Maybe she’ll surprise me sometime and do something good. She really is talented and she has a lot of years left. Is she just too satisfied with her status in Hollywood and afraid to take risks? Too busy thinking of interesting baby names? I don’t know.
WHERE CAN I WATCH SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE MOVIE
What happened to Gwyneth? She hasn’t been in an interesting movie since The Royal Tenenbaums. She’s charming, and this is a role that depends a lot on charm. She’s not at all believable as a man, but whatever. Paltrow definitely gave a good performance. The Twelfth Night parallel thing at the end was cool. I liked some of the clever little Shakespeare nods. I didn’t realize Tom Stoppard was involved. The script is definitely the movie’s strength. You might call it witty or clever, and I can see that. Although I didn’t think it was all that funny. Maybe I just don’t have the personality to be taken in by a good romantic comedy. Fun to look back at all the good/bad movies from a given year. *I recommend going through lists like this. On the other hand, I just checked Rotten Tomatoes, and Shakespeare in Love is at 93%.
I assume their list of “ notable films released in 1998” is pretty complete.* Here are the movies I’ve seen from 1998 that I think are better than Shakespeare in Love: The Big Lebowski, Croupier, Happiness, The Last Days of Disco, Out of Sight, Pi, Run Lola Run, Rushmore, Saving Private Ryan, A Simple Plan, There’s Something About Mary, The Thin Red Line, The Truman Show.
It’s hard for me to remember which movies came out in which years. But I can’t see how anyone who voted for it for Best Picture can look back with anything but embarrassment. Shakespeare in Love is an OK movie I guess. The biggest draw for me was that it stars Gwyneth Paltrow in the stage of her career where she was, as I’ve written before, almost impossibly pretty. I was kind of curious, but I didn’t have any special desire to see it, honestly. Mostly the less famous and less good winners. Now I’m at the point of actively seeking out the ones I’ve missed. I watched Shakespeare in Love this week as part of my ongoing quest to see every movie that’s won the Oscar for Best Picture.
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