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Post by TylerDeneuve on Aug 25, 2023 18:07:41 GMT
🇺🇸Jennifer Lawrence
🇬🇧Carey Mulligan
🇬🇧Florence Pugh
🇦🇺Margot Robbie
🇮🇪Saoirse Ronan
🇺🇸Kristen Stewart
🇺🇸Emma Stone
🇦🇺Mia Wasikowska
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Post by stephen on Aug 25, 2023 18:22:36 GMT
Jennifer Lawrence: I've said it before but I think in terms of raw talent, she's probably the most inherently naturalistic actress of her generation. The problem is that since her breakthrough, she got swept up in the Hollywood machine trying to put her in roles that don't play to her strengths and, in point of fact, are antithetical to her skill set, particularly at that age. David O. Russell in particular misused her at every turn, and while she comes out pretty decently in their first outing, their consecutive pairings are woeful. Lawrence also got hit hard with burnout that I think really affected her at a critical juncture, allowing for some of these contemporaries to overtake her in regards to filmography and versatility, but I am really loving the last couple of years of her "comeback." I have high hopes for her now that she's taken that sabbatical and refocusing her career.
Carey Mulligan: I'm of two minds on Mulligan. She has a gentle presence that I really like in things like Drive, but there were other times where I felt like she was actively trying to subvert that and it came off as too phony (Shame). That said, I didn't think she would be capable of something like Promising Young Woman and she knocked my socks off there. I just found a lot of her 2010s to be a bit underwhelming, but I like that Fennell brought the best out of her and I am hoping for a constant director/actor pairing to explore that more.
Florence Pugh: I love her in everything except, pointedly, her Oscar-nominated performance, which I think she's horrible in. But yeah, I am a big Flo Rida and am very pleased to see her asserting herself as a top talent of her age group.
Margot Robbie: Pretty overrated if I'm honest. She's excellent in I, Tonya and Barbie, but I find her to be pretty same-y in everything else, and that brash Harley schtick does wear thin real fast. She's one hell of a producer, though.
Saoirse Ronan: Goddess. Love how she's effortlessly transitioned from child actor to supreme star. I'm not really big on most of her Oscar nominations, though -- I think her best work has largely eluded the Academy. But I'm glad she's racking them up and continuing to do interesting projects, but she's not yet landed the big one for me yet.
Kristen Stewart: Easily my least favourite of this bunch. In fact, I only really like her in the last couple of things she's done (Spencer and Crimes of the Future). Everything else she's usually dull as beige wallpaper. But she does have a knack for picking interesting roles and working with auteurs -- I just don't think they do a whole lot with her that I find engaging. But maybe the worm is turning.
Emma Stone: Easily my favourite. She can do it all. I think everything Lawrence did with O. Russell, Stone could do it better and be more believable. She's a master comedienne who nevertheless get hit dizzying dramatic heights. She kinda reminds me of Cloris Leachman, actually. Would love for her to have that longevity. I think she's my pick of the bunch to see get a second Oscar first (hopefully for a Yorgos joint).
Mia Wasikowska: She had great promise at the start but has stalled, and I feel like everyone else has kinda passed her by. Every so often she'll crop up and I go, "Oh, right" and then she hibernates for another two years and I forget she exists.
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Post by TylerDeneuve on Aug 25, 2023 18:48:25 GMT
Mia Wasikowska: She had great promise at the start but has stalled, and I feel like everyone else has kinda passed her by. Every so often she'll crop up and I go, "Oh, right" and then she hibernates for another two years and I forget she exists. Wasikowska is an interesting case - for me, she's the most natural and versatile actress on this list. She is a total chameleon - completely believable in every single cinematic world she inhabits, from That Evening Sun to Jane Eyre to Damsel. But, she left Los Angeles and now lives in Sydney, so I think that likely hinders her ability to compete with these other women in terms of getting prime roles (though, funnily enough, both Lawrence and Stone auditioned for Alice in Wonderland), and dropping out of Carol to do Crimson Peak seems to really be the point where her career began its stall... Needless to say, I absolutely love her and really hope she can find a role that will bring her back to the forefront. It's crazy to think she's the only woman on this list without an Oscar nomination! Also, some fun trivia: Like her fellow Aussie/acting inspiration, Heath Ledger, she is an avid photographer and a vintage Rolleiflex is her camera of choice (same as Ledger!). A photograph she took of Cary Fukunaga and Jamie Bell on the set of Jane Eyre actually was selected as a finalist in the 2011 National Photographic Portrait Prize hosted by Australia's National Portrait Gallery.  |
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 25, 2023 19:05:03 GMT
