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Front-Ranger:
Hey, friends. I too have trouble hanging things. My walls are plaster, not drywall, so nails make kind of a mess. I'd like to hang a few more art works, but I'm putting it off. I did manage to hang a couple of posters by hanging S-hooks from the rafters and hooking the posters onto them. I hung my 2024 calendar that way.
I haven't gotten to see my new granddaughter very much. Her father is home on paternity leave and I haven't wanted to disturb their bonding and family unit. There has been much going on to occupy me. Just yesterday, my ditzy renter was opening a window "to get some fresh air" (why? It was 21 degrees F outside) and she used so much force that she broke the glass and window frame! Fortunately, Offline Chuck was available to help me. There was just one day this week that the weather was above freezing, so I had to cram all my outdoors work into it.
I wanted to see a movie and Oppenheimer and Killers of... aren't playing around here any more. So I went to see Poor Things. It was okay and the acting was good but I don't like Mark Ruffalo or Willem Dafoe as actors. And there was a lot of blood and cutting of cadavers. I also thought it must be a Wes Anderson film because it was in that style, but it is not. Not terribly happy that I went to it, I'm sorry to say. I still vote on Barbie as my favorite film of this year.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on January 19, 2024, 08:47:26 pm ---I wanted to see a movie and Oppenheimer and Killers of... aren't playing around here any more. So I went to see Poor Things. It was okay and the acting was good but I don't like Mark Ruffalo or Willem Dafoe as actors. And there was a lot of blood and cutting of cadavers. I also thought it must be a Wes Anderson film because it was in that style, but it is not. Not terribly happy that I went to it, I'm sorry to say. I still vote on Barbie as my favorite film of this year
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Me too, and I've seen Oppenheimer. My son(s) and I might watch Killers of (streaming) while he's visiting this weekend. We talked about going to the theater but Poor Things was the only thing that sounded mildly interesting and my son said he'd heard it had too much sex for him to see it with his mom. Frankly, I'm not dying to see it, have heard no good word of mouth, and your review supports that opinion.
ETA fixing typos.
Jeff Wrangler:
I'd like to read Killers Of. David Grann writes interesting things.
Front-Ranger:
The Oscar nominations are out, and once again they've royally messed up. I'm so shocked about the snub of Greta Gerwig as director of "Barbie." How can a film be nominated for Best Picture but it's director gets nothing (although she was nominated for writing the screenplay)? And Margot Robbie made it look so easy to play a doll without a hint of saccharine. Although America Ferrera was nominated for her supporting role.
I think it's the curse of the comedy...or the presence of Will Ferrell that doomed it. :laugh: No, you have to chalk it up to old-fashioned sexism.
serious crayons:
Greta Gerwig's absence was particularly disappointing. She and Noah Baumbach were nominated for their extremely original screenplay (even though they called it "adapted"), but her extremely original director's decisions are what made the screenplay work.
There's absolutely a sexist element to it. But I think there's something else going on, too. People who haven't seen the movie or who don't read much about movies -- including women! -- seem to think it's a shallow, silly kid's movie about an animate toy. I knew otherwise long before it came out because I was familiar with Greta Gerwig's and Noah Baumbach's edgy and often feminist work. Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling also tend to select interesting projects. And since the toy represents a glamorous woman, it would be even more boring (these people assume) than the ones in Toy Story. I saw someone else (who hadn't seen it) say the movie just took its orders from Mattel, which is absolutely not true.
Before it came out but was just starting to get publicity a friend scoffed and said of course she wouldn't see it -- the way an adult might scoff at the prospect of seeing Rugrats. She's not one to follow entertainment news. But I already knew enough to tell her I thought she was underestimating it.
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