Chicago – Madonna’s “W.E.” completes a trilogy of lackluster Oscar bait released last year by the Weinstein Company. Each film squandered potentially fascinating subject matter by upstaging it with pointless framing devices. Imagine if the majority of “Titanic” followed Bill Paxton on his self-centered quest for the diamond. That would surely have amounted to the most boring three-hour epic in history.
“My Week With Marilyn” was the best of the three Weinstein duds, if only because it embraced its status as inconsequential fluff. Yet it was maddening to see Marilyn Monroe play second fiddle to a dull young admirer. The Margaret Thatcher that received the majority of screen time in “The Iron Lady,” was a wispy, inoffensive ghost of her former self, thus enabling her controversial political career to be left offscreen. Why does the most interesting character have to remain an enigma confined to insufficient montages?
Blu-ray Rating: 2.0/5.0
The...
“My Week With Marilyn” was the best of the three Weinstein duds, if only because it embraced its status as inconsequential fluff. Yet it was maddening to see Marilyn Monroe play second fiddle to a dull young admirer. The Margaret Thatcher that received the majority of screen time in “The Iron Lady,” was a wispy, inoffensive ghost of her former self, thus enabling her controversial political career to be left offscreen. Why does the most interesting character have to remain an enigma confined to insufficient montages?
Blu-ray Rating: 2.0/5.0
The...
- 5/10/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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