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innerSpaceman · 03-02-2008, 10:58 PM

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I wish I'd remembered that my friend Janet did f/x work for the Oscar Winner The Golden Compass - I would have been much more excited when it won.

It's the third film she's worked on that won the f/x Oscar ... but this is the first time she's actually had a chance to hold the Oscar.

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The Other Boleyn Girl was just a little too soapopery for my tastes. I suppose the nature of the story is pretty bodice-ripper-ish, but I think I was hoping for something a little more intrigue and a little less high school.

Eric Bana's Henry the Eigth is a love-sick moron. Natalie Portman, usually good in most things, should simply never play a queen again ... since I think this goes down with Amidala as one of her meh performances.

Scarlett Johanson fairs better as the title character and one of the few sympathetic characters. Another, the Boleyn boy, their brother George, is played by the yummy Jim Sturgess - who was Jude in Across the Universe. Kirsten Scott Thomas is the real standout as the sharpwitted Boleyn mom who's the voice of sanity in this most dysfunctional and tragic of families.

It could be the defacto first film in a trilogy with Elizabeth and its sequel The Golden Age. Like that latter film, it presents a world where the rulers of England seem to ruled by their hormones and love lives. Perhaps that's the way it was. They were human like the rest of us. But it seems to triviliaze important events, and so it comes off a tad artificial to me and more than a little silly.

Otherwise, a handsome production in a period of movie history I've become interested in of late. And I thought the costumes were fine, Shorshah.

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More than anything, it made me feel like watching Jim Sturgess in Across the Universe, the first time I've screened that movie since first seeing it in theaters. Better even than I remembered. Knowing going in how thin the 60's pastiche/standard love story arc the story takes, i was better able to appreciate the film as a non-stop musical spectacle of great Beatles covers and one fantastic number after another.

If you haven't seen Across the Universe, get it on DVD. If you're thinking of seeing The Other Boleyn Girl, it's ok to wait for the DVD.

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03-02-2008, 10:58 PM	#2987
innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	* * * * I wish I'd remembered that my friend Janet did f/x work for the Oscar Winner The Golden Compass - I would have been much more excited when it won. It's the third film she's worked on that won the f/x Oscar ... but this is the first time she's actually had a chance to hold the Oscar. * * * * The Other Boleyn Girl was just a little too soapopery for my tastes. I suppose the nature of the story is pretty bodice-ripper-ish, but I think I was hoping for something a little more intrigue and a little less high school. Eric Bana's Henry the Eigth is a love-sick moron. Natalie Portman, usually good in most things, should simply never play a queen again ... since I think this goes down with Amidala as one of her meh performances. Scarlett Johanson fairs better as the title character and one of the few sympathetic characters. Another, the Boleyn boy, their brother George, is played by the yummy Jim Sturgess - who was Jude in Across the Universe. Kirsten Scott Thomas is the real standout as the sharpwitted Boleyn mom who's the voice of sanity in this most dysfunctional and tragic of families. It could be the defacto first film in a trilogy with Elizabeth and its sequel The Golden Age. Like that latter film, it presents a world where the rulers of England seem to ruled by their hormones and love lives. Perhaps that's the way it was. They were human like the rest of us. But it seems to triviliaze important events, and so it comes off a tad artificial to me and more than a little silly. Otherwise, a handsome production in a period of movie history I've become interested in of late. And I thought the costumes were fine, Shorshah. * * * * * More than anything, it made me feel like watching Jim Sturgess in Across the Universe, the first time I've screened that movie since first seeing it in theaters. Better even than I remembered. Knowing going in how thin the 60's pastiche/standard love story arc the story takes, i was better able to appreciate the film as a non-stop musical spectacle of great Beatles covers and one fantastic number after another. If you haven't seen Across the Universe, get it on DVD. If you're thinking of seeing The Other Boleyn Girl, it's ok to wait for the DVD. . Last edited by innerSpaceman : 03-02-2008 at 11:04 PM.
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