Early Amy Adams is so awesome

I love her in Drop Dead Gorgeous. Still kinda blows my mind she was on The Office.

I liked her in Doubt and the Fighter.

I hated her as Lois Lane, really annoying.

Not her fault of course.

I like her well enough in general but people who praise her in Doubt are weird to me - particularly her outside scene with PSH where she's wayyyyyyyyyyyy too goody goody and one note - people flat out misunderstand that role in that piece - and that includes the director who is also the playwright - and I guess thought by making it simpler for the movie audience it was ok (it's really not).

She's the weak link in that cast - she's adequate but not more than that.......

She's great.

Dont' say that!! pacinoyes will think you're a weirdo!! 

Thanks for asking that - we never talk about stuff like that on here I feel .

I love the play and saw the Broadway run of it and there and in every really every good subsequent production I've seen that is played far tougher than in the film. Sister James is thinking she herself is too nice, too gullible so she is acting tough there towards Father Flynn in this scene - in a way she's a surrogate for the audience - since Sister Aloysius can not really be that until later events.

That scene is pivotal because Flynn plays it like he totally convinced her.............but she should play it like she doesn't yet quite know what to believe - she should be perplexed but open to his side of things..........to me in the film I think it plays much too much like he clearly convinced her - too innocent, too "good" on Adams part - so when Sister Aloysius re-confronts him later it almost is like she has to start over - "to break him down again" rather than it being a deepening of what the scene with Sister James has already set up.  Same text but............different feeling because of how it is played.

Maybe - I think that's what John Patrick Shanley was going for in the film - to make it more boldly distinguishable - but if so he'd have to rewrite that scene for me because Adams doesn't play it as a good Christian to me - she plays it as slightly dumb or clueless - in a way that conflicts with the text..........to me she's the only one who isn't better than the Broadway cast which is really saying something because it really worked from an acting POV on stage.

To me every other actor there came up with an odd angle into their character that distinguished them from their stage counterpart except her so it's tricky - blame the actor or the filmmaker etc. but since he seemed to be open to it some risky moves within the piece (except with Adams) I hold it against Adams .......

She's gives an all time great performance in American Hustle. Still puzzled to see the overwhelming hatred that film receives here, it's just a fun Scorsese-lite film with fun performances, I really don't get it.

I agree.  She hasn't sunk or anything, just slightly lesser now than her first 6 years.

I think she's the best actress in Hollywood from 2005-2010.  Only contenders that can touch her are Swinton and Morton - but no surprise from Swinton, because nobody touches Swinton in any period.

I think there at least 4-8 better actresses from 2011-2019 though.  But Amy is still one of the finest working, and one of the most anticipated. (in terms of new movies released)

I think by 2010 she was already starting to tire me a little to be honest. I think when you say early, it's really more mid-period, I mean I think she was comically, unintentionally hilarious in Cruel Intentions 2. Still, from Catch Me If You Can to Enchanted she was absolute magic, but just a year after that quality of hers was put to such tremendous use by Disney, that doe eyed thing was making me laugh at her rather than with her in Doubt.

I do think The Fighter was a decent enough attempt to step outside her comfort zone and show she could do something else, but like most of the 'major' straight dramatic work that she's done since I've found it to be pretty uninteresting beyond the initial watch.