QQQQ June 29, 2022 Share June 29, 2022 (edited) IMDB Link "Kya Clark, otherwise known as the Marsh Girl by the townspeople of Barkley Cove, is mysterious and wild. Abandoned by her family, Where the Crawdads Sing is a coming of age story of a young girl raised by the marshlands of the south in the 50's. Watching many years past, when the town hotshot is found dead, and inexplicably linked to Kya, the Marsh Girl is the prime suspect in his murder case." Full disclosure: I hated this book with the heat of a thousand nuns (™ old Television Without Pity forums 😅) and am kind of hoping the movie is a mess. Edited June 29, 2022 by QQQQ 4 9 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/131901-where-the-crawdads-sing-2022/
BlackberryJam July 4, 2022 Share July 4, 2022 On 6/29/2022 at 11:12 PM, QQQQ said: IMDB Link "Kya Clark, otherwise known as the Marsh Girl by the townspeople of Barkley Cove, is mysterious and wild. Abandoned by her family, Where the Crawdads Sing is a coming of age story of a young girl raised by the marshlands of the south in the 50's. Watching many years past, when the town hotshot is found dead, and inexplicably linked to Kya, the Marsh Girl is the prime suspect in his murder case." Full disclosure: I hated this book with the heat of a thousand nuns (™ old Television Without Pity forums 😅) and am kind of hoping the movie is a mess. Expand May I sit at your table? 3 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/131901-where-the-crawdads-sing-2022/#findComment-7534982
Spartan Girl July 4, 2022 Share July 4, 2022 I would like to join you two as well. 4 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/131901-where-the-crawdads-sing-2022/#findComment-7535014
StatisticalOutlier July 4, 2022 Share July 4, 2022 (edited) Here's the trailer (just showing off--I only recently figured out how to embed them): . On 6/29/2022 at 11:12 PM, QQQQ said: Full disclosure: I hated this book with the heat of a thousand nuns (™ old Television Without Pity forums 😅) and am kind of hoping the movie is a mess. Expand I'd never even heard of it before I started seeing the trailer in theaters. What about the book did you hate? The whole premise? Or the way it was written? Edited July 4, 2022 by StatisticalOutlier 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/131901-where-the-crawdads-sing-2022/#findComment-7535073
Spartan Girl July 4, 2022 Share July 4, 2022 On 7/4/2022 at 2:45 PM, StatisticalOutlier said: What about the book did you hate? The whole premise? Or the way it was written? Expand 5 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/131901-where-the-crawdads-sing-2022/#findComment-7535151
EtheltoTillie July 6, 2022 Share July 6, 2022 Joining the haters’ club. I’ve found my peeps. I see it’s produced by Reese Witherspoon. She’s becoming the Oprah’s Book Club of movie production. 1 4 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/131901-where-the-crawdads-sing-2022/#findComment-7537383
methodwriter85 July 7, 2022 Share July 7, 2022 (edited) I wish this was good because I love Harris Dickinson from his work in Beach Rats but you guys aren't filling me with hope here. LOL Taylor John Smith had this interesting role on a tv series called American Crime Story but he's never really managed to get anything interesting since. They have a really similar look and I wonder if that was on purpose: Edited July 7, 2022 by methodwriter85 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/131901-where-the-crawdads-sing-2022/#findComment-7539534
Wiendish Fitch July 7, 2022 Share July 7, 2022 Where the Crawdads Sing was one of those books that kept me invested, but I like less and less in hindsight (same with Little Fires Everywhere and Where'd You Go, Bernadette). "Carolina" is an all right little ditty. Anyone have any thoughts on Delia Owens in general? 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/131901-where-the-crawdads-sing-2022/#findComment-7539568
Spartan Girl July 8, 2022 Share July 8, 2022 On 7/7/2022 at 6:48 PM, Wiendish Fitch said: Anyone have any thoughts on Delia Owens in general? Expand I’m just gonna leave this here 1 3 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/131901-where-the-crawdads-sing-2022/#findComment-7540615
Anela July 12, 2022 Share July 12, 2022 I couldn't get into the book, and only checked out this thread, because of something I read earlier. I saw a discussion about this, a few years ago, on a reddit site. About the author. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/131901-where-the-crawdads-sing-2022/#findComment-7546783
Dr.OO7 July 17, 2022 Share July 17, 2022 I saw it today and I enjoyed it. I hadn't read the book before, so Chase turning out to be a bastard took me by surprise, as did the revelation Reveal spoiler that she DID kill him. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/131901-where-the-crawdads-sing-2022/#findComment-7553800
choclatechip45 July 17, 2022 Share July 17, 2022 I wasn't a big fan of the book, but I really liked the movie..figures. 1 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/131901-where-the-crawdads-sing-2022/#findComment-7554010
