Change Your Image
MaryChula87
Xoxo
www.facebook.com/maryannfigallo
www.twitter.com/Marychula87
www.instagram.com/maryann_elizabeth
Reviews
Priscilla (2023)
It was fine
The movie was fine, unnecessary but fine. Not Sophia Coppola's greatest work if I'm being honest but it was decent. Overall pacing was slow & moody in typical SC style. The movie needed a little more substance and perhaps the characters needed to be fleshed out a little more. I know it's based on Priscilla Presley's memoir of her time with Elvis but the memoir was able to at least make the reader evoke some type of emotion. Watching this, you get the feeling that this film was just overall lacking. I really didn't feel anything or any type of way for any of the characters by the end. It was alright but could've been better. Jacob Elordi was great as Elvis. Other than that, you won't really learn anything new that you didn't already know or read about before.
Queenmaker: The Making of an It Girl (2023)
Umm, what?
I saw the trailer on Hulu and thought it would be a fun deep dive into what the trailer & title of the movie called it, 'The making of an IT girl'. I was excited to watch it and revisit that time in the early 2000's when pop culture was OBSESSED with socialites, heiresses, and debutants. The first 1/3 of the movie delivered on that, focusing specifically on Tinsley Mortimer who despite always seeing her name and pictures in magazines & blogs, I was pretty unfamiliar with at that time. It shed some light on how she & other 'It' girls of that era made their mark in society and the media and all that goes on to get into and stay in the spotlight; From going to Diet Doctors in order to fit into designer sample sizes, getting a publicist, interviewing people who wrote about these girls or helped craft their image and brand etc. So far so good, and then the movie took a hard left and went into the life of a then anonymous blogger who wrote about these socialites. I initially thought it was a little side story that would help segue and tie everything together but it really didn't. The rest of the film is about the blogger, literally. There were parts that connected the bloggers world to that of the socialites he wrote about but the majority of it felt irrelevant to the film and unnecessary. Honestly I was very confused about what I watching, I had to double check that it was still the same documentary and that I hadn't accidentally changed it. Towards the end it dips back in to Tinsley very briefly and gives a vague description of her "downfall" which really wasn't a big deal as much as it was a change in the times. I wish the filmmakers would have dug deeper into her life and her fall from grace and how perspectives have shifted from then to now. They didn't, it was very surface level shallow. Again most of the focus being on the blogger from who he was then to today. Overall, the trailer & description was straight up false advertising, it's 2 films and 1 but only one of them is what's being advertised. The documentary was very disappointing and underwhelming, a choppy & confusing mess that had me scratching my head wondering why Tinsley Mortimer even agreed to be in this and asking myself wtf did I just watch?