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Post by TylerDeneuve on Jan 31, 2024 14:47:17 GMT
It took Best Picture juggernauts with double-digit nominations to do the impossible: finally get these two acclaimed actresses their long-overdue first Oscar nominations. Which performance do you prefer?   |
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Post by stephen on Jan 31, 2024 14:48:34 GMT
They're both pretty handily the weak links of their respective casts, and for largely the same reasons (i.e. amateurish drunk acting that does not play to their strengths as otherwise great actresses). I'll say Blunt is better because she's in the film a hell of a lot less than Dunst, and doesn't actively ruin it the way I feel Dunst does.
Both are prime examples of great talents whose Oscar nominations do not reflect it.
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Post by stabcaesar on Jan 31, 2024 15:00:52 GMT
Blunt's "IT'S STRAUSS" outburst is really bad, but her interrogation scene is really good.
Dunst doesn't have any particularly awful scene, but she doesn't have any particularly great scene either.
I guess Blunt. I blame Nolan for her worst scenes.
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Post by Archie on Jan 31, 2024 15:07:21 GMT
Pick your poison. However, it was the awful material + direction that killed Blunt, not really her skills as an actress.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Jan 31, 2024 15:09:24 GMT
Blunt at least was pretty great in her big scene at the hearing and the handshake scene. Dunst never game close to that.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 31, 2024 15:10:03 GMT
There's all kinds of acting....and there's something for everybody - but this shit will always be what I like and when I want to pick Emily Blunt for best "Anything" - acting, sex appeal, uncannily evoking bland nothingness......I will have a piece of white bread or a plain rice cake thankyouverymuch  |
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Post by TylerDeneuve on Jan 31, 2024 15:20:00 GMT
pacinoyes - I definitely prefer Dunst's performance as well, though I do like Blunt, too. She's absolutely searing in her major scenes, but the writing doesn't offer her much in the way of an arc - there's just no connective tissue.
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Post by JangoB on Jan 31, 2024 15:22:31 GMT
I'll be Blunt: the dog may be powerful but this Kitty beats it. Another one bites the Dunst.
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Post by Drish on Jan 31, 2024 15:48:53 GMT
I'll never understand the hate for either but Dunst was so good.
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Post by PromNightCarrie on Jan 31, 2024 17:15:54 GMT
I love Dunst, but I wasn't big on her in that movie. I'll go with Blunt because I did like her in that hearing scene (all the scenes from the hearing in Oppenheimer were stellar btw). Both actresses were worthy of better developed characters.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jan 31, 2024 17:57:07 GMT
both have been much better in other projects but I feel more positively towards Blunt's Kitty despite the weak material (she nails the hearing scene). Nolan really has trouble writing dynamic women.
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Post by ibbi on Jan 31, 2024 18:00:00 GMT
I am a huge fan of both of them, but I really did think Dunst was quite bad in Power of the Dog. I do not get the hate for Blunty at all.
It's not a great role, it's a bit, um, blunt and on the nose in its attempt to be complex in that way that Nolan's attempts to write human beings can often be, but I have zero issues with the way she plays it. She just seems sort of fed up for most of the movie, which works.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jan 31, 2024 18:05:37 GMT
pacinoyes - I definitely prefer Dunst's performance as well, though I do like Blunt, too. She's absolutely searing in her major scenes, but the writing doesn't offer her much in the way of an arc - there's just no connective tissue. I was shocked when rewatching it to discover that the moment where she's drunk at the kitchen table while their kid is screaming in the other room is like her 2nd scene in the story.  I think Blunt does an admirable job with what she had but there's very little depth to her character. I was watching it with my sister and she mentioned Kitty reminded her of Mal from Inception and Jean was like the ScarJo character from Prestige. |
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Post by stabcaesar on Jan 31, 2024 18:13:46 GMT
pacinoyes - I definitely prefer Dunst's performance as well, though I do like Blunt, too. She's absolutely searing in her major scenes, but the writing doesn't offer her much in the way of an arc - there's just no connective tissue. I was shocked when rewatching it to discover that the moment where she's drunk at the kitchen table while their kid is screaming in the other room is like her 2nd scene in the story. I think Blunt does an admirable job with what she had but there's very little depth to her character. I was watching it with my sister and she mentioned Kitty reminded her of Mal from Inception and Jean was like the ScarJo character from Prestige. Cotillard is so bad in Inception, which really is Nolan's fault as she's so great pretty much everywhere else. |
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Post by Archie on Jan 31, 2024 18:18:45 GMT
I was shocked when rewatching it to discover that the moment where she's drunk at the kitchen table while their kid is screaming in the other room is like her 2nd scene in the story. I think Blunt does an admirable job with what she had but there's very little depth to her character. I was watching it with my sister and she mentioned Kitty reminded her of Mal from Inception and Jean was like the ScarJo character from Prestige. Cotillard is so bad in Inception, which really is Nolan's fault as she's so great pretty much everywhere else. Carrie-Anne Moss is still the only great female performance/character in a Nolan flick, and that was almost 25 years ago! |
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Post by stephen on Jan 31, 2024 18:20:17 GMT
Cotillard is so bad in Inception, which really is Nolan's fault as she's so great pretty much everywhere else. Carrie-Anne Moss is still the only great female performance/character in a Nolan flick, and that was almost 25 years ago! Carrie-Anne Moss isn't even the best female performance in Memento, guy. |
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Post by Nikan on Jan 31, 2024 18:21:49 GMT
Blunt is more tolerable.
