Knocked Up

[electricland]

Via a comment in boywhocantsayno's journal, Nikki Stafford says everything I've been thinking about the Rebecca Eckler* silliness. It's a thing of beauty.

*The first woman in Canada to both carry and birth a child.

Comments

[lostvoice.livejournal.com]

Word.

[raithen.livejournal.com]

x2. When I heard about this on the CBC this mornig I was just. WTF?! Not her AGAIN?! She is SUCH a media hog....

[rottenfruit.livejournal.com]

Haha, that's great! I haven't seen to movie or read the book, but it's always fun to laugh at Rebecca Eckler.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

I haven't either, but yes, it's AWESOME to laugh at her.

I also discovered that her blog (ninepounddictator.blogspot.com) has a parody site (ninegrambrain.blogspot.com). Delightful.

[texaslawchick.livejournal.com]

Heh. What I find the best about Judd Apatow's work is how much most people can relate to it.

There's a scene in Knocked Up where Katherine Heigl and her sister are running through a drug store to grab home pregnancy tests. I remember doing something similar with my sister after an oops evening. She held a package with two tests in it in her hands and waved it wildly at me asking "how many do you think I should get?" My reply: "I dunno, Liv. How pregnant do you think you are?"

Did he swipe my oft told "go to Walgreens to get home pregnancy tests with your sister" story? Or, more likely, is it a fairly common scenario that he made pretty damned funny and had the entire audience in stitches because they could relate so well? I vote for, and laugh at number two.

Though I still like my reply to my sister.

[themusesbitch.livejournal.com]

Seriously. We were talking about this on Saturday night and as soon as it was mentioned that it was her FIANCE that got her pregnant at her ENGAGEMENT party, I didn't need to hear anything else. That scenario is the complete opposite of the one that drives Knocked Up (the movie) as far as I'm concerned, and as for her specific points, I agree with everyone else: those are really common experiences and most of them have, in fact, been done to the point of cliche in previous movies/book/television shows. If anything, what's remarkable is that Aptow manages to to make it all feel fresh and hilarious.

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you. That's beautiful. Better still is the link to the Quill and Quire post about how the blurbs on her book were edited to sound positive - an offence for which you can now be sentenced to jail in the UK, I understand.

Any one got an extra $20 to send a copy of Ecky's book to the Lord High Justiciar?

[monkeycommando.livejournal.com]

I read (most of) the Maclean's article, and the thing that set her off was on this thing (and she admits an initial ambivalence about pursuing the suit) was that the screenplay was distributed to producers, not just under the title "knocked up" but with a cover that did actually totally rip off the cover of the US edition of her book (and she had been circulating her book for a movie option for a while, BFD). The design was martini glass with binky.

Although I have no idea whether that idea was original to whoever the person was that designed the cover of her book.

Anyway, for once RE is hitting a very common mode of self centredness (random people think Hollywood stole there ideas all the freaking time) rather than the pioneering type she has previously demonstrated.

I just get ticked off when she gets lumped in the with the brilliant Leah McLaren.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

Maybe whoever designed her book cover should sue whoever designed the cover of the screenplay.

and re Leah McLaren: even though I found myself in the horrific position of actually agreeing with her about something earlier this week, I find your position in this matter troublesome. You're just being deeply ironic, aren't you? Fess up.

[monkeycommando.livejournal.com]

No, Leah's being deeply ironic. Always.

(I hope).

The trick is that screenplay "covers" are meaningless, since scripts aren't published, really. There's a design infringement, but it's not worth anything.

[pretentiousgit.livejournal.com]

Well, that's my day made.

[pretentiousgit.livejournal.com]

Forrr the record, I usually am hoping that, also.

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

Until I read the comments here, I had no idea that she was so universally unpopular. I just remembered her (and other Worldcon types on my friendslist would remember her) because her article about Torcon had the SMOFS list buzzing for weeks.

I must remember to give Nikki a big hug next time I see her at a local con. :)

[electricland.livejournal.com]

Reject the Kool-Aid (http://byekoolaidmoms.blogspot.com/) is hot on the trail of the martini glass/binky (? where did that term come from? I've always referred to that thing as a pacifier or possibly a soother) connection.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

Oh God yes, she's horrendous. (Eckler. Not Nikki Stafford.)

[electricland.livejournal.com]

Nonsense. He TOTALLY stole it. Not that I've seen the movie, mind you.

and that is a good reply.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

That was my thought as well. Oh my GOD! You mean she had sex while drunk and got pregnant? That has never happened to anyone! In the history of the world! Ever!

Oy.

I'm probably going to have to see this movie now, aren't I?