Dr.OO7 July 17, 2022 Share July 17, 2022 I have to say that the whole time, I couldn't stop thinking of the VC Andrews "Casteel" series, as well as the one that takes place in the Louisiana bayou, thanks to the similar settings and type of plotline 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/131901-where-the-crawdads-sing-2022/#findComment-7554601
AimingforYoko July 18, 2022 Share July 18, 2022 (edited) I did like that the sarcastic closing argument by Tom Milton is exactly what happened. Edited July 18, 2022 by AimingforYoko 3 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/131901-where-the-crawdads-sing-2022/#findComment-7554911
Dr.OO7 July 18, 2022 Share July 18, 2022 On 7/18/2022 at 12:14 AM, AimingforYoko said: I did like that the sarcastic closing argument by Tom Milton is exactly what happened. Expand Or did she find some other way to sneak back into town? I'm surprised and frustrated/disappointed that we never saw exactly HOW she pulled it off. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/131901-where-the-crawdads-sing-2022/#findComment-7555515
snickers July 20, 2022 Share July 20, 2022 Now it’s been a minute since I’ve read the book but I do believe Reveal spoiler the prosecution talks about Kya in disguise-that’s how no one would have recognized her but what the movie audience sees is pretty much how the book ends- it never truly explains it also (book spoiler) Reveal spoiler in the book she’s likes reading poetry and has books from a random author - Tate didn’t like this particular poet and there’s a scene in the book where he tells kya that - the book quoted this unknown author quite a bit and at the end Tate finds the necklace under the floorboard of the house along with the proof that she’s the unknown author and the reader figures out the whole “the prey must kill the predator thing” she wrote under a pen name - hence more secrets -was a predator etc it made the “twist” a lot more….shocking I thought Tate killed Chase…it was his hat after all 😉 But I quite liked it-thought they did a good job translating it to the big screen 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/131901-where-the-crawdads-sing-2022/#findComment-7558613
bunnyface July 28, 2022 Share July 28, 2022 On 6/29/2022 at 11:12 PM, QQQQ said: Full disclosure: I hated this book with the heat of a thousand nuns (™ old Television Without Pity forums 😅) and am kind of hoping the movie is a mess. Expand I still use "a thousand nuns" also. I never read the book but had come across the twist somehow. I did like the movie. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/131901-where-the-crawdads-sing-2022/#findComment-7572007
Guest July 30, 2022 Share July 30, 2022 I am looking forward to seeing it. It’s one of those books I loved while reading but then when I think about it, the plot doesn’t hold up. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/131901-where-the-crawdads-sing-2022/#findComment-7575746
RealHousewife August 1, 2022 Share August 1, 2022 I never read the book, but I thought the movie was brilliant. Beautifully done and very moving. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/131901-where-the-crawdads-sing-2022/#findComment-7577979
lasu August 5, 2022 Share August 5, 2022 My heart is just so full finding my fellow haters. I have been on a terror about this book since I read it. I have no desire to sit through the movie, but can anyone tell me if they leave Asheville out of it? That was one of my biggest problems is that the author clearly had absolutely no idea about North Carolina geography or bothered to look at a freakin' map, because she had the characters just jaunting all willy nilly from OBX to Asheville like it's not a SEVEN HOUR DRIVE with today's interstate system. It's just such a dumb, dumb detail to get wrong, it drove me absolutely nuts. I would like to think someone at least fixed this stupidity for the movie. 1 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/131901-where-the-crawdads-sing-2022/#findComment-7584875
Browncoat August 5, 2022 Share August 5, 2022 On 8/5/2022 at 1:45 PM, lasu said: My heart is just so full finding my fellow haters. I have been on a terror about this book since I read it. I have no desire to sit through the movie, but can anyone tell me if they leave Asheville out of it? That was one of my biggest problems is that the author clearly had absolutely no idea about North Carolina geography or bothered to look at a freakin' map, because she had the characters just jaunting all willy nilly from OBX to Asheville like it's not a SEVEN HOUR DRIVE with today's interstate system. It's just such a dumb, dumb detail to get wrong, it drove me absolutely nuts. I would like to think someone at least fixed this stupidity for the movie. Expand They did. They changed it to Greenville. 1 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/131901-where-the-crawdads-sing-2022/#findComment-7584895
lasu August 5, 2022 Share August 5, 2022 On 8/5/2022 at 2:01 PM, Browncoat said: They did. They changed it to Greenville. Expand Thank you. That is so much more reasonable. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/131901-where-the-crawdads-sing-2022/#findComment-7584913
