The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)

That was an excellent one.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

The other Boleyn Girl is a film that show the life of the Boleyn sisters in the King Henry's court till Ann became her Queen. The movie have a beautiful costume designs and locations. However the film have many hiatotical facts problems as characters ages, the kids borned, the relation with other characters and the characthers personality are all wrong. To me when a director and screenwriters decides made a historical film they must mantain some points as the real life. Natalie Portman was fantastic as Ann Boleyn, many scenes we can feel her feelings. Eric Bana however is terrible, a robot with few expressions. But Eddie Redmayne in his small paper was realy nice. Scarlet Johansson is only a pretty face. To the title was wrong. The other Boleyn girl seems a reference to Mary characther but to me Ann is the protagonist. This historical romance is only a median movie.

Actually I would've given this movie an 8 but I find I have to compensate for the idiots who review on IMDb using their personal tastes instead of some artistic criteria. If you want movies to be exactly tailored to your taste MAKE YOUR OWN MOVIE.I also have to compensate for the 'history must be as accurate as a documentary' idiots. If you want precision watch a documentary. This is historic FICTION if you can't understand that within the first 15 minutes of the movie I just don't know what to tell you.Now that I've got that out of the way... This is a well done costume drama. Natalie Portman as Anne and Scarlett Johansson as Mary are just incredible. Natalie shines, especially. The movie is as accurate as it needs to be to tell the story of two sisters set against each other and a family doomed by it's father's ambition, the intrigues of court and the whims of a king. All the actors are great.The story is very engaging and as I usually do with historic fiction, I checked it against the Wiki entry on the subject and found it be accurate on all major points. The direction and art production are also good.This movie got me from the very beginning and I found myself rooting for characters even though I knew how it would end for them.Yes, the movie does have some rough edges but for what it is and what it sets out to do, it succeeds. It's a compelling story, well told and well acted and if you like historic fiction and costume drama, well worth your while.

I have read the book version of this movie at least 8 times, as I really enjoy reading about the Tudor period. I have waited a long time to watch this film and finally managed to, lets just say I am very disappointed. The film has cut out many of the main storyline's found in the book. 1. Mary's relationship with Catherine of Aragon.2. Mary had a daughter first, not a son straight away as implied.3. The illness that drained Anne and killed Mary's husband William.4. The summers Mary spent at Hever with her children...and so on.These storyline's seemed important to me as they built up the character of Mary, we did not get this in the film. Her relationship with William Stafford also appeared out of no- where, they didn't kill off William Carey and I felt this caused some confusion in the film.I was very disappointed in the film portrayal of the book, I will read the book again but the chances of watching this film again are very slim.

Boring movie. That's what comes to my mind when I think about this movie. The story of it is tremendously different from what the history has told us. If the story, even different, presented to us had something interesting, captivating in some way, such difference from reality possibly was going to be noticed far less. But the movie fails tremendously in presenting a compelling story.The characters are used in a poor way, we don't see such a good characters's development. The movie doesn't succeed when they try to show iconic and historical events of England. Then, in the end, the film becomes not so relevant and the story turn out be only the ambition of a family to ascend and forget how much this same family made the England's history change tremendously.