Marie Antoinette...rated PG for "pretentious garbage"
the same with Inland Empire
(Jef (& others) worry me when they applaud these piles of shit...oh well, the life of the Goo...)
Here's what I wrote:
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Originally Posted by Hercules Rockefeller
I'm writing out of the side of my neck considering that I haven't even seen it.
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http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/sho...8&postcount=26
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Originally Posted by Rembrandt Q. Einstein
Most likely the film is a beautiful...dud.
No "The Chauffeur" on the soundtrack kind of sucks.
It was booed at Cannes, but of course, that may have been just the French critical reaction to an American-made movie about their history, sorta like if a film was made with all French actors about, say, George Washington.
I've heard that there is little dialogue really (which is becoming a S. Coppola trademark in a sense) and that there are ridiculously long shots on extravagant meals and desserts.
There was a pretty neat article on it in Entertainment Weekly and Sofia mentioned a "punk" influence a bunch of times.
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http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/sho...7&postcount=37
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Originally Posted by Handsome B. Wonderful
Yeah, in a way it is so Romeo + Juliet, but that movie used a modern-day setting.
The soundtrack makes sense in a way since it is about a more intimate portrait of Antoinette and not really a historical account in the traditional sense. The 1938 version (I actually didn't even look that up...I watched it on AMC last Friday (the night of the wide-release premiere of the new movie and I remember the year from the cable guide---(excuse me for tooting my own horn for little to no reason)) is more about history than placing you in a setting contemporary with Marie, which, is another interesting way to tell the story and learn about history in itself. (Thanks noumenal, for mentioning the book on which it's based because that's new information to me).
Sofia says that she wanted the audience to feel the emotion of the modern-day songs to convey what the scenes are about rather than attempting to tell the story with a more classical soundtrack. I can buy into that, but (bearing in mind that I haven't seen it yet) I can't buy into this movie judging by what else I've heard, read and seen so far.
Some reviews have likened Marie's charmed life to that of Sofia's herself and claim that the movie is a bit autobiographical, but then again, critics have a penchant for reading all sorts of things into films for the sake of having something interesting to write about and exaggerrate what's really there in the process.
Lost in Translation was a bit different in its pacing and storytelling than many movies today, but I really do like it. Then again, that one had Bill Murray. Ribisi is a good actor, but he was like a cardboard cut-out in it. Johansson is nice to look at, but she's no great actress. I don't think this movie will be a deserving follow-up really. I just may be completly off-base, but it seems to me that Sofia built up a lot of cred with Lost in Translation and now she's self-importantly abusing the praise with an unwatchable movie, relying on the impressive beauty of the actual setting at Chateau de Versailles to carry the film.
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and, last but not least
http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/sho...8&postcount=40
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Originally Posted by Max Power
A nagging suspicion I have is that people who will say that they really adore this movie are the same people that hang around coffee shops with their copy of James Joyce's "Ulysses" or the like.
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And since it's so very tiring to actually read
actual writing, I'll close this message in the vernacular:
Suck me.