snickers August 14, 2022 Share August 14, 2022 On 8/5/2022 at 2:15 PM, lasu said: On 8/5/2022 at 2:01 PM, Browncoat said: They did. They changed it to Greenville. Expand Thank you. That is so much more reasonable. Expand Actually that is not completely accurate-Greenville is where she went to meet the publishers, Asheville is where and she and Chase went on the overnight stay- Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/131901-where-the-crawdads-sing-2022/#findComment-7599098
Browncoat August 14, 2022 Share August 14, 2022 On 8/14/2022 at 1:24 AM, snickers said: Actually that is not completely accurate-Greenville is where she went to meet the publishers, Asheville is where and she and Chase went on the overnight stay- Expand I believe @lasu was talking about the trip Kya was on when Chase died. In the book, it was Asheville, but in the movie it was the much more sensible Greenville. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/131901-where-the-crawdads-sing-2022/#findComment-7599104
snickers August 14, 2022 Share August 14, 2022 (edited) Right I get it, but I looked it up in my book again and it IS greenville for the publishers and asheville for the hotel trip and the movie keeps this in there, i know people love to rag on this novel/book but it was accurate 😄 Edited August 14, 2022 by snickers 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/131901-where-the-crawdads-sing-2022/#findComment-7599108
lasu August 14, 2022 Share August 14, 2022 In the book, Chase's dad also bought his bike from the Western Auto in Asheville. The fact that Asheville is involved in this at all is utter stupidity. You would not take an overnight trip to Asheville. With today's highway system, it would take 7 hours in one direction, much less how long it would have taken before major highways. To put this in perspective, I live in Raleigh, and it would me about the same amount of time to drive to NYC as it would to get from OBX to Asheville. Dumb. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/131901-where-the-crawdads-sing-2022/#findComment-7600123
snickers August 15, 2022 Share August 15, 2022 I don't know if its worth getting this caught up in the weeds, I don't know North Carolina outside of the known major cities, but I just assumed Barkley Cove wasn't even a real place 😆 All I know is I'd guess the area of the OBX looked quite different in the 1960's then it does now when it wasn't even a beach front then..... 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/131901-where-the-crawdads-sing-2022/#findComment-7602442
Glade January 22, 2023 Share January 22, 2023 (edited) I haven't read the book (and likely won't,) but I liked this film a lot, including the conclusion that actually she had killed him, which wasn't a surprise to me as this seems largely based off of Tess of The Durbevilles where Chase=Alec Durbeville (also murdered by Tess, also a wealthy rapist) and Tate=Angel Claire (also middle class, sweet but flawed who abandons Tess out of weakness leaving her vulnerable to Alec and then returns later etc.) But with a less miserable ending. Edited January 22, 2023 by Glade 1 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/131901-where-the-crawdads-sing-2022/#findComment-7838418
chediavolo April 12, 2023 Share April 12, 2023 No way to search but I didn’t see this here ( are they ever going to make this site more user friendly?) Watched this recently. Something about it kept me watching even though a movie more ridiculously full of holes I have never seen! Holy ****! Right from the start when not one member of her family takes her with them all the way through being arrested on insane evidence, and all the never would happen BS in between. A small child left alone in a swamp for years with no electricity etc. no one helps. The store owners never got her help. Her boyfriend goes off to college & abandons her then comes back with a moronic reason ETC ETC! Wow. This was quite the fantasy. 3 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/131901-where-the-crawdads-sing-2022/#findComment-7955494
PurpleTentacle April 12, 2023 Share April 12, 2023 On 4/12/2023 at 10:29 AM, chediavolo said: No way to search but I didn’t see this here ( are they ever going to make this site more user friendly?) Expand There is a search field on the top of the sub forum and it returned this for me without a problem: Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/131901-where-the-crawdads-sing-2022/#findComment-7955512
Hanahope May 9, 2023 Share May 9, 2023 I thought it was a nice enough movie that has tensions throughout the story, which are all positively resolved for the protagonist. bit of a surprise ending twist, in a way if you think about how she actually grew up, but one that raises more questions than it answers in exactly how it could have possibly happened. and for all the seclusion, abandonment as a child, lack of education, the protagonist prevails in what seems more like fantasy than reality. but at least most of the film is in daylight so you can actually see what's going on. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/131901-where-the-crawdads-sing-2022/#findComment-7994376
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