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re: Where the Crawdads Sing
Posted on 8/25/22 at 9:03 pm to Who_Dat_Tiger
Posted on 8/25/22 at 9:03 pm to Who_Dat_Tiger
My grandma lent me the book to read two weeks ago. After I finished it, I went to the theater. I was the only guy for the show. The movie is almost like the book which is hard to come by these days. Solid story!
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Posted on 8/25/22 at 10:42 pm to sledgehammer
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The movie is almost like the book which is hard to come by these days
Yeah, it followed the book really well. A couple of missed things and the book nails the ending a lot better, but it’s a pretty faithful adaptation.
Posted on 8/26/22 at 10:03 am to Who_Dat_Tiger
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Guess they were out around Cane Bayou for a lot of the filming then.
Folsom is correct.
Posted on 8/26/22 at 3:59 pm to Who_Dat_Tiger
I enjoyed the movie but a couple of tiny details made me irrationally irritated.
1. So the heir to a Western Auto store in a tiny podunk town is like the same as being a Duke in medieval England apparently? He just can’t marry below his lofty station?
2. Geography. Asheville is like an 8 hour drive across the state from any sort of beach/marshes in North Carolina. Do the writers not know just a little bit of the geography?
I think the low RT scores is because the writer has been semi-canceled for saying bad stuff about Africa and possibly being involved in the murder of a poacher.
1. So the heir to a Western Auto store in a tiny podunk town is like the same as being a Duke in medieval England apparently? He just can’t marry below his lofty station?
2. Geography. Asheville is like an 8 hour drive across the state from any sort of beach/marshes in North Carolina. Do the writers not know just a little bit of the geography?
I think the low RT scores is because the writer has been semi-canceled for saying bad stuff about Africa and possibly being involved in the murder of a poacher.
Posted on 8/26/22 at 7:34 pm to sledgehammer
Enjoyed it!
Posted on 8/27/22 at 2:54 pm to sledgehammer
Just got out. Solid movie all around. Enjoyed it.
Posted on 8/27/22 at 8:55 pm to alajones
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1. So the heir to a Western Auto store in a tiny podunk town is like the same as being a Duke in medieval England apparently? He just can’t marry below his lofty station?
He’s part of the Merchant class which is a big deal in the social structure of a small town back in the day.
Posted on 8/27/22 at 10:09 pm to MasonTiger
Just took the wife on a date to see it.
We enjoyed it.
The only glaring error in my mind was how they wandered all around that marsh and never got their asses eaten by mosquitoes.
How do they even film scenes in a marsh or swamp without getting eaten alive?
We enjoyed it.
The only glaring error in my mind was how they wandered all around that marsh and never got their asses eaten by mosquitoes.
How do they even film scenes in a marsh or swamp without getting eaten alive?
Posted on 8/27/22 at 11:37 pm to YumYum Sauce
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every white girl under 40 has posted this book on their feed the past 3 years, so i figured it sucked
Not a white girl, but I did read it during all the craze. It’s a shite book and only white wine drinking white women could possibly like it.
Posted on 8/28/22 at 6:24 pm to Who_Dat_Tiger
It was a bit chick flicky and cheesy but pretty good overall.
Posted on 8/28/22 at 7:50 pm to YumYum Sauce
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every white girl under 40 has posted this book on their feed the past 3 years, so i figured it sucked
Posted on 8/28/22 at 7:53 pm to TygerTyger
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Just took the wife on a date to see it. We enjoyed it.
I’m sure you enjoyed sex and the city also.
Posted on 8/28/22 at 9:41 pm to alajones
My wife’s birthday today and so I took her to see it. We are both mid 50’s My wife liked it ,I thought it was kind of meh. Popcorn was good but expensive
Posted on 8/29/22 at 7:29 am to BowDownToLSU
it's a little different from the usual. Grown up Kya is easy on the eyes.
Of course they never really say what happened. Guessing the necklace at the end is supposed to point to her?
But, there are a few other people who could have done it.
The old/new BF?
The store owner?
The military brother?
Of course they never really say what happened. Guessing the necklace at the end is supposed to point to her?
But, there are a few other people who could have done it.
The old/new BF?
The store owner?
The military brother?
