I was hanging in until the U2 started. I didn't even make the entire 2:29 before I had to stop it.
Funny thing is...I read this book but have absolutely recollection of it.
@7 it was very uplifting, in that special "here, I'm going to uplift you now with some crap I googled out of Chicken Soup for the Soul" way, after squeezing it through some smarty-pants typographical trickery designed to conceal the utter banality of it all.
My theory is that it is impossible to write emotionally true stories about 9/11 because the part of our brains that makes emotional truth possible has been atrophied in Americans that the only thing we can respond to anymore is triteness that Hallmark would be embarrassed to print, or people being kicked in the nuts. But that may be too extreme. Maybe someone could. But Foer certainly didn't.
A movie showing this kid getting kicked in the nuts over and over for 90 minutes might work.
@6 - it's the book where the kid has to find an identical answering machine so him mom won't know that the dad left a series of ever more tragic messages from inside the burning world trade center and the kid was in the apartment at the time but wasn't supposed to be so he never picked up the phone and he wants to listen to the messages over and over.
That part was a fucking brilliant nugget of story telling.
There was also a key and I think there was also a couple of pages with all sorts of overlapping print which was annoyingly contrived.
@11, I also think Max Von Sydow is a treasure, but I won't see this movie just for him. The Renton Landing's prices are $13.50. Does that make you reconsider?
I also couldn't stand the alternate story about the grandparents. OK, fine, connect 9/11 with the firebombing of Dresden, but the manner of storytelling seemed to be deliberately aping History of Love, except not even remotely moving or true to life. Foer's wife is a much superior writer, and he shouldn't try to copy her.
I'm realizing that I can't judge a film by its trailer because all trailers follow just a few templates.
I started laughing because the lyrics "I want to run" and "I want to hide" came over literal images. That's always funny.
I still might give it a shot as a rental or on TV, but because of the associations with Billy Elliott, Sandra Bullock and U2, I rate the odds of this being crap at about 2:1.
I thought the book was amazing, beautiful and heartbreaking. I loved the character of Oscar (the kid). Judging from the first 45 seconds of the trailer, this film will have absolutely none of the charm of the novel.
I hated the book, hated, hated, hated the book. I was in NYC for 9/11 and I HATE when people try to re-create it. Stupid, stupid, stupid. And, what is wrong with U2?
It's okay, it's okay. This time of year also brings movies that actually deserve the awards. It'll be okay.
that smell wafting from your screen? it's well known as Eau de Contrived Pablum.
Funny thing is...I read this book but have absolutely recollection of it.
My theory is that it is impossible to write emotionally true stories about 9/11 because the part of our brains that makes emotional truth possible has been atrophied in Americans that the only thing we can respond to anymore is triteness that Hallmark would be embarrassed to print, or people being kicked in the nuts. But that may be too extreme. Maybe someone could. But Foer certainly didn't.
A movie showing this kid getting kicked in the nuts over and over for 90 minutes might work.
No thanks.
That part was a fucking brilliant nugget of story telling.
There was also a key and I think there was also a couple of pages with all sorts of overlapping print which was annoyingly contrived.
I also couldn't stand the alternate story about the grandparents. OK, fine, connect 9/11 with the firebombing of Dresden, but the manner of storytelling seemed to be deliberately aping History of Love, except not even remotely moving or true to life. Foer's wife is a much superior writer, and he shouldn't try to copy her.
..fuckers...
I'm realizing that I can't judge a film by its trailer because all trailers follow just a few templates.
I started laughing because the lyrics "I want to run" and "I want to hide" came over literal images. That's always funny.
I still might give it a shot as a rental or on TV, but because of the associations with Billy Elliott, Sandra Bullock and U2, I rate the odds of this being crap at about 2:1.