tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post4651494815052116840..comments2024-03-27T21:42:56.131-05:00Comments on 1001plus: Nudie-not-so-CutieSJHoneywellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-48748904150327085872023-03-12T14:23:30.229-05:002023-03-12T14:23:30.229-05:00Generally, the reviews on this one have been prett...Generally, the reviews on this one have been pretty poor, but that doesn't mean that you're wrong about it. I felt it was really exploitative and unpleasant, and while I don't always mind that, it felt needless here.<br /><br />I think that the Razzies did the right thing pulling that nomination. It feels like punching down. SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-18640098491400076942023-03-11T19:46:29.484-06:002023-03-11T19:46:29.484-06:00It just won Worst Picture at the Razzies and.... t...It just won Worst Picture at the Razzies and.... they got it wrong. I actually enjoyed this film as I saw it more as an anti-bio pic that is more about Norma Jeane rather than Marilyn Monroe. It's also a film about the male gaze and how this young woman has become a victim of this persona she created where she isn't given a voice to say anything. <br /><br />I'm having issues with the Razzies over the fact that they cowered to the public over nominating a little girl for Worst Actress. Honestly, if we can't shit on children for awful performances. What's the point of criticism as we're supposed to coddle kids by shielding them away from negativity? Fuck that!thevoid99https://www.blogger.com/profile/03055459287396592446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-64353088367385682272023-03-11T19:28:30.087-06:002023-03-11T19:28:30.087-06:00It is only my commitment to watching the nominees ...It is only my commitment to watching the nominees of particular categories that got me to watch this, and it's absolutely not something I would voluntarily watch again. The NC-17 rating might get some people curious, but the rating is for things that are just genuinely unpleasant. It's salacious for its own sake, and never in a way that is interesting. <br /><br />As a person, Marilyn deserves better than this collection of topless scenes, rape fixations, and blowjob sequences. Anyone who goes into this thinking it's going to be gratuitously sexy is going to be disappointed because it's not--it's just nasty and unpleasant and almost pornographic. <br /><br />You're better off without it. As I said, I haven't seen all of the other nominees for the Razzies for this year, but I can't say that this didn't rightfully earn the two that it won. <br /><br />I understand your reservation about Michelle Williams, but I like the performance. I think there's a lot of temptation to slide in something akin to caricature, and she avoids that. It was an unenviable task in a lot of ways, and I think she managed it pretty well. SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-56056531064340221802023-03-11T18:53:20.397-06:002023-03-11T18:53:20.397-06:00You know I'm a huge movie fan and a huge Maril...You know I'm a huge movie fan and a huge Marilyn fan and have watched other treatments of her life (and read extensively about her as well) but because of all the negative things I've read and heard I have zero interest in tracking this down. <br /><br />First of all let the poor woman rest in peace! But if we must have yet another version of her life why not look at her in all her complexity, because there is no question she was a complicated person, and how the intricacies of her being were affected by the time she lived in and the business she both struggled with and dominated. Not some salacious pile of exploitive tripe directed by someone who apparently holds her in utter contempt, I've read some quotes by from Dominik and he truly seems to hate Marilyn. So why was he chosen? One of the saddest ironies of all this is that during her lifetime Marilyn was offered a chance to portray Jean Harlow (something she very much desired ) but after reading the salacious, mostly fictitious script turned it down flat saying "I hope they never do that to me when I'm dead!" <br /><br />And for the record in all I've read I've never once heard that Marilyn called any of her husbands "Daddy" nor that her mother's mental problems stemmed from her husband leaving her. Mental illness ran in the family, both Marilyn's maternal grandparents (her grandfather die in an insane asylum), an uncle as well as her mother had major emotional problems so Marilyn understandably worried that she may suffer the same fate considering her often fragile psychological state. <br /><br />My Week with Marilyn wasn't bad though I don't think Michelle Williams's performance was a complete success. The closest I've ever seen anyone come to capturing Marilyn's essence was Catherine Hicks in the 1980 miniseries "Marilyn: The Untold Story" because she endeavored to show her as an actual human being with failings like us all but also many positive qualities. joel65913https://www.blogger.com/profile/14526657073681774683noreply@blogger.com