Is anyone going to see this movie? I want to, but it looks too horrific. I don't want to spend the whole movie crying. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Obese, illiterate 16-year-old Claireece "Precious" Jones lives in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem with her dysfunctional family during the mid-1980's; she has been impregnated twice by her father, Carl, and is in a destructive and physically abusive relationship with her mother, Mary. After a visit from her high school social worker, Mrs. Weiss, Precious is invited to an alternative school where she hopes that her life can change direction.
I don't remember asking if I should go see it. I asked if anyone else was. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
No Muppets in it, as far as I can tell. I probably won't be there. More seriously, I almost always avoid downer movies. Life is way too short for that. If I want to observe life at its worst, all I have to do is read the newspaper, or if I'm feeling a little more energetic, talk to the people who sleep outside Union Station. When I go to a movie or turn on the TV, I want a break from real life.
I heard it's a very emotional film. I hate depressing movies. That's why I didn't want to see "This is It", but I'm glad I did.
But Ben only got his feelings hurt. Precious got raped by her father, had his children and was abused by her Mom for 'stealing her man'
Ben X did have something of a feelgood factor, though. He had his alternate life as a computer game character, and he did eventually get his revenge. It's hard to insert anything enjoyable into a movie where a kid gets raped then smacked about by the mother for 'stealing her man'.
I wouldn't mind seeing it, but I tend to wait and watch these kind of movies at home. It is too depressing for a night out IMO.
I take it you liked the Notebook then? There is a new movie I made a thread about My Sister's Keeper. It is a real tear jerker. I like a movie that can pull at my emotions too. So many movies are so shallow I really could give a shit about the characters. A good movie is one that gets me pissed off, or crying or laughing my ass off. These days I find it harder and harder to find ones that do. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Well I was just checking if you got the tastes lade', and it sure is quite apparent that Canadian women have the taste for movies and dislike the kind' of Twilight. I would recommend George Clooney's "Up In The Air"
Jim Carrey seems to overbend it with the grimaces, it looks a bit over unnatural of a comedy. Clooney is my fav. after Mel Gibson and Kevin Costner, o well...to each their own. So you like comedies?
