The Other Boleyn Girl

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Well that has to be the absolute worst movie I've ever had the misfortune to see. And it was like a train wreck, i couldn't turn it off. Just putting the historical inaccuracy aside, and believe me, it's only passing resemblence to history were the names of the characters, it was just appalling. The writing and acting? Oh. My. God. Every second scene seemed to take place months or years after the one before it. It jumped through time more than Skippy the kangaroo. There was nothing left of the scenery, it was chewed so badly except for Eric Bana who played an inexplicably quiet and understated Henry VIII. Yes you've just found out your wife is apparently unfaithful. What's his reaction? Bad luck, that. He did raise his voice to call for the guards to arrest her, but i think that was only because they were in the other room. Come on, Henry VIII was well known for fits of rage. One of the few times they did show him lose his temper, they implied he raped Anne which was meant to be their first time having sex. Total sensationalistic bullshit. I don't even recall that being in the book. Oh yeah. The book, by Philippa Gregory wasn't all that bad, not as a pot boiler or work of fiction. At least it had a bit of substance to it. This movie felt like a bunch of random scenes stuck together with the only continuity being the two women that played the Boleyn sisters, horribly, horribly miscast. Quite possibly the worst casting ever. Natalie Portman as Anne Boleyn was every bit as bad as i expected when i first heard about it and Scarlett Johansen as her sister Mary? Laughable. And what was Kristin Scott Thomas doing in that movie other than to wring her hands every now and then.

My god what were they thinking?