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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2010 5:16:49 GMT
Drew Barrymore can't act but I like her spunk to just go ahead and keep trying to act anyway.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 14, 2010 5:59:02 GMT
And she's so cute!
Under the can't act category, I'm going to have to add John Goodman. Or maybe he can act, but just won't.
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Post by joanne28 on Jun 17, 2010 19:28:12 GMT
I do like Drew Barrymore and DH thinks she has lovely breasts (which she does).
Did anyone mention Jack Nicholson? He used to act, a long time ago, but now does the same thing over and over and over. Except for "About Schmidt" which pleasantly surprised me. I was hoping he had turned over a new leaf but it was a momentary aberration.
I went off Julia Roberts permanently with "Pretty Woman". Prostitution as a positive career choice. Makes me want to spew.
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Post by cigalechanta on Jun 18, 2010 2:13:14 GMT
how could you forget the great stars who couldn't act like John Wayne, Carlton Heston, Kathery Hepburn. Clark Gable, Grace Kelly
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2010 5:28:54 GMT
Oh, I think Kathryn Hepburn could act, but it was mostly "old-fashioned" acting. I agree about the others not being good actors.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2010 11:07:19 GMT
Daniel Radcliff aka 'Harry Potter' cannot act. Not in any of his films. I think he just plays himself with a different moves.
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Post by joanne28 on Jun 18, 2010 14:04:59 GMT
Quite true, a lot of the old great stars couldn't act. But they had enormous style and panache, which most of the young punks nowadays who can't act don't have.
And beauty? I have heard people described as beautiful who are not, in my eyes. Uma Thurman is one. I think she's rather homely, in the North American sense.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 18, 2010 17:26:34 GMT
I am emphatically not a fan of Katherine Hepburn. I think Uma Thurman is beautiful. Someone whom I'd previously only seen in still pictures and thought downright ugly was Tilda Swinton. But seeing her in motion, as here, she is a beauty. Two people described as beautiful whose looks I don't care for at all are Julianne Moore and Nicole Kidman. |
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Post by joanne28 on Jun 18, 2010 18:01:11 GMT
Tilda Swinton has great bone structure, a bad haircut and no dress sense. Cheekbones to die for and she will age very well with that bone structure.
Nicole Kidman is what I would call pretty but not beautiful. Julianne Moore is nice-looking but not beautiful. Maureen O'Hara was beautiful.
Uma Thurman - her lips are what I think of as loose and sloppy. She has good bone structure but her nose is unfortunate. The French refer to a "jolie laide" which literally means "pretty ugly". Other examples of "jolie laides" are Celine Dion and Sarah Jessica Parker. They can look almost pretty and then whoa nelly!
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Post by cigalechanta on Jun 18, 2010 18:23:06 GMT
If you saw Kidman in Deep Calm, I think that's the name with Sam Neil. She was beautiful before all her botox and plastic surgery.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 21, 2010 17:09:28 GMT
Oh ~~ I liked T.Swinton's hair in that video! Nicole and Julianne have huge heads, and Nicole has always had a sort of glittering-eyed hard look.
I'm not a fan of Celine Dion, but she does have a pretty face. SJP is eeek -- a witch! I stand my ground on Uma -- I just don't see what you do about her mouth and nose, Joanne.
Does Meg Ryan still make movies? Gad, she really rubbed my fur the wrong way.
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Post by bjd on Jun 21, 2010 18:26:30 GMT
I just watched that Tilda Swinton video. Yes, she has good bones and her hair suits her. I think our perception of actor's or actress's beauty is influenced by the roles they play. She plays someone rather unattractive in Burn After Reading, so this interview improves my opinion of her looks.
I have never seen Sarah J Parker in anything but photographs, but I think she is a real dog. Can't comment on her acting. I always thought Katherine Hepburn was a good actress, and very classy looking. Unlike many contemporary American actresses.
I'm always struck by how "ordinary" French actresses look -- like real people, except for Catherine Deneuve who was rather beautiful, although I don't like her as an actress.
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Post by hwinpp on Jun 22, 2010 9:46:15 GMT
I will probably be in a minority but I think both Uma Thurman and Ellen Barkin are pretty sexy. And Helen Stone was also sexy in a beautiful way.
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Post by tillystar on Jun 22, 2010 10:09:16 GMT
Celine Dion is to me one of those people that look like they could do with a quick scrub.
I think SJP has a sparkle and Tilda Swinton is creepy looking, but defaintely someone you'd look at twice in the street. Uma is just ordinary looking but very tall IMO.
