Hmmmmmm...Best of '98?!?!? Nahhhh!!!

Rating: Null/10 (26 March 2000)

I saw this one finally today, night of the Oscars, a year after it won it all....Well, I think I'm gonna have to watch it again, because I was busy reading something and whatever while it was on-I started to lose track of who was who, thinking Ben Afleck was Marlowe(Nope-Rupert Everett!), and thinking, over and over-Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth was better, deserved the Oscar, Judi Dench playing "" didn't deserve squat because she made a forceful 7 minute cameo-big deal, she probably merited the award two years ago for playing Queen Victoria in Mrs. Brown instead. It's interesting how many people were in both Elizabeth and this one-Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, etc. and Blanchette Does look like she could be Paltrow's sister too, doesn't she? Oh well, enough on that.
I didn't get much outta this-some of the characters seemed to pop in from nowheres, and I felt this wasn't a heck of a lot better than the 'Taming of the Shrew' episode of Moonlighting from back in '86, to be honest.
Saving Private Ryan was better. But so were Elizabeth and Thin Red Line, too. I would give this thing *** outta **** for some good performances and etc, but I think that Miramax really should give the Oscars to their PR guys, they're the ones who REALLY performed, seems to me.