Mia Wasikowska: She had great promise at the start but has stalled, and I feel like everyone else has kinda passed her by. Every so often she'll crop up and I go, "Oh, right" and then she hibernates for another two years and I forget she exists. Wasikowska is an interesting case - for me, she's the most natural and versatile actress on this list. She is a total chameleon - completely believable in every single cinematic world she inhabits, from That Evening Sun to Jane Eyre to Damsel. I've seen her be great at least 3 times (more, I'm holding back).......but more importantly in ways I can't imagine anyone else on that list topping (Stoker, Jane Eyre, Piercing)........she is something else tbh.........and I mean "something" else like she may be the next Jessica Lange........or the next Amanda Plummer........or some weird mix of the two  |
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Post by SZilla on Aug 25, 2023 19:34:39 GMT
Jennifer Lawrence - She's never really WOWed me, although I admit that I'm at a disadvantage for not having seen Winter's Bone yet. I think she can do well in comedy more so than drama but either way she's definitely not a favorite of mine. Carey Mulligan - I think she's one of the strongest actresses of this bunch. She possesses a quiet, subtle grace to her. Florence Pugh - Very talented, but I agree with stephen that her performance in Little Women left a lot to be desired to me. Margot Robbie - After having been really blown away by her performance in I, Tonya, my opinion of her had slipped a bit due to her Brooklyn/Harley Quinn-esque caricature that kept coming up in the likes of Amsterdam and Babylon, but Barbie was a great performance and a return to grace, imo. Saoirse Ronan - Absolutely wonderful in everything I've seen from her. Top tier of this generation. Kristen Stewart - Never did it for me. Her performance in Spencer was alright but even there her performance comes off as mannered. My absolute least favorite of this group (sorry TylerDeneuve ) Emma Stone - Fantastic all around. She shines in dramas but especially excels in comedies. She's easiest the best at comedy from this group. Mia Wasikowska - Honestly I've not seen enough from her so I can't really say.  |
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Post by themoviesinner on Aug 25, 2023 19:55:43 GMT
Jennifer Lawrence - I find her incredibly inconsistent. She has a handful of great performances under her belt, but also several where she was atrocious. Talented actress in general, but I think that she depends a lot on the material she is given to work with as well.
Carey Mulligan - I like her a lot. Has been among the highlights of most of the films I've seen her in.
Florence Pugh - Generally, she's very good, but I also don't like her nominated performance at all.
Margot Robbie - Pretty meh. I haven't seen much from her, but what I've seen didn't stand out much, or stood out in a negative way (Harley Quinn).
Saoirse Ronan - Can't say I've been blown away by any performance of hers, but she's been quite solid in pretty much everything I've seen.
Kristen Stewart - I don't know. I find her pretty one note, but if the film plays to her strengths (like Personal Shopper for instance) she can be pretty great.
Emma Stone - Great actress. Probably my favorite of this group.
Mia Wasikowska - Haven't seen much from her, but I have been quite impressed with what I've seen.
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Post by Nikan on Aug 25, 2023 20:10:19 GMT
myeah, I like all of these. Rank em w. their best moments that I've seen:
Emma Stone (Easy A, Birdman, The Favourite)
Carey Mulligan (An Education, Shame)
Florence Pugh (Midsommer)
Saoirse Ronan (Atonement)
Margot Robbie (The Wolf Of Wall Street)
Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone) - she is better than Robbie, but for the time being I place her here.
Mia Wasikowska (Stoker)
Kristen Stewart (Personal Shopper)
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Post by countjohn on Aug 26, 2023 3:33:06 GMT
Jennifer Lawrence- Really good at one thing, the steely tough girl persona she did in Winter's Bone and has replicated in some of her genre movies. Awful when she's tried to do the zany, funny girl routine in so many of her other movies.
Carey Mulligan- Solid, always good, never great. Similar to Knightley in the other poll.
Florence Pugh- Good in a couple things, pretty overhyped as of now.
Margot Robbie- Like her a lot, excellent in things like I Tonya and Bombshell and even in Babylon and as Harley Quinn despite the quality of the movies.
Saoirse Ronan- Peak human acting ability and well on her way to being an all timer. Already has two all timers with Atonement and Brooklyn and Lovely Bones, Byzantium, Lady Bird, Little Women, and See How They Run are all terrific work from her as well. That's a lot for not being 30.
Kirsten Stewart- No thanks.
Emma Stone- Also really good, she and Robbie are duking it out for no. 2 of the generation behind Sheeshaw. Birdman and La La Land are her best.
Mia Wasikowska- Talent wise you could argue she's second to Saoirse here or at least on par with Robbie and Stone. But she doesn't get the parts that often unfortunately. Always shines when she does though.
Ranking-
1. Saoirse Ronan
2. Mia Wasikowska (I'll put her here on projection)
3. Margot Robbie
4. Emma Stone
5. Carey Mulligan
6. Jennifer Lawrence
7. Florence Pugh
8. Kirsten Stewart
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Post by ibbi on Aug 26, 2023 9:17:00 GMT
🇺🇸Jennifer Lawrence -- Was getting pretty sick of her there in the mid-10s, but she's grown on me. How hot she has gotten doesn't hurt.
🇬🇧Carey Mulligan -- Another who seemed to be wasting her early promise early in the 10s, but ever since 2015 she turned it back around, and I think she's one of the better ones around. Has the gift to be able to do a lot while doing a little.
