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| mo_flixx |
 Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 11:15 pm |
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QUESTION: re: "The Other Boleyn Girl"
I'm curious about the necklace with the big gold "B" that Natalie Portman wears thruout the movie. I've never seen anything like this in numerous museums. Family crests, crosses, etc. - yes. Initials - NO.
In fact, it reminds me of the "Sex and the City" 'Carrie' necklace...or the '70's gold necklaces that said "bitch."
I would love to get more info. from someone on this subject.
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| Nancy |
| Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 11:32 pm |
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mo,
If you go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Boleyn you can see a portrait of Anne Boleyn wearing the necklace in question. Don't know if anyone else wore one, but she certainly did. I think it's rather well known. BTW, the character Betty on Ugly Betty sometimes wears a replica of it. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 12:13 am |
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Befade wrote: I thought someone here would have seen Wall-E by now with all the rave reviews about it. I went to the local $5 theatre last night to see it and I was NOT wowed.
Betsy--Guess you must have scrolled past the several reviews I and others wrote when the movie opened. I agreed with you. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 2:23 am |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 9:45 am |
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jeremy wrote: Kung Fu Panda is the best kid's film of the year so far.
Yeah it was wonderful. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 10:38 am |
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| I haven't even seen Iron Man *sigh* |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 10:51 am |
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| Glad to know I'm not alone, Billy. I remember when you refered to talk of it being best film of the year........I will have to scroll back....... |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 10:52 am |
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| The reviews are in for Mamma Mia!, and their decidedly mixed. A few waverers apart. the battle hardened ranks of British newspaper critics stood fast, refusing to be overehelmed by the film's insistent and exuberant charms. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 10:58 am |
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I haven't seen anything but Indiana Jones in the past three months.
This isn't exactly "current film," but this morning I was jarred awake by some books falling over (not uncommon in my apartment), and couldn't get back to sleep, so I turned on TCM. There was an interview with Betty Hutton going on. It took a few minutes to figure out who she was, but then I was fascinated. She has to be in her 80s, but she was bouncy and funny and passionate and outspoken, with bushy gray hair and an odd pajama-like outfit. I never knew that Judy Garland was supposed to play Annie Oakley in "Annie Get Your Gun" (that would have been weird), and when she was fired from the picture and Hutton got the part, the other actors treated her like dirt because they'd loved Judy so much. Hutton wasn't even invited to the New York premiere of the film--the studio expected it to bomb in Ethel Merman's town, but it was a big hit. I didn't get back to sleep for a while. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 11:14 am |
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jeremy wrote: The reviews are in for Mamma Mia!, and their decidedly mixed. A few waverers apart. the battle hardened ranks of British newspaper critics stood fast, refusing to be overehelmed by the film's insistent and exuberant charms.
I'm suspect this critic hit the nail on the head:
Quote: On a Friday night in a crowded cinema,...it seems perfectly plausible that you will have a great time. Unfortunately, I saw it in circumstances particularly unconducive to suspension of the critical faculties – a cold and wet Monday morning in a large, mostly empty auditorium, the audience consisting of critics who are for the most part even more jaded than I am. And, in the cold light of day, it looked like absolute cack. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 11:20 am |
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Quote: Syd--I grant WALL-E all the great things it accomplishes. The flaws occurred when it got into outer space and indulged in long, tired slapstick chases. They did not come close to spoiling the movie's power and beauty, but did manage to make it less than perfect.
Okay, Billy......I noticed there was alot more SOUND......booms and whooshes.....especially when the spaceship landed. Almost like it was trying to be an action movie. I would need to see it with a kid......and know what that perspective is... (can't wait for yambu's report)
Well.........Fantasia didn't have dialogue...... |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 12:10 pm |
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Befade wrote: Quote: Syd--I grant WALL-E all the great things it accomplishes. The flaws occurred when it got into outer space and indulged in long, tired slapstick chases. They did not come close to spoiling the movie's power and beauty, but did manage to make it less than perfect.
Okay, Billy......I noticed there was alot more SOUND......booms and whooshes.....especially when the spaceship landed. Almost like it was trying to be an action movie. I would need to see it with a kid......and know what that perspective is... (can't wait for yambu's report)
Well.........Fantasia didn't have dialogue......
Hey...how about some spoilers. I'm still trying to see the damned movie. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 2:28 pm |
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Quote: And, in the cold light of day, it looked like absolute cack.
That was my opinion of the preview.  |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 2:37 pm |
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On the other hand, there's this from The Hollywood Reporter, which (despite its trade-publication status) has very tough critics:
No matter how many blockbusters there are, Universal Pictures' screen version of the global hit stage musical Mamma Mia! is the most fun to be had at the movies this or any other recent summer.
Teenage boys may be glued to the latest action adventure, but the rest of the family will be having a rollicking good time and dancing in the aisles to Swedish pop group ABBA's irresistible songs. It's a delightful piece of filmmaking with a marvelous cast topped by Meryl Streep in one of her smartest and most entertaining performances ever. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 2:41 pm |
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Befade wrote:
Well.........Fantasia didn't have dialogue......
Not in the animated segments, but Mickey Mouse and the conductor talked to each other. |
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