“Dead Like Me” DVD is released at last

She gets to reap Jenny

 

Ha

Ha! I had to do a double take when Jenny Schector came up, funny stuff.

I'll definitely buy the DVD regardless of how bad it may be. It'll be nice to see all the characters again and I'd like to show my support of a show that was cancelled way too soon.

It's a shame to hear about the changes to the "feel" of it but hey. And it sucks that Laura Harris didn't participate. Her "Daisy" was spot on. Can't imagine anyone else in the role. 

Yes, saw it, and was so dissapointed. All the changes were awful, Rube, the german waffle house, roxy's personality, making Happy Time some giant corporate firm, changing the location from Vancouver to Montreal. But worst of all, the most absolutely horrible thing was the change in Daisy. She should not be played by anyone other than Laura Harris, and the writers butchered her character. I wish I had never seen the film.

I love this show!!!!!! so I'll see it

Lol Jenny Schecter.

Okay so Laura Harris will forever and for always be my Daisy Adair, I don't think I can watch this movie with some other actress playing Daisy. And no Rube? I mean I loved Dead Like Me, but this move doesn't look too good.

___//♫♪ let your girlfriend do what your boyfriend can't

I adored the show so of course I'll watch this no matter how bad it might be. 

To me it feels like the writers put all of their writing abilities on writing George, and sort of left all of the other ones sort of half done. The only scenes that are even remotely like the series are the ones between George and Reggie (who, BTW, looks all grown up and very cute). Those scenes makes the movie worth watching. But I'm very disappointed on how they didn't tie up any loose ends and of course on the fact that some strange strange woman is playing Daisy (and playing her badly..)

 

[Oh you little BITCH TROLL FROM HELL! - The ever so fantabulous Patsy Stone]

"Daisy" was just plain fucking wrong in the movie, acting and writing-wise.  They threw out a number of the rules/mythology set up by the series...characters did things that were inconsistent with their past...key characters were missing (Rube) or just played extremely poorly (Daisy).  I was really disappointed.  The George/Reggie scenes were pretty good and the Reggie storyline was really the only compelling part of the movie.  It's hard to accept DLM without Rube.  And Der Waffle House.  And reasonably consistent characterization. 

I didn't hate the end, but almost everything that came before it was...off.  But I'm sure they all did their best. And as a fan of the series, I appreciate the effort.

I didn't think ya'll would notice the Jenny thing for awhile. That will teach me to underestimate you ladies!

I used to love this show and I was so dissappointed when they canceled it out of nowhere. When I heard that they were making a movie for it, I got so hyped but now that I hear it not good, I'm even more dissappointed then the first time. But I'm still curious on what they did with the storylines so I'm still going to check it out. Plus I have a crazy obession with watching bad rated movies like Gigli (yea I really felt ashamed after that one but I couldnt help myself).

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Life inside the music box ain't easy.
The mallets hit the gears are always turning,
and everyone inside the mechanism is yearning to get out.

Really disapointing film :(

The feel of it was all wrong and the writing just felt sloppy and forced.

I want to watch it because I'm hopeful that they'll renew the series if more people get a go at it. I actually found this out yesturday and went 'googling' for clips of the old days. I missed the second season. Hell, I miss the whole show, George is the absolute best.

Not entirely, anyways. I bought the movie through iTunes on Tuesday night and watched it until two in the morning when I was supposed to be sleeping/studying for a midterm/doing homework.

I have yet to see all of the episodes of "Dead Like Me", but I intend to ask my parents to buy me both seasons on DVD during spring break so I have more ways to procrastinate when I return to school. Anyways! Rambling nonsense aside, I am a great fan of the television show, especially in what I have seen of the second season. I have always enjoyed the relationship between George and Reggie, so I was quite happy with their relationship in the movie (not to mention Britt McKillip is, as Silent Shout said, grown up and very cute). I was incredibly disappointed in Sarah Wynter's portrayal of Daisy, which I will blame (for now) on the writing, as I've never seen any of Wynter's other work. While Roxy wasn't entirely the Roxy we all know and love from the television series, she wasn't as outlandish or "off" as Daisy. And Mason? Mason, Mason, Mason... I thought he hadn't changed so much.

