Elizabeth: The Golden Age
2007 Directed by Shekhar Kapur
Synopsis
Woman. Warrior. Queen.
This movie is a Sequel to the First Elizabeth movie from 1998, and takes place in the 15th century, following the virgin queen of England, and her epic battle against the Spanish fleet
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Love this movie in all its glorious pageantry. I could watch the whole thing in silent mode. AND. If the characters did nothing but just walk around in their various costumes and castle locales, I would be in heaven. I don't think I've ever seen a movie with this level of awesome in terms of costume design.
For added icing, throw in Blanchett, Owen and Rush and bam; you've got greatness on screen.
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A huge, disjointed, and gorgeous mess of a film. For the first half of it, I had absolutely no idea what was going on, since the film focused on Elizabeth (a slightly less sympathetic and consistent character than Joaquin Phoenix in Gladiator) fussing over some nonsense love triangle and shrieking in cathedrals while plot happened off-screen or in very short glimpses of a much more interesting film.
What most of these unnamed characters were up to did eventually get explained, and the main character got tangentially involved in the plot. At this point, however, the editor clearly just said "fuck it" and let his 7-year old piece together the rest of the scenes. Several scenes appear to happen out of…
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As a fan of the first Elizabeth and the impressive ensemble of actors gathered together for The Golden Age, I was really hoping that somehow I wouldn't find this as bad as the reviews claimed it to be. Unfortunately, it really is just that miserable and found myself struggling to conjure up a modicum of interest in this bore. The sets and especially the Oscar-winning costume design are lovely to look at, but that can really only sustain the attention for so long and when it comes to story, this one is bleeding from the start.
With assassination plots, forbidden love and political struggles, The Golden Age felt like a dull repetition of the first film in almost every way,…
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Nice solid movie. Visually gorgeous at times. Cate Blanchett in that armor is a pretty cool sight.
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So its not exactly Historically accurate to the events, but what it lacks in facts it makes up with in sheer beauty. Be it the wonderful Location, Costume design or for the purely wonderful cinematography.
An the performances aren't bad either -
A mature Queen Elizabeth endures multiple crises late in her reign including court intrigues, an assassination plot, the Spanish Armada, and romantic disappointments.
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Pretty, sad, not overly historically accurate.
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Enjoyable, but not as much as the first.
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Not terrible. I felt that the characterisations were a little too one-dimensional, e.g. the Spanish being portrayed as unrelentingly evil, the English as almost entirely good. Yes, Elizabeth's flaws were portrayed but these were mostly of a personal/romantic nature.
It was refreshing for it to avoid being non-stop shagfest like The Tudors tended towards, but yet I felt it was missing some of the complexity that The Tudors did manage to get across.
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Ótima atuação, figurinos lindos e direção desastrosa. Chato.
Great acting, beautiful costumes and disastrous direction. Boring. -
Not as good as the first. Acting is fine, production values are sky high, but the story is pretty much like some soap opera drama. Not to say I disliked it but it just seems like the history took a backseat to the love drama.
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Hm, I don't know.