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I should hav ewaited another twenty years to see it.Done in the worst tradition of American movie making.
Did you notice the director looks much like the main character? Perhaps that explains the reason for making that monumental pile of trash.
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formulaic blockbusters with zero artistic intent.
Just because you disliked the subject matter does not mean that the film was bad. If you had seen the documentary on the real life Aileen Wournos, you would know that Theron absolutely nailed her. While you may not like Wournos, who would, Theron's depiction of her was brilliant.The point of the film, I think, was to provide a glimpse into the life of of a very disturbed woman. If you read a newspaper, or pay attention to current events, then you should know of Wournos. The purpose of the film was to provide details which those forums never seem to address.
While I love foreign films, one thing they generally are is safe. Other than historical dramas, you rarely see subject matter that provides the viewer a glimpse into a society and persons that form the underbelly of society. As though foreign directors and screenwriters self-censor so that they do not advertise to the world that their home countries, perhaps, have elements less than ideal.
While Hollywood is mostly preoccupied with films designed to scintillate, this is not one of those films. If the segment of society depicted in Monster is a segment of society that you prefer not to see and know a little about, more than the casual blurb in the newspaper or on the news, then perhaps a brief read of the film's summary before you actually watch should be in order.
It is not the subject's fault that there is no interest in it, it is the fault of the film maker for selecting such a boring subject with no depth.Whether or not the actress accurately represents the real person is of some interest with respect to her acting abilities, but says nothing about the film, which is supposed to be more than just a long and tedious telling of a one-dimensional story.
there must be some Hollywood movies that you have liked. If so can you list a few and why you liked them . I am not challenging your criticism of HW movies by the way ,Thanks.
I have too much stuff on my mind at the moment, and I usually don't keep separate Hollywood vs. non-Hollywood lists, but for instance many of the early Eastwood films were great, and there were tons of good ones made in the fourties and the fifties, before the Hollywood had discovered that showing "normal" people with their normal problem was not producing enough income any longer, and they switched to portraying a deviant after a deviant in their attempt at catching the public's attention. Unfortunately in that regard it took world leadership.
in Hollywood film making after the 50's. Thanks for the reply.
The 70s is widely regarded as the golden age of Hollywood film making.
thanks,
...and proceed to Apocalypse Now, and of course the Godfathers I & II.Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets, Taxi Driver & The Last Waltz.
John Houston's The Man Who Would Be King, Wise Blood & Fat City
Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show & Paper Moon
Roman Polanski's Chinatown
Robert Altman's Nashville, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Thieves Like Us & A Wedding
Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange & Barry Lyndon
Robert Fosse's Cabaret & All That Jazz (gotta have a little song & dance)
Robert Wiseman's groundbreaking documentary Titicut Follies
John Cassevetes' Minnie & Moskowitz, A Woman Under The Influence & Opening Night
Don Siegel's The Shootist (Farewell, Duke)
Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter
William Fredkin's The French Connection
Fred Zinneman's The Day of The Jackal
Ridley Scott's The Duellists
Sam Peckinpah's The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Just for fun & kicks throw in Hitchcock's Frenzy and Monty Python & the Holy Grail, Eastwood's High Plains Drifter and Ridley Scott's Alien as the anti-Star Wars. Spielberg's Close Encounters has held up reasonably well (but I so despise Jaws I would never recommend it to anyone).
All in all, not a bad Hollywood decade at all.
The 60's weren't so bad in Tinsel Town either:
Lean's Lawrence of Arabia
Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, 2001 & Spartacus
Rossen's The Hustler
Sam Fuller's Shock Corridor & The Naked Kiss
Wilder's The Apartment
To Kill A Mockingbird
Polanski's Rosemary's Baby & Repulsion
Ford's The Man WHo Shot Liberty Valance
Frankenheimer's The Manchurian Candidate
Cassevetes' Faces
Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch
Mike Nichol's Who's Afraid Of Virginia Wolf
Hitchock's Psycho & The Birds
In Cold Bloodetc.
just why do you so despise "Jaws"?
While there are definitely some good ones on the list (not all of them in my view, but that is of course quite subjective, so I am not going to start an argument...) for the industry that produces what... hundreds films a year?... this is not particularly impressive.Subjective... yes... and yet... if we put things like Shootist and Cabaret on that list - we are like REALLY scraping the bottom of the barrel.
The Exorcist
Alien
And Justice For All
Apocalypse Now
Jaws
Young Frankenstein
Godfather II
The Inn Laws
Rocky
The Godfather I
Close encounters of the Third kind
The Omega Man
Soylent Green
Star Wars
The Deer Hunter
Taxi Driver
Chinatown
Network
Dog Day Afternoon
a Clockwork Orange
Patton
Deliverence
American Graffiti
Mean Streets
Harold and Maude
Being There
All that Jazz
Cabaret
Annie Hall
One Flew over the Cukoo's nest
Billy Jack
Nashville
The French Connection
Thats just a few
film, elevated somewhat by the performance.
Of course, that being said, it obviously is "easy" for a talented actor to portray a character with huge character components.
Much harder is the nuanced performance.
You are right - the character is so far off that acting calls for no subtlety. But the most depressing part of the movie is that nothing happens in those 90 or 100 minutes, it is utterly repetitious with hardly any hook or point of interest. Meaning, of course, rather pedestrian directing, quite of the "Based on True Story Made for Lifetime TV" standard.But hey, it was free!
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