With the time lapse of five years and not knowing what happened during those five years, we can't entirely assume that the characters didn't change at all (in reference to Roxy's shift (Daisy's was too out there to be considered a natural progression from television to movie)). I wish we had more background of what happened during that time, but I am content with what we were given. For a film made four or five years after the show was cancelled, they were able to draw out most of the original cast, for which I must cheer. Overall, I think it was entertaining. It wasn't brilliant or spectacular, but I watched it with the desire to see the Club together again (minus Rube).

I did not think Roxy's storyline went against everything we know about her. I think it shows another side of her. The side without rules and regulations.

Sarah Wynter is not Laura Harris so it is unrealistic to expect her to be just like Laura Harris. 

The best part of the movie was the interaction between George and Reggie. It was very sweet watching them interact. George finally gets the chance to talk to Reggie and explain somethungs to her. Reggie's suspicions about George have been confirmed. Joy has moved on and seems pretty happy. 

Overall, I thoroughly the movie and hope DVD sales can bring the show back!!!!

Well, I just saw the film today.  It was just an extended episode, true, but I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing.  The burning down of Der Waflehaus coinciding with Rube's disappearance and then Cameron's final demise kinda makes me nervous about what really might have happened to Rube.  I sure hope that's not the case, 'cause if hell freezes over and DLM comes back to TV, Mandy Patinkin better damn well be there.  I did like the creepiness of Cameron's "princess" when compared to the affection "peanut" of yore.  And I didn't think Roxy was out of character at all.  The freedom offered by Cameron was probably just intoxicating after all those years of staying in step.  And her line about there being nothing passive about her aggression just kills me.  Mason was alright, but a little less funny than I like him.  Still, they quietly acknowledged his still lingering feelings for Daisy, which I appreciated.  The only thing that bothered me about George was that Ellen needs to lighten her eyebrows and lay off the eye makeup -- otherwise, her acting was spot on.  She's still a bit sulky, but has obviously matured, and has come to accept her responsibilities.  Part of me wishes that they'd kept with the original idea that for a reaper to reconnect with their living family, they will lose memories of their former life.  But I guess when Brian Fuller got the boot, so did some of his ideas.  And I've been dying for a George/Reggie reunion since the last episode of the show. 

My two biggest complaints were about Rube and Daisy.  First off, everyone sure got over Rube's departure pretty damn quick.  Granted, Daisy and Mason were never that fond of the old man and they are the easiest to wine and dine.  But for Roxy and George to show so little emotion over it, and to seemingly forget about him so soon, that was disappointing.  I know they mentioned him every now and then, but it just didn't reflect my feelings on the matter, and therefore, I feel cheated.  The post-it shower at the end helped a great deal.  Perhaps the old man really did move on to upper management. 

Now, on the matter of Sarah Wynter... ugh.  That just about ruined the movie for me.  It was as if she were trying to play Laura playing Daisy, she was so disconnected and removed from the character.  She didn't add anything to the character, and was completely and utterly incapable of bringing out the depths of Daisy that we had a chance to see in s2.  Laura's Daisy always had a touch of melancholy towards the end, a seriously and depth brought about by decades of realizing that the superficial creature she had always been was not who she had to be.  Sarah's Daisy was painful to watch, being so flat and one-dimensional.  It was so bad, I wish they'd just explained that Daisy had been transferred to yet another reaping division, maybe out in Kansas.  Anything but to leave such a lovely role in the hands of someone who was incapable of sustaining it.  

