Does popular = good?

[Prudence]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

There is no Good

There is only Zuul?

[wendybeth]

So, the guys from that 'White Chicks' movie- are they not in SAG?

[Alex]

I could be wrong about SAG rules, but thought I had read about it some time. But I can't find anything to indicate my memory is correct.

But since the characters in White Girls are black men pretending to be white women I don't see where that would be a problem since they were played by black men dressed as white women.

[Strangler Lewis]

Boycott "Watermelon Man." Only white actors should play white bigots.

[wendybeth]

As a white woman, I am totally offended.



Not really. I suppose if I actually saw the movie I might be offended, but it would depend on how they portrayed white women.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

The crowd discussing what's good, what's gay, and what SAG is up to looks up.
*grand entrance*

Hello, all you wonderful people! A thread all about me, and it's not even my birthday, how generous! *bats eyelashes*

Anyway. Shawshank. Here's why I'm a statistical anomaly:

I read Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption ages before the movie came out, when I was enthralled with all things King. Like all of his novellas, it was pretty incredible, and moved me quite a bit. I read it at least 4 times before seeing the film - and Tim Robbins was NOT what I envisioned AT ALL. It was also WAY TOO DAMN SAPPY (thank you Strangler Lewis) and when you're talking Stephen King, it's hard to add sap, but they achieved it in freaking spades.

I never like adaptations of King. The movie Misery was awful for me. I understand why others would like these films but having absorbed every word of these books, over and over, it's impossible to be satisfied with the choices they make for the motion pictures.

As for popular = good....hah. Popular = popular and nothing more.

[blueerica]

Hmm, brings on a side topic for myself - favorite King adaptation.. I'll save that one for another day.

I suppose that in this thread I have yet to say whether popular = good.

Of course not; at least not on the individual level. But for more individuals than not, or at least those who took the time to respond (and that needs to be taken seriously into consideration when considering what imdb or any movie-related site has to say on a "rating" of a movie based on "popularity") the movie is "good."

"Good" is such a non-descriptor to me these days that they may have just as well said it was "okay." After all, don't most people say their day was "good" if it wasn't totally crap - by comparison, unless a movie was egregiously bad, don't they say "it was good" and if you're lucky enough for a discriminating opinion they might say, "but..."

Anyway... I don't buy much into what people say, aside from a few people I know very well.

[lizziebith]

Another way my hubby and I differ is that I could care less for King, except for his excellent "On Writing." We had dinner with him (they work together every so often), and I know he has such fervent fans that the whole time I felt like I was wasting a seat. He's very nice though. Still, his writing bores the *&^% out of me. Any movie seems an improvement. I even liked "Cujo."

Normally, I'd side with the written version of most stuff over the filmed, but I'm just not fan enough to think the written versions of King are so very great.

Cormac McCarthy though...I've got his back! I'm really hopeful that the new flick will do him justice!

[wendybeth]

God, I just read Cormac's 'The Road'. Good book, but depressed the **** out of me.

[blueerica]

Cormac McCarthy has to be one of my favorite writers of all time. Such gripping realism in his storytelling. So brutal. My introduction to him was Blood Meridian for a literature class I took last year.

And Lizziebith... You're just making me jealous. Stop. Please. Seriously.