With infinite Netflix, Amazon Prime, broadcast TV (significantly Turner Film Classics), upcoming motion pictures within the theaters, and even some, ehem, different sources to look at historic costume motion pictures and TV reveals, the Frock Flicks editorial workers has fairly a backlog. Alas, not each flick set prior to now is value our time (although we’ve already reviewed a lot — use the search field or menus to view the archives!).
After clocking all these movie-watching hours, we will let you know: There are a number of crappy historic costume motion pictures and TV reveals on the market! It’s not simply Snark Week items both. Some stuff is mere weak tea. These are boring motion pictures, the boring reveals, those with mediocre costumes and tales that may’t even rise as much as the extent of camp leisure. Or those which are mildly entertaining, perhaps have ‘good-enough’ costuming, or are reasonably snark-worthy, however we will’t be arsed to work up a sweat about it.
Thus, that is an occasional sequence with our one-line evaluations of issues we’ve tried to look at however simply don’t care sufficient about to put in writing a complete weblog submit or podcast. Your mileage might differ!
I attempted, I actually did, to even simply get by this movie within the title of my 18th-Century Quest. I imply, Beau Brummell! Elizabeth Taylor! Shiny wigs! Satin! However it was simply so unrelentingly boring, that I gave up midway by. I’ve been now that means to complete it for no less than 6 months, however clearly that’s not going to occur. All I actually bear in mind is normal mid-century costumes, shiny white wigs, and desperately attempting to maintain my eyes open. Sorry! — Kendra
Bob Hope is fairly darn humorous as a tailor who will get mistaken for Casanova, however in any other case the movie is nice-but-not-revolutionary mid-Twentieth-century interval comedy. Joan Fontaine’s costumes are very princess-seam-y, the wigs are very plasticky, and Vincent Value is (in my view) weirdly solid as the actual Casanova. There’s one genius scene the place Hope has to decorate up as a lady at a flowery ball, and it doesn’t go effectively, to nice comedian impact. — Kendra
Dracula Untold (2014)
Shitty medieval backstory for Vlad the Impaler. It’s like somebody took the kind-of-cool opening 5 minutes of Bram Stoker’s Dracula and made a whole film of that, altering Elisabeta’s title to Mirena (just like the IUD) and including some demon spawn. Silly, however not even silly sufficient to snark. — Trystan
My mother beneficial this to me, and we’re normally on the identical web page re: historic fiction. Whereas this has some fairly good Victorian costuming, the storylines might be moderately twee and predictable. It’s not the worst factor on the planet in any respect, nevertheless it doesn’t rock my socks both. — Trystan
Soiled boys operating round Ninth-century England killing one another or one thing. Zzzzzzzzzzzz. (In addition to, isn’t Vikings masking this era already?) — Trystan
Man of La Mancha (1972)
I like Peter O’Toole. I really like musicals. I just like the story of Don Quixote. I hated this movie adaption and couldn’t make it previous the midway mark. Additionally, negligible costume curiosity. — Trystan
One other of your faves, and I acquired by extra eps of this one primarily based on the actors (Bronn from Sport of Thrones is at all times a hoot!). However the feminine characters are super-cliches (hookers, boring spouse, they usually’re all simply props for the fellas), plus they’re carrying Victorian steampunk bullshit. No can do, people. — Trystan
Wind Throughout the Everglades (1958)
I solely have myself in charge for this one. See, I used to be born in Florida, and I’m eager about how the overuse of large feathers and stuffed birds within the 1900s gave rise to conservation efforts. However this film is not a fantastic historical past lesson and has no fabulous historic hats. It’s simply crap. — Trystan
Do you’re keen on one among these motion pictures or TV reveals? What different stuff ought to we take away from our queue? Have you ever searched our website lately to see if we’ve already reviewed your faves?
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