Amelia
Very, very, MEH! It seemed like they filmed a three hour movie and cut it down to an hour and 45 minutes. There was no back story on Amelia, her marriage and affair were mostly glossed over (though the marriage becomes more significant toward the end) and even a lot of her flights were glossed over, and I still felt they focused too much on her flights and not her person, perhaps she was jus that boring? The final flight and ending were the only things that prevented me from hating this movie, and my goodness is Hilary Swank fugly or is she ridiculously fugly? In the movie they make a point to say a couple time that Amelia herself wasn't so pretty, and they show some pictures of her at the end that double down on that point, but ****! I understand not using Scarlett Johansen but they couldv'e usef someone who looked less like a man. Hilary Swank's best roles have been where she played a man, or a woman who did manly things, and I suppose that's why she was cast (flying, like most other things, was not for women back then) but I had a hard time getting past the fact that she looked a boy the whole movie. Anyway, it was an overall MEH with some redeeming scenes in the beginning, and a solid ending. The acting was fairly good, except some miscues by Hilary Swank, or the director's editing (she purposely stalls her plane, then looks nervous about it?) good for a history lesson, not so much a movie, would have been a lot better with more focus on the title character in the beginning.
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