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Day 13 – A movie that you used to love but now hate
The Lion in Winter
Oh, how I loved this movie when I was a teenager. I'd seen it first on PBS during some beg-a-thon, so it had only one break, and then Jane Merrow came on and talked about making her first major movie with Katherine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole and how awesome it was to share the screen with such legends.
The Lion in Winter was also the first VHS movie I bought (and it cost a bundle). I watched it so many times, I wore the tape out.
Then a few years passed, and a few more years passed and I realized that it had been almost fifteen years since I'd seen it. So I bought it on iTunes and found it…
A lot less awesome than I remembered.
Okay, I don't precisely hate the movie, but it's much less than what I remembered.
I still love Katherine and Peter as Eleanor and Henry - they spark and sparkle. Nigel Terry as the very disgusting John and Simon McCorkindale as the disaffected Geoffrey and of course Anthony Hopkins as Richard are all brilliant.
And lets not forget the very young and very beautiful Timothy Dalton as King Philip.
But there's something so overwrought about the movie - particularly the scenes between Eleanor and Richard - that leaves a bad taste in my mouth. It's too much a psychological drama and not so much a retelling of a moment in history.
And lets not mention the homophobia please.
/shudders
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The Lion in Winter
Oh, how I loved this movie when I was a teenager. I'd seen it first on PBS during some beg-a-thon, so it had only one break, and then Jane Merrow came on and talked about making her first major movie with Katherine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole and how awesome it was to share the screen with such legends.
The Lion in Winter was also the first VHS movie I bought (and it cost a bundle). I watched it so many times, I wore the tape out.
Then a few years passed, and a few more years passed and I realized that it had been almost fifteen years since I'd seen it. So I bought it on iTunes and found it…
A lot less awesome than I remembered.
Okay, I don't precisely hate the movie, but it's much less than what I remembered.
I still love Katherine and Peter as Eleanor and Henry - they spark and sparkle. Nigel Terry as the very disgusting John and Simon McCorkindale as the disaffected Geoffrey and of course Anthony Hopkins as Richard are all brilliant.
And lets not forget the very young and very beautiful Timothy Dalton as King Philip.
But there's something so overwrought about the movie - particularly the scenes between Eleanor and Richard - that leaves a bad taste in my mouth. It's too much a psychological drama and not so much a retelling of a moment in history.
And lets not mention the homophobia please.
/shudders
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