A few other things: Eek!  Darcy from Degrassi (the actress has now moved on to 90210) was not expected, but it made me giggle to see her again.  Murray in the cat carrier had me laughing so hard.  And the child pet reaper... first off, yay for quiestly acknowledging them, and god, I started crying right then and didn't stop till Murray's ashes were shot off into the heavens.  Did anyone else have horrible visions about the rocket crashing down and killing off another unsuspecting person in a space-station-toilet-seat accident?  Oh, and Crystal was there but... why?  There was so much potential and intrigue around her character and in this, absolutely nothing, other than her presence.  

*duplicate posting*

Glad some of you are posting notes that you liked the film. It made me a little grumpy because I wanted it to be great. But you definitely need to see it for yourself and decide.

I loved the series, every effing minute of it. And though the characters and relationships between and among the living, the dead and the undead can sometimes get on your nerves, it is a testament to the writers, producers and the actors' skills that seemingly cliched themes can come out so refreshing. And while they all didn't always make the best  decisions, they were, in the end, just human (yes, even the undead), and I find myself rooting for Rube, Roxy, Daisy, George and of course, Mason, Mason, Mason. I wanted to see how Reggie and her mom would fare as well and when the series ended, i was sorely disappointed that I wouldn't be able to explore these characters even more.

Then I saw the movie. 

And I was sorely disappointed. It seemed like it was written by an entirely different group of writers who have no idea about the mythos of the series, and directed by somebody who had no idea about the series as well. 

Yes, the premise was good: after 5 years, no more Der Waffle House, Rube gets promoted, the reapers get a new boss, George's mom has come to terms with George's death and has written a book on it, Reggie (ah, have to agree, she is cute. Still dark, but really cute) has now moved on to adolescent angst after the prepubescent angst of yore, and so on...The new boss is eeewww, but it's sad that there is not much more to go on there (and thus when they revolt against the new boss, I was happy). And the new Daisy Adair just made me miss the old one more - she was just much more fun. The new Daisy Adair seemed wooden, like she didn't have much time to internalize the character, like she had just been picked at the spur of the moment because they needed to start filming the next day.  I don't blame her, I just felt production made a bad decision. And what's up with George and Reggie meeting? The great thing about the series was that because George lived on the fringes of society, she was like this mysterious presence in her family's life, and she visits them when they are not there and all that, and for her to come right out and tell her sister she's a grim reaper and that she was there to take her sister's boyfriend's soul is contrived and not how the character is at all. At least Reggie and George wouldn't be that straightforward to each other - the beauty and my fascination with the series was the fact that they didn't know how to talk about the things that matter. Reggie acted out her grief by wearing her sister's clothes, using her sister's things, while their mother acted it out by being more of a control freak than most and their dad had an affair. There was something human about how the characters were written out, something Hollywood doesn't usually get right. That their mother wrote a book made perfect sense. That they would meet didn't. If for example, Reggie and George's mom would suddenly die, or that Reggie would die, and then George would have some kind of closure would make perfect sense. That there is a boyfriend in a coma doesn't. 

I loved that Crystal and Delores were there. Their characters seemed consistent. I am curious about Crystal though and would have wanted her character to have been explored further. As is Delores' character. 

But George's character is the one who does not disappoint. She is the one comforting thing in the movie and it was quite fun seeing that she still looks pissed, flips people off, uses "f*ck"an inordinate number of times,and so on.

While I loved the ending as well, it seemed abrupt, and there weren't any loose ends tied.  I wished they hadn't made this film, and I shall pretend it was some alternate universe entirely different from the series. 

Another fitting ending would have been for the reapers to have reaped the souls of the writers and producers who made this film. Or at least threaten bloody murder til they get the script right. 

Either way, I must admit a movie will always fall short of a whole series. IN a series you have so many episodes in which to explore so many characters, and tie the loose ends  from the last episode or the last season. But the time constraints on a movie alone seals the story and the characters' fates and thus I forgive MGM for this one. 

I just wish they'd just bring back the show already. :-)