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Post by Yossarian on Jul 11, 2013 19:20:07 GMT -4
Just not Portman! Ugh. To me, Charlize "looks" like how I imagine Amy looking. But Emily Blunt has that combination of frost and charm so she could pull it off too.
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Post by chonies on Jul 11, 2013 20:51:22 GMT -4
I really, really want Charlize. I think her role in Young Adult shows an excellent dark streak. I don't know Emily Blunt's work very much at all, I don't think.
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Post by Ladybug on Jul 17, 2013 14:02:09 GMT -4
Rosamund Pike as Amy? I think she could be good in this. She has the "patrician blonde" part down. Sorry for everyone pushing for Charlize.
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Post by Baby Fish Mouth on Jul 25, 2013 21:56:26 GMT -4
While I'm disappointed it wasn't Charlize, I enjoyed Pike in 2005's Pride and Prejudice. She certainly has the right look. This could be good.
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Post by minky on Jul 26, 2013 1:25:14 GMT -4
My book group all hated it. We thought it had a good premise and start, but no. I got a little annoyed by a few things: - It seemed obviously written to be optioned. I later read that another of her books had been optioned and it was before this one was published. It's just something that distracted me. It made the material seem a little soft.
- The diary trope made me suspicious of Amy immediately. I wish the mystery would have been drawn out longer for me.
- The nickname "Go."
- No resolution in the ending. I don't require that of all novels, but I really wanted Amy to be screwed over in some way, maybe pregnant by Desi instead of Nick.
I did find I could relate to both Amy's and Nick's frustrations with each other, the way they described the changes in their lives, behaviors, motivations in their relationship—the non-sociopathic ones anyway. |
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Post by chonies on Jul 26, 2013 9:17:39 GMT -4
The more I think about it, the more I came around to the creeping dread of the ending. But "Go" still bugs like crazy.
Pike looks fine, but part of Amy's character was that she was older than Nick, and I'm kind of skeptical about releasing my Team Charlize foam finger. Have the Dad or Margo been cast yet? I thought of Nick as more of a Justin Theroux type.
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Post by famvir on Jul 26, 2013 15:02:58 GMT -4
I read Go Girl, and missed the "Amy is older" story line. Since it was never part if my experience reading the story, I didn't miss it, and can't imagine how it might effect the story if it wasn't included.
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Post by chonies on Jul 26, 2013 15:28:55 GMT -4
She wasn't a lot older, maybe a four years or so, and it was included as a small detail in the beginning, I think in Amy's diary when she was describing when they met. To me, it added tension and a depth of field for the crazy, because in real life it could be the sort of detail that doesn't matter when everyone is younger and in their 20s and 30s, but with things like fertility windows closing, etc., it could heighten some interpersonal drama. It made the ending seem more intense, but YMMV.
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Post by famvir on Jul 26, 2013 15:45:58 GMT -4
Got it.
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Post by Ladybug on Jul 26, 2013 16:08:14 GMT -4
I'm on board with Rosamund Pike, but I am just not feeling Ben Affleck. When I was reading the book, I pictured Chris Evans, an "All-American" type of guy who could get away with anything because he was handsome and charming, but also kind of dim. I can't picture BA as Nick.
Also, I pictured Mary Lynn Rajskub as his sister Margo and Melissa McCarthy as the female detective, Jesse Williams as Amy's ex-boyfriend, and James Cromwell and Blythe Danner as her parents.
I don't know who they are going to have NPH and Tyler Perry (!?!?!) playing.
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