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Post by Nora on Jan 23, 2019 2:30:14 GMT
imagine making a movie where all the leads get nominated for an oscar (and u r also for directing and screenwriting and vest picture). imagine the kind of high this must produce.
happy for the director i really love his movies.
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Post by Toasted Cheese on Jan 23, 2019 14:18:03 GMT
One of my favorite  movies of the year. This is a hilarious, thrilling, shocking and depressing look at power and love. What a movie! The more I think about it the better it gets. And the acting performances are off the charts. Olivia Colman's performance is a marvel to behold. agreed. i really hopes she wins an oscar for it. its a bit other-wordly acting. i have no idea how they do it actors. the amount of vulnerability and emotional investment they have to be able to display and commit is crazy. I have some quibbles, but I was intrigued as the film played out and wanted a little more. The run-time of 2hrs flew by for me and most of this credit is due to Colman's terrific portrayal of Queen Anne. There were no false notes here and she seamlessly blended from one mood to another with nuance and skill. Colman didn't allow the grotesque aspects of Anne, to overshadow her more real, intelligent and emotional side. She elicited just the right amount of pity, empathy and sadness.
Both Weisz and Stone were also both on point and Weisz won me over especially. I have only seen a couple of films she has starred in and clips of other films she has made. I thought she was perfectly cast here and very believable and authentic. Much of the credit of this film is due to the dialog the actors were given as well. Visually, I also liked the film. However, I did not like the use of the fish eye lens in some scenes. I found it too distracting and it took me out of the narrative. I found this a pretentious visual imposition.
I also came away feeling that the film was a tad underdeveloped story-wise. For a film about wicked female wiles, deception and political mind games to gain power and favor, it came up a tad short for me and ended way too ambiguously. The artistic pretense of the director was never more evident, than in this last scene. I felt like it had just run out of steam, or didn't really know what it wanted to say, or what its point was. This really annoys the crap out of me and I am not asking for the film to be rounded out in a neat package, but if it was meant as some sort of symbolic attempt at irony, it fell flat. I feel it undermined the rest of the film and I left feeling that perhaps the satirical aspect of the film wasn't that clever after all.
The film reminded me a bit of Dangerous Liaisons - 88', with Close, Pfeiffer and Malkovich, but that film's theme of deception, lust, desire and love was so much more cleverer and overall superior. Just shows, they can't quite make em like they used to, no matter how hard they try.
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Post by Toasted Cheese on Jan 23, 2019 14:33:55 GMT
i hated it. Full of stupid and unpleasant scenes, and the historical naccuracies irritated me - Abigal Hill for instance was only thirteen when Sarah Churchill took her into her household, she had been with Sarah for years before she began to serve Queen Anne. SArah is portrayed as the victim of Abigail's machinations, when in fact it was her own foul temper and domineering ways that eventually put the Queen off her. QUeen Anne's husband George, to whom she was devoted, is completely eliminated, although the man Abigail married was one of his servants. the Queen herself is portrayed as a bumbling fool although she was not - it goes without saying that her fervent devotion to the Angliacan church doesn't get a mention. probably the nastiest of the gratuitously unpleasant scenes is iwhen Abigail squashes the rabbit. ALtogether I loathed the whole thing. THere is nothing even faintly amusing about it, no comedy black or otherwise. Within the film's satirical and macabre context, though, I would not call that scene "gratuitous." It symbolizes Abigail's emergent lust for power and authority—even over the queen—and the final scene offers a fairly chilling retort to that ambition. The poster appears to be only looking at this scene from a superficial and simpleminded aspect of a person being cruel to an animal, without underscoring the context of character's motivation for doing what she did. It is a comment born out of distorted emotion. |
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Post by poes on Jan 25, 2019 13:10:37 GMT
I can see why a lot of people dont like it.Three main characters that are all hateful and nasty. But I loved it. From the director of the The Lobster and The killing of a sacred deer, this is an an acquired taste. 8/10.
The "LOOK AT ME " scene is something I can watch 50 times over.
One of the best temper tantrums EVER in a movie.
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Post by hi224 on Jan 25, 2019 14:32:18 GMT
I can see why a lot of people dont like it.Three main characters that are all hateful and nasty. But I loved it. From the director of the The Lobster and The killing of a sacred deer, this is an an acquired taste. 8/10. The "LOOK AT ME " scene is something I can watch 50 times over. One of the best temper tantrums EVER in a movie. Agreed. |
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Post by louise on Jan 26, 2019 21:10:35 GMT
Within the film's satirical and macabre context, though, I would not call that scene "gratuitous." It symbolizes Abigail's emergent lust for power and authority—even over the queen—and the final scene offers a fairly chilling retort to that ambition. The poster appears to be only looking at this scene from a superficial and simpleminded aspect of a person being cruel to an animal, without underscoring the context of character's motivation for doing what she did. It is a comment born out of distorted emotion. Simpleminded and superficial I may be - that's all right with me so long as I don't have to watch nastiness like this. |
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Post by hi224 on Jan 26, 2019 22:15:30 GMT
The poster appears to be only looking at this scene from a superficial and simpleminded aspect of a person being cruel to an animal, without underscoring the context of character's motivation for doing what she did. It is a comment born out of distorted emotion. Simpleminded and superficial I may be - that's all right with me so long as I don't have to watch nastiness like this. Welp alrighty. |
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Post by Toasted Cheese on Jan 27, 2019 0:35:23 GMT
The poster appears to be only looking at this scene from a superficial and simpleminded aspect of a person being cruel to an animal, without underscoring the context of character's motivation for doing what she did. It is a comment born out of distorted emotion. Simpleminded and superficial I may be - that's all right with me so long as I don't have to watch nastiness like this.The character had a nasty streak in her, that was the point dumbbell. Don't worry sunshine, no rabbits were harmed in the making of the film. Some may have ended up in somebodies stew though. |
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movies of the year. This is a hilarious, thrilling, shocking and depressing look at power and love. What a movie! The more I think about it the better it gets. And the acting performances are off the charts. Olivia Colman's performance is a marvel to behold.
