Movies and other things..

I'm baaack! Miss me? Probably not. ;-) My mother gave her nightmarish computer that was allegedly infected with fraud to her cousin to clean up and refurbish, and donate to good will.

Cousin: Are you sure - this is a perfectly good lap-top?
Mother: I never use and it's funky, I can't get it to work well.
Cousin: It's most likely the mouse. It's not connected well to the computer so doesn't work well with it. But if you use the pad there's no real issues. Also, I've run virus detector on it - and there's nothing really, just some mallware, that I've removed. I can take it off your hands if you really want me to?
Mother: I do.
Cousin's wife: I could use a new lap-top. Oh, that's too big, but still -
Cousin: I'll donate it, no problem.

[They drove.]

So long story short - my parents no longer have a computer for me to putter on while I'm in Hilton Head. I'll have to either cart my own lap-top down there, which I can technically do - I've not one but two backpacks that have lap-top compartments. Or do without, which I did, this go-around. It's probably better for me to do without.

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While in South Carolina, I talked to my mother, brother and sisinlaw about the film Elvis - briefly. All saw it on streaming like I did, all loved it, all were impressed to varying degrees. Also we all ended up with a renewed respect for Elvis.

Also shared various friends reviews of it - the friends didn't understand the movie, while my family completely got it.

I picked up a pattern between it and the Marilyn Monroe flick adapted from Joyce Carol Oates fictional novel Blonde, regarding professional and amateur critical reviews.
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Been rewatching the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings and Hobbit series - and the special effects don't quite hold up well. You can kind of see the early clunkiness of CGI. The new effects surpassed them.

That said, I did like Fellowship better than the others.

Also, watched Thor : for Love and Thunder and was kind of bored by it? Too many pointless action scenes that went seemingly nowhere. And not enough character moments. Christian Bale's villain is however, interesting. And Bale continues to physically disappear into his characters, to the point of being unrecognizable. Marvel still has the best villains. Also, there's a few nice twists here and there. And Dr. Jane Foster's story does follow the comics. (She has breast cancer in this movie too, and the hammer has the same effect on her, and the same result.) But we have a lot of guest stars here - beside the director who is in all his films (much like Hitchcock, except more so), we have cameos by The Guardians of the Galaxy (if you don't like them, don't worry, it's just a cameo - blink and you'll miss them), Russell Crow (is almost unrecognizable as Zeus and sporting a Greek accent - at least I think it's Greek), Matt Damon (an actor who plays Loki and the theater director), Liam Hemsworth (an actor who plays Thor and co-theater director).

It's all rather silly in places, as is the script. And by the end of the film - Thor was getting on my ever-living nerve. I liked Thor: Ragnarock a lot better. This effort was busy, and difficult to follow, also the effects felt a touch cheap. And I kind of missed Loki. Thor almost needs Loki to keep him balanced.

Currently listening to a flutist play. There's a concert going on outside my back window. It sounds like flute, and various wind instruments.

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Okay, settle a disagreement for me - is the person standing with a hook, a woman or man to you? I see a woman.




[ETA: Hee, the majority agrees with me. It's the hips and the swing of the back or hourglass style figure. Men's trunk and hips don't usually curve that way.]