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Dear men who are afraid to see ‘Little Women’: You can do this.
Washington Post ^ | January 1, 2020 | Monica Hesse

Posted on 01/04/2020 5:43:15 PM PST by C19fan

To the men who love “Little Women”: Hello! You are not alone. There are many of you, and you have all been emailing me to confess, as if it were a shameful secret, your deep affection for a 150-year-old story about four girls growing up in Civil War-era Massachusetts, making currant jam and accidentally burning their dresses in the fireplace.

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To: C19fan

I’ve seen the BBC version on PBS, many moons ago, and, it was required reading in my 1968 British Literature class in high school. Once is enough.


61 posted on 01/04/2020 7:19:02 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: C19fan

I’m a chick and I don’t wanna see it.


62 posted on 01/04/2020 7:25:12 PM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: goldstategop

I’m not a man and I don’t want to see it. My teenage daughters saw it and one of them wants to take me to see it. She thinks I will love it like she did. I don’t have the heart to tell her that I never liked the book; and I will never turn down time with my social butterfly daughter. But I’m still not looking forward to sitting through it.


63 posted on 01/04/2020 7:53:54 PM PST by NorthstarMom
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To: lizma2
Read it as a kid. I liked the historical aspects.

Have you tried "The Scarlet Pimpernel?"

64 posted on 01/04/2020 8:06:43 PM PST by Buttons12
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To: C19fan

No, I can’t watch it.

I could probably read the book though.


65 posted on 01/04/2020 8:21:21 PM PST by Mr Fuji
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To: Jeff Chandler
There is not thing from Little Women that would appeal to a man.

Jurrasic Park, on the other hand . . .

By jove I think you've got it!

Little Women with a T-Rex and some raptors. Just the spice that homogeneously green New England countryside needs. Shredded Victorian petticoats marking a terrifying trail into the woods. Helplessly fighting off the beasts with period axes and rug beaters.

Good show!

66 posted on 01/04/2020 8:22:08 PM PST by TigersEye (MAGA - 16 more years! - KAG)
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To: KittyKares

I saw Richard Jewell and Midway the past month. Both were good films.

Can’t remember when I saw a movie prior to these 2. Sure won’t be this movie.


67 posted on 01/04/2020 9:23:20 PM PST by desertfreedom765
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Dear stupid broad from the Washington ComPost: shut your ignorant bigoted sexist piehole.

68 posted on 01/04/2020 11:45:18 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: C19fan

I would rather give up beer than see sappy tripe like “Little Women”. If ladies like it, then more power to you, but I’m sticking with football, sex, and violence. Watching “Little Women” would cause me permanent brain damage.

Just reading this post has me wanting to watch The Wild Bunch, followed by the Dirty Dozen, with the Good, Bad, and the Ugly thrown in for good measure. Manly men don’t do “Little Women”.


69 posted on 01/05/2020 8:03:55 AM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (What profits a man if he gains the world but loses his soul?)
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To: DannyTN

I love big women. Not REALLY big women, but skinny women don’t do it for me. Curves are where it is at. More cushiion for.. just saying.


70 posted on 01/05/2020 8:04:53 AM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (What profits a man if he gains the world but loses his soul?)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

Try Tony Rome. A Sinatra flick. Everything a growing boy needs in that movie. Sinatra was cool.


71 posted on 01/05/2020 8:06:16 AM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: C19fan

Hillarious the make a movie FOR women, then complain no man wants to see it.


72 posted on 01/05/2020 8:17:59 AM PST by Callan ("I love old fags like you." - Vermont Lt)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
"Just finished War and Peace, getting ready to read Suetonius’ Lives of the Caesars and the collected works of Ambrose Bierce."

Congratulations, we have similar tastes. I've read W & P and all of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

Indeed, this reminds me of a little cartoon that long ago appeared in, if I remember correctly, the New Yorker, where this little guy and his wife were looking in a book store window at a copy of W & P and the guy remarked, "Imagine, he wrote it all without a word processor."

73 posted on 01/05/2020 8:42:30 AM PST by libstripper
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

One more comment that I forgot in my morning fuzzies. If you’ve not seen Sergi Bokndarchuk’s Russian version of W & P, please do so. I have the 5 disc DVD version by Ruscico that Amazon is now selling for about $26.00. They also have a two disc Blu Ray version for about the same price that I’d stay away from because the original movie is about seven hours long and I suspect it was severely cut to squeeze it into only two discs.


74 posted on 01/05/2020 8:59:06 AM PST by libstripper (ueeze it into)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

I literally laughed until teary eyed at Spies in Disguise. I will say though.. I am a fan of Will Smith humor. It is probably more funny if you have watched his other comedy movies.
Sure beats a story about women. Drama left our house when the last teenage daughter did.


75 posted on 01/05/2020 11:07:17 AM PST by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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To: libstripper

***If you’ve not seen Sergi Bokndarchuk’s Russian version of W & P***

I have it on DVD from the Russian Cinema Council. Good color and wide screen.

I also had the Kultur version release of this, cut to full screen, and some scenes cut. Poor color.


76 posted on 01/05/2020 12:33:37 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: RinaseaofDs

I have seen all of them. Gritty enough.


77 posted on 01/05/2020 2:34:55 PM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (What profits a man if he gains the world but loses his soul?)
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To: gibsonguy

How about liking petite women?


78 posted on 01/06/2020 5:30:39 PM PST by BreezyDog
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To: BreezyDog

The women l like, feminist fueled chick flicks not so music.


79 posted on 01/07/2020 6:07:39 AM PST by gibsonguy
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