Oh man, TWOP. The amount of time I wasted on their Buffy board before finding Buffistas!
Back to the movies: I have a ticket for the 11 AM showing of Little Women tomorrow. YAY! I was going to drive up to Canada on Christmas Day, but decided to postpone the trip until 26th because I NEEDED to see the movie before going home, haha (my folks are not big into going to the movies to start with and there id no way I am gonna be able to drag any of them to see this particular film). I was like, spending Christmas with family or Little Women? I mean, choices were made and I'm not proud, etc.
(In my defense, I don't really care that much about Christmas and this way, I won't be dragged to the Christmas mass by my parents, so really, it's win/win!)
I'm working half day today and am thinking of squeezing in another showing this afternoon. So Bombshell or Frozen 2? I've seen everything else that's available. The award season completist in me demands I check out Bombshell but wahhh, I don't wanna.
Another option is to go see Uncut Gems for the second time (it just started playing today in my local theater), but I don't know if I can take the stress. It's a FLAMAZING film and I kinda want everyone to check it out, but it's one of those movies that will NOT work for everybody. But gosh, what an adrenaline rush! If you think it might be fun to spend 2 hours yelling at a charismatic protagonist who is also THE WORST, about a series of increasingly terrible decisions he makes, then this movie might be for you! I mean, you might have a heart attack at the end of the film, but what is life without risks, etc.
... I wonder if I can leave now. There is literally nobody here.
Flee, Vonnie! Go see Frozen 2.
Oh, good, I just saw that Uncut Gems existed a couple days ago and couldn't figure out if it was for me or not - I now suspect that it is. Thanks, Vonnie!
Bombshell seems like an excellent cast and probably a good movie but I just can not with that. It is reminding me that I still want to see Atomic Blonde, though.
I might just see little women in the theatre. I have to point out that I never see movies in the theatre, to the point the last one might have been Cars. Or Chicago. I did watch Moulin Rouge multiple times, though. Right now, my big barrier is driving- there are no theatres really on a bus line. And Maria hates to go with me because ai talk/sing.
I do want to see
Little Women;
maybe this weekend. But I'm a no for
Uncut Gems,
that sounds like nails-ona-chalkboard for me.
Have you watched Fleabag? In S2, Andrew Scott TOTALLY has that quality. Vonnie can attest to that.
Is it easy to get past his association with other roles? For example, Moriarty. Which, you know, keeps making this Hot Priest thing confusing for me, but I haven't watched Fleabag.
I know I need to see Little Women, but truth be told it was the first book that made me ugly cry as a child and I never re-read it from the childhood trauma. More than 5 decades later I might take it better.
Is it easy to get past his association with other roles? For example, Moriarty
I was AMAZED at how easy it was for my brain to make the switch from Moriarty to Hot Priest.
My brain never got over the Moriarty thing, and I'm still trying to process where the Hot part is supposed to come in.
I adored Little Women. I might have unseated the 1994 version as my new favourite.
It's not a completely straightforward adaptation. I mean, all the story beats are there, but slightly... scrambled. It's formally inventive and has some startlingly metafictional side to it, which may give LW purists a pause. It really worked for me though.
All the cast is first rate but a particular shoutout to the Florence Pugh for being the Best Amy Ever. I can't get over how splendid that casting choice was, honestly. She's such a sparkly, charismatic pistol, it's kind of difficult to look at anyone else when she's on screen (which is saying a lot given the rest of the cast). Also, this is first time a LW adaptation really sold me on Amy/Laurie.
Oh, and make sure to take some Kleenex to the theater. The sad parts made me cry until I had a headache.
