TV and Film

I am watching something mindless tonight, family feud.

I was amused at some of the family groups, at times. Occasionally a real odd collection of relatives.

We have just started watching Unforgotten with Nicola Walker , its good but OH is getting a bit confused about all the flash backs..

They really crack me up sometime with the answers.

I have been watching the girl FIFA games, every team really plays their heart out.

I had Barbies when I was young. I never found her to be highly sexualized but I didn't even know what that meant when I played with her. I was a little girl with zero friends and Barbies were my companions. I had no legit knowledge of sexual things or any notions of the idea that Barbie was perfect. She was just a doll. Frankly when I take a look at the people out in our world today...Barbie is far from being a bad role model. At least she's not a drugged up homeless drunk on a park bench. Or a gang banger running around the Dreamhouse stabbing people. Or making child porn with the babies. She seems pretty normal in comparison. Probably one of the few clean things in life. Barbie was designed back in a time when things weren't like they are now. Here's a little historical reading if you're interested. Also with the new full figured Barbies I would say they are trying to keep her in touch with today's world. 

www.girlmuseum.org/the-evolution-of-barbie-a-marker-for-womens-history/

I was probably 7 the last time I enjoyed a disney film. I used to enjoy the older ones, when I watched them with my kids. But that is about that.

I'll be seeing the Barbie film when it comes out on DVD.

Relying on box office numbers to determine the quality of a film is asinine. Box office numbers only focus on the economics. They have nothing to do with the films itself. The numbers are likely low because Barbie and Oppenheimer top the charts. Not sure why people still equate box office numbers with film quality.

And critic reviews are becoming less and less worth their weight in gold, especially when AI will likely be replacing them as they will writers.

I am not sure why the number of people wanting to watch a film is not positively indicative? To dismiss numbers as a measure could be pure snobbery.



I can't see a large flaw in the argument that a lot of people enjoying a film makes it a good film.



How else would you measure it?

And there have been some highly rated movied that I have never even heard of. 

I remember, some years back now. We went to the cinema to watch a particular film and found that showing had ended the day before. We still felt like watching something so we saw "Catch Me If You Can", which was showing. It was not a film which we would have chosen to visit and see but was enjoyable to all, and I have watched it several times on TV since.

I bought my brother a VHS tape collection of LOTR: he didn't bother watching them and they were left - un-watched - at the house. I think they were thrown away a few years ago.

I don't bother giving people films anymore.