Lovelace (2013)

Don't Believe the Hype

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

The acting in this movie is really good.

This movie caught my eye while I was searching Netflix for something interesting to watch on a Saturday night.People who have never seen one second of a porno movie know the name Linda Lovelace. Before watching this movie I'd never seen "Deep Throat" (still haven't) and yet even though I didn't really know what the real Linda actually looked like, when I recognized Amanda Seyfried as the lead/title actress, I went huh?As so many other reviewers have stated, Amanda is way too pretty and innocent looking for the role. For this reason, possibly the story focuses more on the emotional aspects of the trauma Linda Lovelace faced through her relationship with Chuck Traynor and dealing with the realities of becoming so famous for something as dubious as appearing in "Deep Throat." Had they used a different actress with harder edges, like Lindsay Lohan, the movie may have veered toward the grittier aspects of the 70s porn industry, but with Amanda Seyfried in the role the producers managed to make even a scene showing the filming of one of the "Deep Throat" scenes seem sanitized, in other words, "Lifetimed- up." Sharon Stone appears, unrecognize-ably as a brunette in the role of Linda's mother. Some of the movies best scenes occur between the mother and daughter, before and after her life-changing career choice. Hank Azaria also stands out as one of the producers of Linda Lovelace's most famous movie as he projects the right amount of tacky, '70s style smarmy charm. In the hands of a different director, like Quentin Tarantino, this would have been a way-different movie and would have had an NC-17 rating and would have showcased at least one scene of Linda Lovelace showing her signature talent. As it is, "Lovelace" is a movie that's almost tame enough to be shown on broadcast television. It still manages to be interesting though.

Amanda Seyfried is a dear, sweet and very natural actress, a real talent. I liked her very much in "Les Misérables," "Gone," "Chloe", "Mamma Mia!". She can really act and deserves better and better roles. Peter Sarsgaard is good in the role of villain Chuck Traynor. Sharon Stone, becomes better and better by aging, you know, the old hen makes the good soup. There are some names out there in the cast, they are OK. Eric Roberts, as usual lately, he's just signing the book, make note of his presence, just to be paid. And, because I'm sure there are enough idiots in the world (especially in the US) who even think that some women have their clitoris in the throat, well no, they don't have it there, they have it elsewhere... Enjoy the film!

Linda Lovelace is portrayed as a naive, stupid, childish little girl, who is completely oblivious of what is happening to her, in reality she was nothing like that, if you go and check out some of her ''work'' you will see that, she was a wild woman, who was more than happy to star in all kinds of films, ''Deep Throat'' being the least bizarre of the lot. Amanda Seyfried is not the best actress to depict Linda, since Linda was not a very attractive woman, Amanda is way too cute and girly for the role. The whole story seems quite comical, since Linda was not alone, she had lots of friends there in the industry and Chuck could just keep on abusing her and nobody even noticed that, in reality that probably did not happen, as we know the real Linda used to change her story a lot, so it is very hard to tell what is actually real as far as these details go. Aside from the reality aspect of this film, the movie seemed all over the place, yeah they tried to do all these timeline jumps, but they were not bringing anything exciting into it. It feels like the creators of this film did not know how to portray the Linda nor how to tell the story efficiently, so they just took one of the possible truths of the story and made a movie on it. Overall, i would not say it was the most horrible movie out there, but it certainly was not anything special, very illogical and false at moments. Also it seems that people expect way more nudity and sex scenes in the film, i can tell you what - if you are going to watch this to see sex scenes with Amanda Seyfried, do not watch it, because there are none, you are better off watching the real 1972 movie "Deep throat".

I came across this flick while searching for James Franco. So I came across About Cherry (2012) a flick about a young girl falling into the traps of the porn industry but sadly About Cherry misses it's aim. Lovelace came a year later and again Franco is just in it for a few minutes but that didn't bother me because being grown up in the seventies I still can remember those 'dirty theatres' at my hometown. It was full bloom porn that people were attending without bothering who could see you walk in, can't figure that one out nowadays. The seventies were the heydays of porn and the most notorious flick must have been Deep Throat (1972). The main star was Linda Lovelace. Sadly people not interested in flicks doesn't know what happened with here and had other things going on in their mind watching her but her life was one piece of sh*t.This is exactly what this flick shows from being a girl next door girl to be found by Chuck Traynor (Peter Sarsgaard). he was a nice guy but once shown how to have sex Linda became a victim of the brutality of Chuck. She was raised to obey your husband and that was what she did falling into the porn industry. Only appeared in 8 flicks she the most famous porn star of her time. Strangely this flick also gave some controversy as did Deep Throath due the fact that Amanda Seyfried was going to play Lovelace. She's not known for taking on that part of roles but she did fine and I was surprised that she even went naked. Some do say that the story shown isn't correct but it do shows how the industry worked and how some girls were threatened. I did like it to see the story behind Linda how becoming famous and how she ended her career moving on for 20 years against the porn industry and violence at home. Towards the end you will see the real Lovelace who died in 2002 due injuries at a car crash. Well acted and good story as simple as that.Gore 0/5 Nudity 1/5 Effects 0/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5