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17 Oct 2009, 1:44 pm

What's your view on the movie?


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17 Oct 2009, 5:02 pm

I've never watched the film. I've read the book, however. I gave it 3/5 stars. It was short, read-in-one-sitting, didn't include enough detail, and didn't seem to follow a timeline very well (that's what I said looking back at my review).



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17 Oct 2009, 5:29 pm

It was a good film, with excellent acting performances all around. That said, it reminded me a bit too much of the superior One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.



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17 Oct 2009, 5:50 pm

I saw it when I was 16 and made me wonder if I had BPD too but I realize AS and that both share the same characteristics so I don't think I do.



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01 Oct 2010, 10:25 pm

Enigmatic_Oddity wrote:
It was a good film, with excellent acting performances all around.
I watched it last night, and I must say that I agree.


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02 Oct 2010, 12:28 am

I've always liked this. I'm a bit of a nut and i find solace imagining the girls in the movie are my friends.



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03 Oct 2010, 5:18 am

I love this film, a lot. I want to read the book and see how it compares.
Also Angelina Jolie and Brittany Murphy are amazing in it.


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03 Oct 2010, 6:11 am

When this movie came out, I was constantly being told that the main character reminded people of me (it probably didn't help that I essentially had the same haircut), so it always seemed kind of personal in an incomprehensible kind of way. I'm not sure the accuracy of the comparison. I was prone to being sad, playing guitar, and drawing in journals, but I wasn't prone to blowing strange men.

I did enjoy the movie well enough, though.


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03 Oct 2010, 7:19 am

Very good. Excellent performances. Several years now since I've see it though...


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03 Oct 2010, 12:44 pm

The End of the world by skeeter davis. I just remembered that song and its use in this film. Off to hunt it out now. :) :arrow: :(



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06 Oct 2010, 3:12 am

I liked the film, but I got really P-worded off when my psycho-git (what I call him!) told me I have borderline. I don't go around sleeping with random guys and I am not getting flashbacks and stuff...

But yeah, the film was really good.


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06 Oct 2010, 8:21 am

Enigmatic_Oddity wrote:
It was a good film, with excellent acting performances all around. That said, it reminded me a bit too much of the superior One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.


I love cuckoos nest! I indentified so much with the 17 year old guy in it. RP Mcmurphy is my own personal saviour and folk hero.



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06 Oct 2010, 11:24 am

One flew over the cuckoos nest was awesome, both the book and movie.

I watched Girls, interrupted, didn't read the book, not intending to since the movie was meh. Luckily the good acting saved it. Whatever happened to Winona Ryder anyway? She hasn't been in anything decent ever since.