Oh Gad! That Was Horrible! You're Joking Right? Historically Inaccurate Brain Rot.

Rating: 2/10 (30 June 2010)

what. this was so awful you've got to be kidding. flawed history is an understatement! taking a few liberties with history is different from out and out distorting it. the whole movie was a frick'in half baked nutty mess.
i'm no stranger to Queen Elizabeth movies. i've seen the old Bette Davis turkey and i've had the pleasure of seeing the awesome Glenda Jackson do this role twice in 'Mary Queen of Scots' and in the outstanding emmy award winning 'Elizabeth R'. the Glenda Jackson movie and the BBC series were so much better than this junk and a lot more historically accurate. this movie wasn't fun or entertaining, it was too stupid and boring and totally unreasonable in it's depiction of history to be enjoyable. i mean you have to check your brain in at the damn door just to be able to get into this.
the idea of Elizabeth as an feminist action hero who leads her troops to battle in a suit of armor is, well, the most insanely ridiculous portrayal i can think of. i'm sorry but that never happened. not only will you get the wrong idea of history but nothing is to be gained at all by such a dumbed down approach. i thought Sophia Coppola's film of 'Marie Antoinette' was kind of ding-a-ling, but compared with this that film was a monument to intelligence. what sort of idiot would accept film making on this level? don't people like to think anymore? i hate the hyperbole of the "worst movie ever" crowd but...THIS WAS THE WORST MOVIE EVER!!!
everything about this was a pee-yew stinker. the acting was monstrously awful (and i like Blanchett, Owen, and Rush, but what were they thinking?!), the cinematography was murky, monochromatic and dull, the FX were corny and predictable and the script had contrived, silly, dialogue.
i can't believe Blanchett was nominated for this puke. i mean what's up with that? it's kind of weird how actress's playing Queennie 'R' always get nominated. Bette Davis was nominated for her performance(excellent performance, bad movie), and Glenda Jackson was nominated for 'Queen of Scots' and 'Elizabeth R'(Jackson was great and both projects intelligent and satisfying).
personally i would be afraid of anyone who liked this mud. i mean who would like something this distorted and murky awful? whatever makes someone like such a blatant rewrite of history? i hope whatever it is it's not catching like a bad case of cooties.
was there anything decent about this brain rot junk? yeah. it was so funny i couldn't stop laughing especially the end where Blanchett looks into the camera and gets really holy and preachy. the only thing funnier than this movie is someone who would be fool enough to recommend this rubbish with a straight face.