haha, he really is a shit.
― caek, Monday, 18 January 2010 16:00 (3 years ago) Permalink
Oh no, he was in a bookstore.
― Simon H., Monday, 18 January 2010 16:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
seriously - how pretentious
― fleetwood (s1ocki), Monday, 18 January 2010 16:04 (3 years ago) Permalink
next we'll hear he writes for an alt-weekly!
― Simon H., Monday, 18 January 2010 16:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
if he was honest he'd just admit he read it on his kindle.
― fleetwood (s1ocki), Monday, 18 January 2010 16:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
That's not earthy enough a story, tho!
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Monday, 18 January 2010 16:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
See, he was helping those poor indie bookstore workers from losing their jobs!
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Monday, 18 January 2010 16:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
you have really got the wrong takeaway from this story dude.
― fleetwood (s1ocki), Monday, 18 January 2010 16:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
name-dropping an indie bookstore is like the least objectionable thing this guy has ever done.
― fleetwood (s1ocki), Monday, 18 January 2010 16:31 (3 years ago) Permalink
I actually don't think much of this story is particularly objectionable.
That's Hollywood.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Monday, 18 January 2010 16:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
why did you do this then:
in the independent bookshop Book Soupin the independent bookshop Book Soupin the independent bookshop Book Soup
― fleetwood (s1ocki), Monday, 18 January 2010 16:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
Because it's hilarious.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Monday, 18 January 2010 16:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
the alliteration.
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 January 2010 16:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
the title of the shop, the notion of writing a screenplay in it, the carefully modulated assertion that it was an indie bookstore, not some suburban B&N ... all hysterical
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Monday, 18 January 2010 16:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
Unusual details!
Book Soup is an independent bookstore located at 8818 Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, California, and is the largest general interest independent bookstore in Hollywood. The store is "known for its tall, teetering stacks and mazes of shelves crammed with titles that attracted entertainment and tourist industry clientele..." Popular with many in the entertainment industry, the store hosts a number of events featuring celebrity authors including Muhammad Ali, Howard Stern, Annie Leibovitz, Chuck Palahniuk, Jenna Jameson, and The Doors. Considered a "cultural fixture" of the Sunset Strip, Book Soup has also been featured as a location in a number of films and television shows.The store was founded in 1975 by Glenn Goldman. Goldman and David Mackler (both in graduate school at UCLA at the time) raised $50,000 and, after doing extensive research on where to locate their store, opened Book Soup on Sunset Boulevard. The rationale for the location, as Goldman explained, was that there "had been a period of upheaval here in the '60s—of thought and ideas—and I felt that the people who lived in the neighborhood would and could really support a bookstore." Book Soup (the name was the least-offensive of those proposed by Goldman and Mackler) was nestled between a head shop and strip club. Mackler designed the store's interior.
The store was founded in 1975 by Glenn Goldman. Goldman and David Mackler (both in graduate school at UCLA at the time) raised $50,000 and, after doing extensive research on where to locate their store, opened Book Soup on Sunset Boulevard. The rationale for the location, as Goldman explained, was that there "had been a period of upheaval here in the '60s—of thought and ideas—and I felt that the people who lived in the neighborhood would and could really support a bookstore." Book Soup (the name was the least-offensive of those proposed by Goldman and Mackler) was nestled between a head shop and strip club. Mackler designed the store's interior.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 January 2010 16:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
What were the more offensive names, one wonders.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 January 2010 16:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Monday, January 18, 2010 11:38 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
uh i dont think he said he wrote the screenplay in the store haha
― fleetwood (s1ocki), Monday, 18 January 2010 16:40 (3 years ago) Permalink
also how is saying "the independent bookshop" carefully-modulated
Book Fuck
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 18 January 2010 16:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
Book Poop
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 January 2010 16:45 (3 years ago) Permalink
the independent bookshop poop soup
― fleetwood (s1ocki), Monday, 18 January 2010 16:45 (3 years ago) Permalink
Poop to Nuts
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 18 January 2010 16:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
Rough Bindings
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 18 January 2010 16:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
He discovered Walter Kirn’s novel “Up in the Air” in the independent bookshop Anal Book Hole
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 18 January 2010 16:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
anal book nook iirc
― fleetwood (s1ocki), Monday, 18 January 2010 16:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
"And he's called the Bookworm, you say."
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 January 2010 16:51 (3 years ago) Permalink
He should have just said he discovered it in a book store after he read a draft that someone else had adapted and sought out the novel. In a book store. Where people often find books.
