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Cold Mountain (2003)
Something was missing
I thought this was a beautifully made movie but the emotional core was missing for me. For all their longing I didn't feel there was a real connection between Inman and Ada. They appear to have nothing in common, and hardly speak to one another. It is only after Inman leaves to go to war that their feelings for one another seem to intensify. Perhaps in the loneliness and barbarism of war, the brief connection they shared becomes magnified in their minds.
Far more interesting to me was the relationship between Ruby and Ada. There was a real sense of their love for one another, even though it was never really voiced (only once by Ada) in the way that Ada and Inman ferquently professed their love for one another. Their relationship simply didn't grab my heart the way I thought it would.
A beautifully told story, no doubt but for me there was still something missing.
Psycho Beach Party (2000)
This movie rocks
I love this movie and watch it every time it's on cable (which is at least once a week). It's a great spoof on 50's beach/gidget movies and I love seeing Kimberly Davies after so many years of watching her as Annalise in Neighbours for all those years. Double entendres and not so sub subtexts abound and Charles' Busch's "straight" woman detective is priceless.
Norma Jean & Marilyn (1996)
A travesty
I'm sorry but Mira Sorvino was so bad in this movie it wasn't even funny. Her attempt to portray Marilyn as a simpering, simple minded bimbo was both misguided and upsetting. As the other reviewer commented, Marilyn Monroe's on screen persona was not the person she was in real life. It's almost as if Mira's interpretation was based on an impression she once saw somebody do of Marilyn. It wasn't even a good stereotypical impression of her. I have to say that Ashley Judd's Norma Jean was miles more interesting to watch than Mira's offering.
This movie was poorly conceived, badly written and terribly acted. No-one could possibly hope to even come close to recreating what Marilyn brought to the screen or the effect she had when she walked into a room. How the makers of this movie thought that they could do it with such poor materials to work with is beyond me.