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    Amelia: "The Whole Movie Is A Failure To Communicate"

    "It Was Sad. But Also Wild."

    Where The Wild Things Are: More Moody Than Wild

    Good Hair Doesn't Get To The Root Of The Issue

    Excuse My Gangsta Ways Is Both Illuminating And Uplifting

    Critics Say You Must (See) Whip It

    Race Relations

    Coco May Be Set Too Far Before Chanel

    Precious Is Off To A Good Start

    Sorority Row: Tedious, Unintentionally Horrifying
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    Image of hortense hortense
    10/23/09

    In reply to Amelia: "The Whole Movie Is A Failure To Communicate"
    Oh, this is so disappointing! I was really looking forward to this. #ameliareviews
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    10/23/09

    In reply to Amelia: "The Whole Movie Is A Failure To Communicate"
    OK. Another real-life female hero shot to hell by a crappy movie.

    But if they mess up a movie on the life of Marie Curie?? A whole lotta ass-whippin' is gonna come down.

    Do NOT mess with Madame Curie, Hollywood. You're on notice. #ameliareviews
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    Image of Diziet_Sma Diziet_Sma
    10/23/09

    @valhalla_i_am_coming: Do you come from the land of the ice and snow? #ameliareviews
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    10/23/09

    @Diziet_Sma: *lol* I come from the land of Viking kitties:

    [users.wolfcrews.com]

    always, always cracks me up. #ameliareviews
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    Image of Diziet_Sma Diziet_Sma
    10/23/09

    @valhalla_i_am_coming: EXCELLENT! I remember this from years ago, and then it got taken down - presumably because The Zep threatened legals. Thanks for the link! Oh, and awesome avatar-name, obvs. Robert Plant can be my overlord any day. #ameliareviews
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    10/23/09

    In reply to Amelia: "The Whole Movie Is A Failure To Communicate"
    Not surprised - the trailer looks dull dull dull. How can you fuck up the dialogue so badly, when you have real words like this as a starting point:

    "You must know again my reluctance to marry, my feeling that I shatter thereby chances in work which means so much to me. . . . In our life together I shall not hold you to any medieval code of faithfulness to me, nor shall I consider myself bound to you similarly. . . . I may have to keep some place where I can go to be myself now and then, for I cannot guarantee to endure at all the confinements of even an attractive cage."
    - From a letter Earhart gave to Putnam on their wedding day.

    This was in 1931. Think about it - how awesome is that? What an extraordinary character. #ameliareviews
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    Image of Mrs Lovett Mrs Lovett
    10/23/09

    In reply to Amelia: "The Whole Movie Is A Failure To Communicate"
    First "The Golden Age", then "The Duchess", and now this.

    Why are biopics about women always about the men they sleep with, not their awesome queenly/political/aviating adventures? #ameliareviews
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    Image of Rosie's Revenge Rosie's Revenge
    10/23/09

    In reply to Amelia: "The Whole Movie Is A Failure To Communicate"
    I'm sad about this because I love Mira Nair so much as a filmmaker. I was really hoping she'd have a critical hit with this. Just from the previews, it does seem like a very by the numbers movie.

    I highly recommend Monsoon Wedding and The Namesake. Vanity Fair looked beautiful, but the script was awful. Sounds like that's what happened with Amelia.

    And if you are going to have Ewan McGregor in your movie playing a paramour, put him in a steamy love scene, damnit! That is filmmaking 101. #ameliareviews
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    sybann promoted this comment Rosie's Revenge was starred Rosie's Revenge was unstarred
    Image of sybann sybann
    10/23/09

    @Rosie's Revenge: I loved both and even suffered Vanity Fair because it was SO gorgeous. #ameliareviews
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    Image of jigglyball jigglyball
    10/23/09

    In reply to Amelia: "The Whole Movie Is A Failure To Communicate"
    Aviatrix? Really? In the movie Variety saw, was Ms. Earhart wearing a Prada pencil skirt and stillettos during her transatlantic flights?

    I guess my trusty travel socks would render me a mere travelista. #ameliareviews
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    Image of HannahBethD HannahBethD
    10/23/09

    @jigglyball: In latin, words ending in -or are give -trix to make them feminine. #ameliareviews
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    Image of jigglyball jigglyball
    10/23/09

    @HannahBethD: I know, and I'm sure it was intended that way. But so often, pop writers go out of their way to label women with some combination of power and sex appreal a "-trix," which is more reference to dominatrix than to good Latin. #ameliareviews
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    Image of HannahBethD HannahBethD
    10/23/09

    @jigglyball: Yeah, I'm sure that was most likely the intent, but I cling ever so tightly in my faith in good grammar over misogyny. #ameliareviews
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    Image of hfree hfree
    10/23/09

    In reply to Amelia: "The Whole Movie Is A Failure To Communicate"
    I really wanted this movie to be awesome. Too bad it looks like boring dreck. What a waste. #ameliareviews
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    Image of curiousgeorgiana curiousgeorgiana
    10/23/09

    In reply to Amelia: "The Whole Movie Is A Failure To Communicate"
    "Amelia is a frustratingly old-school, Hollywood-style, inspirational biopic about Amelia Earhart that doesn't trust a viewer's independent assessment of the famous woman pictured on the screen." Emphasis added.