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Post by Archie on Jan 31, 2024 18:22:49 GMT
Carrie-Anne Moss is still the only great female performance/character in a Nolan flick, and that was almost 25 years ago! Carrie-Anne Moss isn't even the best female performance in Memento, guy. Completely forgot about the legend Harriet Sansom Harris. Shame on me.  Still, it kinda proves my point. Memento was the peak. |
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Post by TylerDeneuve on Jan 31, 2024 18:27:53 GMT
Do you guys not like Anne Hathaway as Catwoman? I thought she was fabulous.
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Post by stephen on Jan 31, 2024 18:32:08 GMT
Carrie-Anne Moss isn't even the best female performance in Memento, guy. Completely forgot about the legend Harriet Sansom Harris. Shame on me. Still, it kinda proves my point. Memento was the peak. I do think he has some good female performances in his films after that (for one, I stand by Maggie Gyllenhaal's Rachel Dawes as being a good performance that I don't understand the malign reactions to, and I like Cotillard in Inception, Hathaway in The Dark Knight Rises and Chastain in Interstellar quite a bit), but I do think he needs to challenge himself in this arena because at this point, it's become memetic. |
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Post by Nikan on Jan 31, 2024 18:32:57 GMT
Nah... but I still think my answers are over-shadowed by my feeling towards the movies themselves. Oppenheimer is genuinely a good work and Blunt doesn't hurt it that much... Rises is genuinely underwhelming and Hathaway doesn't save it.
Edit: I actually like Marion in Inception... Rises though; makes everybody look bad.
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Post by countjohn on Jan 31, 2024 18:45:22 GMT
Blunt seems a lot less bored so I'll go with her.
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Jan 31, 2024 18:53:42 GMT
I only saw The Power of the Dog once and don't remember really having strong feelings about Dunst's performance. The vocal work Blunt is doing in Oppenheimer I find pretty impressive and I think she nails the big scenes she gets even if a lot of her character outside of those big scenes is just "drunk wife."
Nolan obviously doesn't have as much interest writing his female characters as he does his leading men, but I don't think he's a particularly bad director of women. As far as performances I'd call great, I'd say there's Harris and Moss in Memento, Hall in The Prestige, Cotillard in Inception (no idea where the criticism is there), and Hathaway in The Dark Knight Rises.
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Post by mhynson27 on Jan 31, 2024 23:21:48 GMT
Shoutout to Foy in Interstellar. And surprised it took until Mike to mention Hall.
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Post by forksforest on Mar 17, 2024 7:01:33 GMT
Oh how I wanted to love Dunst in her Campion collaboration. I don’t even fully get why it fell so flat for me, but she stood out in a bad way and every note rang false for me, while the others in the cast somehow felt better immersed and believable. I don’t think she was as underwritten as Blunt but she managed to do worse with what she got lol.
so, Blunt because she nailed her last few scenes and id say the interrogation scene was one of my favorite sequences in the movie, because of her. She had a lot less to work with and the drunk acting… was bad, but I blame it on Nolan.
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I think Blunt does an admirable job with what she had but there's very little depth to her character. I was watching it with my sister and she mentioned Kitty reminded her of Mal from Inception and Jean was like the ScarJo character from Prestige.
