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Post by TylerDeneuve on Aug 21, 2023 16:58:58 GMT
These would be the preeminent women from this generation, right (1976-1985)? Any others I'm forgetting?
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Emily Blunt (United Kingdom)
(Set to change with Oppenheimer, presumably)
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Rose Byrne (Australia)
1 Venice Volpi Cup (The Goddess of 1967)
2 Emmy nominations (Damages; Damages)
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Kirsten Dunst (United States)
1 Cannes Best Actress Prize (Melancholia)
1 Oscar nomination (The Power of the Dog) 1 Emmy nomination (Fargo)
Appeared in 2 Best Picture nominees (Hidden Figures; The Power of the Dog)
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Anne Hathaway (United States)
1 Oscar win (Les Misérables) + 1 nomination (Rachel Getting Married) 1 Emmy win (The Simpsons)
Appeared in 2 Best Picture nominees (Brokeback Mountain; Les Misérables)
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Scarlett Johansson (United States)
1 Tony win (A View from the Bridge)
2 Oscar nominations (Marriage Story; Jojo Rabbit)
Appeared in 4 Best Picture nominees (Lost in Translation; Her; Jojo Rabbit; Marriage Story)
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Keira Knightley (United Kingdom)
2 Oscar nominations (Pride & Prejudice; The Imitation Game)
Appeared in 2 Best Picture nominees (Atonement; The Imitation Game)
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Rachel McAdams (Canada)
1 Oscar nomination (Spotlight)
Appeared in 1 Best Picture winner (Spotlight) + 1 nominee (Midnight in Paris)
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Natalie Portman (United States)
1 Oscar win (Black Swan) + 2 nominations (Closer; Jackie)
Appeared in 1 Best Picture nominee (Black Swan)
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Michelle Williams (United States)
1 Emmy win (Fosse/Verdon)
5 Oscar nominations (Brokeback Mountain; Blue Valentine; My Week with Marilyn; Manchester by the Sea; The Fabelmans) 1 Tony nomination (Blackbird)
Appeared in 3 Best Picture nominees (Brokeback Mountain; Manchester by the Sea; The Fabelmans)
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Post by ibbi on Aug 21, 2023 17:23:27 GMT
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Post by stephen on Aug 21, 2023 17:33:15 GMT
Emily Blunt: I actually find her to be pretty bland when it comes to most of her period pieces, and she is hilariously bad at playing drunken characters. Where I think she excels is strong, steely types like in Sicario and Edge of Tomorrow. Funnily enough, the more contemporary she is, the more exciting of an actress I find her.
Rose Byrne: An absolutely delightful actress who has kind of lost herself in the comedy rabbit hole, and while she can be great at it, I do miss when she was able to do both those and indie dramas.
Kirsten Dunst: An excellent generation-defining performer who nevertheless has the unfortunate distinction of having her first (and thus far, only) Oscar nomination be for what I consider her worst performance. It's like she took drunk lessons from Emily Blunt. She should have half a dozen nominations by now and none for that.
Anne Hathaway: I really don't like her Oscar nominations (especially the first one), but I think that since she won, she has become a much more interesting actress. Not necessarily one I would rate as a great one, though.
Scarlett Johansson: Aside from a nasty tendency to put her foot in her mouth, I think she's probably the most technically proficient actress on this list. Maybe not the best filmography but I always find her doing something interesting, and I think she's underrated by the general public primarily because of the stupid shit she says sometimes.
Keira Knightley: Keira has the exact same issue Blunt does: I find her very milquetoast in period pieces and more interesting in contemporary roles. I like her but she's not yet had "that" role for me the way most of these women have, and I'm wondering which auteur that isn't Joe Wright can give her something of worth to play around with.
Rachel McAdams: I think her performance in Mean Girls is overrated beyond belief, but McAdams is otherwise a pretty strong actress who can handle both comedy and drama. Game Night especially is her at her apex.
Natalie Portman: No.
Michelle Williams: Wildly inconsistent and I find that when she's bad, she's reeeeeally bad. But she's no Natalie Portman, so there's that.
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Post by ibbi on Aug 21, 2023 17:59:42 GMT
PREEMINENT?!
Keri Russell, Sally Hawkins, THE GREAT GERWIG, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Carey Mulligan, Natasha Lyonne, Samantha Morton, Rebecca Hall, Ruth Wilson, Lizzy Moss, Tatiana Maslany! Hell, this is just being conservative, you have KEIRA KNIGHTLEY on this list, we could go on all day, Claire Foy, Sarah Polley, SEYFRIED!
Anyway... *straightens tie*
Emily Blunt (United Kingdom)
I love this bitch. We are from the same part of London, she is like my much more famous and much more successful sister, and I wish her well always. Her presence pretty much always brightens up a movie.
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Rose Byrne (Australia)
She was (still occasionally maybe is?) a pretty good dramatic actress, but I think it's in comedy the past decade where she has really become special. I just watched Platonic recently, and she was incredible.
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Kirsten Dunst (United States)
I tend to dislike her in her most acclaimed roles, but she has long been one of the better and yet most criminally unappreciated performers of her generation. Literally from Little Women and Vampire and Jumanji all the way up to now, she can do anything, but she does the quiet stuff so well that nobody notices.
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Anne Hathaway (United States)
She had her moment where we were all supposed to take her seriously and she genuinely wasn't very good, so it didn't last. Where the hell is she now? Anyway, she seems nice, I always thought the hatred for her ten years ago (how has it been 10 years??) was ridiculous, but her hotness was her greatest asset.
