Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Grimerlana Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

longcooljolie This movie caught my eye while I was searching Netflix for something interesting to watch on a Saturday night.People who have never seen one second of a porno movie know the name Linda Lovelace. Before watching this movie I'd never seen "Deep Throat" (still haven't) and yet even though I didn't really know what the real Linda actually looked like, when I recognized Amanda Seyfried as the lead/title actress, I went huh?As so many other reviewers have stated, Amanda is way too pretty and innocent looking for the role. For this reason, possibly the story focuses more on the emotional aspects of the trauma Linda Lovelace faced through her relationship with Chuck Traynor and dealing with the realities of becoming so famous for something as dubious as appearing in "Deep Throat." Had they used a different actress with harder edges, like Lindsay Lohan, the movie may have veered toward the grittier aspects of the 70s porn industry, but with Amanda Seyfried in the role the producers managed to make even a scene showing the filming of one of the "Deep Throat" scenes seem sanitized, in other words, "Lifetimed- up." Sharon Stone appears, unrecognize-ably as a brunette in the role of Linda's mother. Some of the movies best scenes occur between the mother and daughter, before and after her life-changing career choice. Hank Azaria also stands out as one of the producers of Linda Lovelace's most famous movie as he projects the right amount of tacky, '70s style smarmy charm. In the hands of a different director, like Quentin Tarantino, this would have been a way-different movie and would have had an NC-17 rating and would have showcased at least one scene of Linda Lovelace showing her signature talent. As it is, "Lovelace" is a movie that's almost tame enough to be shown on broadcast television. It still manages to be interesting though.

trashgang I came across this flick while searching for James Franco. So I came across About Cherry (2012) a flick about a young girl falling into the traps of the porn industry but sadly About Cherry misses it's aim. Lovelace came a year later and again Franco is just in it for a few minutes but that didn't bother me because being grown up in the seventies I still can remember those 'dirty theatres' at my hometown. It was full bloom porn that people were attending without bothering who could see you walk in, can't figure that one out nowadays. The seventies were the heydays of porn and the most notorious flick must have been Deep Throat (1972). The main star was Linda Lovelace. Sadly people not interested in flicks doesn't know what happened with here and had other things going on in their mind watching her but her life was one piece of sh*t.This is exactly what this flick shows from being a girl next door girl to be found by Chuck Traynor (Peter Sarsgaard). he was a nice guy but once shown how to have sex Linda became a victim of the brutality of Chuck. She was raised to obey your husband and that was what she did falling into the porn industry. Only appeared in 8 flicks she the most famous porn star of her time. Strangely this flick also gave some controversy as did Deep Throath due the fact that Amanda Seyfried was going to play Lovelace. She's not known for taking on that part of roles but she did fine and I was surprised that she even went naked. Some do say that the story shown isn't correct but it do shows how the industry worked and how some girls were threatened. I did like it to see the story behind Linda how becoming famous and how she ended her career moving on for 20 years against the porn industry and violence at home. Towards the end you will see the real Lovelace who died in 2002 due injuries at a car crash. Well acted and good story as simple as that.Gore 0/5 Nudity 1/5 Effects 0/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5

siderite The movie is nothing to tell your parents about (he, he), but it accurately presents the drama of Linda Marchiano, a girl who gets seduced by a guy who later proceeds to manipulate, train and use her to his own ends. Becoming a celebrity for her Deep Throat porn films where she starred as Linda Lovelace, she became known for that alone, even if she actually spent only 17 days in the pornographic industry.So, if you wanted to see Amanda Seyfried naked and doing the nasty, you're out of luck. There are very few scenes that are sexual in nature, the movie focusing on the person that Linda was and her actual life. An interesting adaptation of her own book, called Ordeal.Bottom line: A lot of people brought their talent to tell the story. Just look at the cast, where most of the people there had only secondary roles. It is true, it is a bit formulaic, they do this kind of casting avalanche thing when they want to bring gravitas to a subject. In the end it is not a bad movie at all, but not terribly exciting either. It is the very definition of a biographical drama.

BA_Harrison Amanda Seyfried stars in this biopic of infamous porn-star Linda Lovelace, who became a household name in the seventies after displaying a remarkable talent for fellatio in hardcore skin-flick Deep Throat. The first half of Lovelace charts Linda's pre-porn years, her marriage to titty-bar owner Chuck Traynor (Peter Sarsgaard), the making of Deep Throat and her consequent rise to porn super-stardom, with Linda apparently lapping up the limelight and happily promoting her work; the second half reveals the supposed pain behind the porn, retelling matters according to Lovelace's best-seller Ordeal, in which she claims to have entered the adult industry against her will, having been forced to do so at gunpoint by her sleaze-bag husband.Linda Lovelace's assertion that she performed in Deep Throat under duress has long been the subject of conjecture, with feminist 'Women Against Porn' movement attempting to prove her case via polygraph test (which she apparently passed), and several of Linda's co-workers damning her stories by stating that she was more than happy in her line of work. The makers of Lovelace play it safe by opting for the politically correct route, adhering to Lovelace's version of events, taking a few liberties with the facts (Linda didn't leave the adult industry immediately after Deep Throat, as is suggested here), whilst happily glossing over the most unsavoury aspects of her past (there's absolutely no mention of the 8mm stag-loops in which she performed with a four-legged friend).This cautious approach is not all that surprising—this is, after all, a Hollywood movie and a sympathetic stance makes the subject matter more palatable for mainstream audiences—but I do feel that a more balanced and honest approach would have resulted in a more satisfying experience overall.