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Hillbilly Elegy is one of the worst movies I've seen in a long, long time
Posted on 11/24/20 at 9:05 am
Posted on 11/24/20 at 9:05 am
Just a weird movie. Disjointed past & present time jumps. The actors playing young and current JD Vance aren't very good. It is incoherent. They throw in stupid "poor people" stereotypes. I'm not sure what the message is supposed to be.
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Posted on 11/24/20 at 9:11 am to GetCocky11
I remember liking the book, to a small degree, when I first read it in 2016. It spoke to some of my concerns of opioid-addicted, perpetually impoverished white Appalachians. Not the most ground-breaking book ever written. But I sympathized with stories of Vance’s home life.
As far as the movie, I haven’t seen it. Ron Howard hasn’t made a good movie since Cinderella Man. (He has made 9 movies since then; 3 of them have been Da Vinci Code movies). Solo: A Star Wars Story was somewhat entertaining, but nothing special.
As far as the movie, I haven’t seen it. Ron Howard hasn’t made a good movie since Cinderella Man. (He has made 9 movies since then; 3 of them have been Da Vinci Code movies). Solo: A Star Wars Story was somewhat entertaining, but nothing special.
This post was edited on 11/24/20 at 9:20 am
Posted on 11/24/20 at 9:22 am to GetCocky11
The book is fantastic.
Honestly was unaware there was a movie.
Honestly was unaware there was a movie.
Posted on 11/24/20 at 10:42 am to LuckyTiger
Vance's life is a complex overlay of many (earned) stereotypes. I hope he'll write a book in another five years because his journey is far from over.
Ron Howard ... maybe had a good idea but would never have been my choice to make the movie. I'm not sure that Tyler Perry wouldn't have a better movie in him based on the book.
Ron Howard ... maybe had a good idea but would never have been my choice to make the movie. I'm not sure that Tyler Perry wouldn't have a better movie in him based on the book.
Posted on 11/24/20 at 11:12 am to GetCocky11
Peter Suderman Review
I was just reading this review. So, they left out all the transformative aspects of Vance’s life, including his time in the Marine Corps? Then what’s the point?
If there was one aspect of H.E. that was most interesting it was the story of how Vance broke away from the cycle or rural poverty.
I was just reading this review. So, they left out all the transformative aspects of Vance’s life, including his time in the Marine Corps? Then what’s the point?
If there was one aspect of H.E. that was most interesting it was the story of how Vance broke away from the cycle or rural poverty.
Posted on 11/24/20 at 11:20 am to GetCocky11
The trailer looked god awful and I got downvoted to hell for saying that too.
Posted on 11/24/20 at 12:06 pm to Woolfman_8
Gonna watch. I grew up dirt poor northeast Alabama at foothills of the Appalachians Mountains (Sand Mountain) in the valley not far from Chattanooga & Lookout Mountain. My g'ma raised me, mom had me at 17. Joined & retired from Navy to get away. Gonna see alot of parallells, lol.
Posted on 11/24/20 at 12:27 pm to gameovergt
The book is incredible, thought the trailer looked ok, bummer it sucks.
Posted on 11/24/20 at 2:08 pm to gameovergt
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Gonna watch. I grew up dirt poor northeast Alabama at foothills of the Appalachians Mountains (Sand Mountain) in the valley not far from Chattanooga & Lookout Mountain. My g'ma raised me, mom had me at 17. Joined & retired from Navy to get away. Gonna see alot of parallells, lol.
The same reason you want to watch is why I've been scared to death to read the book. I'm afraid I'll feel like I know a lot of those people from my tiny, poor, rural upbringing in N. La.
Like you, I got the hell out as fast as possible. But I do still go home.
Posted on 11/24/20 at 2:46 pm to Woolfman_8
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The trailer looked god awful and I got downvoted to hell for saying that too.
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Everyone thought it looked awful dude.
Posted on 11/24/20 at 6:48 pm to Jay Are
Wasn't good. Lifetime movie quality
Posted on 11/24/20 at 7:55 pm to GetCocky11
All the things that took place in 2011 were awful.. the guy that played the older J.D. was legit bad.. Everything with Glenn Close was pretty solid I thought though
Posted on 11/24/20 at 9:28 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Marine life wasn’t in the book jackass and wasn’t the point.
Posted on 11/24/20 at 9:47 pm to LifeTimeTiger2
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Marine life wasn’t in the book jackass and wasn’t the point.
Um, what? I’ll have to dig out my copy of the book, but there’s at least one chapter of the book that covers how enlisting in the military was the key to him breaking out of the poverty spiral his family was in. He specifically says that had he not taken some time to grow up, which the Marines provided him, he would have flunked out of Ohio State.
If that review I linked is correct, and his time in the Marines is completely ignored, it most certainly misses one of the key points of the book.
It’s implied that this experience gave him the masculine influence he was sorely needing after having an absentee father and the death of his grandfather.
This post was edited on 11/24/20 at 9:56 pm
Posted on 11/24/20 at 10:28 pm to GetCocky11
LOL. Yale Law School, but I may not get a job at a good firm.
Posted on 11/25/20 at 4:35 am to Mo Jeaux
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LOL. Yale Law School, but I may not get a job at a good firm.
But he doesn't know how the silverware works!
Posted on 11/26/20 at 9:26 am to GetCocky11
Did not read the book yet but watched interviews with Vance discussing it. Decided to watch the movie and found the story very compelling. Amy Adams and Glenn Close performances were solid.
Posted on 11/26/20 at 11:14 am to MikeEhrmantraut
John Nolte's thoughtful review of the movie
It's on Breitbart and IMO is worth skipping over the ads for the content.
Having read his review, I will reread the book.
It's on Breitbart and IMO is worth skipping over the ads for the content.
Having read his review, I will reread the book.
Posted on 11/29/20 at 4:47 pm to gameovergt
Thanks for the review. I grew up in Southern Appalachia (AL). Did you read the book? I have a feeling it is a memoir of my life lol.
Posted on 11/29/20 at 4:56 pm to Mo Jeaux
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LOL. Yale Law School, but I may not get a job at a good firm.
i laughed at this while watching
irl his gf (now wife) clerked for fricking Roberts and Kavabaugh, but he couldn't get A clerkship
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