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Parody Fornication and the Metropolitan Area
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Why Don’t Movies Look Like “Movies” Anymore
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Anora subverts the Pretty Woman romance, and I think it’s a great movie. Annie thinks she’s being loved but she’s being toyed with. As a result she’s put through a heartbreaking experience. Her performance was so fantastic. She’s jaded and pragmatic but there’s that bit of romantic in her that Vanya gets her to show just for his family to stomp on her vulnerability. It has dramatic and comedic elements. The performance of the actor playing Igor who is the only person who recognizes that Annie is a human being is amazing work. He has so little dialogue and so his performance has to express so much.
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Drew’s actor is 55 and Willow’s actress is 29. There’s 26 years between them. He’s controlling and she’s a doormat with him. It’s bad enough that she’s married to his nephew. The age difference adds another layer of ick. I can get past an age difference but not when the dynamic has one partner so controlling of the other. I think when Willow inevitably cheats on Drew with Chase Drew’s headed towards psycho stalker territory. Drew’s house is going to be Willow’s prison instead of a home.
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Clash of the Egos: On-Set Drama and Feuds
Luckylyn replied to Treebeard's topic in Everything Else About Movies
Blake Lively vs Justin Baldoni: A timeline of the feud and lawsuit between It Ends With Us co-stars Raw footage from “It Ends With Us” -
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off When the Editor has to Fix it in Post
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There were things I enjoyed. The cast was good. I liked the mix of action and humor. Unfortunately Rose and Marvin had no chemistry. We know they are inlove because the script says so. The movie doesn’t develop their love story at all and the actors don’t have any spark to compensate for the scripts weaknesses. The romance between the assistant and poet hitman was way more compelling. Rose doesn’t work as a character especially when you realize all she had to do was contact the Russians after kidnapping Kippy to get the evidence and eliminate Knuckles. She didn’t have to ruin Marvin’s cover at all. Knuckles didn’t even have to know she was alive except she insisted on sending those stupid cards to make sure he knew. She could have handled it with the Russians and went to see Marvin when it was over to be with him. She put a huge spotlight on herself revealing she was alive, destroying Marvin’s cover and getting his friend killed for no good reason. Rose is more plot device than character. The script needed more to justify why she would reveal herself and also upend Marvin’s life. He looks happy in his cover life so Rose comes off as awful for purposely forcing him out of it. It’s all her telling him what he needs and what he should be and not about his feelings about his life. They needed to show that he wasn’t happy in the cover and maybe secretly wanted out so her interference seems like helping instead of harming him. After her selfishness ruins his life I don’t understand why he would love her at all. His best friend died totally unnecessarily because of her actions without any consideration of the collateral damage to Marvin and others around him. Maybe they could have got her accidentally revealing herself face on a security camera when kidnapping Kippy to get the evidence and that set things motion. The script didn’t have to make her so selfish and stupid. There was a lot of potential but the script doesn’t work and the main romance was nonexistent.
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Wicked’s “Dancing Through Life” Full Scene Breakdown
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Why The Sound of Music Still Looks like A Million Bucks
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The movie is weird regarding his financial situation. The make a point of showing that he’s in serious trouble with only $17 in his bank account, no one buying his art, and his just spending a huge amount of money for an upcoming art show that get’s canceled. Yet the character is oddly unconcerned. What if one of his sources of stress is being unable to quit the society because it’s the only thing allowing him to pay his rent. This would acknowledge a real life issue of people taking demeaning jobs out of necessity and how emotionally damaging it can be. The tension between being a creative person but also trying to monetize it is a subplot that they just leave dangling. @HarveyThe movie acknowledges the difficulty of his situation at the end and does nothing with it. The movie had potential.. There are ideas but little development.
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I think the concept had potential but the script needed more development. It was very repetitive and sometimes felt like a sketch being stretched too long. There were some great moments and some good knocks against certain movies that used the Magical Negro trope. It was weird that the lead character was very thinly developed. He has no family, no friends, and barely any history. He’s treated like a mechanism for the plot to make points. There’s no inclusion of any black community outside of the Society. How interesting would it have been to see him hiding his new job from friends and family and dealing with that stress. One of the reasons that the script is repetitive is that it makes little room for character depth and makes the world of the movie so small. The movie made some good points but was very superficial. I liked certain scenes but the overall film needed further development.
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I'm So Disappointed In You: Celebrity Missteps
Luckylyn replied to OtterMommy's topic in Everything Else TV
Family Vlogs are extremely popular and large amounts of money can be made. There’s so much opportunity for abuse. There is no regulation and the child doesn’t get a say if they want to participate or not. Regarding vlogger Ruby Franke. More information has come out. One of the children escaped from the house and went to a neighbor for help. The child was visibly malnourished and there was evidence the child was being held against their will. The police were called and Ruby and her therapist/business partner were both arrested. Ruby’s daughter and sister have come forward to express relief about her arrest. I hope this is end of Ruby’s Connexions group where they provided disturbing parenting advice. It’s good the kids are getting medical treatment and out of danger. -
It’s so rude to the performers to be disruptive during the show. It’s also unfair for the audience who are paying to see professionals having to endure amateurs creating distractions so people don’t get to fully enjoy the performance. For some paying for a ticket means getting to enjoy the live show free of audience disruptions which is my preference. But for others paying for a ticket means they can sing along uninvited. I know some shows started having singalong days where audience participation is encouraged. This would provide options for people who want to be vocal during the show and also provide days where the audience has to be quiet so people can make choices about what show experience they want.
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I'm So Disappointed In You: Celebrity Missteps
Luckylyn replied to OtterMommy's topic in Everything Else TV
Family vlogger Ruby Franke arrested on suspicion of aggravated child abuse A video from a couple of years ago to give you a background. Ruby got more extreme views after joining/leading a group called Connexions. Last I heard Ruby’s husband Kevin moved out I think last year and the oldest boy Charld choose to move with him. The oldest daughter Shari spoke out about why she’s not in contact with her mother anymore a few months ago. I know she communicates with her mother’s family who Ruby no longer has a relationship with. Ruby has pretty much cut contact with anyone who doesn’t follow the Connexions philosophy. -
This is unfortunately part of a problematic pattern at shows. Bodyguard the Musical cancelled due to disruptions from the audience Audience Behavior is getting out of control