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Jeffrey Wells has just seen Elizabeth: The Golden Age up at Toronto, and...um...man.
He totally rips it a new one:
http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/archi...beth_the_g.php A quote:
...Of course, he utterly detests Peter Jackson (to whom he actually sings hosannas when comparing this movie to The Lord of the Rings in his review), so maybe take it with a grain of salt. According to him, it's the next Munich.
Much of the time, though (and as much as I agree with him politically), his grasp of mainstream, non-B&W-subtitled Bulgarian arthouse-cinema is as strong and sure as a baby's grip on a buttered anvil.
He totally rips it a new one:
http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/archi...beth_the_g.php A quote:
Quote:
| I have been to the temple of madness this morning. I have tasted true lunacy. I feel as I've been injected with bad mescaline against my will, and that I need to be taken to the nearest hospital in an ambulance. I have seen Cate Blanchett in silver body armor atop a mighty steed and giving a St. Crispin's [sic] Day speech and wearing a long red "war" wig and wondered, "What's happening here? Is it me or the movie, or should I just take the elevator up to the roof and jump off?" This is the kind of wretched, at times laughably mudddled historical epic that makes you say to yourself over and over, "Wikipedia's Elizabeth page will save me, Wikipedia will save me...thank God for Wikipedia!" |
...Of course, he utterly detests Peter Jackson (to whom he actually sings hosannas when comparing this movie to The Lord of the Rings in his review), so maybe take it with a grain of salt. According to him, it's the next Munich.
Much of the time, though (and as much as I agree with him politically), his grasp of mainstream, non-B&W-subtitled Bulgarian arthouse-cinema is as strong and sure as a baby's grip on a buttered anvil.
