Saw this tonight, it was just ok.

I read this book. No way I'm watching someone saw off their own arm.

no wonder why I don't come around here enough anymore, you people have no taste in movies.

Far better than that overrated Slumdog, and it got right what Into the Wild got wrong

this chick that wants me to take her on a date wants to see this, guarantee its gonna suck cock but whatever

yeah, well, maybe you suck cock. how bout that?

I don't think there's any doubt about that at this point.

i saw it last week. i enjoyed it. not sure if i liked it enough to pay to go see it again, but it was good the first time around.

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jesus fuck to the tendon part. i knew it was coming. ugh!

yea im not horrible at it

shes a huge franco fan, i think hes pretty cool, maybe shes onto something with this

Haven't seen it yet. Think it looks fantastic. Hope to see it in the next couple of days.

Something about the whole "WHOOO! EXTREME!" first part of the trailer annoys the shit out of me and makes me think I'd root for the boulder.

if she sucks cock then that probably makes up for it

I may go tonight,depends.

I don't know if you have seen this yet, but the start of the film is just as you described. It felt like a long format ad from MTV sports and it kept me from caring about the character for most of the film. I would be shocked if this lives up to the critical hype come Oscar time.

Why do you think they chose to characterize him that way?

Yeah, I don't know if I'm just a grouch but that whole attitude/lifestyle is sort of insufferable to me. I love James Franco but I just can't see myself identifying with this movie at all.

I assume because:

very minor plot point:

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His hubris partially lead up to his situation. But it's not like he was schadenfreude-inducing bad, because the film makers need you to like him on some level and to show some type of maturation out of the event. It felt forced and the music was a huge, huge distraction.

That makes sense, and seems a little cheap (on their part). Still think I'm going to see it.

this is no masterpiece, mtv style editting.

it's entertaining but, just doesn't work sometimes. His memoried outside of being stuck there just aren't as capitivating as they should be either

And this is why I couldn't stand Emile Hirsch in Into the Wild , and why I didn't like the movie overall, because I could not identify or care for someone as wreckless and selfish as Christopher McCandless was.

But on the otherhand with Franco and Ralston, they had that wreckless and selfish annoyance too, but the writers got it right in showing Ralston's mistakes rather than glorifying them (Into the Wild). Therefore, I cared about Ralston in the last half.

It's not really what he did but how it appeared they were showing it. Like someone else said, "MTV style." I'm not trying to watch Road Rules when I go to the theater. Haven't seen Into The Wild but it doesn't seem like it has that problem.