if I couldn't care less about the accuracy of the story, would this movie be worth it?
because this movie has awful ratings all over, but they're mostly criticizing the accuracy and stuff like that.
if I just wanted to watch a drama with good plot and good acting, is this for me?
[deleted]
In other words, is this 90 minute film worthy of wasting your time with? no. The acting is awful, the directing is awful, it's visually awful. Edie's life has been the subject of film-making since the early 80's (if you don't consider Ciao! Manhattan)- Five films, in fact, with well established filmmakers attached like Warren Beatty and Mike Nicols, sadly, none of them were ever produced... So it's a sad that this movie Factory Girl is the most watched depiction of Edie and the Factory era.
shareIf you watch this as a drama movie, it's great; but if you know some facts about Edie and watch this as a biography-drama, I don't think you'll enjoy it that much.
I'm a huge fan Edie and I watched the movie when I started to know about her. Even though there are lots of false facts, I believe it was a beautiful movie in a way. Acting (Especially Guy Pearce. He was just great.), decoration, music, costumes, cinematography was wonderful; I just wish somebody else would write the scenario and direct the movie.
". . . false facts . . ." An interesting concept.
Hard to know how true the facts are if you weren't hanging around Union Square 50 years ago, but the atmosphere of the Factory scene as depicted here is pretty amazing. Cheap, tawdry, almost anti-glamour, with its gang of envious backbiters and oblivious dope fiends. And yet a lot of interesting work came out of it in bright moments. Not the films, certainly: those were always a broad joke on their credulous would-be-hipster audiences. But even some of them had watchable footage, maybe an hour or two's worth of entertainment out of thousands of miles of film shot. Between this and 'I Shot Andy Warhol' you can get an interestingly bracketed notion of a few years of American cultural life, visual arts division.
One could argue that Warholiana was a gay-inflected art gallery sideshow to the real artistic action at the time in the music world. This show couldn't do that any justice, due to an apparent inability to secure rights to use anything from the
Velvet Underground, or to invent any actual music for the Dylanesque character.
My biggest disappointment in the depiction of poor Edie is that the writers couldn't come up with anything intelligent for her to say in defense of the Warhol oeuvre to the miserably portrayed Dylan character, or to the Dylan character about his own music. I know Edie never finished high school, much less went to Radcliffe or Harvard, but she had to have some smarts for awhile, and she must have had something coherent to say about the stuff going on in her milieu.
I really liked this movie, it was a little slow at the beginning but worth it. Don't read any further if you don't want spoilers! For the harsh Edie critics, they are leaving out the fact that she was sexually abused by her father, that could mess a person up if they aren't strong enough to survive it, along with the fact that she had too much free time and money endlessly supplied by her family. She also seemed kind, loved animals, seemed to be a sensitive and artistic person, a beautiful girl inside and out who self destructed which was tragic and awful to witness. She acted vain and silly sometimes, sure, maybe she put on airs but deep down I thought she had some really good qualities (from what I've seen of real life interviews and people talking about her, and from the depiction of the movie, that is). I thought the acting was great. There were many aspects of the events and characters depicted that were very true to life. I find movies where people fail hugely interesting, others find them downers but if you like these kinds of movies, I recommend it. I also think many artists have sadly gone down this road and continue to so. Maybe some better insight would help them and prevent such tragic endings. Maybe people close to such people could spot the trouble in time and help save them, if they are able to be saved. It's a big if though. I also think Edie and Andy had a real friendship but their character flaws made the friendship impossible to last, which was sad and may have contributed to her downfall. It's true they both thought they could each benefit in their careers because of their association but I think they still had a real and close friendship, while it lasted. They may have had harsh things to say about each other when their friendship ended but that doesn't change that at one point they were very close. He was able to move on in real life and in the movie. I think he had a lot of family support from his mum and siblings whereas she had none. Anyway, they are two people I find interesting so I liked the movie a lot but I think even for those who aren't fans it would still be a good movie to see, hopefully I'm right!
When you get up in the morning, how do you decide what shade of black to wear? (Shallow Grave)
I just saw it today, not a Warhol fan, but I do recall when Sienna was promoting the film years ago. The 60's are an interesting era. So sad she had everything, but in the same way she had nothing. I would rate it a 5.
shareSpend the redbox fee on a Mr Skin pass and watch the nude scenes. Otherwise it's a pretty *beep* movie.
share