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Post by urbanpatrician on Apr 22, 2019 18:44:10 GMT
Just rewatched Junebug and searched for Amy Adams on the searchbar and couldn't find any good threads.
Let's discuss this girl. She was so awesome from 2005-2010. Her ditz act gets me every time; so comedically gold!
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Post by stephen on Apr 22, 2019 19:27:46 GMT
Talledega Nights is better than all but two of her nominated performances.
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Post by cheesecake on Apr 22, 2019 20:01:27 GMT
I love her in Drop Dead Gorgeous. Still kinda blows my mind she was on The Office.
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Post by Allenism on Apr 22, 2019 20:06:54 GMT
Yeah what happened
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Post by TerryMontana on Apr 22, 2019 20:10:43 GMT
I liked her in Doubt and the Fighter.
I hated her as Lois Lane, really annoying.
Not her fault of course.
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Post by eyebrowmorroco on May 8, 2019 14:13:18 GMT
She shared the screen with Lauren Ambrose in Psycho Beach Party, and I expected Ambrose to be the bigger star. Whatever happened to Lauren Ambrose?
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Post by pacinoyes on May 8, 2019 14:26:28 GMT
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.......
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2019 14:58:38 GMT
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....... Similarly, the praise she receives for The Master is baffling.
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Post by stabcaesar on May 8, 2019 15:16:16 GMT
She's great.
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Post by TerryMontana on May 8, 2019 16:20:54 GMT
I liked her in Doubt and the Fighter. I like her well enough in general but people who praise her in Doubt are weird to me Thank you!!
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Post by pacinoyes on May 8, 2019 16:32:03 GMT
I liked her in Doubt and the Fighter. I like her well enough in general but people who praise her in Doubt are weird to me Thank you!!
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Post by stabcaesar on May 8, 2019 16:47:40 GMT
She was lovely in Doubt, great in The Fighter and Enchanted, and majestic in The Master, Arrival, and Junebug.
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Post by TerryMontana on May 8, 2019 17:41:09 GMT
Dont' say that!! pacinoyes will think you're a weirdo!!
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Post by akittystang on May 8, 2019 17:43:09 GMT
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....... I'm curious, how do you believe that role should've been played (and in that particular scene).
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Post by pacinoyes on May 8, 2019 18:16:32 GMT
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....... I'm curious, how do you believe that role should've been played (and in that particular scene). 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.
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Post by stephen on May 8, 2019 18:22:07 GMT
I'm curious, how do you believe that role should've been played (and in that particular scene). 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. I dunno, I feel like Sister James being someone who is so willing to believe in the goodness and righteousness of everyone plays as a direct antithesis to Sister Aloysius, and that even though she tries to be hardened and tough, she can't change who she is innately, and that it creates a fascinating dichotomy: she believes in human decency, which makes her a good Christian, but it also blinds her to the flaws of humanity as well. I think Adams sells that very well, and I still think she's the only one of the four who really makes their part rise above what's on the page and feel naturalistic, while the other three are so confined by the writing that they come off as stagey.
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Post by pacinoyes on May 8, 2019 18:36:10 GMT
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. I dunno, I feel like Sister James being someone who is so willing to believe in the goodness and righteousness of everyone plays as a direct antithesis to Sister Aloysius, and that even though she tries to be hardened and tough, she can't change who she is innately, and that it creates a fascinating dichotomy: she believes in human decency, which makes her a good Christian, but it also blinds her to the flaws of humanity as well. I think Adams sells that very well, and I still think she's the only one of the four who really makes their part rise above what's on the page and feel naturalistic, while the other three are so confined by the writing that they come off as stagey.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 .......
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Post by Pavan on May 8, 2019 18:45:38 GMT
She is the best part of Doubt
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Post by wattsnew on May 8, 2019 19:05:05 GMT
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.
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Post by Drish on May 8, 2019 22:02:11 GMT
She's genuinely great in Sharp Objects. So I think the current one is awesome too.
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Post by urbanpatrician on May 8, 2019 23:27:19 GMT
I think the current one is awesome too. 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)
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Post by bob-coppola on May 9, 2019 5:29:33 GMT
I don't know, I think her turn in Doubt is one of her most Amy Adams-y performances (tied with Arrival), the way she plays it suits all her strenghts: her ability to listen, to be the audience surrogate, to be gentle and kind. I really like what she does here because it capsules why Adams is such a welcome presence to screen. Even though pacinoyes' take might be more interesting, I don't mind that she played the way she did.
And The Master is a complete desconstruction of that, and she excels there as well.
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Post by ibbi on May 9, 2019 20:45:40 GMT
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.
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Post by futuretrunks on Jan 22, 2020 22:31:53 GMT
Becoming a mother (and subsequently internalizing some ideas of propriety etc.) somehow flattened out her more daring instincts as a performer. One of the clearest examples I can think of of someone becoming so much less playful onscreen than they were in their youth. The Cruel Intentions 2 era Amy Adams would have been so much better in American Hustle, even though Adams looked great in those outfits; she just didn't do anything onscreen.
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Post by getclutch on Jan 23, 2020 2:00:13 GMT
I liked her in Doubt and the Fighter. I hated her as Lois Lane, really annoying. Not her fault of course. Same. No idea what Snyder was thinking.
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