The Other Boleyn Girl – 6/10

Well, I didn’t hate it. The thing is, there were some cool bits, but I guess they were history so… (the part with the brother near the end, the point at which the film moved up in my mind from ‘blah’ to ‘oh interesting…’)

Natalie Portman was really good… Scarlett Johansson was alright as well. And I have to say, I was like, “the guy who played their brother was really good, and why do I recognize him?” Well, I just looked it up and his name is Jim Sturgess. Ring any bells? Across the Universe. Yeah… so I guess maybe he is actually really good and he just couldn’t show it through the bore fest of AtU. Then again, he’s also in that 21 movie that just came out… which I will in no way be seeing so… maybe he just has bad taste.

The last 15-20 minutes of the film were the best, even though I kind of expected what finally happened. Not knowing anything about history was probably a plus in this situation because it was like watching a movie someone made up rather than copied out of history. I have no idea how accurate this film is to history, nor do I care. It was fine. I won’t be buying it or seeing it again.

Some of the costumes were cool, the scenery was ‘meh’, pretty much what was expected, boring landscape shots, and the acting ranged from fine to really good. So all in all, a fine experience at the theatre, but I’m glad I didn’t rent it actually because the theatre experience as a whole played into my liking of this movie.

~ by annemarieparade on April 2, 2008.