definitely plan on seeing it, but unfortunately not until NEXT week. I will avoid this thread like the plague until then. :p

BTW, there's great ticket discounts at AMC, Regal, and Cinemark theaters.

No Spoilers from me
 

Saw it this morning. The theater was packed for a weekday morning release. I laughed and I cried. This was a great book to movie translation. I read the book when it was first released and didn't recall anything of critical importance missing.

i am so excited to see it next week, when my daughter is home!!

Right - but we'll suspend disbelief about cars that turn into gigantic killer robots ...

I really want to see it but I might have to wait until next week (payday).

I read though that the movie is being told through Abilene's POV. Should be interesting no matter what.

Transformers are real. It's those cheesy Gobots that are fake.

Soundwave: "Eject...eject...eject!"

I'm so excited to see it! I love Emma Stone and the book was phenomenal.

Howard Stern (!) saw it and was moved to tears.

http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/sing...ErODsSLZOzX5YO

Another review: http://www.artscriticatl.com/2011/08...-white-people/

Loved the book, am becoming a big friend of Emma Stone's, and can't wait to see it! Until then, I'm outta this thread! ;)

IMHO, a lot of these reviews are missing the point. It's a movie, not a treatise on the race issues of the 60s. It is meant for entertainment and shouldn't be taken as academic.

I also think the book was far less "feel good" than the reviews are making the movie out to be (seeing it tomorrow, I'll post my thoughts then). One of the criticisms this article made (mild SPOILER ALERT) was that the movie divorced Hilly's nastiness from the outright racial violence- I thought the book made it very clear that those behaviors were on the same spectrum, and I thought the book did a good job showing Skeeter's growth as a character as she begins to realize this. If the movie didn't do the same, that's unfortunate. But I'll let you know what I think tomorrow :)

I don't consider this movie to be just entertainment. There is too much meaning behind it to be merely entertaining.

The commercials are making the movie seem more feel good (smartass Black helpers are funny enough for a commercial or two).. That's how they are able to get people to be excited about this movie. They take bits and pieces of the movie even if they misrepresent the movie. Meaning, white people (who will be the main supporters of this film) would not see this movie if they didn't make it seem funny and lighthearted.

I believe this is the "Al Jolson Corollary"

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...olson_1916.jpg

Who's the man with the master plan?!

My friends and I read the book this summer and it was great! Although, I did not really care for the ending, I will be going to see the movie next week.

On another note, there was a nice plug from Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. in regards to the movie on CNN...

http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/Movi...tml?hpt=hp_bn5