I was expecting worse...I used to be a huge fan of Lindsay Lohan back in the day, she's been kind of a disappointment though so it's hard to keep rooting for her. I thought Liz & Dick was okay, there's only so much the actors could've done with the script they were given. I mean really, it was a Lifetime movie so I don't know what some people expected. I don't know if you've ever browsed the lj comm ohnotheydidnt, but people were really harsh about it. I think I would've enjoyed it more if Lindsay Lohan could still pull this look off:
It's closer to an Elizabeth Taylor look imo. As I've said, it could've been worse and I probably enjoyed it more than the majority even though Lindsay fell flat a few times. Her raspy voice was a bit much for me sometimes too.
She wasn't Michelle Williams doing Marilyn but she wasn't a shitty Loni Anderson trying to do Jane Mansfield either!! The voice was offputting but for those that thought it too "soap opera-ie", this is a WOMEN'S network and a scrip about the SAME couple that not only BROUGHT the term paparazzi to Hollywood, but the Idea!!! They had a few lurking photo-grabbers in the fifties outside hotels, restaurants, and movie houses as "L.A. Confidential" shows, but you didn't have the hounding paparazzi until Elizabeth Taylor 'stole' Eddie Fisher from for Debbie Reynolds after Mike Todd died (The husbands after Conrad Hilton but before her Burton Double-Take) then running right from her honeymoon with an adulterous man into the arms of another married man?!
And people are upset that this movie was "Soap Operaesque" or "Melodramatic?!?"
Elizabeth and Richard WERE -that- way...this is no caricature!! That's just how these people lived. LOL. So when people get grumpy about that, it makes me think they don't know their Hollywood History very well. They LOVED making a scene. They DID drink Vodka at 8am....they DID enjoy arguing in public and make up sex. They were Liz and Dick, Damnit!! Next people are gonna tell me the documentary on John and Yoko was a little artsy, beatnikesque, and there was too much talk of war and peace and stuff. ::Rolls Eyes::
I see what you are saying about the above picture, but again, we have to remember that Liz was only that thin for part of that relationship. The rest of it (especially the second) she was plump. Lindsay should have plumped out MORE, but I am glad she did at all because it aged her (and rightly so) and matched the truth.
I try not to read other reviews because I am afraid they might cloud my own, but when I checked for the male leads name's correct spelling, I saw it got like a 3.8 on IMDB. I would have given in a couple more stars than that one a one to ten scale. This is a Lifetime movie, not Richard Burton ACTUALLY doing Hamlet!! LOL
It's closer to an Elizabeth Taylor look imo. As I've said, it could've been worse and I probably enjoyed it more than the majority even though Lindsay fell flat a few times. Her raspy voice was a bit much for me sometimes too.
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And people are upset that this movie was "Soap Operaesque" or "Melodramatic?!?"
Elizabeth and Richard WERE -that- way...this is no caricature!! That's just how these people lived. LOL. So when people get grumpy about that, it makes me think they don't know their Hollywood History very well. They LOVED making a scene. They DID drink Vodka at 8am....they DID enjoy arguing in public and make up sex. They were Liz and Dick, Damnit!! Next people are gonna tell me the documentary on John and Yoko was a little artsy, beatnikesque, and there was too much talk of war and peace and stuff. ::Rolls Eyes::
I see what you are saying about the above picture, but again, we have to remember that Liz was only that thin for part of that relationship. The rest of it (especially the second) she was plump. Lindsay should have plumped out MORE, but I am glad she did at all because it aged her (and rightly so) and matched the truth.
I try not to read other reviews because I am afraid they might cloud my own, but when I checked for the male leads name's correct spelling, I saw it got like a 3.8 on IMDB. I would have given in a couple more stars than that one a one to ten scale. This is a Lifetime movie, not Richard Burton ACTUALLY doing Hamlet!! LOL
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