Made the mistake of watching this newly released movie today. It's supposed to be a semi-fictionalized take on Marilyn Monroe's life. What I actually watched was a meaningless, meandering, pointless waste of 3 hours.

The film mostly consists of interspersing dreamlike fantasies, inner monologues, and navel-gazing with overly long scenes of bloviating dialogue, then sprinkling a bunch of needlessly graphic scenes of abuse and rape throughout. The film progresses with little to no plot, and jumps around throughout her life abruptly. It's basically a series of vignettes based around Marilyn Monroe's daddy issues, and all the pain that this obsession with chasing father figures brought her.

It reminded me of a caricature of a Terrence Malick film. Or maybe like a bad student film with a really big budget.

And ironically enough, from what I can tell the movie apparently was attempting to depict how exploited Marilyn Monroe was, and yet the filmmakers decided the best way to go about that was to... (effectively) further exploit Marilyn Monroe.

Did I mention that it's 3 hours long? I'm a fairly prolific moviewatcher, and can often find some value in some films that are otherwise panned by other viewers, but it's been a while since I've sat through a movie that was this long and hard of a slog for so little payoff.

Skip this trainwreck.

Yeah the reviews I've seen totally agree with your assessment. Another Netflix BOMB.

I watched most of it (I guess like not turning away from a train wreck) but bailed right after the JFK BJ. There was no need for that or many other things they tossed out. It was all shock value.

Here is another Netflix bomb. Jamie Foxx in Day Shift. Holy shit it was stupid.

Mixed feelings. Mostly negative, but I thought the actress did an excellent job becoming MM. Sad it was wasted. Reminded me almost precisely of watching the last 30 minutes of one of my favorites, Boogie Nights, which was deserved but not done to ridculous excess. Except in Blonde it 2 hours and 30 minutes of "hard to watch." I guess it was worth watching...once.

Thanks for the warnings.

I gave it a try. It was the most depressing movie I have seen in years. I understand Norma Jean had a terrible life, but geezus!

I agree. Shut it off after 45 minutes. It sucks.

the interesting thing is from Marilyn's first pin ups... she was not a blonde but a red head.

I'd post them here but I think it goes against Para's rules... I got in trouble a few years back for posting Segourney's 'plumber's crack'.

Crop the naughty stuff out?

But yeah, the more you read about the golden ages of Hollywood, the more you understand how terrible the studios were to their talent, and what they did shape and protect an image of an actor/actress.

Agree crazy from the very first scene and just kept sucking more and including JFK scene. Daddy?