Battle Royale: Cool Movie Costumes
It's a Bruno-nodding, fashion-themed throwdown!
BY Jul 10th 2009 9:09AMFILED UNDER: Features
Royal Costumes
Queen Elizabeth (Cate Blanchett) Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
The Virgin Queen was likely so because no-one could get their your way through those multiple layers of material with a blow torch, let alone seductive goodwill.
The filmmakers lavished all their attentions on the costumes and sets, and it shows. Shame they forgot to put the same passion into the rest of it.
More Frills Than A Festive Doily Factor: 9
Raleigh Can Conquer The World But He Can’t Conquer Me-ness: 10
Cool Costume Rating: 8
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Marie Antoinette (Kirsten Dunst) Marie Antoinette (2006)
Sofia Coppola’s ill-received take on the life of the great French queen took serious helpings of poetic licence cake, and ate it.
With more anachronisms than a Ben-Hur chariot race, Antoinette wins because of the cheeky pair of Converse All-Stars that turn up during the shoe and cake montage… and because we’ve always had a thing for Kirsten Dunst.
Yes The Costumes Are Lovely, But Can We See Your Bottom Again? Factor: 10
Ruining The Economy With Expensive Taste In Clothing-ness: 9
Cool Costume Rating: 10
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