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I just watched The Seven Year Itch and didn't really like it. I don't get old movies; they are slow and nothing happens. In this one, the main character is talking to himself for a majority of the movie. Marilyn Monroe was ok, her usual self. The scene where the air from the subway blows up her dress is much different than I thought it'd be. They only showed the very bottom of her dress being blown, not an entire body shot like the pictures I've always seen. I guess whoever was in charge thought that was too racy. What a very pretty dress though, I love halter tops. I wondered as I was watching it why her heels didn't fall through the holes on the grate though. Big plot hole there.

I should probably stop trying to watch movies I have no interest in. Right now it's Black Hawk Down on tivo, and I hate war movies. I watched a sixth of it, maybe I'll watch another sixth a little later. Movies like that are better in small doses because they aren't as stressful that way. I'm also an hour into The Man Without a Past, a foreign film that was nominated for Best Foreign Film in 2003. For some reason I thought it won, that's why I added it to Netflix. Nowhere in Africa won, and this was the same year that Hero and The Crime of Father Amaro were both nominated. This movie is also ok, but again I'm not sure why I am watching it.

After thinking about this in the shower, I've decided the problem with old movies is that the women are there to please the men. I am just not like that. I don't have a sweet, soft, whispery voice, I don't do things that will please my husband like keep the house spotless and take off his shoes after leading him to his favorite chair so he can read the paper or catch the evening news. I am totally myself around my husband, completely unguarded. He is the only person I get to do this around, so I do it in full. And he seems to like me this way for some reason. He doesn't care if the laundry isn't put away or if there are a few dishes in the sink. Or if I haven't mopped since we canceled the cleaning service 3 months ago. Me and my life are so different to the women in these old movies that I find the movies totally unbelievable. Their goals in life and their communication with the most important people in their lives are phony and pretend. Because of their fakeness, the are not entertaining. I prefer movies that are real, even if in their realness I can't stand them (ala Spanglish).