Sunday, April 5, 2009
Times change
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I wonder how much it would cost to buy groceries this week for a family of two adults and eighteen children including teenagers and toddlers.
While hanging shelves today (which is, yes, an underhanded aside by way of noting my afternoon's accomplishment), I had movies on in the background to distract me in case I panicked or hit my thumb or anything. Over the course of the day, several movies passed through my semi-awareness (perhaps not a fair way to "watch" or assess them but that's just the way it was.
5 Children and It is a bit sticky sweet sometimes and a bit manipulative other times but overall delightful and Eddie Izzard as the sand fairy is wonderful as are the Henson characters.
The TV Set is ghastly - I didn't make it even halfway.
The Good Woman is a bit too "period" but Helen Hunt and Scarlett Johanssen are very good. The movie is a good reminder that despite the social problems we have these days, nevertheless we have succeeded in moving beyond the ridiculous moralizing of previous eras. The dresses are great, too!
Yours Mine and Ours, which stars Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball with an enormous blended family including Tim Matheson as a snide teenager, is fun to watch because both Fonda and Ball are so relaxed - they almost stroll through it - and because it's another chance to be glad we're now and not then (children weren't allowed in the hospital for their mother's birth, of course). The final kicker was when they went to the grocery store and supposedly bought out the place. Everyone went nuts as the tally kept growing. I was curious to see what huge number would appear. I kept reminding myself that it was taking place in 1968, a mere forty years ago. But imagine my astonishment when the bill came to . . . the whopping, amazing, huge amount of . . . are you ready? . . . $126.
While hanging shelves today (which is, yes, an underhanded aside by way of noting my afternoon's accomplishment), I had movies on in the background to distract me in case I panicked or hit my thumb or anything. Over the course of the day, several movies passed through my semi-awareness (perhaps not a fair way to "watch" or assess them but that's just the way it was.
5 Children and It is a bit sticky sweet sometimes and a bit manipulative other times but overall delightful and Eddie Izzard as the sand fairy is wonderful as are the Henson characters.
The TV Set is ghastly - I didn't make it even halfway.
The Good Woman is a bit too "period" but Helen Hunt and Scarlett Johanssen are very good. The movie is a good reminder that despite the social problems we have these days, nevertheless we have succeeded in moving beyond the ridiculous moralizing of previous eras. The dresses are great, too!
Yours Mine and Ours, which stars Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball with an enormous blended family including Tim Matheson as a snide teenager, is fun to watch because both Fonda and Ball are so relaxed - they almost stroll through it - and because it's another chance to be glad we're now and not then (children weren't allowed in the hospital for their mother's birth, of course). The final kicker was when they went to the grocery store and supposedly bought out the place. Everyone went nuts as the tally kept growing. I was curious to see what huge number would appear. I kept reminding myself that it was taking place in 1968, a mere forty years ago. But imagine my astonishment when the bill came to . . . the whopping, amazing, huge amount of . . . are you ready? . . . $126.
Labels: movies, shopping, the times, today's movie
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