30 Day Movie Meme - Day 13 - A Movie That You Used to Love But Now Hate

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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



Day 1 – Favorite Movie
Day 2 – Last movie you watched
Day 3 – Your favorite action/adventure movie
Day 4 – Favorite horror movie
Day 5 – Favorite drama movie
Day 6 – Favorite comedy movie
Day 7 – A movie that makes you happy
Day 8 – A movie that makes you sad
Day 9 – A move that you know practically the whole script of
Day 10 – Your favorite director
Day 11 – Your favorite movie from childhood
Day 12 – Your favorite animated movie
Day 13 – A move that you used to love but now hate
Day 14 – Your favorite movie quote
Day 15 – The first movie you saw in a theater
Day 16 – The last movie you saw in a theater
Day 17 – The best move you saw during the last year
Day 18 – A move that disappointed you the most
Day 19 – Your favorite actor
Day 20 – Your favorite actress
Day 21 – The most overrated movie
Day 22 – The most underrated movie
Day 23 – Your favorite character from any movie
Day 24 – Favorite documentary
Day 25 – A movie that no one would expect you to love
Day 26 – A movie that's a guilty pleasure
Day 27 – Favorite classic movie
Day 28 – Movie with the best soundtrack
Day 29 – A move that changed your opinion about something
Day 30 – Your least favorite movie

Comments

[maiac.livejournal.com]

When I had surgery last year to remove the pins/plates from my no-longer-broken arm, my sister came up to stay with me until I could fend for myself. I got a couple of my favorite movies from Netflix that I thought she'd also like. The Lion in Winter was one of them. I hadn't remembered it as quite so shouty and angry. Alas, I was still a little too drugged to realize that I should say, "Y'know, I can tell you're not enjoying this, let's watch something else."

The other movie was the 1995 production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring Colin Firth, Rupert Everett, Reese Witherspoon, and Judi Dench. That went over much better.