Boxing Helena
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Movie Reviews of Boxing Helena
Movie Review: Very, very weird
Summary: 2 Stars
Ok so Its clear that after watching this movie we all know that David Lynchs talent has not rubbed off onto daughter Jennifer Chambers Lynch, this movie is, not surprising her one and only movie to date.
We are introduced to Nick, a wealthy and successful surgeon who is obsessively in love with Helena, a beautiful woman who he once had a one night stand with. When she has a terrible accident outside his house he operates immediatly, amputating her legs and later her arms.
The storyline Is I think somewhat disturbing, and may have had potential, but It just wasnt pulled off. The dialouge is very questionable, It was particularly funny when Nick says to Helena "You're sick" um...shes not the one cutting off peoples limbs! The flick looks and sounds like any cheap b grade film you'd find made in the eighties or early nineties. Also the basis of Nicks obsession is never explained, aside from the obvious, Helena (Sherilyn Fenn) is stunning, we are never given any reason, Nick already has a decent and nice girlfriend, and Helena treats him worse then a dog, the logic just isnt there!
Performance wise, Sherilyn Fenn is great, well as good as one could be with the material given. Julian Sands, I thought he was terrible, couldnt take his accent seriously, might have had something to do with his dialouge "but Helena I LOVE you!" every god damned five minutes.
Interesting at best, worth watching for the mystical and beautiful Sherilyn Fenn. If anything an unforgetable film experience, even if it for worse.
Movie Review: Oh, Julian.
Summary: 1 Stars
Is it wrong to love Julian Sands because he's beautiful? Worse, is it wrong to love him when he's being evil at the same time?
If it is, then I have received ample punishment in watching this.
Boxing Helena is a movie that desperately wants to be a dark, edgy,arty comment on obsessive love. Not just that, it makes weak use of the themes of how beauty is defined, the power struggle between the sexes and how women are regarded in relation to sex.
This is what we know of Nick Cavanaugh - he is a spineless, whiny, slightly hypochondriacal(the roots of which are never really explained)yet wealthy and successful surgeon with Mommy issues. Aside from a few flashbacks, there's really no explanation why this has translated into such an overpowering lust and obsession with Helena in particular.
We know even less about Helena, and it becomes a slight to a story that appears to want to make a statement on how beautiful and strong willed women (read: bitchy and evil)are punished for behaving exactly as a man would. Her character is not even considered worthy enough to be more than totally one dimensional.
So we have Nick, sexually obsessed and hopelessly infatuated with a woman who will have nothing to do with him; a woman he can only truly love and control by making her powerless-a real life Venus. And Helena, beautiful and cruel, a woman who doesn't really love until she has some of what made her a woman taken from her.
I cringe at the thought that some of the people watching this thought they were finding a "message" somewhere in this mess.
Had this movie been well written it probably would have been insightful and disturbing. But it fails on so many levels that it ends up just being boring. With the ending being what it was, it seems like the director and writer realized this too.
Movie Review: Whatever Happened to Julian Sands?
Summary: 1 Stars
Poor guy got stuck in this movie. That's what. After watching A Room With A View I immediately bought Boxing Helena. Big mistake. Even renting it would have been a waste of money. I heard from friends it was a horrid movie but I was going to watch it with an open mind. At least if it was bad I could stare at Julian Sands, hear his wonderful accent and be content. No....this has got to be the worst movie made. Some of the scenes were downright laughable. When Sherilyn Fenn gets her legs run over by the car....the way the scene played out made me and my roomates burst into laughter.
Couldn't control my giggles at Bill Paxton with a mullet overacting in every scene. Julian Sands character was such a wimp. In his case, hamming his performance up might have been better in this movie. Didn't care for him at all, even with his sexy accent. Sherilyn Fenn, I was wishing Julian Sands character would take our her lungs.
The ending....it could have been ten times better without that silly dream sequence.
And don't get me started on the sex scene. Julian Sands kissing Helena Bonham Carter at the end of A Room With A View was ten times sexier than the scene in Boxing Helena.
If I could give it less than 1 star, I would. I wondered why after seeing A Room With A View, how come I haven't seen him in anything else. After watching garbage like Boxing Helena I understand. Must try and find another good Julian Sands movie now, if there is one to be had besides A Room With A View. Boxing Helena was not it.
Movie Review: I love my fellow man too much to recommend this to ANYONE!
Summary: 1 Stars
Oh...how many ways can the English language convey 'GARBAGE.'? The best two words ever combined to illustrate garbage are 'Boxing Helena.'Let's just overlook the fact that the premise defies any reasonable suspension of disbelief. (And while I agree that some films stretch that...you can work with said films on said suspension if given half a reason through other attributes of the film...which even THIS can't provide) The story, while great for a short story read, (Stephen King's 'Survivor Type' is far superior in terms of frivolous amputation) just doesn't seem to work for this medium. Although, to be fair, I think the fault for this lies also in the screenwriting, directing, 'special effects,' etc.
The acting is the final nail in this coffin. If the actors were directed to play up the camp nature of this story, it might have worked as a black comedy...but the cast attempts to raise the level of this titantically-sunk piece in a futile attempt at legitimate filmmaking. Bill Paxton has all the prowess in the part of Ray as if he were a first-time soap actor.
Please...please...if you love your DVD player at all...do not taint it with this!
Movie Review: Sickness Run Rampant
Summary: 1 Stars
I had high expectations when I grabbed this film at Blockbuster to view. After about half an hour I realized I had made a terrible mistake. Not only does it transcend all bounds of decency and good taste, it simply is the worst film ever produced. The acting is horrendous. No one seems to know what to do or how to utter their lines. The direction is non-existent. Well, I'm sure she tried to direct it, but the result is amateurish and borish and, most of all, unbelieveable in the truest sense. There have been no films I've ever wanted to destroy after viewing. This one is surely the first. Make all the gags you'd like about the worst film ever made (sci-fi monsters with zipper-showing costumes included), but this piece of nonsense surely is the worst piece of excrement ever created. What a waste of film and processing chemicals. Just being the offspring of a film director ain't a-gonna make you a filmmaker. I suggest management career at Burger King (but don't let her near the meat).