    This is exactly it. Trust your viewers and give them something to think about. What a waste of great story!!! #ameliareviews
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    Image of tiredfairy tiredfairy
    10/23/09

    In reply to Amelia: "The Whole Movie Is A Failure To Communicate"
    This makes me sad. I was obsessed with Earhart when I was about 10 or so, and I was so hoping this would be more...I don't know. Real, I guess. Some of the quoted dialog really seems trite. I'll see it anyway, though, just because of that nostalgia and because I think Earhart is a fascinating figure. #ameliareviews
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    Image of krismry krismry
    10/23/09

    In reply to Amelia: "The Whole Movie Is A Failure To Communicate"
    A sure winner, despite all obvious flaws, about my childhood hero, whose legend inspired a lifetime love of little airplanes. Happy times when seeing Bessie, Amelia's red Lockheed Vega,
    at the Air and Space Museum. Thanks so much to Margaret for this detailed and welcome post.
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    Image of Ruby_de_la_Booby Ruby_de_la_Booby
    10/23/09

    @krismry: The last time I was at the Air and Space Museum, I lost my retainer after taking it out to eat some Astronaut Ice Cream. #ameliareviews
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    krismry promoted this comment Ruby_de_la_Booby was starred Ruby_de_la_Booby was unstarred
    Image of krismry krismry
    10/24/09

    @Ruby_de_la_Booby: Everyone who can travel there should go look, it's the best place for airplane fiends, even if not so good for ice cream. #ameliareviews
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    Image of FattyCatty FattyCatty
    10/23/09

    In reply to Amelia: "The Whole Movie Is A Failure To Communicate"
    Maybe I'll just read an Earhart biography instead. Any suggestions?
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    curiousgeorgiana promoted this comment Edited by FattyCatty at 10/23/09 3:51 PM FattyCatty was starred FattyCatty was unstarred
    Image of tinytm11 tinytm11
    10/19/09

    In reply to "It Was Sad. But Also Wild."
    I brought my five year old daughter as a special mommy and me time Friday night. She had been wanting to see this movie for weeks, almost as much as I was so my husband and I decided she and I would go. We got popcorn, soda and candy so that kept her happy in it's own right, but she really did like the movie a lot. She has the book memorized, so for her, she was watching the movie looking for how it was similar to/different than the book.

    As for me, I loved it. I liked it initially but as I've had time to process it over the weekend, I realized just how great it was. I was surprised by how sad it was (not a bad thing by the way! Really right on IMO and so affecting). The theme and tone seemed a bit mature but I didn't feel like that took away from the story or my daughter's ability to enjoy it. It captured the wonder and imagination from the book and I really couldn't have been more pleased. #wherethewildthingsare
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    Image of Elizabooth Elizabooth
    10/19/09

    @tinytm11: my daughter is not quite five and she found a pull-out poster with all the characters' names on it in a magazine and she spent the week before the film opened poring over the poster, matching the characters to the pictures in the book (which she also has memorized). She knew all of the characters names before we even got to the theatre.

    Which is something I recommend to those of you who want to take smaller kids -- if they know the book well, take them to the website and introduce them to the characters. Then the movie is easier for them to follow and they can just focus on the story. #wherethewildthingsare
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    Image of prettycool prettycool
    10/19/09

    In reply to "It Was Sad. But Also Wild."
    The "Worried Shoes" cover distracted me every time, and occasionally Ira and Judith were too cutsey, but other than that my niece I watched with our face in our hands and big silly grins. #wherethewildthingsare
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    Image of the zeeba is galápagosing it up! the zeeba is galápagosing it up!
    10/19/09

    In reply to "It Was Sad. But Also Wild."
    There's nothing I could or would change, and yet something rubbed me the wrong way. I still love this version, but some of it was so much darker than expected. Maybe it's because I'm younger than a lot of jezzes around here, but more likely it's cause i can't handle scary stuff and can't handle change. This book was always one of my favorites and seeing it brought to life with so much more meaning and symbolism was a little frightening. #wherethewildthingsare
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    Image of Hooplehead Hooplehead
    10/19/09

    In reply to "It Was Sad. But Also Wild."
    Sorry for the double-submit!
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    Edited by Hooplehead at 10/19/09 5:40 PM Hooplehead was starred Hooplehead was unstarred
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