Comments on: Movie Talk: Marie Antoinette http://writerunboxed.com/2007/04/09/movie-talk-marie-antoinette/ About the craft and business of genre fiction Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:04:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Kathleen Bolton http://writerunboxed.com/2007/04/09/movie-talk-marie-antoinette/#comment-8467 Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:07:25 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2007/04/09/movie-talk-marie-antoinette/#comment-8467 I fast forwarded thru scenes too, Anna. I knew I wasn't missing anything because there was no dialogue anyway. If I was in the theater, I would have been screaming in my mind. Thea, I loved that Clive Owen movie where he was a prisoner who competes in a flower show. I wish I could remember the name of it... The worst part about that King Arthur movie was the stupid wig they put on Clive. A horrible abomination. I fast forwarded thru scenes too, Anna. I knew I wasn’t missing anything because there was no dialogue anyway. If I was in the theater, I would have been screaming in my mind.

Thea, I loved that Clive Owen movie where he was a prisoner who competes in a flower show. I wish I could remember the name of it…

The worst part about that King Arthur movie was the stupid wig they put on Clive. A horrible abomination.

]]> by: Anna Black http://writerunboxed.com/2007/04/09/movie-talk-marie-antoinette/#comment-8393 Mon, 09 Apr 2007 23:31:09 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2007/04/09/movie-talk-marie-antoinette/#comment-8393 Your review of Marie Antoinette sums up exactly what I felt about the movie. It looked absolutely fabulous but there was a defnite lack of anything that could remotly be called a story and I didn't care at all what happened to anybody. I actually wound up jumping scenes and going to the end because I couldn't stand it anymore and the ending left me cold. Very disappointing. Your review of Marie Antoinette sums up exactly what I felt about the movie. It looked absolutely fabulous but there was a defnite lack of anything that could remotly be called a story and I didn’t care at all what happened to anybody. I actually wound up jumping scenes and going to the end because I couldn’t stand it anymore and the ending left me cold. Very disappointing.

]]> by: thea http://writerunboxed.com/2007/04/09/movie-talk-marie-antoinette/#comment-8388 Mon, 09 Apr 2007 21:33:13 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2007/04/09/movie-talk-marie-antoinette/#comment-8388 but..but...i loved clive owen in the king arthur movie. am i the only one who loved that k.a. version? other than being overcast weatherwise through out the whole movie i thought it was good. he was also good in children of men. i hated that movie he was in with jennifer anniston, but he was good in that as well. he was also in some movie where he's in prison but the prisoners get assigned to redo gardens and then they end up competing in some chelsea garden show type arena. i think helen mirren was in that movie as well. but..but…i loved clive owen in the king arthur movie. am i the only one who loved that k.a. version? other than being overcast weatherwise through out the whole movie i thought it was good. he was also good in children of men. i hated that movie he was in with jennifer anniston, but he was good in that as well. he was also in some movie where he’s in prison but the prisoners get assigned to redo gardens and then they end up competing in some chelsea garden show type arena. i think helen mirren was in that movie as well.

]]> by: Kathleen Bolton http://writerunboxed.com/2007/04/09/movie-talk-marie-antoinette/#comment-8385 Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:42:13 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2007/04/09/movie-talk-marie-antoinette/#comment-8385 Sound of Music's a very Cold War-era movie. And they never talked about what killed the first Mrs. Von Trapp, but giving birth to seven kids in 10 years might have had something to do with it. Music and puppets can't gloss that supposition over for me. King Arthur, ugh. That was a terrible waste of Clive Owen. Sound of Music’s a very Cold War-era movie. And they never talked about what killed the first Mrs. Von Trapp, but giving birth to seven kids in 10 years might have had something to do with it. Music and puppets can’t gloss that supposition over for me.

King Arthur, ugh. That was a terrible waste of Clive Owen.

]]> by: Therese Walsh http://writerunboxed.com/2007/04/09/movie-talk-marie-antoinette/#comment-8383 Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:56:40 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2007/04/09/movie-talk-marie-antoinette/#comment-8383 I, too, love the feel of a good period piece. Gimme Amadeus, Shakespeare in Love, and Pride and Prejudice anytime. But some are disappointing despite the beautiful costumes and rich settings (King Arthur, anyone?). I like SoM, though you're right - Maria is a Mary Sue. The thing that's always bothered me about the movie is the difference in tone about halfway through, when the focus of the movie changes from Maria and her relationship with the family, to the family and its relationship with politics; the stories seem too separate to me. I, too, love the feel of a good period piece. Gimme Amadeus, Shakespeare in Love, and Pride and Prejudice anytime. But some are disappointing despite the beautiful costumes and rich settings (King Arthur, anyone?).

I like SoM, though you’re right - Maria is a Mary Sue. The thing that’s always bothered me about the movie is the difference in tone about halfway through, when the focus of the movie changes from Maria and her relationship with the family, to the family and its relationship with politics; the stories seem too separate to me.

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