun 28, 2008 8:05 PM Shogun of Harlem |
so I didn't read for a week or so, then just didn't care enough to pick it back up.
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Posts: 776 Jun 28, 2008 8:26 PM
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No country left me wanting more.
I did walk around with a quarter asking people to "Just call it" for about a week though.
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Posts: 95 Jun 28, 2008 8:42 PM |
Watch the first 3/4 of No Country for Old Men then cut it off. It will be the best 3/4 of a movie ever, the last 1/4 will be a waste.
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Oxford Godfrey |
Finally finished the film | #13 | ||
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Posts: 2665 Jun 29, 2008 12:42 AM
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I imagine the book is better, as the movie's pace is that of... a book's. Spidey 3 was a disappointment. I haven't seen Hulk yet, or I would be
going to Wall E tomorrow as well. It will end up being one of the most well reviewed films of the year.
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