The critics have mixed opinions of Hilary Swank’s new movie. I will be seeing it this weekend and expect a big old fashion sweeping epic with no deep of examination of Amelia Earhart’s life or motivations. Hey, it’s not documentary! These days most critics (most of them are under 40 years of age) want to see explosions, thrilling chase scenes and raunchy blue humor. Then there are those (I am not naming names) who have to trash any movie about a strong woman. My complete coverage is here.
Big-screen ‘Amelia’ isn’t as compelling as the real Earhart
There’s a tiny moment in Mira Nair’s “Amelia” that has the unfortunate effect of making everything else in the movie seem overblown and sentimental: It’s a brief, undated film clip of the real Amelia Earhart, jumping out of a cockpit (really, she’s practically springing) and beaming with unselfconscious joy. Something about the looseness of her movements and the simple happiness on her face makes the moment both irresistible and poignant; she would, before too long, vanish forever. ● More from: Seattle Times Newspaper
Review: ‘Amelia’
The aviatrix loses her personality in this superficial film.
History can weigh heavily on a filmmaker, and that is what happens with “Amelia,” a disappointing rendering of the remarkable life of Amelia Earhart. The pioneering aviatrix lost in flight is a figure so iconic, and director Mira Nair so tentative with her legend, that all the reverence and tiptoeing around grounds a film that should have soared. ● More from: Review: ‘Amelia’ — latimes.com
An Adventurer Takes Flight, Blinding Smile and All
Amelia Earhart, the American aviator who disappeared somewhere over the Pacific in 1937 while trying to become the first woman to fly around the globe, didn’t wear bodices, as far as I can tell from the new biographical movie starring Hilary Swank. If Earhart had, it’s a good bet that Richard Gere, who plays her sensitive, supportive, quietly suffering husband, George Palmer Putnam (G. P.), would have ripped or, rather, politely removed an unmentionable or two amid the civilized yearning and the surging, swelling music. ● More from: Movie Review – Amelia – NYTimes.com
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Good idea with multi-review format. Of course, I am waiting for the final word when I can reply with gusto: GAM’