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This movie is enough to make Sylvia stick her head in an oven...

posted 11 years ago by PrometheusTree64
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...absolutely awful.

The book is one of the greatest first person narratives to ever capture the banal gross-out factors of life. It really is.

Ironically, whatever midguided psychology was behind the botched making of the film makes you wonder if Sylvia made the right choice... At least she'd never have to watch this.

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[–] fiatlux-1 11 years ago

I thought the book was phenomenal too! The film was horrid! What was the filmmaker thinking?!
It made zero sense, and had no direction no coherent plot.

I wish they would remake this.

"I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus."
"Didn't he discover America?"
"Penfold, shush."

[–] PrometheusTree64 9 years ago

I thought the book was phenomenal too! The film was horrid! What was the filmmaker thinking?!
It made zero sense, and had no direction no coherent plot.

I wish they would remake this.

I'm not sure a remake could fix the problem.

Didn't La Paltrow attempt it, or something similar, recently, but Plath's family refused to let them use her poems?

This kind of a story is almost impossible to do the right way --- it would have to be the perfect blend of first person narrative and period piece which almost no filmmaker is skilled (or sensitive) enough to pull off.

And nobody needs to try ... yet again. And fail again.

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