Running with scissors.

 For those of you familiar with my Eating out 2:Sloppy seconds thread, and those of you who aren't, it's happened to me again.I found myself taken in by a movie when I didn't expect to be.It's saturday afternoon, and I'm lying back in bed, relaxing, looking through my channel guide, with the intention of taking a nap if nothing was on.I saw that Running with scissors was playing on Starz.I've been meaning to check this movie out, so I did.Soon I forgot about taking a nap, and ended up watching the whole movie.

Afterward, I went on IMDB to find the name of a song I had heard in the movie, and in the process found a really polarized response to it.Most of the people either loved it, or hated it.With all of that said, and given the fact that it kept me from going to sleep, I would say that it was ok, bordering on good, but still just ok.I guess it was supposed to be this dark comedy, but I didn't think much of it was funny.I only laughed a couple of times.The funniest part to me was when Neil Bookman(Joseph Fiennes) read his poem out loud in Deirdre's(Annette Bening) poetry group.I loved Joseph Cross in it though.

That brings me to the thing I want to talk about most:The relationship between 13/14-year-old Augusten Burroughs(Joseph Cross) and Neil Bookman, a 35-year-old man with schizophrenia.Now I know people hear that, and are taken aback by it, but the movie does not portray the relationship as the slightist bit creepy....atleast not to me.It came accross as very uncreepy actually.In fact, in my opinion, It almost comes off as.......I don't want to say sweet, but........especially if you compare it to the relationship between Justin and Brian from Queer as folk.I never really thought Brian was a likable character to begin with, but he also seemed predatory, and used Justin only to treat him like garbage for most of the first season after he was done with him.

Neil, however, is not made out to be this perverted older man who manipulates this young boy to take advantage of him.....atleast not in the movie.I haven't read the book.Another thing I would like to address is how they totally degayed the trailer for this movie.I didn't know there would be lesbian content in it as well.I also like Gabrielle Union in this.

Who has seen this movie?What did you think of the relationship and how it was portrayed?What did you think of the movie overall?