I took my 11 yo boy to Little Women, he had watched part of the PBS BBC LW miniseries with me last year, so he was interested in the movie. I could see a younger kid who gets antsy getting a little bit bored during LW at parts, but there is nothing inappropriate about it.
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I took my 10-year-old son to see Jojo rabbit and he loved it. I should probably take him to see Little women as well.
Glad to see I'm not the only one who was annoyed with Marriage Story. I didn't realize it was Oscar material. My summary would be "Tra-la-la I need to be happy because reasons so my mom takes out a second mortgage for me and oh look, I already have a new boyfriend by the end of the movie." Ray Liotta has a line that says something like "You're spending your kid's future" and that hit close to home for me. The plot probably has nothing to do with award nominations but ugh.
@@@@@ The movie also implied the mom can easily eliminate dad out of the picture in a custody case as long as you lawyer up. Everything I've been told says this is not true if the dad is a law-abiding citizen with a regular life which is what they portrayed him to be in the movie. Maybe it's state dependent, but that part really bugged me.
Ok, so I'm watching Marriage Story and I kind of *really* hate Nicole. I missed some of the beginning stuff, so I think he cheated, but I'm not super clear on the situation, but like, her lawyering up was such bullshit. This is probably super unpopular.
eta: Oh, yeah, the fight was good!
I don't think Marriage Story will win, but I liked it. I thought I would hate it since I just went through my own chaos of divorce. But it was surprisingly honest and true. I wasn't surprised at all about Nicole getting a cut-throat lawyer, it's universal that even a simple divorce ends up pretty ugly in part (5 close friends and myself all have gone through this in the last few years - well, we became better friends or friends through it sometimes). I liked that the movie made the emotional ups/downs of even "easy" divorces more obvious to those who haven't been through. Even my friends who amicably split at the same time as me went through some legal BS because when you aren't in love with someone, it's so much easier to not want the same thing or see the same thing as equitable. That was a the best part of the movie - the clarity that divorce, even when mostly amicable and when you have assets/money is universally shitty.
But I also wasn't always proud of myself when getting divorced this past year and sometimes I did things that were a bit vindictive for no real reason except that I was due them after stepping back from my career in the last few years for XH, and being the default parent for the last 12 years with no acknowledgement from XH. I get it. Custody is really all you have in the end and I still regret not being more cut-throat about time with the kids and ability to move with respect to my career. Now I'm stuck with what I gave/got (which is better than typical 50/50) and I can't move for work for the next 12 years.
ChillyMcFreeze , right? When I think about movies that had an impact, PBF is up there. Great storytelling, heart, humor, real people. It was all around really good. I am disappointed that it got zero love.
isabel , I loved Knives Out. And while it isn't a typical Best Picture kind of movie, I think the writing is a fair nomination. It told a story in a great way with an awesome cast. I have zero expectation that it will win, and I imagine most people involved probably feel the same. But man it was a great movie.
Glad to see I'm not the only one who was annoyed with Marriage Story. I didn't realize it was Oscar material. My summary would be "Tra-la-la I need to be happy because reasons so my mom takes out a second mortgage for me and oh look, I already have a new boyfriend by the end of the movie." Ray Liotta has a line that says something like "You're spending your kid's future" and that hit close to home for me. The plot probably has nothing to do with award nominations but ugh.
@@@@@ The movie also implied the mom can easily eliminate dad out of the picture in a custody case as long as you lawyer up. Everything I've been told says this is not true if the dad is a law-abiding citizen with a regular life which is what they portrayed him to be in the movie. Maybe it's state dependent, but that part really bugged me.
I barely noticed this part of the movie. Interesting. I get this complaint, but I think that is more common than not. I'm somewhat embarrassed to say that although I'm still processing my divorce, I do have a serious significant other already (and obviously my XH had a person living with him from before the end of the divorce), and I have kids. Maybe having a new person is more typical just a year out from divorce? I don't know really, but I don't think getting married again or calling that person a step-parent is normal.
As for easily eliminate the dad - yeah, that might be some CA law stuff, but after being on some divorce-focused message boards there are discussions about jurisdiction and ways to get different custody arrangements. IMO it wasn't easy to even get more than 50% custody in our state, but our state is no-fault and I've heard very different things about fault states where one person accuses the other of causing the divorce and therefore there are more damages to discuss.
It always freaks me out to hear him in interviews and remember he's not American. His accent is flawless.
I feel like English/Welsh actors seem to do a much better job at a generic American accent than American actors do at English accents. I think because English accents are so distinctive from region to region in a close proximity. It really impressed me.
I've read that this is because being able to do a convincing American accent is basically a requirement for British actors to make it big, while the reverse is not true. So British actors practice their American accents a lot harder, and those who can't master them are less likely to become famous.
I hated Marriage Story...mostly because I an profoundly uncomfortable watching fights like that, lol. But also because I could tell from the get that this was a man's perspective of a divorce. Sure, he cheated and was wrong, but SHE MADE HIM LAUGH!!! And ScarJo is just painted as this terrible woman who is trying to take his kid away from him and he just wants to be a good dad but she is making that so. hard.
But this is the type of story that the overall opinion will be fully informed by the viewers life experiences.