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Amelia and Inglourious Basterds
Friday, 5 February 2010 15:55I saw a couple of movies recently.
Amelia is a biopic about Amelia Earhart, her relationship with George Putnam, and her last flight. I must admit, I found it rather boring. Hilary Swank got Earhart spot-on, in looks, at least, but Richard Gere was badly miscast; he was channelling Billy Flynn from Chicago. From an authenticity point of view, Amelia looked really, really good, but sadly, that didn't rescue it.
One interesting factoid: while I was watching it, I was admiring the South Seas island scenery, and thinking how much it looked like the scenery around our holiday home in Kei Mouth. I later found that those scenes had been filmed on the Wild Coast, while is across the Kei River from Kei Mouth. The hotel the cast and crew stayed at was in fact just across the river!
I also saw Inglourious Basterds a few weeks ago, and didn't like it much. The first part was a bit of an "if only" wankfest; the rest was more interesting, but somewhat choppy and not very satisfying. Brad Pitt overacted ludicrously. I must admit, I don't get Tarantino movies, and it's hard to criticise them, because if you do, you're told that that's the way Tarantino intended the movie to be, and it's a homage to such-and-such.
Amelia is a biopic about Amelia Earhart, her relationship with George Putnam, and her last flight. I must admit, I found it rather boring. Hilary Swank got Earhart spot-on, in looks, at least, but Richard Gere was badly miscast; he was channelling Billy Flynn from Chicago. From an authenticity point of view, Amelia looked really, really good, but sadly, that didn't rescue it.
One interesting factoid: while I was watching it, I was admiring the South Seas island scenery, and thinking how much it looked like the scenery around our holiday home in Kei Mouth. I later found that those scenes had been filmed on the Wild Coast, while is across the Kei River from Kei Mouth. The hotel the cast and crew stayed at was in fact just across the river!
I also saw Inglourious Basterds a few weeks ago, and didn't like it much. The first part was a bit of an "if only" wankfest; the rest was more interesting, but somewhat choppy and not very satisfying. Brad Pitt overacted ludicrously. I must admit, I don't get Tarantino movies, and it's hard to criticise them, because if you do, you're told that that's the way Tarantino intended the movie to be, and it's a homage to such-and-such.