Second Time Around
Okay, so my husband had to go out of town on business (Austin last night, home again tonight). So last night I was on my own. Now, I could have watched the Psych episode that I have in the DVR, or the Mad Men episode (AMC, 9:00PM Sundays - great show) ... but then what will I do this weekend or next week when he's in Chicago?
I know, I know ... do something other than watch TV dear. I know that silly people. But what do I do at 11PM when my house is making strange settling noises and I'm convinced that some bad person is watching my house and knows that I'm home alone with a dog that is less guard dog and more never-met-a-stranger and I can't go to sleep?
Anyway. So I went and bought The Other Boleyn Girl. Which if you recall, I reviewed that flick here, and didn't exactly give it rave reviews. But, sometimes some movies are better on the small screen. And I can't not own a period piece, or a movie that I love the book it was spawned from, so I went and bought it.
Upon second viewing ... I have some thoughts.
Scarlett Johansson still was not great. Something about the way she holds her mouth ... I know I'm particularly mean and petty and way too critical. But it bugged me. There were still a few scenes that felt really choppy. Like at one point the uncles and Kristin Scott Thomas (KST) are talking and it's pitch black and a third of a second later we're outside, it's day light, and SJo and NPort are talking about something completely unrelated. I felt my head shake and was like, what just happened?
Then there's the scene with NPort running down the hallway and I felt like it was done with a handheld camera by my brother at Christmas.
The other thing ... they never explain what happened to Wiliam Carey. He just goes away and then all of a sudden Stafford is proposing. While sure, I think polygamy was probably rampant back then as they probably had wives in every countryside and one in the city (Robert Dudley), but this probably should have been explained.
Which brings me to what I really enjoyed about the DVD. Deleted scenes. Almost worth the price of the whole thing. We meet Mary's second child (a girl), we witness her trying to have a relationship with her husband (Carey), we see Carey get sick and pass away, we see Stafford and her falling in love, we see Ann trying to win over Henry with her sister's son ... greatness. There's like 20 minutes worth of deleted scenes. A particular scene where Ann is doing fortunes should have been left in, but the movie was pretty long already and I'm sure they cut a lot of it for times sake.
Oh, and the alternate ending does not have Mary running through the castle looking for Elizabeth (who wouldn't have been there anyway) and taking her out of her mother's hands (who wouldn't have been holding her anyway) and running on her way, persumably to raise her herself (ha!).
So, if you have a walmart that has one of those dollar movie rental things, rent the movie and watch the deleted scenes. I found them well worth it.
I know, I know ... do something other than watch TV dear. I know that silly people. But what do I do at 11PM when my house is making strange settling noises and I'm convinced that some bad person is watching my house and knows that I'm home alone with a dog that is less guard dog and more never-met-a-stranger and I can't go to sleep?
Anyway. So I went and bought The Other Boleyn Girl. Which if you recall, I reviewed that flick here, and didn't exactly give it rave reviews. But, sometimes some movies are better on the small screen. And I can't not own a period piece, or a movie that I love the book it was spawned from, so I went and bought it.
Upon second viewing ... I have some thoughts.
Scarlett Johansson still was not great. Something about the way she holds her mouth ... I know I'm particularly mean and petty and way too critical. But it bugged me. There were still a few scenes that felt really choppy. Like at one point the uncles and Kristin Scott Thomas (KST) are talking and it's pitch black and a third of a second later we're outside, it's day light, and SJo and NPort are talking about something completely unrelated. I felt my head shake and was like, what just happened?
Then there's the scene with NPort running down the hallway and I felt like it was done with a handheld camera by my brother at Christmas.
The other thing ... they never explain what happened to Wiliam Carey. He just goes away and then all of a sudden Stafford is proposing. While sure, I think polygamy was probably rampant back then as they probably had wives in every countryside and one in the city (Robert Dudley), but this probably should have been explained.
Which brings me to what I really enjoyed about the DVD. Deleted scenes. Almost worth the price of the whole thing. We meet Mary's second child (a girl), we witness her trying to have a relationship with her husband (Carey), we see Carey get sick and pass away, we see Stafford and her falling in love, we see Ann trying to win over Henry with her sister's son ... greatness. There's like 20 minutes worth of deleted scenes. A particular scene where Ann is doing fortunes should have been left in, but the movie was pretty long already and I'm sure they cut a lot of it for times sake.
Oh, and the alternate ending does not have Mary running through the castle looking for Elizabeth (who wouldn't have been there anyway) and taking her out of her mother's hands (who wouldn't have been holding her anyway) and running on her way, persumably to raise her herself (ha!).
So, if you have a walmart that has one of those dollar movie rental things, rent the movie and watch the deleted scenes. I found them well worth it.
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