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1/10 (could've been 0). Here's why:

posted 10 years ago by IMDB_Vits
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When people went to see DIANA, they were dissapointed because they thought it would be good. I was dissapointed because the reviews led me to believe it would be an unintentional comedy. It?s not; it?s a snooze fest. There?s nothing creative or even interesting about the dialogue. Naomi Watts and Naveen Andrews have 2 different kinds of bad chemistry: The romantic one and the acting one. You see, she?s over-the-top and he?s more introverted than the character required. On their own, they?re not giving the worst performances in the history of cinema, but together, they clash for being so opposite. And it?s not like the script required that. I mean, the relationship of their characters has ups and downs, but it has to do with her fame; it's not that they have opposite personalities (they don?t). A good director would try to fix that... and Oliver Hirschbiegel clearly isn?t one. When people find out about the affair, DIANA & HASNAT freak out. Then she tells the press that it?s a lie and he gets mad. All of this happens in less than 5 minutes, so it comes off as melodramatic. However, the idea of DIANA making that decision was interesting and I would?ve liked to see her conflict. Instead, script writer Stephen Jeffreys rushes through it. How ironic, since there are so many unnecesary scenes in this almost 2-hour movie. It reached the point where I had never wanted to see a car crash so badly.

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Any thoughts?

[–] NotLily 10 years ago

I think prior expectations do hurt this movie. The director said it was a simple, impossible love story. That is what I saw. Anyone expecting something big and epic would be dissapointed.

[–] mafrie 9 years ago

You're right I also thought there were too many boring, unnecessary scenes. Then again, this movie skipped over too many critical events during this period of Diana's life (which seemed to me were necessary to give a more complete foundation to explain each character's actions). To relegate into the background such people as her children, her significant friends (such as Jemina Khan), her sisters, her husband Charles, and Paul Burrell to name a few, left the viewer feeling as if they were watching two people living in a dark a vacuum with no explained reasons for their actions. Thus the love story came off as boring, aimless and silly.

[–] Coryraisa 8 years ago

How true! Except Prince Fool Charles because he was mostly gone from her life.

But her sons should have been in WAY MORE than they were depicted in this film; they were a HUGE part of her life.

Funny you should mention Paul because he really wasn't Diana's true friend; after she died, he went rooting through her things during her funeral, no less and pilfering things he could sell for money.

He found Diana's diary where she recorded her dreams...as a highly sensitive person, Diana was prone to terrifying nightmares, so her psychologist suggested that she write them down and have them analyzed...and saw one entry where Diana had a nightmare about Nancy Reagan plotting "car crash killings" on others, including herself and getting Prince Fool Charles' help.

The buttbrained former butler figured he'd hit pay dirt and took that page out in the hopes of making money off this page because he could use this page to buttress the ridiculous "murder plot" fables that were floating about in the tabloid rags.

Thankfully, Diana's siblings returned from the funeral and caught Buttbrain Burrell in the act of theft and threw that crook out on his bum before he could steal any more of Diana's things.

That might have been an interesting scene in the film...then flash forward later to Diana's sons and siblings and the Queen gathered to remember her and maybe in the process of founding one of the many memorials in honor of Diana.

That would have been a much better ending that the rather barren ending that they showed.