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Louisa and I have a competition every year during the Oscars over who can pick the most winners. Louisa has beaten me every single time. It's like six in a row now. One of those years we created a forfeit where the loser has to watch a movie of the winner's choosing.
I've thought about what I'd make Louisa watch. I am really bad at knowing if she'll like something on TV or in the movies. Of course, this assume I would be kind and make her watch something I think she'd like. Thankfully, she's been relatively merciful to me, although she did try to get me to watch the whole 124 hour "Pride and Prejudice" thing one year. That is NOT a movie.
This year it was "Little Women" starring Winona Ryder before she became a kleptomaniac. I kept putting off the movie, not expecting to like it, but I did. Winona was great, reminding me why I liked her in the first place.
Because of my stupidity, I didn't realize the great switcheroo between Kirsten "Snaggletooth" Dunst and Samantha "Way Prettier than Dunst" Mathis. Odd that Mathis would go on to be in "American Psycho" with Christian "Newsies" Bale. Makes the whole movie seem more unseemly.
But the thing that I most observed in the movie "Little Women" is how wrong Ryder and Gabriel Byrne were for each other. Maybe the book was different, but it seemed creepy to me. Maybe if I knew more about his character...nah, it'd still be weird.
