"Anora" 2024.
 

I will probably get around to watching this Academy Award winner for the 2024 movies . It did win Best Picture even if I have still not seen a number of the Best Picture winners. Some I could not get into .

I liked it. I was hoping this would win. I’m also really happy Mikey Madison won. She was excellent in this. One of my favorite movies is by Sean Baker… The Florida Project.

I was surprised I had seen even one of the best picture nominees.

The Pope movie was actually really good. Good suspense movie.

I haven’t seen it but from what I have read, it seems to be a lot different than the movies I grew up with such as The Sound of Music.

Anora Reviewed By A Stripper: What The Movie Gets Wrong

Another movie we would have zero interest in seeing.

When I still lived in Reno, Nevada my younger brother hung around with Johnny who was a male stripper. He suggested I go along with him on one of his jobs and it took me a long time to quit laughing. I see or have seen Johnny and other Reno people on Facebook every so often . Johnny settled down and became a family man. I really could not see him playing a Danny De Vito like 50+ like private entertainer. Friends has a funny episode with Danny De Vito coming to a Bachelorette Party for one of the Friends.

"Magic Mike" is a 2012 independent American comedy-drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Channing Tatum as Mike Lane. The film is loosely based on the real life experiences of Tatum, who was an 18-year-old male stripper in Tampa, Florida. Magic Mike was filmed in several locations around west central Florida. A sequel, Magic Mike XXL directed by Gregory Jacobs, was released on July 1, 2015. A third and final film, Magic Mike's Last Dance, was released on February 10, 2023, with Soderbergh returning to direct. I loved the film for the several dance scenes, especially "Pony," a solo by the athletic Tatum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FoM9JHXCWQ

I have seen most of the Magic Mike films . I have not watched the last one yet.

For the first time ever we had not seen a single Oscar nominated movie before the awards ceremony. There’s a couple animated ones that look appealing to me, and we’ll likely watch Wicked, but nothing else is screaming you gotta watch me. We hadn’t even heard of Anora before the Oscars broadcast. We have so many streaming series we’re watching, plus all of our favorite reality series (Survivor, Amazing Race, Traitors, Extracted, etc) that there’s never time for movies anymore.

Flow is very creative.

Academy
 

Academy Awards is an ego stroking event nothing like 20 or more years ago when it was a spectacle loaded with awesome movies for everyone and REAL movie stars. Now just a big bore I skip to not waste my precious time.

I find it slightly less interesting than watching grass grow

There are many movie stars who do great things for their communities. There may be the occasional evil and malignant narcissist too but those seem to be far and between in Hollywood. Karma usually catches up to these like with OJ Simpson, Harvey Weinstein, etc .

I did see Anora. The fact that it won 'best picture' says a lot about the society we've become. The dialogue is just a bunch of 'F' words, it has no historical or intellectual value, and it;s mostly a bunch of people no one would want to emulate trash talking and disrespecting each other. I found no redeeming qualities or heroes of any type in this movie. The downward slide in the 'Arts' in America continues...