a weekend of movies

My posts have been few but not very far between... There's not much to talk about as of recent, but jury duty starts next week, so there might be more to talk about in the days to come... However:

It hasn't really been a movie filled weekend, I've just seen three new movies that have recently come out on DVD: 

1) The Other Boleyn Girl

2) Jumper

3) The Golden Compass

It's a mixture of genres, I think it's a pretty wide variety for only three movies. 

Now, I've never read The Other Boleyn Girl, or the Jumper books, but I'm slightly interested in reading them. Especially the Jumper books. I've already read The Golden Compass and the other books for the His Dark Materials series. 

All three movies were good, surprisingly. My favorite amongst the trio was The Golden Compass. Then Jumper. I did enjoy The Other Boleyn Girl, because Natalie Portman was a conniving, sneaky, betraying whore to her sister. I was doing some reading on the Boleyn sisters, and apparently Mary (played by Scarlett Johansson) was a whore too. In the film, she is portrayed as a moral, slightly uptight married lady who only wants to do what's best for her family. Even if they are forcing her to become the King's mistress. 

Anne was properly portrayed, I believe to the best of my knowledge. I think, historically, she should be more hated than Marie Antoinette, but I don't know how equally they were hated in their own times. Anne Boleyn spent just as much money as Marie Antoinette did, maybe more. She forced the King to break from the Catholic Church, and get rid of his first wife, which probably started the trend of his serial marriages. Six wives. Oh Anne, she created a monster of herself when she was taken to Court. 

Mary... I can't believe she could have been so chaste as they made her out to be. She went along with her father's wishes, as did her husband! I suppose a man can't say no to the King when he wants to sleep with his wife. Then, when she gave birth to their first child, a son - the heir, Anne stole the heart of the King, and Mary says that Anne should know that she, Mary, loves the King. Blah blah blah. I mean... shouldn't she love her husband first over all? Her husband eventually died of a sweating sickness in 1528, at the age of 28. King Henry VIII wasn't even the only king who she was mistress to. And apparently, she had two children with the king, not just one. 

I wonder what The Other Boleyn Girl would be like if Wishbone ever got his paws on the novel.....

p&l

rachel