ADAM - New movie about someone with asperger's

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It looks like it might be good. I'll have to see it.

Looks like a good movie. I'd like to see it.

Hugh Dancy is a hottie.
And, he's even hotter playing an aspie. I'm definitely seeing this one!

It apparently won't be too much longer. http://content.foxsearchlight.com/films/node/3207 - opening July 29th in NYC & LA, elsewhere on Labor Day (September 7th.)

That looks quite good. It didn't seem too over the top like I have seen in other movies (such as Rain man). I too thought the 'forrest gump' bit was funny. I hope it does come over here soon. Man being in England sucks...

Something made me very afraid about that...
It looks good enough to the point it will become pretty mainstream and garner attention towards AS. Which, dont get me wrong, is good and great. But, I'm an 'in the closet' kind of person and I am just picturing a nightmare of people I know going 'omg, you probably have this? do you know that?' Or people bringing it up in conversation around me, oblivious to my experiance with AS, and talking about it a way I will not like and I really really dont want to have to correct them, or get passionate in my response to them. I also dont like the idea of this causing people who dont have AS to start saying they do, people who may just be depressed and looking for something, the kind of people who always need a crutch to lean on.

The trailer looks good, I'm gonna see. It doesnt look like it forces too much stuff into 90 minutes like Mozart and the Whale, stereotyping and making things out to be worse than they are (also, still a good movie). It looks like it is going to do a good job.
I just think I want this club to stay secret lol =P

I already promised myself I would see nothing until I saw Ponyo. I may have to break a promise made to myself.

I want to see it.

I can really understand what you're saying. I certainly have no plans to disclose my AS - especially not to the people I work with. But anyone who spends more than five minutes with me can tell that I'm the odd one out.

So I'm thinking that it might actually be beneficial to have a major motion picture that not only presents, in a very favorable light, the main character as having characteristics similar to me - but they also call it what it is - Asperger's Syndrome. Because it doesn't look as though they are making AS out to be a psychiatric disorder - that people who have it have something wrong with them. Instead they reference Einstein, Jefferson & Mozart (even though they then call attention to the slight absurdity of diagnosing these people after they are long dead) "THEY had Asperger's?" "Probably..."

Maybe it will cause people to re-evaluate the odd, quirky, & socially awkward people that they encounter in their lives. I don't expect that they will be calling me on it, or even talking behind my back - but they already know I don't fit in, so if seeing this film helps them to understand more about people like me, I think that's a good thing.

I can really understand what you're saying. I certainly have no plans to disclose my AS - especially not to the people I work with. But anyone who spends more than five minutes with me can tell that I'm the odd one out.

So I'm thinking that it might actually be beneficial to have a major motion picture that not only presents, in a very favorable light, the main character as having characteristics similar to me - but they also call it what it is - Asperger's Syndrome. Because it doesn't look as though they are making AS out to be a psychiatric disorder - that people who have it have something wrong with them. Instead they reference Einstein, Jefferson & Mozart (even though they then call attention to the slight absurdity of diagnosing these people after they are long dead) "THEY had Asperger's?" "Probably..."

Maybe it will cause people to re-evaluate the odd, quirky, & socially awkward people that they encounter in their lives. I don't expect that they will be calling me on it, or even talking behind my back - but they already know I don't fit in, so if seeing this film helps them to understand more about people like me, I think that's a good thing.

is it just me or is the guy totally overacting?

Maybe a bit...

But as someone earlier pointed out - it's a comedy, not a documentary. (And I can be much more awkward than he appears to be in that trailer.)

I just have an impression that he's trying to appear really dumb in a very unoriginal way.

and anyway, awkwardness aside, I never noticed AS/autistic people to appear so (excuse the word) ret*d. they usually seem very allert, intelligent and serious but this guy in the trailer actually does seem like he's trying to look like Forrest Gump

just read a great review of the film

http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/01/22/ ... yers-adam/

i'm really interested in seeing it now

I think there's a difference between the two characters, and an important one at that. Sheldon is FUNNY!! Adam just seems like an insecure stereotype of Aspies. You can make a stereotype but still make it believable, and Sheldon is proof of that to me.

This looks officially awesome

I give it my Thumbs up!

*Poses*

Looks funny and sweet, shows the blunt honesty we utilise and the obsessions we have.

Cute as well, especially the end. "I'm not Forest Gump you know" *Snickers*