🇬🇧Florence Pugh -- In 2015 or whenever it was I went to see The Falling as Game of Thrones was very hot and Maisie Williams was still very popular, and I came out of that movie thinking Maisie Williams was not actually very good, and this kid who was in half the movie had stolen the show. That was the beginning, and she's been great ever since. It is crazy how young she is and how much good and varied stuff she has done. I am a full-fledged fanboy.
🇦🇺Margot Robbie -- She really wasn't very good in the beginning, but I thought Tonya was a massive step forward for her, and since then as Elizabeth I, the second and third go-round as Harley Quinn, and then Babylon, she has come a long, long way. Impressive.
🇮🇪Saoirse Ronan -- She's god. Robbie was somehow better in Mary Queen of Scots, but Saoirse is still the man.
🇺🇸Kristen Stewart -- Whatever early promise she had (so overrated in Adventureland) seemed to go up in smoke in the Twilight years, but coming out the back of there she had this run of stuff (On the Road, Still Alice, Certain Women, Cafe Society, the Assayas movies) where she suddenly proved her range and I was blown away. I always thought her strength was in the physical stuff, but then she has that Still Alice ending where suddenly she proves she can be good when talking too! What a star. Shame about Spencer. They can't all be winners.
🇺🇸Emma Stone -- She's so goddamn good. I remember when people used to talk about how she stole the career Lindsay Lohan would have had. Lohan was good for a youngling, but I never saw a thing from her that suggested she could do the stuff Stone has done. She is a comic force of nature.
🇦🇺Mia Wasikowska -- LEGEND! In Treatment she hooked everyone who saw her (whenever my mother sees her in anything she always goes "IS THAT SOPHIE?!) and while unlike all of the above (Mulligan maybe aside) she seems to have minimal interest in being a movie star, she remains one of the most interesting performers of her generation whenever you get to see her.
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Post by JangoB on Sept 3, 2023 1:10:04 GMT
Jennifer Lawrence - She's just fireworks.
Carey Mulligan - When she's good, she's good. But sometimes I find her a bit of a distant screen presence.
Florence Pugh - I like her.
Margot Robbie - She's fine but something's lacking. She knows how to give a good movie star performance but I don't think I've seen her do a truly deep dive yet. Maybe Barbie (of all things) will be that when I watch it, who knows.
Saoirse Ronan - Adoration is the word.
Kristen Stewart - Unique and wonderful.
Emma Stone - Best of the best, #1 favorite actress in the making.
Mia Wasikowska - I kinda love how she doesn't fancify her performances and cuts straight through the bullshit. She's not the most flamboyant performer out there and yet I always find myself drawn to her. She just seems to get to the very truth of her characters without any unnecessary minutiae. Love her.
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Post by stabcaesar on Sept 3, 2023 5:52:58 GMT
Lawrence - Has a grand total of one great performance (Winter's Bone). Really annoying off-screen persona.
Mulligan - Never cared for her much before but she won me over with PYW. Top performance of the decade thus far.
Pugh - She's fab.
Robbie - I keep being surprised by her. She's actually really talented.
Ronan - Generational talent. The Cate Blanchett of her generation.
Stewart - Has a grand total of one good performance (Spencer). Slightly annoying off-screen persona.
Stone - She won me over with La La Land and The Favourite. Makes really good choices with her projects in general. I also like that she stays quiet about stuff she doesn't know much about unlike Lawrence.
Wasikowska - Fine from what I've seen.
Ranking:
1. Saoirse Ronan
2. Florence Pugh
3. Emma Stone
4. Carey Mulligan
5. Margot Robbie
6. Mia Wasikowska
7. Kristen Stewart
8. Jennifer Lawrence
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Post by TylerDeneuve on Sept 6, 2023 0:24:10 GMT
🇺🇸Kristen Stewart -- Shame about Spencer. They can't all be winners.*Ahem*...  Now you know that your issue with that film is the screenplay, not Stewart's performance. You cantankerous little prune. |
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Post by futuretrunks on Sept 6, 2023 1:14:09 GMT
Jennifer Lawrence - Too limited an actress. Utterly unconvincing at emotional projection. Picks lousy projects. Doesn't seem to have much of a point of view either on film or what kind of acting she wants to do.
Mulligan - Overrated. Beautiful voice. Not particularly great at anything.
Florence Pugh - A phenom. Best under 30 actress working in the world today. She's quicksilver, explosive, technically daring, etc. Reminds me of the great Winslet.
Margot Robbie - I don't know what she is as an actress. She's been playing her roles too similarly lately. She clearly has ambition, but enough with the Brooklyn accent stuff.
Saoirse Ronan - Was a genius as a kid. Not sure if she still has that degree of incandescence in her. Still a very reliably good actress, but conspicuously less daring than she used to be. Moral qualms seem to give her pause.
K-Stew - She's very good in things like The Yellow Handkerchief and The Cake Eaters. She has imagination, but not much discipline. She'll always do something interesting from time to time, but I was more interested in her career 10 years ago.
Emma Stone - She's making the best career decisions of this group (besides Pugh), but I'm not sold on her dramatic talent.
Mia Wasikowska - Haven't seen In Treatment. Haven't cared for her in the films I've seen her in. She makes very weird acting choices all of the time.
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