Comments on: All-but-Irish Men in Ireland and Non-American Cowboys

By: Answering Questions Asked Through Google XIII « Stuff

Answering Questions Asked Through Google XIII « Stuff — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:32:51 +0000

[...] I Love You (movie and book)… The book sucked. The movie was nice. In both, Gerry dies of a brain tumour. I don’t know more [...]

By: kalafudra

kalafudra — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:23:40 +0000

He was born in New Zealand, that’s what I took as my point of refernce… But he obviously spends more time in Australia, so objection acknowledged and I will, in the future, refer to him as Australian, except for when he makes trouble ;)

African Americans claim Mariah Carey? I thought she was a latina. Interesting.

By: liberrydwarf

liberrydwarf — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:37:06 +0000

Hey, no way, Big Russ is Australian! Kiwis get your dirty hands off him!

(To be fair, we only claim him when he behaves, when he’s in trouble he’s all America’s problem. Kind of like African Americans and Mariah Carey…)

By: kalafudra

kalafudra — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:10:53 +0000

Ich hätt kein Problem damit, dass es auf deutsch ist, aber ich glaub nicht, dass ich es haben will – außerdem krieg ich’s morgen schon geborgt.
Ich würd’s aber nicht wegschmeißen, sondern an bookcrossing geben (oder wirklich einfach in der Straßenbahn liegen lassen, oder beides). Ich find’s immer schade, wenn man Bücher wegwirft.
Ich kann mir gut vorstellen, dass es literarisch nichts wert ist und dass es vorhersehbar ist, aber ich glaube auch, dass es ganz gute Unterhaltung sein wird/kann. Mal schauen. Ab morgen weiß ich mehr und ich werde meine Erkenntnisse wie immer hier festhalten. :)

By: ambre

ambre — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:43:02 +0000

wenn du damit leben kannst, dass es auf deutsch ist, schenke ich dir gerne mein buch p.s. i love you. also ich liebe dich eigentlich.
wenn dus nicht willst, landet es im mistkuebel. vielleicht bin ich sogar gut drauf, und lass es in der straßenbahn liegen.
denn, bitte verzeih, das buch ist ein echter dreck. ich hab die ersten 30 seiten beim arbeiten nebenbei gelesen, eine kollegin hatte es mit. natuerlich musste ich wissen, obs noch besser wird und habs mir kurzerhand am naechsten tag in der zeitschriftenhandlung am suedbahnhof gekauft. (ehrlich- dort kann man es kaufen! sagt das nicht alles?)
und ich finds einfach nicht gut. die person, die es schrieb, hatte offensichtlich noch nie mit einem verlust klarzukommen. die handlung ist hundertprzentig vorraussehbar und die abgruende der menschen flach wie eine flunder. ausserdem drueckt es einfach zu oft auf die billig traenendruese.
pfui sag ich da nur!

By: kalafudra

kalafudra — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:44:11 +0000

I’m still thinking about it… Maybe it will gradually move up my list. I think I need to watch it again.

By: deadra

deadra — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:51:26 +0000

I really got Elmore Leonard wrong…shame on me. Bad K! No cookie!

That leaves me with a whole lot of unexplained weirdness packed into one movie.
I guess I’ll just go back to my Sergio Leone classics. Less brooding, more style.
I’ll leave the genre of “manly men being broody and doing weird shit because the sun has been roasting them under their dark hats for too long” to those who can appreciate it ^_^

By: kalafudra

kalafudra — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:36:40 +0000

I didn’t mind Hillary not having an Irish accent, I just found it weird that it took place in New York (being a book by an Irish writer, the story set in Dublin and everything). But that’s just some minor criticism.

Well, I like 3.10 to Yuma more the more I think about it – which is very good for a movie. I know what the ending is getting at but I still think that they could have taken a little more time with Wade’s change of mind. Probably that’s just me, though.

Yeah, I know Gerard Butler was in Reign of Fire, too. Oddly enough, I didn’t see him at all when I first saw that movie (guess I was “blinded” by Christian Bale) but I noticed him the second time I watched it.

By: Soosie

Soosie — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:56:56 +0000

I have to agree with you for the most part on PS I Love You. Great movie! But once you read the book, I think you’ll understand why Hillary needed no Irish accent. It was a wonderful movie that I forced my hubby to attend with me. He liked it too as it ended up!

As for 3:10 to Yuma………..well, I grew up on John Wayne movies and Louis L’Amour western paperbacks, so loved this one. It was not hard to understand any of it, but that is because I was dipped, soaked and branded with such stuff! It’s a keeper!

BTW, Gerard Butler (PSILY) was in Reign of Fire, too. He was Creedy–”Crispy” Creedy in the end.

Soosie