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Movies: Poor Things, Barbie and Oppenheimer are stuck in La La Land

Ralph Baer said:
I am considering going to my first Disney movie in over 60 years. On 11/27, the movie Moana 2 is premiering in theaters. Normally, I would completely ignore this. Now the only reason that I would not go at some time is that there will probably be many small, noisy children in the theater.

To explain my interest, I have to go back to 2010. During that year, I googled the name of a niece whose given name is Emily and family name is the same as mine. All of the top matches were for the then 8- or 9-year-old child prodigy pianist and composer Emily Bear. I was overwhelmed by her talent at a young age.

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I did watch the movie on Thursday, 12/5, and successfully picked a time when the theater was almost empty and devoid of small children. As numerous reviews state, it is clear that this was adapted from something which was originally intended to be TV series on Disney +. The songs by Barlow and Bear also got mixed reviews. Prior to this they participated in a rather strangely ordered publicity tour – Philadelphia, NYC, Sydney (Australia), Honolulu, London, LA. The movie did set numerous gross monetary records on Thanksgiving weekend.

A lengthy article about Emily and Abigail which mentions that Moana 3 is hinted in a scene with the credits. https://www.indiewire.com/features/i...rs-1235072058/ “Moana 2” ends on a sequel hook of sorts, with the implication that new threats will come to face the young heroine. Asked whether or not they would be interested in returning for a sequel, Bear was blunt that the answer is “far above our pay grade,” but as Barlow puts it, “We love the Mouse. They know where to find us.”

All five songs which Barlow and Bear wrote, “We’re Back”, “Beyond”, “What Could Be Better Than This?”, “Get Lost”, and “Can I Get a Chee Hoo?” are easily found on You Tube and elsewhere.

Emily and Abigail performed three of the songs from Moana 2 themselves at Disneyland on 12/6. This is part of “Get Lost” https://www.instagram.com/p/DDROZHoxBJD/?hl=en. Parts of others are on Instastories. I suspect others will also show up on YouTube. IMHO overall the songs sound better than the film versions. Earlier they played the songs at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood. “Beyond” and “Get Lost” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nPyixxoFt0. Edit 1/4/25: The three songs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqGT8-l5agM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSBGoJxI5EU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7ldeXyy4c .

Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear won the Breakthrough Award at the IndieWire Honors on 12/5. https://www.indiewire.com/news/event...ch-1235073123/ (Includes a video of their acceptance speeches.) Summary article with pictures of award winners https://www.indiewire.com/gallery/in...4-arrivals-22/

They were interviewed at the Grammy Museum on 12/4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90quf-qzK7g

On a separate topic, Emily and Abigail are working on songs for a Broadway adaption of the children’s book “The Invention of Hugo Cabret” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_In...of_Hugo_Cabret. This was an 11-time Oscar nominated and five-time Oscar award winning film called just “Hugo” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_(film) . Of course, I never heard of it.


Edit: An Instagram by Emily's hairstylist, Anyssa Maciel, showing Emily in Disneyland. Appropriately, “What Could Be Better Than This?” has been used as background music. https://www.instagram.com/p/DDVh-QIykjK/?hl=en
 
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American Psycho.

I assume I am the last person who will ever see it to see it.

Great performance by Bale and, really, everybody. Amazingly shot, great direction.

If Wall Street survived that portrayal it will survive anything.
 
The fact that there have been Happenings in which groups of people got dressed up, went to upscale restaurants, were seated, and then behaved as if they were at Dorsia is one of the most inevitable yet still remarkable things I have ever read about pop up fandom.

Also: this.
 
Remember back a decade ago (just four months) to the film "It Ends With Us" starring Blake Lively, and how she was flippant about the source material and didn't look like she gave a sh*t during the press tour?

Turns out the producer and co-star Justin Baldoni tried to make the film his personal sex video of Lively and she didn't take too kindly to it. So he orchestrated a smear PR campaign to get ahead of her and discredit her.

https://www.threads.net/@mjmorleylaw/post/DD21Vu9xB55
 
He tried to “sage” her and her staff lmao

they all suck, but yet again the woman gets piled on . She sucks for her tone deaf self promotion of a dv movie and other silly stuff, but Christ she got mastitis from not having enough pumping breaks

I read the report and it’s wild

JVT now ruined for me and I’m devastated
 
There are a surprising number of people that now believe that the whole investigation is just evidence that Reynolds and Lively have all the power and that they enlisted the NYT for the actual smear campaign. The leaps in logic some people will make to keep hating a woman are astounding.
 
ScoobyDoo said:
That's always the point.
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Lost in all of this is that the movie is absolutely terrible. But it’s a Colleen Hoover book, so you’re working with crap to begin with

the part where he asks women if they climax simultaneously with their partners because he and his wife always do was real special
 
Most people know him from Jane the virgin, which was one of my favorite shows

He’s part of some religion called Bahai and markets himself as a woman’s champion
 
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