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Departments => Movies and TV => Topic started by: Mistress of Darkness on December 05, 2003, 04:20:39 PM
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Do the previews for this set anyone else's teeth on edge?
Doesn't there seem to be entirely too much pink involved?
I know none of the male types will probably care, but it makes me sick.
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huh? Is there a remake coming out? I take it set in modern day.
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Modern day and LDS. The premise is quite funny, in my mind. Instead of the gaggle of sisters that are always talking about marraige, it's a bunch of rommates at BYU.
I've actually heard pretty good things about this one, for what that's worth. It's not Halestorm, so that's a big plus.
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I just looked up the SL Tribune's review, and they said it was pretty good (which, coming from Sean Means - a critic who despises LDS cinema - is a high recommendation). He also said that the LDS references are few - BYU isn't ever even mentioned by name. One exception: The guy that marries Elizabeth's friend (I can't think of his name - the nerdy priest guy) is played as a nerdy RM who quotes the Ensign on dates.
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I do want to see it, but don't really want to drag my husband. Izzy, we should get together next weekend before finals and see it together.
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I really want to see it too--I'm just not sure I could convince Chris to go with me, since he hates Pride and Prejudice in the first place...
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/me shakes head
Too . . . much . . . pink.
But I'm all for a girl's night out. :D
When are finals?
/me ducks to avoid flying objects
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A week from now (friday and saturday) are reading days.
Finals start a week from monday.
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Ah, one of those. I suppose I'll have to wait till it comes out on video and someone who has Utah family brings it back from vacation, as I did with The RM. (Which, by the way, was definitely worth the price I paid--$0, borrowing the video from a friend.) I got lucky with The Singles Ward--happened to go out there for a visit when it was in the theater. I don't foresee myself going to Utah for years now, though. No reason (except my fine Utah friends, of course--but no school, no job, no family there, you see).
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Yeah, but I'm wondering how limited a release it is. One of the reviews I saw was from the website Askmen.com. They are a decidedly NON mormon type of website, (Think online Maxim, with twice the sex). They didn't mention ANYTHING about it being from Utah, or anything about Mormons. They just said, "Ugh, chick flick." It was kind of creepy.
However the website for the movie says it's only playing in Utah. So i'm decidedly disturbed by this.
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Oh, and Izzy- you're right. WAAAAAY too much pink.
I think the three of us should go, and then gloat about already being married. ;o)
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* Stacer sets Brenna, Mistress of Darkness, and Brenna on fire
That's what you get for gloating.
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Brenna, you got set on fire TWICE!
I meant to gloat at the characters in their relationship troubles.
:(
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lol. Maybe it's to make up for the fact that I've never been set on fire before. :)
It's fun to gloat at characters in movies--they can't get upset at you. :)
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I like to heckle them and mock them.
So, would Friday evening be okay? I actually have to work during the day. . . .
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Yes, Friday evening should be fine, though I think J.T. has to work so Izzy you might get to drive.
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:o
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Friday is good for me too. :)
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Ooo! I wanna go! Then, I can go set myself on fire and jump off the top of the Kimball Tower! And, even better! After that, I'll go listen to Morag tell me--at length--about his current role-playing campaign.
Boy, whatta night that would be!
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*giggles*
I would pay money for even just the last part, as long as Morag wouldn't be offended at me laughing through the whole thing.
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I've *mostly* conditioned him away from that sort of thing. He still slips a few in occasionally, however.
That's one thing that role-players never seem to understand--we don't want to hear about your campaign or your characters. Ever. Really, we don't. We'll nod when you start talking about it, but we're just being polite.
And, to be perfectly honest, I'm rather fond of P&P. However, a LDS remake. . .well, lets just say I'm skeptical. Plus I wouldn't be caught dead going to see a Jane Austin movie without a date. Fan or no, a man's got his reputation to worry about.
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must... make girly-man joke.... too many... choices....
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Aw Saint, be nice to him.
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this *is* being nice...
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I'm sorry EUOL, am I mistaken, or did the word "Date" just escape your lips! (fingers, whatever)
I am much mistaken if any of us are expecting the movie to be good, or even on the same level as Clueless. But it will be fun to have a girl's night out and mock and laugh. Bad movies are more fun when experienced in a group.
And Saint hates P&P, so I can't understand why he's even looking at the thread. The mention of Jane Austen does strange things to males.
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It took me years before I could enjoy Jane Austen--and I still don't really enjoy her books. She makes great movies, however. She should have been a screenwriter (or, given her era, a playwright).
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I really think it's a guy/girl thing. I enjoy her books. She tends to drag things out and take you through each step of a situation which probably leaves the guys wondering, "why?" It's the same feeling I have watching my husband play WC3.
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I really didn't like readin Austen. For chick flicks the style works, but for a book it's like, "Skip ahead 5 pages- has anything happened yet? No? Skip some more."
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That all depends on what you're expecting to happen. The "action" doesn't deal with what people do but with what they say, and who they say it to, and how they say it. If you look at it from the proper perspective, a ton of stuff happens in those 5 pages.
