{"id":129,"date":"2002-10-14T00:43:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-14T08:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/test\/2002\/10\/14\/rules-of-attraction\/"},"modified":"2024-08-18T23:21:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T06:21:43","slug":"rules-of-attraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/2002\/10\/14\/rules-of-attraction\/","title":{"rendered":"rules of attraction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes. \ud83d\ude42 I really appreciate it. I didn’t really do anything to celebrate — I had a bit of a headache (typical) so Rob and I just went to dinner at The Macaroni Grill<\/a> and then went to see The Rules of Attraction<\/a> — it’s that new movie (with James Van Der Beek and Ian Somerhalter) based on Bret Easton Ellis’s novel. !spoiler alert! Surprisingly, I actually liked the movie — it stayed true to the book for the most part. However, I thought that the characters of Paul (Ian Somerhalter) and Lauren (Shannyn Sossamon) needed much more development than they were given. In the book, I actually sympathized with both these characters but in the movie, they both fell a bit flat. James Van Der Beek really surprised me with his acting — I’m so used to his acting on Dawson’s Creek consisting solely of flaring his nostrils to convey any type of emotion. But I have to admit, he managed to give Sean Bateman a real likability, in spite of all the horrible things he’s done. There were a lot of scenes that were really hard for me to take — like Lauren’s rape scene and the suicide scene. I seriously felt really sick to my stomach watching those scenes. But there were some funny scenes too — Paul and Dick singing to “Faith” by George Michael, and then their scene in the restaurant with their moms. Funny stuff. I know many of you have no idea what I’m talking about but I find this book (and thus, the movie) really fascinating. It’s such a poignant story of emotion unrealized in a culture of nothing else but sex and drugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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