I liked Hugo well enough (and wow, is it a Changeling movie), but I agree about the pacing. And the beginning of the movie made it too much a mystery about Hugo himself, rather than about Georges -- which meant that when the movie started being about Georges instead, it felt unsatisfying.
You're the only person I've heard praise The Iron Lady that way, though. Mostly I've heard people complain that it's too much about her senility in later years and her husband's sadness as he copes with that, rather than being enough about Thatcher as a politician. Which may be what you mean about political history vs. the personal story, but it sounds like the personal story isn't enough about Politician!Thatcher, either. (This is all hearsay, though. I haven't seen the movie yet myself.)
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Date: 2012-02-28 08:24 pm (UTC)You're the only person I've heard praise The Iron Lady that way, though. Mostly I've heard people complain that it's too much about her senility in later years and her husband's sadness as he copes with that, rather than being enough about Thatcher as a politician. Which may be what you mean about political history vs. the personal story, but it sounds like the personal story isn't enough about Politician!Thatcher, either. (This is all hearsay, though. I haven't seen the movie yet myself.)