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I did a bunch of cooking: rice, black eyed peas, navy beans. I also went grocery shopping, to Roche in the morning and Wegman’s in the afternoon. I took T. to lunch at Applebee’s, then to the horse. I had a great conversation with M., who I hadn’t seen in over a month. We had each traveled, so we had a lot to chat about. Altho her trip was cooler than mine: Venice and Paris! Not that it is a competition. I had two totally unconnected to each other friends travel to Venice this year. Weird how that happens. I can’t remember if I’m up to 2 or more groups of friends who went to NOLA this year.
T. and I went to see Thor: Ragnarok. It was excellent. The music was very different than the other Marvel movies: less symphonic, more spare and light handed in conveying emotional affect. I really liked it a lot. The color palette was similar to Guardians of the Galaxy vol 2, altho not _quite_ as intensely colorful. Thor moves a long ways from being a frat boy jackass in this movie: he learns how to better understand other people and how they think and feel and what motivates them, and he learns how to modify his behavior to better influence them. He is a better person, a better brother, and a much more effective leader. Lots of strong women, good, bad and neutral. Obviously, older sister is intensely evil in a very entertaining way. Then the Valkyrie is easily the best alcoholic character I’ve seen in a movie in a really long time (I still love the drunk from To Have and Have Not better than any other fictional drunk ever). But the enforcer on Sakaar (sp) is fantastic — a role that would almost inevitably have been a man in any other movie is SO much cooler as a woman. I don’t know that this movie would pass the Bechdel test, but I loved having so many really powerful women on screen for so much of the movie — especially a movie with a man’s name in the title.
T. and I went to see Thor: Ragnarok. It was excellent. The music was very different than the other Marvel movies: less symphonic, more spare and light handed in conveying emotional affect. I really liked it a lot. The color palette was similar to Guardians of the Galaxy vol 2, altho not _quite_ as intensely colorful. Thor moves a long ways from being a frat boy jackass in this movie: he learns how to better understand other people and how they think and feel and what motivates them, and he learns how to modify his behavior to better influence them. He is a better person, a better brother, and a much more effective leader. Lots of strong women, good, bad and neutral. Obviously, older sister is intensely evil in a very entertaining way. Then the Valkyrie is easily the best alcoholic character I’ve seen in a movie in a really long time (I still love the drunk from To Have and Have Not better than any other fictional drunk ever). But the enforcer on Sakaar (sp) is fantastic — a role that would almost inevitably have been a man in any other movie is SO much cooler as a woman. I don’t know that this movie would pass the Bechdel test, but I loved having so many really powerful women on screen for so much of the movie — especially a movie with a man’s name in the title.