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Meanwhile, Madonna Is Stealing Film Directors' Jobs
Whatever the crimes committed by Wallis Simpson – marrying a king, sparking a constitutional crisis, fraternising with Nazis – it's doubtful that she deserves the treatment meted out to her in W.E., Madonna's jaw-dropping take on "the 20th-century's greatest royal love story." The woman is defiled, humiliated, made to look like a joke. The fact that W.E. comes couched in the guise of a fawning, servile snow-job only makes the punishment feel all the more cruel.Or could it be that Madonna is in deadly earnest here? If so, her film is more risible than we had any right to expect.
Nice to know that Madonna does not approve of Simpson's Hanky Panky.
(And don't miss the comments!! They are stellar.)
@barnhouse I believe "brian 68" sums up the problem nicely:
If she'd got colin firth in the film you lot would love it.
True fact.
@hockeymom: Absolutely. Even if (especially if?) he played Hitler.
@barnhouse Who knew Prince Philip was on the internet?
@dntsqzthchrmn I thought he was in a can!
@barnhouse A punctured can.
Okay, but can we talk about her new face?
"For her big directoral flourish, Madonna has Wallis bound on stage to dance with a Masai tribesman while Pretty Vacant blares on the soundtrack."
Wait, wut?
@spiralbetty, this would explain why Leni Reifenstahl (sic) is thanked in the closing credits. [via @guylodge]
Someone needs to say no to her every now and then.
@iplaudius Volunteering?
"What do they say, Daddy?" we asked him. "Many things," he replied mysteriously. "Many secret things and many things of great humor." We figured it out: "Two maggots were fighting in dead Ernest."
"That one is Eskimo," said Mother. "I won't have it in my dining room, even in Morse code."
@melis I tap my spoon on the dinner table at you!
It wasn't the slashed throat that bothered him. It was the two minutes.
Saw W.E. in an advanced screening and BOY was it difficult to watch. I expected it to be Julie & Julia: The Royals Version! (which I would eat up with a spoon. Or 17 spoons.) but it was not.
Madonna must be stopped! What we need is a volunteer army of strapping, lean, cocoa skinned youths to keep her occupied around the clock so she can't make any more movies- in front of or behind the camera. Volunteers?
@Mimi Killjoy Anyone? Anyone?
People are constantly using the abbreviation "Madonna" instead of the full form "That Pretentious No-Talent Pseudo-Everything Perfect Emblem of Our Whole Phony Culture Madonna". They've been doing it for years.