Blonde (Andrew Dominik, Netflix) Movie • Page 2

def want to catch this

 

There's a Letterboxd review that describes it as closer to The Last Temptation of Christ than Fire Walk With Me and I really like that comparison

 

Gave me a little bit of LA Confidential vibes too

 

Also — it’s 100000% a horror movie.

 

I heard it’s a samurai revenge fable

 

It's more of a cosmic gumbo.

 

I don't think it's at all a horror movie and wouldn't classify it as anything other than just psychological thriller

 

can't believe the guy who made Killing Them Softly hates women

 

He isn't a very good director.

 

This is what I've heard from critics I trust is that it isn't really that interested in exploring who Marilyn was, just about the shit that happened to her in graphic detail.

 

It’s a fictional movie. It’s not a biopic

I like his movies a lot (and still looking forward to this) but that’s a bad quote

 

he's made one all timer and a bunch of dogshit. there isn't any reason to take him more seriously than, like, richard kelly.

 

That quote is bad and he comes off terrible but no one watches MM movies

 

Doesn't help that this movie isn't very good either. Great cinematography & Ana De Armas is good but it's mostly boring and feels exploitative in a way that doesn't benefit the movie. idk I think Andrew Dominik is not for me

 

vile film

 

This was too long. It came across to me that he just wanted to show how used and abused by men she was and that’s really it? Just a series of trauma after trauma.

I guess it helped pass some time as I wait for the hurricane to pass.

 

Agreed. It’s one thing to have dark material in art to do something with it or make a point. This was just exploiting trauma and adding in fictional trauma on top just to see it happen on screen. Gross.

 

Ana De Armas should get a mulligan and be able to portray MM in a different, better movie like Judi Dench did with Queen Victoria.

 

I liked it. Ana was great, cinematography was fantastic. Surprisingly didn't feel the length. The fetus stuff was whack, and I'm already dreading all the pro-life people pointing at the abortion stuff as a "SEE!!?" but overall I thought it was solid.

I don't know much about Monroe, and I know this based off a fictional novel and it's not a biopic buttt I don't really get all the "it's so disgusting how Dominik exploited her again". I think it's an extremely heavy handed criticism on how she was treated throughout her life, she's the only one who comes off sympathetic.

 

i've never seen a biopic where the director seemed to hate the subject as much as this one

 

i legitimately didn't get that feeling at all

 

I would struggle to point out how he liked her.

 

What I don't understand about those criticisms are that it basically comes off as people saying, "no, it's wrong for you to decide how she gets portrayed, but let me tell you why I get to decide how she is portrayed".

I mean, I guess you can say it's problematic because it's exploitative towards women's trauma and just becomes misery porn to an extent, but I don't think it really does anything that makes HER a bad person

 

Wife and I didn't care for this at all.