MaestroReviews

Deb and I are artists, painters actually. We go see films as often as once a week. That's right, we go to the theater and sit in a dark room with strangers to see movies. We rarely rent. We like "little" movies, foreign and documentary films. We try to stay away from mainstream and blockbusters whenever possible, but a couple sneak in each year. We seek out the obscure. We try to avoid violent movies, and that really limits our choices, most film makers seem to think violence makes a story interesting.
I try not to give anything away in the reviews, but offer an honest reaction.
We rate them 1~10, 10 being highest.

Sunday, January 29, 2012

My Week With Marilyn

Deb 7 Me 6

This is actually based on one guy's experiences with the old gal when she was making a movie in England. I didn't know it was biographic until the end credits, but it had sort of an arrogant feel throughout, like the star tootin' his horn about an experience he may have had and extrapolating a bit more grandeur out of it. Now, it may have all happened just as it is spelled out in the movie, it just felt a bit upitty. The girl who played Marilyn was fine, I never mistook her for the real thing, but she played the frailties of the actress quite convincingly. In many ways its a movie we've seen a hundred times before, but this one was very specific in topic and details and I like that conviction in a movie.

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