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There are only two truly great pre-1900 period films: Gone With The Wind and Dangerous Liasons. The rest are either cute (Emma, The Prides And Prejudices) annoying (Marie Antoinette) or walk-out-of-the-theater dull (like, everything else). In the trailer for Keira Knightly’s upcoming The Duchess, Knightly plays an innocent young girl with pretty dresses who marries into royalty and gets caught up in its politics, and must be headstrong and ahead of her time and rebellious to get the love she deserves or whatever. I avoid period films like the plague (get it, the plague?) and I’ve still seen this movie at least fifteen times:
Keira Knightly, this is your last movie like this for the next ten years. You’re very good at it, with your quivery mouth and upper class accent, but it’s time to take some risks. Call up Tarantino or something.
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She tried to take risks once and we ended up with “Domino.” Probably best she sticks to what she knows.
she needs to not call up Tony Scott again, though. That Domino mess was dorky + an exercise in seizure-vision.
And another Tony Scott movie will solve that? Have you ever seen another Tony Scott movie?
i disagree – domino was saved by the extreme hotness that is edgar ramirez.
who cares about kiera when you have him to look at
rich women are rarely actually loved by the people. and rich people arguing over fancy dinners prepared by most likely extremely poor hired help about freedom and deomocracy is always painfully obnoxious at best. why the fuck is it that every time they make a movie about rabble rousing and freedom it always turns into a movie about some spoiled rich girl finding love? vomit.
Ugh. Go back to Russia.
what about the Age of Innocence by Scorsese? haven’t seen it, but supposedly it’s good.
That’s exhibit A.
Um… hello? Amadeus??
Ahhhh, and Amadeus. And Amadeus. Of course.
Amadeus is a musical and musicals don’t count.
Well, it’s not *really* a musical, but it sort of almost is.
I liked Sense and Sensibility. only movie i’ve ever liked Hugh Grant in. and Gone with the Wind is the shit. Best movie to watch when bummed.
I don’t think Keira Knightly lives in our time. She time travels to star in our films. If you tried to have her play a modern character she’d get confused, all this crazy slang and technology. Computers frighten her.
She was actually quite great in Love Actually.