SFist: The Real Drama Queens - Marie-Antoinette

Matt415

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:04:52 -0800

I really enjoyed this movie! The music and imagery make for a beautiful (albeit tragic) dream. And I just got it for $4 in the pre-viewed DVDs section at Blockbuster. Thanks for the discount, haters!

LisaLives

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:52:26 -0800

Brock, Thanks. It's from the cover photo of Pat Montandon's 1968 book, "How to Be a Party Girl." But maybe you already knew that!

bluecanary

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:38:23 -0800

It was inaccurate and ridiculous as hell, but the movie itself was beautiful. Unfortunately, I gained ten pounds while watching all the pastry scenes, thus I will never watch it again.

Brock Keeling

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:57:25 -0800

Hee! The movie is unique. Its vision is amazing. I'm consistently impressed by it. Alas.

Jess Drake

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:50:32 -0800

I'm sorry Brock, but are you f---ing kidding me? I just saw the Marie Antoinette exhibit at the Legion of Honors, and all I could talk about was a) how inaccurate Marie's portrayal in the movie is, and b) how awfully made it was. That ending will forever top my list of worst movie endings, by the way.

Jess Drake

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:49:54 -0800

KWillets

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:27:15 -0800

I actually posted this to the Lower Haight mailing list a while back: Subject: Suspicious Package at Waller and Fillmore Somebody apparently left a copy of "Lost in Translation" on the street, and the bomb squad was brought in to dispose of it.

auditorycooze

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:04:31 -0800

Marie Antoinette= 2.5 hours and $8.50 (student discount!) of my life that I'll never get back. And .5 of those hours were basically just watching horses majestically march through forests so I was extra pissed. If you want to see a period movie with anachronistic music choices, go watch A Knight's Tale- the use of glam pop is consistent and hey, it's free on cable. ps. Shout-out to the sky blue Chucks in the "I Want Candy" scene; I really thought you were the harbringer of something cool and interesting, my shoe friends. But alas, I guess Sophia tired of you and slung you out into that bedlam of frippery to make an... I dunno... Statement? About how modern hipsters are just like dead French queens? Or something? Whatevs. Go read Guy DeBord and fuck yourself Sophs. pps. Big ups to the French for hating on this film at Cannes. Stay Gaulic!

minnow

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:55:19 -0800

what were the bay area inside jokes? i must have missed them

Brock Keeling

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:39:53 -0800

lisa, i am in love with your avatar.

LisaLives

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:13:06 -0800

I loved it, and reading this made me want to see it again. Sophia had me at, "Bow Wow Wow." Great soundtrack.

Brock Keeling

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:14:40 -0800

while i could never agree with such an opinion, i will say that, yes, it is one of those love-it-or-hate-it movies.

tony_flow

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:11:12 -0800

This movie was terrible and boring.