Not Interested Entertainment

I’m a big fan of his­tor­i­cal movies. Sure, they have to take lib­er­ties, but as long as they’re pretty and stay close enough to what hap­pened and get the major events right, I tend to enjoy them. How­ever, I have found one that makes me cry inside.

Last night we watched The Other Boleyn Girl. Worst movie ever. I actu­ally hate it. Let me tell you, I already knew the cos­tumes were hor­ri­ble because I saw them on dis­play at FIDM. They’re pretty but also the most inac­cu­rate things I’ve ever seen. It wasn’t played to the cur­rent time period’s stan­dards — because I actu­ally like cos­tumes done that way — it was just bad. Oh, and why do the Boleyns have Ger­man garb in the movie? They are Eng­lish. Actu­ally, the Ger­man garb looked bet­ter than the Eng­lish garb. Now, mov­ing on…why can’t they at least try to make the events his­tor­i­cally accu­rate? They’re so far off, I just got even more con­fused. I’m already con­fused and have failed to mem­o­rize every­one from that fam­ily and period, but this just was bad. They com­pletely changed the sis­ters. Now, this is just me, but I’m part of the group that thinks Mary is the older sis­ter. And you know what…this movie actu­ally sup­ports that! Despite the fact that they say she’s younger. Older sis­ters are the more respon­si­ble ones, while younger sis­ters are the ones that scream and yell for atten­tion, duh. That’s usu­ally how it works, and I really doubt that a well-to-do fam­ily would take enough care to make their chil­dren turn out dif­fer­ently. I was not sold on the inter­ac­tions between peo­ple in the movie, and I kept wait­ing for more to hap­pen. I was com­pletely con­fused when Anne’s down­fall came about and kept think­ing they’d added another drama…because Mary had not yet moved out and cut off com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the fam­ily. They made her out to be a com­plete wuss. In real life, when her fam­ily for­sook her, she stopped talk­ing to them, she didn’t go back and fight for them even more like in the movie. I do not like how they over exag­ger­ated the two sis­ters, mak­ing one com­pletely quiet and nice and the other com­pletely bitchy and stu­pid. I’ve actu­ally never had that much against Anne Boleyn — I mean, I can’t hate Elizabeth’s mother — but this movie really tried to make us hate her. I kept wait­ing for more to hap­pen so I could like the movie, but that more never came.