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Release Date: 03 February, 2004 Retail Price: $9.98 OUR Price: $9.98 You SAVE: $0.00! Cast: Complete Cast (10 total) |
Gia Reviews
hold the cheese
This movie is so cheesey, it's pathetic. Basically what you have here is Angelina Jolie in a series of bad wigs, touching her mouth constantly like a old person checking their dentures, doing a bad impression of someone high and kissing a blonde repeatedly. That is it. Angelina looks nothing like Gia and portrays Gia as selfish needy creature who desprately clingy to the people around her and not a bit grateful for her fame as a model and how fortunate she was to get a big break, especially during the times when blonde models were the popular thing. It could be the script or it could Angelina's acting but this film made Gia come across as unlikeable, arrogant and needy. The white fade outs after each scene was the cheesiest part. Also cheesey was Angelina, for the 90th time trying to play a tough chick which was completely unbelieveable. Angelina oversells the tough part and turns into a joke. She may as have a scene with her wearing a baseball cap and chewing tobacco. She is not the least believeable as a tough in your face kind of person. The worse part of the film was when they had Angelina taking pics as Gia. To pretend that photos of someone hopping around and laughing and making faces could actually be used in a modeling portifilo is stupid. Worse yet, in the pictures, she is just dressed in jeans with apparently no makeup on and a wig that looks like it's knotted. That scene was a great joke. If you have already seen Angelina playing Lisa in "Girl, interrupted", then you have basically seen her in this movie as well. Don't waste your time on this cheesey junk. If you want to know about the real Gia, do a yahoo search on her or buy the book about her life. This movie doesn't even feel like a biography about a real person but instead, an excuse for Angelina to prance around in modeling outfits, try to look tragic and drag out her infamous and stale "girl, interrupted" shtick. It's sad that Gia's real life story gets thrown at the waist side as the movie seems to try to glamourize Gia's bad behavior while giving only a brief glimpse of the ugly sides of her life. I don't think Gia would have appericiated that, considering that when she found out about her health, she tried to educate people against drug use and learn from her mistakes. It's ironic that a movie based on her life tries to then glamourize not only the drug use but the idea of having no professionalism at all (by running off during a modeling shoot) and being unappericiative of success. An unknown actress might have helped this movie. As it is now, Angelina is too over exposed or over hyped to portray a real person. Other cheesey moments was when they seemed to be interviewing people so they could talk about her. First, the interviews would occur just at random and were spaced very far in between in each other. There was not a smooth transition from the moment when they stopped showing Gia at the moment to the interview with people talking about her. The interviews with people talking about her felt like a muddled mess in between the actual movie. Read the book instead of watching this.
A Classic Moive
This is a classic film, perfectly acted and scripted.The film puts forth a few poignant images, Gia's colleagues mistaking her for a loiterer, Gia the only brunette in a pool of blondes but mostly treats Gia not as a model with a drug habit, but as a junkie who models, one of Paul Schrader's born addicts. Gia isn't hagiography, I'll give it that, but it is reductive to a fault; once known as a screenwriter with a literary bent, having risen to the challenge of distilling novels by no less than John Updike and Tom Wolfe, Cristofer turned into a sensationalist when he started directing, and virtually anything that's not an exploitation staple is relegated to the margins in Gia.
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