Sunday, October 24, 2010

Movie Review: Memoirs of a Geisha

When the book a film is based on has better imagery than the film, you know you have problems. This movie was like a crappy soap opera, with poor dialogue, stuffy actors, cheesy close-ups... I didn't enjoy the pace of the film either - it tries to follow the events of the book very closely, while maintaining the 2 1/2 hour length. This makes the movie seem to jump from one event to the next with poor transition and a lot left for the viewer to piece together from shaky dialogue. Some of the sets were really well done, as were the costumes, but there just wasn't enough of either. Read the book, skip the movie, unless you catch it on tv or something.

Memoirs of a Geisha - IMDb

1 comment:

  1. i tried reading the book but cannot quite get into it. maybe it's b/c i watched the movie first?!

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