mellicious: Narnia witch in a carriage pulled by polar bears, captioned "OMGWTFPOLARBEAR!" (polar bear & witch - m15m)
I don't think I'll be going to any more movies between now and Tuesday night, and Rob just got home from Nosferatu, so I figure it's time to talk about the movies we saw in 2024.

I put up a list of what we'd seen in a movie theater this year a month or so ago, and I've updated it to reflect those multiple viewings of Wicked. As far as favorites, I think here I mostly have to go with the two that I saw multiple times - meaning Wicked and Deadpool and Wolverine (which I saw twice in the theater and have seen two more times on D+ so far). Other movies I really enjoyed include Alien: Romulus and The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Oh, and Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, too. (I had not seen any of this new round of Planet of the Apes movies - meaning, I'd seen the really old stuff, only! -  and the minute I expressed interest, Rob made me watch all three of the previous ones in preparation.)

There are another couple of movies that I know I enjoyed while I was watching them but immediately forgot the minute I got home - I'm thinking of Dune 2 and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Seriously, I can hardly remember Dune 2 at all. (Christopher Walken was in it? I had completely forgotten.)

I feel like - no, this is far fewer movies than I typically see in a year. Eventually we figured out that part of that was the aftermath of the strikes in the movie industry a while back, which caused a lot of movies to get delayed. As you can see from his list below, Rob still found a lot of movies to see - not only horror movies, either.

(For anybody reading who doesn't already know this part: I don't do horror movies unless I'm really convinced they're not very scary - which doesn't happen a lot - and my husband loves them, so he is accustomed to going to the movies alone a lot.)

I grabbed Rob and got him to look at the list and tell me what he liked. He named five of them and so I'll put them in bold type in the list below rather than type them all out again! And he said that Nosferatu - which he just saw - was good, but probably not quite to the point of being in the top 5.


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Rob and I saw these movies together (newest to oldest):
Wicked (twice, and I saw it one more time with my sister)
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Deadpool & Wolverine (twice)
Alien: Romulus
Young Woman and the Sea
Furiosa
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Dune 2
Wonka (which we also saw it once in 2023)


And Rob also saw (with favorites in bold)
Nosferatu
Juror #2
Heretic
Smile 2
Terrifier 3
Speak No Evil
Never Let Go
Trap
Blink Twice
Longlegs
Maxxxine
The Exorcism
The Watcher
In a Violent Nature
Quiet Place Day 1
I Saw the TV Glow
Tarot
Abigail
Civil War
First Omen
Late Night with the Devil
Immaculate
Demon's Daughter
The Iron Claw
Godzilla Minus One Minus Color
Night Swim


mellicious: Yoda: "Post every day you will" (yoda - nablopomo)
My husband the horror fanatic is watching something about Amish hauntings - that may actually be the name of it, Amish Haunting(s?). It's kind of bizarre. I've spent some time with a couple of Amish people and I have trouble believing they'd approve of that, but who knows. (It's not like I know them spectacularly well. They just always seem pretty grounded to me.)

I finished the History of LotR #3 (which is called The War of the Rings) - these are big fat books and so every one of those I finish seems like a victory. Now I just have #4, which I've already started - it's called Sauron Defeated.

So, did I mention this already? We are about to go see Wicked again. It will be Rob's second time and my third - I suggested it because I've been watching YouTube videos about it, and I finished my re-read of the book since the last time I saw it, and I'm just sort of trying to fit all of that together in my head. (One unspoilery detail I've noticed: did other people pay attention to Elphaba's glasses? Sort of an s-curve sort of thing, I've never seen any like that before and I've worn glasses since I was eight or something. Somebody's probably got a contract to sell copies of that, how much you wanna bet?)
 
(Totally spoilers below for Wicked book vs musical vs movie + speculation. Remember too that I don't even really know anything about the musical, I've never seen it.)

(Later!)
OK, I totally enjoyed Wicked again. Something I got from the videos I watched was that (as in the book, and I guess also in the musical, according to Wikipedia) the Wizard is actually Elphaba's father - BUT the movie may have hinted at this early on by having Goldblum's voice doing the singing at the beginning as her mother's lover (just, like a line or two). I thought it did sound like him but it's hard to be sure. Rob & I both also felt like when he meets with Elphaba later, it sort of seemed like he knew that. If he actually gave her mother the green elixir then he should be pretty certain, really! Anyway, we had fun trying to figure all that out.

mellicious: Text: "Me were English major in college" (college)
I've been watching (in sections) a two-hour video (I added a link in case you want to torture yourself with this!) of a young British woman going through the plot of the book of Wicked in - clearly - significant detail, but then it's also a big fat book, which I'm well aware of because I've been reading the paperback edition. It's making me feel better that somebody else thinks this book is deeply weird. It is deeply weird; I don't know what state of mind I was in back when I first read it, that I didn't come away thinking that. Or maybe it's just that I read a lot of weird stuff!

