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Another biopic carrying the wrong title.

posted 8 years ago by Youkilledmypine
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Should've been called The Funeral Of JFK From The Point Of View Of His Bureaved Wife. Much like Lincoln should've been called The Emancipation Proclamation. This could've been a cracking biopic but instead we've got some shockingly wobbly accents, cheap handheld camera work, first takes galore, a distressingly poor and intrusive musical score and choppy editing. At one stage Jackie struggles to remove a wedding ring, a second later it looks like she's swallowing it (guess that was meant to be a cut to a pill being swallowed).
The period and lead performance just about maintained the interest of the Grey Pound audience I was having to sit with (mmm...overbearing stench of perfume and wee). As I said, could've been a great biopic. We got pretentiousness piffle instead. 6/10

[–] jeramy-ian 8 years ago

Couldn't disagree with you more. I saw artistry and passion where it seems you saw pretension and first takes.

[–] Youkilledmypine 8 years ago

It was full of first takes. A quick hop over to the trivia section confirms it too, just as I thought. The comparison to Lincoln is sound. Perhaps if it wasn't billed as a biopic of Jackie's life I'd be more forgiving but as it stands there's a lot going against it. It's unlikely to get many nominations for anything other than the lead performance.

[–] best_of 8 years ago

Typical troll comment by an ill-informed red neck with the sensibility of a toad. It is time you got off this board altogether and go back to crap like FnF where you belong. Got that, blockhead??

[–] Youkilledmypine 8 years ago

Isn't it a bit of a cop out yelling 'troll' at anyone with a differimg opinion? How about formulating a response rather than name calling? Your lack of self awareness is astonishing. How about you get back under your bridge now while the grown ups talk.