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I just saw a preview last night, but I forgot what it was about.
I am curious about it, but I am a little nervous, too, because of the preview.
I am having a hard time expressing why the preview makes me uncomfortable, but I found a interesting blog about it that expresses what I cannot. This one is a pretty obnoxious commentary, but the comments and discussion are pretty interesting. Comparing the true story to the book to the expectations of the movie to the way the movie is being sold to audiences.
I may see it. But if I do, I will read the book first.
Ohh yeah. That's what it's about-Thanks!
It looked interesting. I probably would wait for it to come out on video & rent it...like most other movies! :)
The book was reallly good... it's a true story, and Michael Lewis did a great job telling it.
As for issues around race, the story is much more about socioeconomic differences (the football player the parents adopt is extremely poor) than it is about racial differences. I found the book really inspirational.
Just the trailer for this movie makes me tear up, no matter how many times I've seen it. I remember hearing about Michael Oher in real life, because I'm a big college football fan. College Gameday did a feature story about him during his last season at Ole Miss.
I think my FI put it best when we saw the trailer for this film before Where the Wild Things Are (awesome btw)- "Hmmm, I guess this is what happens when Hollywood buys your book about a poor black football player. They turn it into a story about a rich white woman."
Now, neither of us have seen the movie, but that is certainly the impression you get from the trailer.
I'm not sure how I feel about going to see the movie. I haven't read the book, but the trailer kind of leaves a lot to be desired...maybe we're seeing completly different trailers?
Oh I really want to see this, it looks really good. The FI and I are planning on going to see it as soon as it comes out, or has it already? Who doesn't love a good cinderalla story.
@His Barista: Did you see the actual trailer or just a commercial? The commercials never even caught my attention, but the trailer really got me.
@Miss Pearl: It comes out Nov. 20 I believe. (I wasn't sure whether it had started playing yet or not when I first posted.)
This is interesting. The more I read about it, it seems as though people who screened the movie say it is actually quite good. But I am surprised so many people want to see it based on the preview. The preview just left me with such an uncomfortable, off-putting feeling that I thought a lot more people would have had the same reaction. Weird.
@jocelyn3476 You know, I was thinking maybe I didn't have that reaction when I saw it was because I've seen the actual family being interviewed. They all seemed to genuinely care for one another and it was a really moving thing to hear them all tell their story. I didn't get the impression that it had those racial undertones for them as a family, so I didn't take it that way.
I too cried through the trailer!
I also cried through the trailer for "Precious"
Don't go by me though, I cry through that damn lost dog AT&T commercial
@allison: LOL! I'm right there with ya. That one hasn't made me cry, but there are several commercials that have!
@honeybun - glad I am not alone. I never used to be the weepy type, but I decided to embrace it, lol. Hallmark ads kill me too!
@allison: Have you seen or read Marley and Me? I made the huge mistake of going to see that in the theatre when it came out. I hadn't read the book and was misled by the jolly happy commercials. It was a bad, bad scene. You could hear almost everyone in the theatre sniffling. I had my head tilted back to keep my nose from running and it took EVERYTHING I had in me to not just let loose and bawl!!!!! What a disaster LOL!!!!
I can't see dogs die in movies. I can watch people die or children die. But if I know a dog is gonna die in a film, I won't go.
@jocelyn: Trust me, if I had known, I def. would not have done that to myself! As soon as I got home I hugged my dog for like 5 mins. SO hard and kept telling him I loved him and I think I started crying again a little bit. He was probably like "WTF?????" hahahaha
Noooooo I haven't seen it. My sister and I are both like that - if we know someone or an animal is going to die, we wait for the dvd to come out. I know it's totally lame, but we tend to be messes when we cry. I thought I would be ok for The Time Traveler's Wife since I've read the book a few times and knew what would happen...but hooollly gracious it caught me way the hell off guard. Uncontrollable weeping. So no Marley and Me (and I didn't know the story, but guessed a while ago from people's reactions!!), no My Sister's Keeper...none of that. I'll wait til I can catch them at home...I mean I cried through My Dog Skip, but at least I was in my own house, LOL. I already told my fiance I was going to cry through Precious so he will be prepared with the tissues! Poor guy, no wonder he only wants to see stuff like Couples Retreat and Transformers when we're spending the weekend together, ha ha ha.
My FI doesn't want to see this movie because it is set in his home town which he loathes.. AND because every single time I see the preview I break down into sobs... which is ridiculous. We were at the gym the other night and I saw the preview on one of the tvs.. without sound.. and I started crying..
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Anyone seen or going to see this movie? The ad for it keeps popping up on my screen and it reminded me of it LOL. The trailer for this came on as one of the previews when we went to see the MJ movie. It made me cry! The dang trailer!!! LOL I want to see it, but may have to wait 'til I can watch it at home. I don't want to be a wreck in public haha.