Am I wrong, or is Walter Kirn another pseudo-conservative a la Chris Buckley?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 18 January 2010 17:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
He called himself a libertarian, I think in his KCRW Treatment interview.
― hardly a giant f-off pickup (Eazy), Monday, 18 January 2010 20:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
My favorite moment from the Golden Globes was Cameron winning best director and best film, because they would cut to Jason Reitman looking snotty and disappointed in the audience. He was clearly expecting to win.
― ô_o (Nicole), Monday, 18 January 2010 20:52 (3 years ago) Permalink
James Cameron is an annoying tool, but he still manages to be less objectionable than Jason Reitman.
― ô_o (Nicole), Monday, 18 January 2010 20:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
Reitman has proved himself to be a prat in a lot of ways, but I'll still root for him over Avatar any damn day.
― Simon H., Monday, 18 January 2010 20:56 (3 years ago) Permalink
no way
avatar's just corny, up in the air is actually straight objectionable
― cozen, Monday, 18 January 2010 22:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
Avatar isn't objectionable? Straight-up racist, pandering, focus-grouped-to-death faux new age BS.
― Simon H., Monday, 18 January 2010 22:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
Actually, Avatar wasn't focus-grouped.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 18 January 2010 23:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
im pretty meh on both films but i'd reward cameron's psycho creative lunacy over reitman's mannered libertarian feel-good pat-backing any day.
both films are basically anti-human, i'll side with the one with the aliens
― fleetwood (s1ocki), Monday, 18 January 2010 23:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
haha!a friend of mine is saying that i should actually go see this movie so that my objections to it have more cred. i'm like, i don't like anything jason reitman's done, on top of that i feel manipulated into sort of liking it while watching and then feeling confused and dirty afterwards. and every time i've heard him talk or read anything, i am made to sneer, which is unattractive on many levels. my tolerance for hollywood douchebaggery is low these days. i do like clooney, but maybe this will make me not like him! ohno!so...
― mind crystals over matter (rrrobyn), Monday, 18 January 2010 23:52 (3 years ago) Permalink
Clooney (and really the whole cast) is what keeps me from outright hating this movie.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 02:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
see, that just makes me think of the whole Little Miss Sunshine debacle all over again - awesome cast, uncreative writing, bad movie, get mega accolades, leaves me o_O - i find that kind of thing infuriating
― mind crystals over matter (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 02:52 (3 years ago) Permalink
if i go see this i will have to have a more nuanced take on this than "it sucks"
same thing w/ avatar tbh
― max, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 02:54 (3 years ago) Permalink
At least Avatar manages to have a coherent ending even if it is just hippie saccharin.
Little Miss Sunshine bugged me all the way through, but I liked the first two-thirds of UITA a lot (especially the scene where they crash the tech convention). Clooney/Farmiga amorality = A++. But man, that ending is so clumsy and WTF that I blurted out "are you fucking kidding me?" in the middle of it.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 03:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
psycho creative lunacy
I wish this were an accurate descriptor of Avatar's terrible qualities, but the truth is so much more banal.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 19 January 2010 06:56 (3 years ago) Permalink
what is the horrible truth about this movie neither of us likes
― fleetwood (s1ocki), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 07:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
There's no lunacy in it beyond the insane budget and crepey alien sex - it's just recycled plot points and shitty dialogue.
Also, Reitman (or the other screenwriter, whichever) gets points for getting rid of the Haggis-worthy cancer twist from the novel, whereas Cameron seems to have gotten rid of all the even vaguely interesting stuff that was in his original treatment.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 19 January 2010 07:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
who know Book Soup was as polarizing as this movie
― jartin short (jeff), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 07:40 (3 years ago) Permalink
haha who knew
best thing about UITA was farmiga's bottom
― caek, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 09:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
― max, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 02:54 (2 days ago
prolly not other than being able to say "it sucks and it was boring as fuck"
― thank u 4 being a fiend (m bison), Thursday, 21 January 2010 14:19 (3 years ago) Permalink
― caek, Tuesday, January 19, 2010 3:23 AM
spoiler alert, but this ^^^ is absolutely true, its only like 20 minutes into the movie so u will be sitting around wondering where the rest of the booty shots went
― thank u 4 being a fiend (m bison), Thursday, 21 January 2010 14:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
there were several audible gasps in the cinema i saw it in
― caek, Thursday, 21 January 2010 14:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
gif
― I think ur a probotector (cozen), Thursday, 21 January 2010 14:41 (3 years ago) Permalink