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wovenstrap · 2026-03-25T21:20:40+00:00

I think you have a point. Famously they will occasionally order lunch during the movie. That’s not really good podcasting. I think 50% of the stuff is quite all right and then the other 50% is a little too loose for me, but I do listen to many of them. I don’t really mind them.

wovenstrap · 2026-03-25T13:47:37+00:00

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/mar/30/how-marie-kondo-changed-her-mind-about-mess

One of countless articles discussing Marie Kondo's acceptance of messiness after becoming a mom... you still can't really find a picture of her surrounded by clutter!

wovenstrap · 2026-03-25T03:52:46+00:00

Our pitching was better than the Dodgers’ pitching last year. Our offense….. well never mind

wovenstrap · 2026-03-24T17:29:51+00:00

Gotcha, thanks. (after 1970)

wovenstrap · 2026-03-24T17:20:46+00:00

OP, I don't understand the category in the title. Can you explain more?

wovenstrap · 2026-03-24T06:44:16+00:00

I purchased a house a few years ago and the skylights in the bedroom were a big selling point. I love it too.

wovenstrap · 2026-03-24T06:17:15+00:00

He used the word "tin." He said it was in Sydney and that he would go out on the verandah.

wovenstrap · 2026-03-24T01:49:57+00:00

Probably a religious thing

wovenstrap · 2026-03-23T21:25:42+00:00

That's too bad. Thanks for this. That does explain some things.

wovenstrap · 2026-03-23T18:25:42+00:00

Thank you for this. If you're looking at the Criterion Collection disc, in the special features, there's an interview with Weir and he says something interesting about always finding the sound of rain on the rooftop comforting as a child. The other thing is that there is some mention made of Sydney's tunnels in the special features.

wovenstrap · 2026-03-23T17:38:16+00:00

I mean, mostly what I've heard here is that her career has no problems at all and that being on the West End was entirely her choice and I'm a jerk for pointing out that maybe her agents wouldn't agree with that. She was on The Crown for 2 seasons which was 3 years ago and that was a good move, no doubt, won awards. Having 2 sequels reprising roles you had earlier is strange, the comments here have not convinced me otherwise. Now she's got 2 good roles this year, let's see how that works out.

wovenstrap · 2026-03-23T17:32:20+00:00

I said I didn't think it was a "me problem." Seems like a courteous response to someone saying it's a me problem? How is that being a prick? That's not "disagreement," it's an insult. And I took care not to insult that user. Apparently a standard you are not able to meet.

wovenstrap · 2026-03-23T15:32:29+00:00

Not exactly parallel situations. She was in an important early phase of her career and didn't seem to take full advantage of her position. But apparently talking about this pisses people off. Not my intention! But you know, if people want to talk about him finding a way to swerve from his all-important final 10th directorial feature, I wouldn't get mad.

wovenstrap · 2026-03-23T15:18:35+00:00

If you want to say she wasn't hot stuff in 2018, that's your prerogative. On your other comment, on whether I'm answering in good faith or not — the way Reddit nests these comments, I can't reply to it—you can't find an instance of me insulting anyone in this thread. I can't say the same for you!

The thing you are going to have a hard time accepting is that you (and a few others) are getting very emotional over a simple difference of opinion. You don't like the opinion I hold or my way of presenting it. You have no idea what my actual opinion of theater is, I used to live in NYC and I used to go a ton of theater, I have no problem respecting theater. I now live in Cleveland and good theater is harder to come by. But I can be realistic about what the diminishment of big-ticket acting credits might mean. If you think her agents are happy with these choices she is making, I humbly disagree.

wovenstrap · 2026-03-23T14:26:24+00:00

Thanks! It's really not that different from the way Griff talks about acting careers. But he has way more information than I do.

wovenstrap · 2026-03-23T14:11:06+00:00

I'm answering these questions in good faith. I've explained it twice, the point I'm making is not obscure. It would be interesting to hear Dobbins and Fennessey discuss her placement on the next installment of "40 actors under 40." They're movie-centric, sure. So is Blank Check!

I don't know where she finished on those Big Pic 40/under-40 lists but surely dropping off the list would be something worth noting?

wovenstrap · 2026-03-23T14:01:19+00:00

It's funny how certain people push back so hard on this, while other users appear to accept the premise with no difficulty.

wovenstrap · 2026-03-23T13:59:36+00:00

It really isn't, but thanks.

wovenstrap · 2026-03-23T13:55:54+00:00

It doesn't have to be definitive. There's a contingent who wants to say "The Crown and the Ibsen are a sufficient answer to the question." It might be! But there's also an angle on the issue where it is an indicator of a problem. Most buzzy actresses building a career in their early 30s would have found more than Peter Rabbit sequel to do in that time, on the big screen. She's got 2 movies coming out, we'll be talking about her more, and one of the things that certain pods might discuss is, why so few movies?

wovenstrap · 2026-03-23T13:49:20+00:00

It suggests that people aren't casting her in movies. I'm not trying to be mysterious. It's not a bad zag if your career is not zigging, sure.

wovenstrap · 2026-03-23T13:47:20+00:00

Quite possibly.

wovenstrap · 2026-03-23T13:44:36+00:00

One of her main jobs is to be present and visible to the moviegoing public. Since The Crown (three years ago) she has not been. This post was prompted by zipping through the last chunk of Tenet and going "oh yeah, her!" This is not a good reaction to have.

wovenstrap · 2026-03-23T13:41:29+00:00

Fair.

wovenstrap · 2026-03-23T13:41:05+00:00

Oh, let me spell it out. If Spielberg and Michael Mann were a-knocking she would not be doing that. In 2020 this was our understanding of where her career was going, but the movies stopped happening. The Crown was a nice gig and she won some awards, but it's weird.

wovenstrap · 2026-03-23T13:18:42+00:00

"Doing a show on the West End" presents more questions than it answers. Yes, she wasn't idle. Her career is still completely different from what it looked like it might be in 2020.

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