Factory Girl

This amateurish biopic of Andy Warhol's tragic muse, Edie Sedgwick (Sienna Miller, terrible!) shouldn't have been made - at least not with such a poor screenplay/casting. The rich, young and pretty Edie Sedgwick, whose family life hides secrets that could be made into a Todd Solondz flick, goes to NYC in the 1960's and meets pop artist Andy Warhol (Guy Pearce, the only good thing about the movie). They develop a strange friendship and Edie becomes the muse of the Factory, Warhol's bizarre studio, and the star of Warhol's experimental movies. But when Edie meets rock star Billy "I'm not Bob Dylan" Quinn (Hayden Christensen, almost as ridiculous as Sienna), Andy feels rejected and Edie finds herself divided between her "friends" from the Factory and Dylan's, oops, Quinn's love.

"Factory Girl" is a bad joke that must be avoided. I think it's laughable to see how much Oscar buzz Sienna Miller caused before the movie came out. The role was quite a bait, but she couldn't pull it off. Sienna gave one of the most ridiculous, cringe-inducing performances of the decade, that it often seems she's laughing at herself. The problem is, the movie isn't supposed to be funny and her laughing is quite annoying.

I give it a 3/10 only for Pearce, and I'm being quite generous.