I love Cate Blanchett's looks, I think she looks like a real old fashioned move star. Very grafeful and elgant - and she can act. But I think her looks aren't typically "beautiful".
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2010 10:46:53 GMT
Didn't any of you see Céline Dion before she got everything changed? Look up her You Tube of when she represented Switzerland at the Eurovision song contest before she was famous, and it should have you running shrieking out of the room.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2010 10:47:55 GMT
I would instantly hire Tilda Swinton to take over the role of the governess in a remake of "Rebecca."
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Post by tillystar on Jun 22, 2010 11:05:14 GMT
That is all I see when I look at her, I can't get beyond it.
The housekeeper? Mrs Danvers? Yes! yes!
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Post by dahuffy on Jul 10, 2010 1:15:13 GMT
Steven Segal
Arnold Schwarzeneger
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2010 11:07:06 GMT
I saw mention of Meg Ryan in this category,and fully concur. Cute only works just so far. She uses the same intonations,and cutesy gestures in almost all her movies. One,maybe two,enough. Get some range.Maybe there are some other movies I missed where she comes through.
And,recently,with her altered mouth(collagen perhaps,or a bee sting?) she looks downright bizarre and anorectic.
Nicole Kidman I think does well as an actress in movies like the one where she plays Virginia Wolff,and another more obscure film where she plays Diane Arbus,FUR,with Robert Downey Jr. In both movies her physicality is dramatically altered.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 18, 2010 2:00:34 GMT
Oh yeah ~~ the Meg Ryan of male actors: Ashton Kutchner.
Make him go away!
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Post by auntieannie on Jul 22, 2010 18:48:30 GMT
Did you see the butterfly effect, Bixa?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2010 18:53:47 GMT
He is laughable, but I think that's one of the reasons that I tolerate him. He was almost good in The Butterfly Effect, perhaps his only attempt at "real" acting.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 22, 2010 23:09:27 GMT
Did you see the butterfly effect, Bixa? Yes, Annie, I dragged myself through it because someone loaned it to me with a glowing recommendation.     |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2010 7:31:14 GMT
I was just thinking of how silly Harrison Ford looks when he clenches his jaw in determination in movies where his wife is kidnapped or a WMD problem needs to be solved, or maybe both.
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Post by cigalechanta on Aug 19, 2010 17:50:23 GMT
I liked Redford in Three days of the Condor and As We Were.
julia Roberts is a one note actor
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 19, 2010 21:21:41 GMT
Have we mentioned Mickey Rourke?  Has anyone seen Year of the Dragon? That's the movie about which Pauline Kael famously said that M. Rourke had "mood hair". The comment about Harrison Ford above reminded me of Rourke & that particular movie. In one scene, Rourke's mistress is raped in reprisal of his anti Tong activity (I think). He says, "NOW they've gone too far!" This remark comes several scenes after they've killed his wife. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2011 10:21:33 GMT
I found myself watching some old episodes of "Friends" the other day, and it is not difficult to understand why none of their movie careers took off. In "Friends" itself, the actors are mostly okay, but they are so one dimensional that there is nowhere for them to go.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2011 18:40:58 GMT
I found myself watching some old episodes of "Friends" the other day, and it is not difficult to understand why none of their movie careers took off. In "Friends" itself, the actors are mostly okay, but they are so one dimensional that there is nowhere for them to go. I have never seen"Friends" but, I am familiar with a couple of the actors I believe star,if that's the word, in it. And,yes,it is that very one dimensional aspect that it seems there's a whole generation of,kind of an updated brat pack,with minimal talent. There's a slew of them! |
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 3, 2011 18:49:06 GMT
I think some of those actors were capable of all kinds of things, but they never found the right vehicles for their talents again. Well, I don't know that Courtney Cox is all that talented. It seems to me she should have exploited her looks more instead of being cast and cast again as a shrill neurotic. I imagine Matthew Perry could have been channeled into a decent dramatic actor. David Schwimmer has real comedic talent. Generally the deftness of timing needed for comedy translates into being able to handle other kinds of roles as well. Jennifer Anniston is a really good comedian, too, but I can't think of any memorable role she had after Friends. She mostly appeared as a recycled Rachel. I don't know about Matt LeBlanc and Lisa Kudrow. The Joey character was pretty one-dimensional, but I always felt Kudrow was doing some fun ad lib things with Phoebe.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2011 18:55:03 GMT
Lisa Kudrow actually did some good movie work in flops. And I did find Jennifer Aniston really good in The Good Girl, which also flopped (too depressing for audiences). I just realized that I already talked about Jennifer Aniston on page 1 of this old thread.  |
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