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jwick25
11/27/09

In reply to Is The Lovely Bones a Masterpiece or Kinda Lame?
I read the book a few years back and was fairly disappointed. I felt that it could have been something much better. I was surprised after hearing such rave reviews.
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pooks
11/25/09

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The book sucked. I would expect nothing less from the movie.
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PaisleyPajamas
11/25/09

@pooks: I really detested the book as well. I expected MUCH more from a book receiving such accolades. I'd like to see a better execution of the premise by a writer who cares about her reader after chapter, say 5 or 6?
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Erda
11/26/09

@pooks: What really ruined it for me were the incredibly one-dimensional characters, and the just general treacly nature. It's interesting that at the same time I was reading a YA novel called Elsewhere with a somewhat similar premise, and I found that to be much more sophisticated and moving than Lovely Bones.
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eatsshootsleaves
11/26/09

@Erda: I read both of these two, and while I hated the pretentious and insulting Lovely Bones, Elsewhere was actually moving and imaginative.
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Erda
11/26/09

@Morne: Agreed. I mean, a lot of high schools teach The Great Gatsby and 1984 and no one would ever say those are "YA books." A lot of adult novels can easily be read by high schoolers, especially advanced ones.

@eatsshootsleaves: Yeah, it's amazing how imaginative and original some of the YA novels are, which is why as a college student I still occasionally read some of them. It just sucks that the ones that get the most popular - Twilight, for example - tend to be the worst, and I hope publishers don't take a cue from that drivel and stop publishing good YA novels.
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badasscat
11/25/09

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Well, I almost walked out on Heavenly Creatures, so if that's the best the critiques get, I'll pass.
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nicepony
11/25/09

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I saw Lovely Bones . It's horrible. An afterschool special meets a Skittles commercial. The girl from Atonement is good. But Mark Wahlberg is awful....in a really bad wig. Susan Sarandon is there for some reason too.
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twoeightnine
11/25/09

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I'm sorry but...
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PaisleyPajamas
11/25/09

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I just had a thought--what if...no, life could not be this kind, but if there is a Santa Claus: I really, really, really want Kathryn Bigelow (the former Mrs. James Cameron) to be nominated for Best Director for The Hurt Locker while Avatar is simpering in its last days of theatrical release before being lost to DVD obscurity.

I've been a good girl! I deserve this! Bigelow deserves it even more!
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oudemia
11/25/09

@PaisleyPajamas: The first former Mrs James Cameron. Or, wait, which one is she?
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oudemia
11/25/09

@PaisleyPajamas: Also, The Hurt Locker totally deserves it.
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PaisleyPajamas
11/25/09

@oudemia: Her IMDb bio says she was married to Cameron for a short time in the late 80s/early 90s. I really think she has him beat as a director comin' and a goin'.

[www.imdb.com]
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PaisleyPajamas
11/25/09

@oudemia: "If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie, the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't. There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible. It is." ~~Kathryn Bigelow
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oudemia
11/25/09

@PaisleyPajamas: Loove her. She is too cool to be anything but the first.
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TheSometimesWhy
11/25/09

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How long before there is a porn version of this movie? "The Lusty B--" No, I am not going there--it's the holidays and I have to learn to abstain in all forms...
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Friedhamster
11/25/09

@TheSometimesWhy: Your not supposed to abstain during the holdays, you're supposed get crazy.
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TheSometimesWhy
11/25/09

@Friedhamster: Sorry, Fried--I am lysdexic, so I oftentimes invert things. Thanks for the feet-dow--, um, I mean the heads-up.

#tips
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riotnrrd
11/25/09

@TheSometimesWhy: It could show in a double feature with "The Squirt Locker"
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twoeightnine
11/25/09

@TheSometimesWhy: I'm pretty sure The Long Bones has already been made.
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TheSometimesWhy
11/25/09

@riotnrrd: If I had any idea what I would start....

#tips
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TheSometimesWhy
11/25/09

@twoeightnine: (see previous post, please)...I may have abstained from the entire thing. And just for the sake of curiosity, 289, are you telling me no one worked the word "Boner" into the title? Because if that's what you're saying it is malfeasance of a level that may well require a class-action lawsuit on behalf of people like me who thrive on bad porn titles derived from conventional cinema.
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Friedhamster
11/25/09

@TheSometimesWhy: Well played sir! I laughed.

#tips
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vitajex
11/25/09

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I'm still waiting for the sequel, 'The Opulent Offal'.
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OliversArmy
11/26/09

@vitajex: The final movie in the trilogy, "The Human Stock"
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badasscat
11/18/09

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Ok, I didn't watch last night and I don't know when that pic up there is from, but Jesus Christ. Why didn't I appreciate this woman when I was like 15? Has she actually gotten more attractive now that she's 48 or whatever?
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braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
11/22/09

@badasscat: For real.
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jimstoic
11/18/09

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MP needs to find some interesting characters immediately. We already know Augie and Lipsyncha are going, but the blond guy and the doctor/whore are boresville as well. The "normal" couple are boring, but they are supposed to be, so they should stay. The only interesting character, at least from a nighttime soap perspective, is the lesbian "bitch." A character like Christian Siriano would be a great addition. Someone with a mysterious quasi-military role would be interesting. Likewise, a Persian JAP. And make it more like David Lynch's Mullholland Drive.
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Trulymadlyme
11/18/09

@jimstoic: They need gay people. I thought Ella was but they dropped that for a weak ass love triangle story line.
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terrible
11/18/09

@jimstoic: Is she actually a lesbian? Might have missed something, but I just figured from last night's girl/girl snog that she's just someone who knows which cards to play and when.
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DahlELama
11/18/09

@terrible: I'm pretty sure she's supposed to be bi; she obviously enjoys the males, as evidenced by her love for the boring man, but they also had her hooking up with a girl at a party in one of the earliest episodes.
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shle896
11/18/09

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So, which is it? Heather Locklear increases Melrose ratings by 15% last night and it's a dismal failure. Jay Leno is up 5% and Wow!

As I recall, she is credited with saving the show the first time round when ratings were low. I highly doubt she did it overnight - after but one appearance.
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DahlELama
11/18/09

@shle896: I guess it depends on the numbers you're starting out with, but fifteen percent seems like a decent percentage to me. Give Amanda a little more credit!
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