New Netflix Series "A Man in Full"

Cage made two good movies, Moonstruck and Peggy Sue Got Married.

The book was terrible too.

The book was fun.

Tom Wolfe simply does not adapt well. Even is good adaptation, “The Right Stuff”, is overstuffed and lethargic to watch in one sitting.

I’m sure Daniels was made up to resemble John Portman.

The book was very much of the 1990s like Bonfire was of the 1980s. Did they keep it a period piece?

The problem with A Man in Full is that the place it is about, Atlanta, was transitioning from a city with a white elite to a black elite and a city with regional significance to a city with international significance when it was written. That period of time is so specific and no longer has much relevance; Atlanta is now Black Hollywood, Black Beverly Hills. No one remembers John Portman or Ted Turner; CNN doesn’t exist downtown. There really was very little reason to go back and examine the sociology of this period.

Atlanta isn’t a place of “international significance” and certainly wasn’t in the 90s It’s a an overgrown second or third string city. The elite is as white as ever—you may have some wealthy African Americans, but the elite is as white as ever. It will probably have a white mayor in the next decade and the people who bankroll the non-profit sector are a few developers, that awful Hime Depot guy, the Coca Cola fortunes and the Jewish community.

R4 is more or less right. The Right Stuff is weighted down by the earnestness of the task at hand and Wolfe’s nastiness toward John Glenn was very much downplayed in the film—taken literally from the book it would take a hero and make him less sympathetic.

John Portman tackiness would only work is something that was as camp as the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta.

R2 here. Loved RIght Stuff and Bonfire.

It got a rave in Deadline.

I read this book and remember nothing.

The book is better approached as a character study.

I did think the whole horse scene was hilarious. And his wife admonishing, “These are liberal democrats!!!” I’ll keep watching. But the new HACKS season dropped so maybe not right away.

Poor Diane Lane. Can't they find anything better for her to do?

I liked it. Another reason never to read Datalounge reviewers. You cunts don't like ANYTHING.

Tom Pelphrey was marvelous. I hope that was his real cock. Either way, it rose to the occasion in glorious fashion. He never really registered for me prior to this (I'd already given up GL when he appeared). Now I want to see anything he's in. Is he a gay?

I remember loving the book when it first came out years ago. Loving it except for the final quarter in which the plotlines all seemed to peter out, not unlike Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities.

But does Jeff Daniels play the old billionaire businessman? I imagined him then as Wilford Brimley and his wife as an older Kathy Bates. How could these roles be played by Jeff Daniels and Diane Lane??

[quote] I liked it. Another reason never to read Datalounge reviewers. You cunts don't like ANYTHING.

Or you just have shitty taste.

R15 - But does Jeff Daniels play the old billionaire businessman?

Yes, he plays Charlie. The character is supposed to be about 60, but a broken down 60. Jeff Daniels is good casting.

Jeff Daniels is excellent in this, but I think they should have kept it as a 1990s period piece. Charlie Croker in the book was a developer who just kept expanding the footprint of Atlanta in a Tom Wolfe metaphor about manifest destiny. Freaknik was also a part of the book and two episodes in it's only been hinted at.

I’m going to watch it ten times just to spite OP.

The ending was awful.

More on Tom Pelphrey's dick.

Try opening in incognito/private if you hit a paywall.

Uh, yeah, that's a fake, hon

How do you know?

They don't mention it's a prosthetic in the Vulture article at R21.

Normally they do if it's true.

Are you blind? Look at the way the whole apparatus sticks out from his stomach.

God, some of you old queens are so desperate for any glimpse at a cock.

And you, old queen r26, are the typical DLer, desperate for ANYTHING to complain about.

Sorry you were called out for being desperate for cock, hon. But no one is complaining. You asked if it was real and I answered. That's not a complaint. Don't add stupid to desperate.