We rarely get out to do something just the two of us. Rarely go see movies in the theater. What's the one movie we should definitely check out? I hate to waste this opportunity on some booolshit.

but you should kick it up a notch. Have her THINK it's dinner and a movie. But find out where they're playing some good music or there's a live band whatever....and arrange for extended babysitting without her knowing.

That way...when you leave the movie and she says 'This isn't the way home' you say 'that's because we're not going home' and take her dancing. And by that, I mean actually dance with her. I've discovered that taking my SO dancing for an hour or two is basically the best fore-play in the world.

And think about it...the eff is gonna be a hellavulot better after dancing to some rnb/soul music than returning home from sitting still in a dark theater lol.

I said movie and dinner because we'll probably do it in that order. We'll have to get home to the kids by then. We have little dudes (6 and almost 1) and my mom will be here with them, so being out late isn't the lick. We'll probably go to a movie around 4ish and then have dinner. Late night plans take more arranging, and this was coordinated yesterday by me so we can at least get out together. It's been a minute.

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Would you choose that over Fences?

Those are the two I'm most interested in seeing right now. She mentioned Split, but I dunno about that one.

Fences is great but its 2.5 hours

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Both definitely deserve to be seen. I prefer Fences, but the play is one of my all-time favorites-- the writing is so immeasurably sharp-- so I'm biased. Plenty to love about Hidden Figures too.

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Wrong spot.

Like I will eventually see Hidden Figures but I can't imagine I want my rare date night to be taken up with a historical movie that you can show in a class room.

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you feel that way about date night and Arrival is your choice? C'mon.

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>Like I will eventually see Hidden Figures but I can't imagine
>I want my rare date night to be taken up with a historical
>movie that you can show in a class room.

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it's not dry history. It's very alive, and the three women are fantastic.

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Hidden Figures is a great upper but you should know that a lot of the facts got glossed over or smooshed together. Having read the book, I really want everyone who sees the movie to read the book.

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a few discrepancies, but i get that to make it a movie sometimes that happens. overall i thoroughly enjoyed it.

What's kind of ironic is that, in the epilogue to the book, the writer says that Katherine Johnson's history keeps being told incorrectly, because there's a tendency to make Black people's story fit into a particular mold. So, like, didn't it look like she was the SOLE woman and SOLE Black person in that room? Yeah it did, didn't it? Well, she wasn't. And you know what? That takes nothing away from her contribution and her genius and her story.

Also, I found this kind of interesting. She used the white women's bathroom. No running across the compound. No crowbar to the sign. No carrying piles of computer printouts as she trots prettily across parking lots. No checking numbers in the bathroom (didn't that look a little weird to you? How long was she expecting to be in there? Why was she portrayed as carrying several days' worth of work with her every time she peed?).

Anyway, these are quibbles. It was a very engaging movie. I just really super extra hope it makes people read the book.

(Mr W honestly believed that the story told in The Butler was true to the last detail. I was like, I'm pretty sure I remember the source for the movie, and this is "inspired" by it, but also, hey really? you really think that his son just HAPPENED to be in the motel room with Dr. King in Memphis? You think he just HAPPENED to then be radicalized by Malcolm X? WHAT A COINCIDENCE. Sometimes I think that hyperbole is our enemy, especially when the truth is sufficiently awesome.)

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but I rolled my eyes at the crowbar removal of the bathroom sign.

lmao @ days worth of work.

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but the truth is more than entertaining. It's fascinating.

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I haven't seen Hidden Figures but it's the point you're making about our tributes, bio-pics, bio-docs.

A really big example for me is Terry Fox. I've read alot about him because I LOVE his story. In anycase, some of the more higher-budgeted docs and movie adaptations/tv specials completely gloss over the nuances of his story. They basically portray him as a flawless angel. But what makes his story REALLY beautiful to me is the wrinkles.

For one...he was a complete asshole in dealing with people. One might even go as far as calling him a self-righteous prick. His best friend abandoned him on the famous trip around 1/5 of the way in because he was so demanding and intolerable and self-centered. Self-centered? Kind of contradicts his life work right? EXACTLY. That's where the poetry is. The cliche that 'you're greatest strength is your greatest weakness' rings with Fox. If he wasn't demanding and obnoxious then he probably wouldn't have succeeded in the way he did. You could also argue someone has to be somewhat egotistical to even set out on such a plan.

Also, the run was failing almost the whole way up until he hit Ontario. He wasn't getting any publicity and it at times was looking like a good idea gone bad with no public attention. Particularly disheartening when he ran through French Canada. He was even run off the road by cars in Montreal. Would have loved to hear the ethnic slurs he yelled back at my peoples.

So yah....the truth is sufficient enough. And oftentimes...the truth is even better than the white-washed, purified versions. Fox was a cocky, obnoxious kid who found a way to change the world with a sort of determination and persistence that can only be found in a cocky, obnoxious kid.

Another point...it provides ammo for political agendas that seek to tear the hero down. How long until the alt-right start pointing out inaccuracies about 'hidden figures' in the attempt to dismiss this woman's story? It'll probably happen around oscar time.

It's one reason I try to stay away from biopics.

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>Sometimes I think that hyperbole is our
>enemy, especially when the truth is sufficiently awesome.)


and yeah, while watching The Butler i felt like his son was basically a Black version, of sorts, of Forrest Gump. Just happened to be there when a lot of important shit was going on.

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