Posted on 8/29/22 at 8:30 am to CP3LSU25
Can't stand Sex in the City.
But I can see the draw for women (my wife loves it).
Crawdads was a decent movie with a pretty good murder mystery plot.
It was my wife's turn to pick the movie we saw and considering how many shite movies there are out there now it could have been much worse.
But I can see the draw for women (my wife loves it).
Crawdads was a decent movie with a pretty good murder mystery plot.
It was my wife's turn to pick the movie we saw and considering how many shite movies there are out there now it could have been much worse.
Posted on 8/29/22 at 8:50 am to MorbidTheClown
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But, there are a few other people who could have done it.
The old/new BF?
The store owner?
The military brother?
I've got to believe that Kaya did it.
It definitely wasn't Tate. His look of surprise when he found the necklace was the sign that he had no idea it was there.
If it was the store owner or the brother (really doubt the brother) they would have then had to have secretly given Kaya the necklace. I don't think that's likely.
She did it. They all but tell you that when she's talking at dinner with the publicist about how lightning bugs have two different signals, one to mate, one to kill the male.
Posted on 8/29/22 at 8:52 am to TygerTyger
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the necklace
she could have taken the necklace after he died. they did make a point of her being able to cover her tracks.
Posted on 8/29/22 at 8:58 am to MorbidTheClown
SPOILER FOR BOOK & MOVIE
Yes. The book handles it better. In the book, Kya is fond of poetry and is occasionally reciting poems from her favorite poet (the end of the book also reveals that she is an accomplished, published poet under a pseudonym and the poems she had been reciting the entire book were actually her own. She kept that secret from everyone until death, including Tate). When Tate finds the necklace at the end, it is accompanied with a poem written by Kya about how female fireflies use their lights to attract potential male mates over to them, but the female ends up killing the male instead of mating with them. So the necklace with that poem makes it VERY clear she was the killer.
In the movie, she actually talks about the female fireflies killing the males during the brief dinner scene with the guy who wants to publish her book(s), but it is such a short scene that can be completely lost on the viewer. Not having that firefly story with the necklace reveal completed ruins the impact of the ending, imo. The significance of that firefly story was too easy to miss the way the movie did it.
Also, imo, the book does a better job of making you believe she is innocent the entire time. You read it thinking no way she did it and the "fake" trial was just to show the town's bias against her. So the reveal hits that much harder because, as the reader, you really believe that all of the "evidence" is bullshite. The movie loses a lot of that in translation - almost like it wants you to question whether or not she did it the entire time. Which is fine, but the ending loses impact if you questioned her innocence at all to some degree.
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Guessing the necklace at the end is supposed to point to her?
Yes. The book handles it better. In the book, Kya is fond of poetry and is occasionally reciting poems from her favorite poet (the end of the book also reveals that she is an accomplished, published poet under a pseudonym and the poems she had been reciting the entire book were actually her own. She kept that secret from everyone until death, including Tate). When Tate finds the necklace at the end, it is accompanied with a poem written by Kya about how female fireflies use their lights to attract potential male mates over to them, but the female ends up killing the male instead of mating with them. So the necklace with that poem makes it VERY clear she was the killer.
In the movie, she actually talks about the female fireflies killing the males during the brief dinner scene with the guy who wants to publish her book(s), but it is such a short scene that can be completely lost on the viewer. Not having that firefly story with the necklace reveal completed ruins the impact of the ending, imo. The significance of that firefly story was too easy to miss the way the movie did it.
Also, imo, the book does a better job of making you believe she is innocent the entire time. You read it thinking no way she did it and the "fake" trial was just to show the town's bias against her. So the reveal hits that much harder because, as the reader, you really believe that all of the "evidence" is bullshite. The movie loses a lot of that in translation - almost like it wants you to question whether or not she did it the entire time. Which is fine, but the ending loses impact if you questioned her innocence at all to some degree.
This post was edited on 8/29/22 at 9:06 am
Posted on 11/15/22 at 8:59 pm to beauchristopher
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streaming soon.
It’s on Netflix now.
Posted on 11/16/22 at 6:41 am to Aubie Spr96
I watched it Monday night and enjoyed it more than I thought I would.
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