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[stoney321]

Got my first mini-sun burn this weekend while putting in the garden. YAY WARMTH. Except for how my shoulders are a little ouchie. I always forget to hit my shoulder blades with the sun screen. One day that skin will turn into a pair of leathery angel wings and my dream of becoming the embodiment of an Affliction t-shirt will come true

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[oatmellow]

There is color on my skin and it is not pasty white! it is the beginning of a lovely tan, because I sat in the sun for an hour and read yesterday and I watched a soccer game Saturday. All behold the awesome that is color on the skin!

I'm glad your film is getting some Kudos! Hopefully I'll be able to catch it this year at the LR Film Festival!

Had a very successful weekend of apartment hunting for the friend-boy who will be relocating to The Rock soon. It was 80 degress yesterday and I am still high from the Vitamin D. But today is very stormy weather so I'm thinking an afternoon nap might be in order...

[stoney321]

I have commented back, like, three times and LJ hosed it each time. BOO.

Anyway, sun, yay, you, yay, life, yay!

[violethamster]

Congrats on your movies! You're becoming quite the master thespian (I don't even know if there's some kind of double entendre in there). There's a film festival I've been meaning to go to, I'll keep an eye out to see if it plays there.

[stoney321]

Where did your comment go? Stupid LJ today. I'll post all of the upcoming fests as we get selected. <3

[bienegold]

I disagree that Mildred Pierce doesn't stand the test of time. The book is great (and I love the film, too). That said, the pacing on the miniseries is really terrible. I think part of the problem is that there just isn't enough material in the novel for a 5 parter. 3 or 4? Probably. Not five. The sleepiness of the score doesn't really help.

my $.02

[stoney321]

I know nothing of the book, I'm only commenting on the miniseries. And the miniseries immediately sets you up to be sympathetic with a woman that doesn't lend any sympathy. Then she is aghast and horrified to have to work, and esp. at a restaurant, the horror! I just... gimmie a break. I have no sympathy for her, and I wanted to slap her daughter across the face. Why watch something when no one is inspiring or sympathetic?

And in this day of Push and other movies that show real hardships for women, esp. when their life is on the line... not interested.

Re: my $.02

[bienegold]

I don't think you're actually think you're supposed to have sympathy for Mildred, the novel is more a snapshot, kind of. And if that's what the producers of the mini think, they've kind of misinterpreted the novel, imo.

I totally get wanting to having sympathetic characters in [media product], but the source is a novel by one of the fathers of the hardboiled genre. James M. Cain doesn't really do sympathetic. Pathetic characters, sure.

I think the very nature of television kind of takes away from the story, too, as much as I was looking forward to it. There are a lot of funny lines in the book (it's certainly not a comedy, but it lightens the horror a bit), and you really lose out on Mildred and Bert's background as well.

Sorry, that's a bit tl;dr. I was really looking forward to the miniseries because I really like Cain, and while it's not the worst thing I've ever watched, it's definitely not as good as I was hoping it would be, especially when I went to bat for its not being a straight remake of the movie.

Re: my $.02

[chrryblssmninja]

I only know the movie version, but in that one Mildred is very glad to have the diner job. The daughter is horrible, though.

[a2zmom]

I am waiting for Falsh 9 to dl so I can watch the trailer. The description was a riot however.

Try not to get permanently banned from Las Vegas. Although on second though, it would mean you had a rocking time.

[stoney321]

I don't know what Falsh 9 is? Am I hopelessly lame or something?

I have a feeling we'll just need bail money, no banning. None of us are smart enough to be card counters. ;)

[a2zmom]

You're not hopelessly lame. I'm a hopelessly bad typist. I meant flash 9.

I bet if you try very hard you can get banned for something other than card counting. (my husband's cousin did get banned for card counting. He paid his bills for a while doing that.)

[stoney321]

Ahahahaha, I thought it was some new Sci-Fi show that all the cool kids knew about!

[stoney321]

Many exciting times!

Anne, it's just dreadful. Slow, slow, slow, unlikeable characters, scenes that take waaaaaaaay too long to play out, ugh. You're not missing anything.