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The Mysteries of Pittsburgh trailer. Barf.

The book has sat unread in my reading pile for at least five years now. Only the Corrections has been there longer

I loved the book, but I find that I enjoy Chabon's books far more than films based on his books, so I think I'll stay away from this one.

Matt wrote:The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. Barf.

I didn't know they were remaking Garden State.

domino harvey wrote:The book has sat unread in my reading pile for at least five years now. Only the Corrections has been there longer

MoP is my least favorite Chabon book, but it's vastly better than The Corrections. You could easily knock it off in a couple of evenings.

Murdoch wrote:I find that I enjoy Chabon's books far more than films based on his books

Isn't Wonder Boys the only Chabon adaptation released thus far? I loved the film (more than the book, in fact). I agree with Matt that Mysteries of Pittsburgh is the least enjoyable. I'm looking forward to the Coens adaptation of The Yiddish Policemen's Union.

Is that the only one? I'm probably just confusing myself by assuming wrongfully there were others. Anyway, for Wonder Boys I enjoyed the movie enough, but if I've read a book and enjoyed it I gain a sort of bias against any movie adaptation.

EDIT: Yeah, Wonder Boys is the only other Chabon film, my bad.

The first 2/3 of the book is better than the movie, but the film oddly enough knows better how to finish the story than the source did-- Christ, the book just loses it. With so much discussion, mods, one of you might as well break this all off into a Mysteries of Pittsburgh dedicated thread

Now I remember that this has been in the can for well over a year (it played at Sundance in January '08). And I remember that the filmmaker radically de-gayed the story, and I also remember not caring since I wasn't a big fan of the book anyway.

Wonder Boys is really underrated. It's a lovely film, expertly adapted, with one of Michael Douglas' best performances (okay, that's not too hard). Hanson was on a real roll at that point, but it was sadly brief.

Good God, it looks like a Steeltown "Less Than Zero."

I'll stick with Spider-Man 2 and the hope that someday The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay will escape from development purgatory.

Haven't read the book. Is the "mystery" why or how anyone could live in a Sh*thole like Pittsburgh?