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sheyanicole
Grove City, Ohio
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maybe decent. Pretty good cast. I really liked the newest book, Rant.
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Coremodels
Really close to Explorer's Club.
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Your wish is my command...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756666/
Invisible Monsters appears to be in production.
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osulew
My house...in the middle of my street
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Coremodels wrote Your wish is my command...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756666/
Invisible Monsters appears to be in production.
I will insist on seeing that on the day it is released and not a single day later. And upon further browsing, I think Sam Rockwell is a good Choice for Victor Mancini in Choke.
...and while you are granting wishes...I would like Rossi burgers to be free and contain zero fat and calories, and I wish that you would build an underground tunnel connecting my apartment directly to Pistacia Vera and one with a moving walkway to Schiller Park (Kirby has short legs and the walk there and back is going to wipe him out). And oh yes...I would wish for world peace. :D
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shroud
Polaris
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Awesome awesome news. I'm a huge Chuck P fan. I hope the adaptation does the book justice.
I'd really love to see Survivor adapted to film.
And funnily enough, Invisible Monsters is also my favorite Chuck P book by far... though I'm very, VERY wary about how well it would translate to screen. It's pretty far out there.
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Billionaire_Bot
Short North
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Awesome, I just finished reading CHOKE like a month ago.
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Daz
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sheyanicole wrote maybe decent. Pretty good cast. I really liked the newest book, Rant.
I liked it, but it was almost too chaotic for me... and the end was SO far fetched that it kind of lost me
and I agree that Sam Rockwell would make a great Victor Mancini.
Also, if they cut ONE scene out of the book for Invisible Monsters, I'd flip. It needs to be adapted perfectly to make it. Especially the scene where they're in the elevator of the Space Needle. Ridiculously great writing.
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sheyanicole
Grove City, Ohio
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Daz wrote
sheyanicole wrote maybe decent. Pretty good cast. I really liked the newest book, Rant.
I liked it, but it was almost too chaotic for me... and the end was SO far fetched that it kind of lost me
i think that refers to the whole time travel, don't question it, theme on the Hero's thread.
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Darkflash
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Oh good god, after I see these movies I will finaly be able to die.
I also am a massive Chuck P fan. I have read every book he has put out, even the non story ones. I cant wait to have a Chuck P marathon someday.
I will be so in on a CU opening day movie meetup for both of these.
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Ver-snatchie
C-BUs
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me to Im a HUGE fan ...
i just was trolling his website and saw that last year he came on tour here ..ugggg
i have read all but 3 of his books one being fight club ...and Im struggling to get myself to read that but they are on order at Amazon ..
when i first read his books i thought i hates reading form the inside out ..now Im addicted
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j mcclane
knuckle beach
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Ver-snatchie wrote me to Im a HUGE fan ...
i just was trolling his website and saw that last year he came on tour here ..ugggg
i have read all but 3 of his books one being fight club ...and Im struggling to get myself to read that but they are on order at Amazon ..
when i first read his books i thought i hates reading form the inside out ..now Im addicted
well you gota read fight club you'll be done in a weekend its such a superb read.
i never cared for choke all that much, it was probably like his fifth novel i got to, and i guess i got bored with the crudeness. it struck me as something shock-jockesque, like 'how nasty can i be?' however sam rockwell should be interesting in the movie, and invisible monsters is the bomb.
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Walker
The KLD / Downtown
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I never read the book, but Anne & I just got around to watching Choke last night and we were a little let down. A couple of good laughs here and there, but it felt like the movie was trying to sell the depraved angle without actually going there.
There were also a few elements that left us confused at the end that I think were probably explained a bit better in the book and weren't given proper exposure in the film. The bit with the foster mom in the mall didn't really explain to me that young Victor was taken in by foster parents several times and his real mom kept stealing him away (which I read afterward was the story from the book). I thought the film made it seem like they were running some kind of scam? I assumed he learned to con people from his mom, but it seems like she was just flat out crazy.
A couple of good laughs here and there, and some weird unconventional storytelling, but wasn't as entertained as I thought I would be.
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