"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...

There is such a lack of intelligent, entertaining, thought provoking and plots in today's movies it's shameful. Most of the movies now consist of AI effects, fighting, loud "music" if you can call it that, sex scenes and smut. I'm far from being prudish, but I sure miss those days of real movie stars with class and respect and plays and movies that entertain without all the unnecessary distractions because the story lines are strong enough you don't need them as a distraction for poor writing.

Oppenheimer , Green Book, CODA were quite good for the most part in those regards.

I enjoyed Wicked . That was the first part of it .

That was the only movie up for awards I saw. 3 hours of my life and almost $ 100 I will never get back.

Movie goers loved Wicked . It made a great deal of money.

That’s why we watch movies at home for free. Well, not counting what we pay monthly for our streaming services, lol.

Saw it with my wife and kids and they all liked it.

I have been reading some of the book by Gregory Maguire. Also called Wicked. I will not say anything more about it though as it contains spoilers.

$100? What, no senior discount?

That was after my villages discount

I worked in Hollywood for 22 years and while you have the occasional jerk, there are many wonderful people, Dolly Parton being one of them. I am proud to have worked with these people.

They must have got you on the drinks and food.

You can rent the movie for $5.99.

They have helped a lot with my 224 613 Project to empower survivors/victims of crimes with access to the most practical information. Some of the people I have been trying to help would be sex workers. I tried to create an international dialog about these needs by writing prominent scholars around the world back around 1992 about what they would like to see in libraries of all kinds for survivors/victims. I did not start using 613 until the end of 1992. My number in a 17 week or so study on stress on the unemployed at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Campus. 224 is my birthday and the day that Michelle Mitchell was murdered near the U of Nevada, Reno campus. She was the daughter of my Earl Wooster High School remedial English teacher Mrs. Barbara Mitchell. The Mitchell family had given me and another boy a very small Memorial Scholarship in the name of Michelle.


Story tellers can work wonders.

One French actress has asked me in French if they could get involved around July of 2016. I replied yes in French .I have chatted with other Hollywood people or those claiming to be.


Not sure if I ever contacted Dolly Parton but she does seem like a wonderful human being.

Why all the ‘attacks’ on the Catholic Church ?? - Paris Olympics, Michigan Governor, and the Conclave … and why didn’t this pope excommunicate / ‘condemn’ the Catholic Biden, for his outspoken stand on abortion ??

I’ve worked in Hollywood since 1994 and agree 100% Some of the best people I’ve met and worked with.

I learned that fir a movie to be even considered for best picture it had to have certain percentages of different minority groups in the cast. That is why the movie "Reagan" which was highly regarded was not even considered

Not sure where you are getting this information? Would like to see a valid source for it . Fox is entertainment and not a reliable news source.