I'm still not feeling too great. I stayed up all night (not unusual for me) and slept all day (which is). I missed the whole first half of the UT-Georgia game, but on the other hand, it doesn't seem to have been that eventful. UT doesn't seem to be able to handle Georgia too well; I thought that the first time they played this year. They're the only team we've played that's been that way. This is an excellent team but not quite a national-champion one, apparently. I'm going to be interested to see how this whole (expanded) college playoff thing goes. -- OK, now our guys are suddenly playing better. And... there will be overtime, looks like.

(Also, this game is on at least three different channels on my TV - ABC, ESPN, and some kind of weird ESPN feed with no announcers. I ended up watching ABC.)

It's 55 degrees here. Not exactly terribly cold, but we're not used to a lot of cold around here. Our apartment is kind of chilly, although obviously I didn't have any trouble sleeping.

OK, now overtime. Aaaand Georgia wins. Oh well, at least we forced the overtime. Coming into this year, nobody was sure how UT would handle the big bad SEC, and we certainly got through that pretty well.

mellicious: Narnia witch in a carriage pulled by polar bears, captioned "OMGWTFPOLARBEAR!" (polar bear & witch - m15m)
(possible spoilers because I'm talking about the book vs. the movie - excluding the Broadway version only because I never actually saw it, although I know about the twist ending)

OK, Wicked is turning out to be my obsession of the moment. But anyway, now I've picked up the Wicked book again - I had re-read a good bit of it before I went to see the movie the first time, and I was already to the part where Elphaba is a wanna-be insurrectionist and is having an affair with Fiyero. (I like the actor who plays Fiyero in the movie, but aren't Winkies supposed to be painted warriors? Couldn't they have given him some tattoos or something, enough to at least suggest that?) Anyway, I got past the part where Elphaba is in Kiamo Ko* with his widow, some years later - honestly, I had completely forgotten the existence of that part. It's been quite a few years since I first read this book. But now she is back in Munchkinland with her father and Nessa, and Nessa is now the Eminent Thropp which I guess makes her effectively the Witch of the East, right? I really remembered much more about the first half of this book than the second, and I'm still not done, so whatever else I've forgotten, I'll have to talk about later, but really the spoilery thing that I'd forgotten that I wanted to talk about now was that Fiyero was dead at all. That had definitely gone right out of my mind. I remembered that Elphie was dead, in the Maguire book as in the Baum story - of course she's not Elphaba in the Baum story, but she's still the same character - but I didn't remember that Fiyero was too. So it's two characters that the musical had to resurrect, not just the one.

(And I confused things by bringing up Baum, because Fiyero doesn't exist there, although the Winkies do. The musical we're talking about is the one based on Maguire's book, not Baum's, though!)



*
I had to check the wiki to see if I actually spelled that place-name right, but I did! (Also I just realized that I was looking at the "Wicked Wiki" which strikes me as funny. Although what else would you call it, at this point?)

mellicious: Narnia witch in a carriage pulled by polar bears, captioned "OMGWTFPOLARBEAR!" (polar bear & witch - m15m)
So I have now been to see "Wicked" twice - last week with Rob and this afternoon with my sister and her best-friend-since-childhood (who I hadn't seen in years and years, so that part was fun too). I enjoyed the movie as much the second time as I did the first, 2 hr 40 min running time and all. I dunno, it just works. (Hollywood Reporter says it's starting to get Oscar buzz, and I think it ought to, really.) My companions both loved it, too. The theater was pretty full for a matinee show, and it was almost all women around our age group, although there were younger people there too. Apparently Monday is Senior Day at Cinemark, which I didn't know because I almost always go on weekends with Rob.

We did actually watch "The Wizard of Oz" on Disney+ (I think that's where it was) over the weekend. We hadn't seen it in ages. I've been watching Disney a good bit lately - we are watching the series version of "What We Do in the Shadows" (and we watched the movie too, but we had to pay a few dollars for that one) and I've watched "Deadpool and Wolverine" at least twice since it's been on D+ and there's an Assembled (making-of) episode for it, too. Plus a month or so ago I went on a Disney Sing-Along tear with Encanto and Little Mermaid and maybe something else that I've forgotten. So yeah, lotsa Disney, and none of it Star Wars, amazingly. (Isn't Andor season 2 supposed to finally be along in the spring?)



mellicious: blinky holiday lights (holiday lights gif)
I finally bought a paid Dreamwidth account - just for two months, as a trial - although it occurs to me that since I primarily post here during Holidailies (and usually just before and after) doing it for two months a year - and doing that yearly - might be a reasonable thing to do, if I'm watching my budget.

In the last entry I said I would probably have gone to see Wicked by the time Holidailies starts, and I already have - but I went with Rob instead of with my sister and her friend, and then I'm still going with them but that won't be until after the first. Actually maybe I should have anticipated that Rob would be interested because he has always liked the old (i.e., Judy Garland) version of The Wizard of Oz - we just haven't watched it in a long time. Anyway, I really liked it - the new movie, I mean - and I'm not sure Rob really loved it but he didn't complain about the 2 hr 40 min running time so he must have liked it pretty well! I liked it more than I expected to and I am happy to go see it again in a week. (I have never seen the play but I have read the book - both books, in fact, Baum and Maguire.) (And yeah, I'm aware that there are more than just two Oz books but I haven't read any of the others so far!)



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