I saw this movie ages ago when it first came out in the theaters, I was still a kid and I was obsessed with Michelle Pfeiffer after catwoman and I went to see it and I remember liking it very much.

I saw it yesterday on cinemax and I hated it. Yes it looks beautiful like all costume dramas but how boring and corny it actually is!!!!!

Like the scene where there is a telegram from Wynona and he plays it like this close up of wynona reading it with the most dumb expression, I thought it was so tacky.

Or one of the last scenes in the harbor when the sailboat passes and count oleska doesn't look back, I was like "too much, I can't see this" and turned it off.

I just thought it was a really cheesy movie and it doesn't have to. It's just that scorcese is really cheesy, I don't like any of his movies and I don't understand his appeal, at all.

not seen it, but your take on scorsese is muthafukkin interesting. tell me some more about cheese

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i liked it. i thought daniel day lewis was great.

he was fantastic but I'm not talking about that. All of it, it's incredibly corny and utterly commercial in a bad way.

It's a total cliché. People often shy away from costume dramas because they think they are boring and stuck up and utterly cringeworthy and corny. Well the age of innocence is all that.

I prefer movies like Dangerous Liaisons or An Ideal Husband and stuff, those movies are great and do justice to the time.

lol, for some reason I dislike all of his movies.

HCH has hit the nail on the head. Martin Scorsese defines cheese.

I'm glad somebody finally had the cojones to admit it.

Scorsese = cheese. Admit it and move on, people.

when i see that motherfucker scorsese i'm gonna throw him across the room and kick all his fuckin' teeth in and then stomp on his face 40 or 50 times

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lol. I wanted him to never win an Oscar.

i don't think it was cheesy. it was pitch perfect to the tone of the book. scorsese captured the details, the feel of the book which always felt like flowers in the morgue, in the way that it's a full blown love story encased in this autopsy of a society long gone, what with the attention given to the food, the clothes and shit like that. i don't think the cheese was scorsese's fault. if there was anything overly dramatic, it's totally inherent to the story edith wharton wrote. it's a story about love, lust in the age of innocence, it's bound to have some sentimental mush thrown in. i always think there's not enough in the movie. the love scene between the two leads should have been a really wild one. i loved winona ryder's character though, kind of disappointed that the movie doesn't happen through her character's point of view but i guess, that will be make the film and the book dangerous liaisons-esque.

I didn't read the book. I felt like I had eaten 10 lbs of sugar after what I saw, and I felt sick.

It's like Wynona's telegram. Or the scene were the guy kisses Madame Oleska's feet. It didn't look beautiful, it made me cringe.

The whole movie felt wrong. A story of forbidden love doesn't have to be cheesy.There are far more better movies of this time and this situation out there.

And thumbs down for Scorcesse making the visuals really boring.

I thought 10 lbs. of sugar was what you went for.

but Marie Antoinette is not a cheesy film.

And it doesn't leave you sick, it leaves you in the mood for cake.

There is nothing corny about it, except the blue converse. And the cinematography is innovative, as opposed to ridiculous(wynona's telegram)

stop misspelling winona. jeeze. cheeze...
i think age of innocence is way more involving than marie antoinette. MA just has a better soundtrack.

I thought you despised Marie Antoinette!

that was the impression I recall having after reading your posts in that thread...or was it just that you didn't really like Kirsten Dunst in the title role?

well anyways, yes. the cinematography was very innovative in marie antoinette....and I have no comment on this scorsese film as I have never seen it...or any scorsese film for that matter

I don't despise Marie Antoinette. I was thinking about it the other day and I realized the movie is perfect(except for the blue converse) HOWEVER, I would've enjoyed a different approach to the story of Marie Antoinette, something that wasn't so cold, but her approach is valid.

I disagree. The story might be more involving but it was so corny and cheesy it turned me off.

You would have loved the 80's.

I love cheese.

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