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TAKE OFF THE KID GLOVES: YOUR LEAST FAVORITE ACTORS
vkm91941:
--- Quote from: rtprod on May 23, 2006, 04:40:37 pm ---Oh, and let's stop giving good old Julia Roberts a pass, shall we? Minus Erin Brockovich, where's the versatility or distinction between characters? As Hollywood star style performing goes, she's leagues beneath even Tom Cruise in skill level.
She was just skewered royally on Broadway and there's a very funny piece about it in the new EW.
I used to love her until I stopped loving the flat cadence and the quivering lip and the same smile every six frames or so..... zzzzzzzz.......
rt
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I agree she got panned badly on Broadway. Better actors than her have been panned before and will be again. In defense of Miss Julia, let me start by saying I am not a huge fan, but I do like her for the most part.
In my mind she does really well in the light pseudo serious comedy department, I personally enjoyed her in Steel Magnoliias, Stepmom, Nottinghill and Runaway Bride.
But I also liked her in some of her much more serious roles,in addition to Erin Brockovich, I liked Mary Riley, Conspiracy Theory, Something to Talk About, Sleeping with the Enemy, Flatliners, Dying Young and the Pelican Brief.
To me she has shown herself to be a versatile performer, she is lovely and charming but in non-threatening down to earth way so that both men and women feel comfortable with her and her characters. That's my take
Sheyne:
--- Quote from: rtprod on May 23, 2006, 04:17:56 pm ---DAKOTA FANNING
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There is clearly a message here. I'm struggling to see it tho...
:P
vkm91941:
--- Quote from: JennyC on May 23, 2006, 04:51:07 pm ---Hi I am a little bit lost here. This is rt's post but updated by Vicky. Probably just the quotation mark throws me off as the last sentence is not in my post. Anyway, technical glitch? :)
That observation seems a bit jaded. Sweet, heartwarming film, but cloying? Can you say Chick Flick. Just coz it is and just because it protrays loving human emotion doesn't make it bad.
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NO must have been my error !!!!!! I am so sorry don't know how that happened I was sure I just quoted rt but I must have hit the modify button instead. PLEASE Jenny and rt forgive my stupid error. I'm going to delete the entire post and ask rt to please repost his original thought ::) :-\
rtprod:
Another baffling mystery:
The Success of Keanu Reeves
Has worked with the best of the best directors in movies that became big hits. And frankly, the guy can't deliver a line of dialgoue comfortably to save his life. His work is all on the surface, awkward emoting, goofy line interpretations, as if he read the script maybe five minutes before the cameras rolled.
He's gotten a pass -- can we revoke, please?
rt
ednbarby:
Oh, boy. I'm gonna take some *major* flak on this one, but here goes:
Sean Penn (I think he's vastly over-rated. Sorry.)
Nick Nolte (All he does is Variations in Yelling.)
Al Pacino (See Nick Nolte - he was still good up until about "Sea of Love," then the Yelling began.)
Matt Dillon (He has one expression: Mad.)
Gary Oldman (He was great, then he let himself get typecast and just phoned it in for his next, like, 10 films. He's started to redeem himself with "Batman Begins," though.)
Daniel Day-Lewis (Ducking. I just don't get what's so great about him. The *only* movie I've ever seen him in where I couldn't see him acting was "In the Name of the Father.")
Sarah Jessica Parker (I can't stand her shrillness.)
Ben Affleck (The only one I could ever stand him in was "Shakespeare in Love," and that's because he played the perfect horse's ass - I'm thinkin' it wasn't much of a stretch.)
George Clooney (I'm sick to FREAKIN' death of him. And could he be any more of a shameless narcissist? Never have I seen someone so painfully infatuated with himself.)
Now... Lemme take off the gloves...
;)
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