But like I said, I don't like the books much either, so I don't know why I'm defending them. Maybe because I like the time period.
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The time period is probably my LEAST favorite of all. If it was written after the first half of the 17th century, i'll wait till a 20th century re-telling. Except for Samuel Clemens. Now there was a good writer.
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Hear hear. Victorian lit is tolerable, if a bit smug but it's better than Modern crap.
Reading too much Hemingway or Joyce always me start yelling at people.
It was interesting reading the westerns from the same period as Victorian lit in my two classes though- same time period, different universes. I was proud to be an American.
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I think Victorian fiction is so funny.
I really wish my American Novel class had read more of literature other than Faulkener, et al. BLAH!!
So, what show time would you (fuzzy and Brenna) like to shoot for? I figure that I can pick Brenna up first and she can show me where fuzzy lives.
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women can't be expected to understand Hemingway.
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nor, in the interests of humane treatment, should they be asked to.
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I understand Hemingway. He's way better than Faulkner, imo--though I will admit that I've never really given Faulkner much of a chance. To be frank, I'd rather eat vegetables than read Faulkner.
I just think he's full of crap.
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You don't like vegetables? How old are you?
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At heart? About 6. To my credit, I don't throw temper tantrums when forced to eat them, but I do tend to avoid them.
EDIT: To my credit?? How about, "in my defense". Battin' 100 today.
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Hemmingway WAS full of crap. But he was less full of crap than most Modernists because he actually killed himself- the rest were just posuers.
And Izzy- when do you even work? I am sleeping in tomorrow and that is IT. Obviously an earlier and therefore cheaper movie would be better, but I don't know when you're free. About 4pm would be happy for me.
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Sadly, I work an 8 hr day, so that means it has to be evening. Earliest I can get out is 5:00, which means it will be about 5:30 before I get to Wymount.
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See, so we need to be asking YOU when is best.
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exactly! I'm free whenever. I have to work, but only in the morning tomorrow. Just let us know when you can go, Izzy, and we can work with that.
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Oh! I guess that's true.
Here are the show times:
7:00 and 9:20 at the Provo Mall.
I'm thinking 7.
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I want a report. Preferably from all three, so I can get a balanced view. Izzy and I don't always have matching tastes in movies. ;)
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Yes I would definitely prefer 7.
But let's go early so we can buy tickets and wander around the mall.
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7 is good for me. When are we actually leaving for the mall?
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Whenever you guys show up to pick me up. ;D
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That makes sense. So I guess I'll be heading over whenever Izzy comes to pick me up. :)
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Go find out where she is- we're going to need to leave pretty soon.
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She just called. She *just* got home, so she's grabbing a quick bite to eat, then we'll be on our way. See you soon.
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My roommates and I just watched the trailer and checked out the reviews. Looks like it's getting some really good reviews. Variety and Box Office magazine are both giving it quite good reviews and say it's the best of the LDS genre so far, with great crossover potential. From the looks of the trailer, I'm excited to see it. So maybe with all the good reviews, it'll get some wider exposure--and make it to Boston. Do tell what you thought of it, girls.
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So we went to see the movie last night. It had a lot more Mormon-ness in it than I'd been lead to believe, (which makes me wonder even MORE what Askmen.com was doing reviewing it... But that's neither here nor there.)
The general consensus seems to be "it didn't suck like I was afraid it would." I wish it would have tried just a *little* harder to be professional and less to be Mormon. It wasn't things that would seem obvious that were bad - the scene in sacrament meeting, for example, was excellent. But say, Collins' proposal was BAD. I felt like I was watching Final Cut, and just wanted it to be over.
My biggest complaint overall though is that they needed better cinematography- some of the camera angles were horrific. The last big scene, the "first kiss, yay happy ending scene," I was terribly stricken with how bad the camera angles were. And I'm not a film person normally- it's like computer animation for me: If I of all people notice it, it's REALLY BAD.
But that is part of what comes with having a small budget to work with I guess. This movie shows that as long as the people behind the camera get brains and some creativity, instead of thinking that Mormon-ads are great movie material, that the "mormon movie" genre could actually be good someday. Apart from that, as a movie it's a good chick flick, and it's an even better BYU co-ed chick flick. If you've ever been at BYU, you will be amused at how well the characters of Austen work with the characters of the Y - you'll recognize almost everyone in there from Austen as well as from your real life.
And we laughed a lot.
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Yes. Better than I thought it would be is very true. However, I found the ending highly disapointing. At least the "they kiss--yeah! happy ending" bit. Maybe it was do to the unnatural camera angles, but I think mostly it was just hyperbolic.
Too much PINK!! Though the "Pink Bible" was an interesting story device.
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Yes, having seen the movie instead of just the trailers, the amount of pink used is completely unnecessary. The pink had no bearing on the plot or the story whatsoever and it was totally not neede to establish the characters of the two sisters. They could have just had the Pink Bible be the "stand out" thing- and it would have stood out a lot more if there wasn't so much pink in their apartment.
Also, that house looked really familiar to me. Can anyone find out where they shot it?