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Elizabeth: The Golden Age is not the train wreck the critics made it out to be.
It wasn't quite up to the standards of the first film, but I found it an admirable companion piece. For once, I found it appropriate to have a sequel made a decade later, because the characters can be noticeably older ... as appropriate to this particular story.
I liked the different lighting scheme (Golden Age indeed) and loved the costumes and thought Cate was great as Liz, and Clive Owen is hubba hubba as always.
I think we forget how schmaltzy and melodramatic the original was. This one's just a tad more cheesy.
Curious though. In the Cate Blanchette films, Elizabeth has two love affairs, and in the Helen Mirren miniseries, she has two different love affairs.
Were they all true?
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