Watched "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" last night

[joeybee12]

What crap.

The first half hour was decent, but then I kept waiting for it to get interesting, and it never did. Just one scene in the graveyard, then a series of courtroom scenes, and of course, Clint's fixation with transvestites was apparent--I mean, the Lady Chablis played really no integral part in the movie. And the Spacey dies, supposed from some voo-doo.

As for Alison Eastwood, well, we know how this charmless, lousy actress got her role.

And Kevin Spacey played a closeted homosexual--what a stretch!!!!!!!!!

[Bertha Venation]

1. We must've watched two different movies.

I was riveted. :shrug:

Too bad you didn't enjoy it.

[joeybee12]

2. You know, I watched it because I had heard good things

Don't you think it was really, really thin on the voodoo stuff, and so when Spacey dies, it seems too abrupt???????????????

[Bertha Venation]

5. that was too abrupt --

but then, his death in "L.A. Confidential" was too abrupt, too, and although I probably should've been I wasn't expecting it.

Same w/ his death in "American Beauty."

I guess I just don't want Kevin Spacey to die. Maybe that's why in my favorite movie with him, he's the bad guy and not the good guy and survives. :7

Edit: oops -- yes -- too thin on the voodoo stuff. A lot didn't make sense to me. Still, I loved it. Maybe I just dig Spacey & Cusack & the guy who played the attorney. Maybe I just dig southerners. Maybe I just dig eccentricity. Maybe I'm just shallow & superficial. ;)

[joeybee12]

7. Yeah, Kevin does seem to get killed off quite a bit

at least in his movies that do well at the box-office!

[alphafemale]

3. I loved it but being living in the area may cause me to be biased.

And it really helps to make sense of the movie if you read the book.
Actually in Savannah it would be "THE Book."

[trof]

4. Yep, read the book first.

Liked the movie.
Savannah is one of the next places I want to go.

[joeybee12]

6. In the book is there more about communicating with the dead, etc.?

You see, it just seemed tacked on for me--turned into a courtroom movie, when it only touched on what they were doing in the cemetary,a nd then that theme just sort of shows up at the end and kills Kevin Spacey--didn't seem at all well-structured or timed for me.

[alphafemale]

8. All the characters are much more developed in the book

And it explores and delights in the character(s) of Savannah much better. Many of the characters who play great roles in "THE Book" are reduced to not much more than walk on roles.

[joeybee12]

9. Yeah,it's rare when a good book is made into a good movie

Kurt Vonnegut said there are only two: his Slaughterhouse Five, and Gone With The Wind.