If she really didn't know about what was going to happen, it is so sad that she lost everything. They always play Harding as the horrible witch who masterminded the attack, but this movie put it in a whole new light. I felt very sad at the end of the movie.
shareI don't agree here, modica. While it's unfortunate that Tonya's childhood, adolescence and young adulthood were so messed up, there's no question but that she did play a role in the attack on Nancy Kerrigan. Not only did Tonya Harding co-conspire to obstruct the investigation and prosecution of her ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly (now Jeff Stone) and his henchmen, but, not too, too long afterwards, Tonya also made a totally unprovoked physical assault on Darren Silver (a now ex-boyfriend of hers) with a hubcap, seriously injured him, and brought a police warrant down on her own head. The two above-mentioned crimes together cost her a promising skating career, which served Tonya Harding right.
shareMplo, you stink of failure. You hate a film you've never seen. That tells me a lot about you. You're such trash you make Tonya Harding look like a princess.
shareSpeak for yourself, JestersDead! I know enough about the real-life Tonya Harding and her complicity in and involvement with the masterminding and planning of the whole sordid attack on Nancy Kerrigan by Tonya's ex-husband and his henchmen so that I do not have to see the film "I, Tonya" to form an opinion.
Your insults to me say a lot about you, too, JestersDead. You make the late Boston School Committeewoman, Louise Day Hicks and her supporters down in South Boston, MA, who rioted against forced busing back in the 1970's look like normal, decent people, which you're clearly not.
You should just see the part where they make Tonya look so sympathetic when she complains to the judges about the problem with her shoe. If you remember how whiny and obnoxious she really looked, then compare it to the extremely sympathetic version in the movie, you can really tell they're giving Tonya the whitewash treatment.
Then again, basically you only need to know they're giving her a thick coat of whitewash to dismiss this film. Did the actress play Tonya well? I guess she played her VERSION of Tonya well, but she didn't play Tonya well.
When I watched the trailer of "I, Tonya", it was very clear that this film is whitewashing the real-life Tonya Harding, and putting her in a sympathetic light.
shareYou sound like you are getting paid to be a shill against Harding and this movie. How many times can you keep posting about how much you dislike this woman? Have you no other interests?
shareAwww, come off of your BD, snepts. I'm against Tonya Harding-that's true. I dislike her as a person. Have you and your buddy MaximRecoil have no other interests besides insulting those with different opinions than you? I think I'm correct here.
I happen to be a straight woman, and, if I were a guy, I wouldn't even dream of having sex with Tonya Harding.
The people in the Portland area were on her side initially -- hardscrabble life and coming up in a sport that seems only to prefer the Ice Queens. She lost sympathy with us with her contradictory comments, cagey compatriots, and the idea that she really didn't know anything about it. Few believed that. She got off lucky. The performance here made her seem sympathetic, instead of the whiny, entitled little brat she really was. Her mindset was criminal, and few believed she wasn't complicit. So what if it was her life? She bet everything on her her physicality, which is always going to fail.
The line in the movie where she said that she had to stay in the public eye? That's the Tonya that Portland knows. And now she says of this work of fiction that she's glad the truth will finally come out. O, please!
It's too bad, in a way, because Tonya Harding was an exceptionally talented figure-skater. Unfortunately, she wrecked her promising figure-skating career through her own arrogance, hubris, and stupidity.
shareShe was too purely athletic and not enough of the ice ballerina that people wanted. It was non-stop jumps without the grace that the sport requires. I don't think she would have ever been the top skater in the world, and it wouldn't have mattered if she'd been the daughter of a multimillionaire with doting parents. She had the athleticism, but not the style.
shareYou've got a point about the fact that Tonya Harding was a non-stop jumper of an ice skater, but the fact that she did get involved in an incident that resulted in a potentially crippling physical injury and the forcible removal of a rival competitor from competition, and then denied (and continues to deny, to this day), her involvement, indicates the kind of person she truly is, and the fact that she co-conspired to obstruct the investigation and prosecution of Gillooly and his henchmen, is also indicative of the kind of person she is. Had Tonya Harding not been involved in these crimes, she would've continued to skate, maybe turned pro, and maybe even gotten to coach and teach figure-skating to young girls. She blew all of those opportunities out of the water with her arrogance, hubris, and stupidity.
shareOh, I'm 100% with you about her character and her involvement. I'm from the Portland area, and we got to see her character on full display. The movie left out when, in yet another bid to be in the spotlight, she started a rock band. She figured being Tonya Harding would be enough, and being able to sing was optional. As you said, "arrogance, hubris and stupidity."
This movie really doesn't show the monster Tonya truly was. Maybe her mother was as bad as all that. But after awhile, it becomes about our choices, and Tonya never wanted to face hers.
You're right about Tonya's never wanting to face the choices that she made, nor has she ever been able and/or willing to accept responsibility for her own actions and behaviors. Tonya's mother, in real life, was verbally and physically abusive to Tonya, which is also known. Jeff Gillooly, Tonya's ex-husband, was also physically and mentally abusive, as well. None of that excuses what Tonya was involved in, or her overall behavior, but, unfortunately, the apple often fails to fall far from the tree, if one gets the drift. Tonya's behavior, oftentimes, does mimic her mother's rather well.
shareWell, we can leave it to Hollywood (especially today's Hollywood), to pour corn syrup all over stuff, and to white-wash things, if one gets the drift. I saw the trailer to the film "I, Tonya", and figured that was sufficient enough for me to form an opinion of the film on.
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The fact that the film "I, Tonya" does portray Tonya Harding in a sympathetic light and white-washes the stuff she pulled is precisely the reason why I refuse to see this movie.
shareI felt sorry for her too. She was according to the film uneducated, living the life her mother planned for her to make up for her own pathetic self. Tanya was emotionally/mentally abused by her mother for many years. Her mother should have been jailed!
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