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Marie Antoinette (2006)
What else can I say...
...that hasn't already been said? Historically inaccurate, poor scripting, poor dialogue, poor acting. While others have commented that it may not have been S. Coppola's intent to create a historically accurate piece, why create a historical piece if you don't plan to make some effort to represent the events accurately? And the musical score? It's great -- if the movie had taken place in the East Village in 1985.
Kirsten Dunst's performance in the film is wooden at best. While she wasn't given much to work with in the way of dialogue and character development, still, her performance left much to be desired.
Loved the visual aspect of the movie, but basically the movie is all style and no substance. All in all, the film is a pretentious waste of time and money.
Notes from the Underbelly (2007)
Unwatchable!
The series is about a 30-something married couple, Lauren and Andrew, who are expecting their first child and their four friends: Danny and Cooper a single man and woman respectively, and another married couple, Julie and Eric, who are also expecting their first child but are further along in the pregnancy.
Aside from exploring the clichés about pregnancy and becoming new parents (and not very well, I might add), the show has nothing to offer. All six characters are superficial, amoral, contemptible people with the possible exception of Andrew. Lauren, who is reluctant to tell her friends of her pregnancy at first, meets Cooper for drinks. Lauren proceeds to throw tequila shots over her shoulder rather than share her good news with Cooper. Finally Cooper catches her in the act, figures out why and shouts accusingly: "You WHORE!! You're pregnant!"
The following day, Lauren and Cooper attend Julie's baby shower and Cooper learns that a colleague with whom she had a recent one night stand is married to one of the other attendees. Rather than become appalled from learning this information, she asks Julie how stable her friend's marriage is because she wants to have a relationship with her colleague. Julie replies that the wife is not her friend, just someone from her yoga class (insert sarcasm -- No, she's not Julie's friend, but she's good enough to come to Julie's gift-giving party), and that her marriage is indeed on the rocks, encouraging Cooper to try to break them up.
At this point, we turned it off. The characters' morals were incompatible with family life and were offensive. We will not be watching it again.