{"id":647,"date":"2008-02-08T23:39:06","date_gmt":"2008-02-09T04:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/08\/elizabeth-the-golden-age\/"},"modified":"2022-09-21T14:13:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T18:13:13","slug":"elizabeth-the-golden-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/elizabeth-the-golden-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Cate is great in Elizabeth: The Golden Age"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ll have to gang up with the general critical consensus<\/a> around Elizabeth: The Golden Age<\/em>, best summed up as: Cate Blanchett is astounding, as usual (yawn – the Academy Award nomination was virtually assured before the cameras rolled), but the movie is a disappointing sequel to a powerful original.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh, and did I mention that Cate is great? Oh yeah, you don’t need me to say that again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cinematography is lovely but the editing a little choppy for a timeline that spans so much time. The staging is somewhat less than epic; even large CG set pieces like the Pirates of the Caribbean<\/em>-style sea battle between the English and Spanish armadas seem under-staffed by background actors. A typical line of dialog, quoting from memory, is the dashing Sir Walter Raleigh (Clive Owen) killing two cliches with one stone with a humdinger like “We’re only human; we do what we can.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Erm, that’s about it. I’ll try to think of something smarter to say about the next one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ll have to gang up with the general critical consensus around Elizabeth: The Golden Age, best summed up as: Cate Blanchett is astounding, as usual (yawn – the Academy Award nomination was virtually assured before the cameras rolled), but the movie is a disappointing sequel to a powerful original. 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