+1000 I hadn't seen her lately. All that cosmetic surgery/botox has aged her to the point that I didn't even recognize her at first. |
Not even To Die For? |
You are not the only one. Every time I watch her all I can think of is that's Nicole Kidman acting like (whatever character). I've never understood the over the top admiration for her acting or her beauty. |
Do you think Tom Cruise watches her movies?
And do you think he envies her talent and career? |
I left the movie halfway through. I found it boring and weird and didn’t get the hype from the positive reviews. I had some other things to do and decided to set myself free. |
I liked her in Days of Thunder, even though it was not believable that a practicing neurologist would be that young. I feel like her acting technique became really affected and off around the time that she played the crazy newswoman.. Now she portrays every character as if the person is a cold psychopath. She's always got a calculated expression and the same flat American accent. There is zero warmth there. I do wonder what acting technique she studied. |
For clarity on the above, the news anchor movie was "To Die For" in 1995. "Days of Thunder" was in 1990. |
She's like a lifetime channel actress lol. All she does is play the same characters over and over again. |
Yeah, I think the best casting for these kinds of films was Unfaithful. Diane Lane was totally believable as a housewife swept away by lust and Oliver Martinez was genuinely so charming and sexy and "in control" at the same time that you could totally see how Diane Lane would risk it all for him. This guy, to me, gave me almost incel vibes, and it was hard to believe that he could have control over someone so powerful as Nicole. |
Does anyone think there's something funny about how a supposedly "empowering" movie about a wealthy, in control woman still has the plotline of her being subjugated to a man? I know that wasn't the intention and it's told through the lens of BDSM which I guess makes it edgier but still, it reminds me of something like "Taming of the Shrew." The message is "all women, no matter how powerful, want to be under the control of a man." I would be much more interested in this film if the power dynamic was flipped, and Nicole was the one in control. Sort of like the book "The idea of You", how the woman in that age gap relationship is GENUINELY in control and for that reason it seemed transgressive (the book only, not the movie, I haven't seen that). This just seems to me like rinse and repeat of the same gender roles we're always fed by Hollywood |
Envious crones here need to give it a rest. |
Completely agree. |
You must not interact with actual 35 year olds. |
That was her best role. And I liked her in her younger films. The one about being lost at sea and the one with Tom cruise … |
I loved Rabbit Hole, Moulin Rouge, Big Little Lies and The Hours. Oh and thought she was breathtakingly beautiful in Cold Mountain. |