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Post by evilbliss on Jan 26, 2020 21:51:39 GMT
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Post by Martin Stett on Jan 26, 2020 21:56:11 GMT
Hell, I forgot she was even in that movie.
Actually, I forgot that movie completely. It wasn't bad, just blandly average.
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Post by stephen on Jan 26, 2020 21:57:24 GMT
Makes absolutely no impression, which is endemic of the whole movie.
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Post by notacrook on Jan 27, 2020 0:40:48 GMT
I said this was her most underrated performance in the other thread, and stand by it. She's steely, fierce yet appropriately reserved. It's not amongst her best performances, but it's yet another strong one to her impressive catalogue.
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Post by pupdurcs on Jan 27, 2020 1:15:54 GMT
Terrific performance (best of of a strong cast, including Farrell and Dunst) in a quite underrated film. She's always good/great though. She's had many better roles and performances, but she delivers exactly to the remit and specifications that the role demands, and does it gracefully. Can't really ask for more
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2020 1:35:53 GMT
I think Dunst is the MVP (she really felt this character in her bones), but Kidman is a gruesome, deadpanning delight here - her line readings just drip with creepy suggestiveness.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 27, 2020 9:09:28 GMT
I think Dunst is the MVP (she really felt this character in her bones), but Kidman is a gruesome, deadpanning delight here - her line readings just drip with creepy suggestiveness. ^ This. I (gently) make fun of Kidman for a lot of things but all of her skills as an actress lend themselves to this type of material specifically - her looks even too, a beautiful blank face (not a put down, just descriptive) and another worldly quality and can suggest a creepy removal of how she then speaks her dialogue and her presence around how she listens to it too. I'd take her here and in Stoker (which is even better imo) over the stuff that people were putting in her best of the 2010s lists  and especially over her (too many to me) "grand suffering" roles. In a way Kidman and horror reminds me of Melvyn Douglas who had a kindly old man countenance and look that was used really great in horror later in his career - like in The Tenant........or better yet.......... Charlotte Rampling in Angel Heart.  |
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and especially over her (too many to me) "grand suffering" roles. 
