Eric and I shockingly PAID full price for the movie because I really like Chuck (Palahniuk) and, honestly, I had high hopes despite depressing reviews. Sad. Eric ended up giggling through the entire movie because he thought that it was awesome everytime I sighed in exasperation and disappointment. He thinks my expectations were too high and that it was bound to fail because I know the book so well. He’s totally right of course and I’m not saying that the book was super deep and moving and stuff. But it seemed that the director totally missed a lot of the deep stuff that the book did have; he made it another dirty movie for teenage boys. My argument is that there was more to the book than just that. And, geez, just because it’s a dirty book doesn’t mean that it has to be treated with so little maturity or sophistication.
And I LOVE Sam Rockwell! He’s so so cool and he did his best with all the silliness. There just wasn’t a dark edge to it and that’s one thing that’s consistent in all of Chuck Palahniuks books – they are DARK… There’s no darkness to Porky’s.
And the part about his mother… they made her super attractive and basically eliminated her psychedelic drug experiments. Her freakyness is what makes her interesting and believable!
I don’t know – the problem is that I’ve got the book on CD. Chuck, with his weird voice and cadence, reads the thing and puts emphasis in unusual places. I really wanted the movie to do something unusual and, instead, it was just way way too conventional. It was made for mass consumption and Palahniuks books are made for the alienated. Totally lame.