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Scarlett Johansson (United States)
Another very, very underrated one who is fantastic when she's in the mood, but she rarely seems to be. Like Dunst, she's better smaller, and people don't pay that stuff enough attention. Her Oscar nomination was a joke.
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Keira Knightley (United Kingdom)
She always seemed like she'd be a lot of fun to hang around with, and she's obviously very pretty. Like Hathaway, she had her moment, it was fun, it didn't last because she wasn't good enough to sustain it.
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Rachel McAdams (Canada)
Ridiculously beautiful and ridiculously mediocre. There was Mean Girls, and there was Game Night, and everything else was just fine.
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Natalie Portman (United States)
Like her fellow mid-90s emerger Kiki D, when she's bad she can be really bad, but she has done a lot of really good work over the years. Probably too few in 30 years to be considered preeminent in her generation, but those of us who grew up with her will never hate her.
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Michelle Williams (United States)
Yeah, she's genuinely great. Michelle Williams' in this world always find themselves surrounded by mediocre women they have to make look good.
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Post by TylerDeneuve on Aug 21, 2023 18:49:58 GMT
ibbi - I guess so much of it is subjective or how you personally "group" actors together. I like all of the women you've mentioned, but I wouldn't "group" any of them in with this bunch, beyond maybe Maggie Gyllenhaal or Amanda Seyfried... I.e. Actresses that emerged as stars in the Aughts. (I suppose they're both more famous/successful than Byrne, but I was trying to think of women who had won a major European festival prize, too - for acting). Mulligan, though she's older, I'd tend to group with Emma Stone, Margot Robbie, Jennifer Lawrence, as her ascendancy was confirmed in the 2010s. Morton and Hawkins, though they're younger, I'd group with Winslet, Blanchett, Kidman, Moore... Again, it could just be my own way of thinking? Not sure. Morton especially I would have guessed would have been in more direct competition with these older actresses for roles, accolades, etc.? Russell, Moss, and Maslany I think of as television actors - all of these other women are known primarily for film (again, give or take Byrne, who still has a Volpi Cup).
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Post by urbanpatrician on Aug 21, 2023 21:14:12 GMT
Emily Blunt (United Kingdom)
Now a regular fixture in households where at first she might've been the pretty British girl. The fact that she persisted across 2 decades puts her above her contemporaries. Still has no nominations and one could find that.... strange. She has 4 SAG nominations and 0 Oscar nominations.
Rose Byrne (Australia)
Used to be a favorite, but she's slipped considerably. I would put Sienna Miller in place of Byrne. I don't know your criteria tho. If you go by awards, I don't think McAdams has won anything either. And Blunt has 4 SAG nods but no WINS. And ScarJo has some nominations, but no major wins either. How did you miss Reese Witherspoon, also?
Kirsten Dunst (United States)
Childhood all the way. I remember when online message boards were anticipating her first nude scene in Crazy/Beautiful. She shot it, then asked for it to be cut, and then that never happened, so some people were disappointed people for 10 years. 10 years later those guys are a decade older so it's not the same anymore. Responsible for lots of childhood memories, and that was just one thing.
Anne Hathaway (United States)
Was IT for a while, but now it's time for her to go. She's attractive and I'll let her have that, but Sienna Miller was even more attractive. I think she's replaceable, there's tons of pretty girls in Hollywood - she's proof that those come and go.
Scarlett Johansson (United States)
Will always be the Home Alone 3 girl and Lost in Translation girl to me. Those 2 movies were 6 years apart, so there was a considerable 6 years gap where I didn't think of her, and then recognized her reemergence. Everything she did after 2003 I blotted from my memory, or it's very very vague.
Keira Knightley (United Kingdom)
Definitely the most popular actress of the 00s. At least Top 3 or Top 5. You couldn't avoid her for a period of 8 years. But like many of these names here, she's faded. I thought Florence Pugh could've played nearly all her parts tho.... except maybe Atonement.
Rachel McAdams (Canada)
Again, popular for a while, in some of the most known movies of the 00s. She feels like Knightley, in the sense that she was most popular across a 5 or 6 year period. She definitely has some standout movies, her most famous ones early on in her career.
Natalie Portman (United States)
Like Knightley, in the 00s she was so major. We all remember Padme Amidala, that stripper's wig she wore in Closer. Those were the memories. She has signature performances, like Jackie. Why she didn't show up for the 2016 Oscars, I don't know...... I guess she feels she's too good for it. May/December looks interesting, maybe another Jackie type performance.
Michelle Williams (United States)
Definitely the best actress on this list. Transitions from teen star to something of the Huppert/Kidman caliber. I suppose Dunst did that too, but Williams doesn't feel like the same actress as Dunst. I dunno the closest counterpart to Williams.
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Post by cherry68 on Aug 21, 2023 21:18:05 GMT
Witherspoon?
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Post by countjohn on Aug 22, 2023 0:24:58 GMT
Portman and Johansson are the most talented here for me, but they're not as consistent as some of the others. Both have two all timers each but are also meh a lot of the time. Still, with actresses having longer careers these days you'd think they'd both have a couple more like that over the next 20 years and have really nice legacies when they're done.
Blunt and Williams are kind of the opposite for me in that their strength is consistency, they're pretty much always good to very good but I'm not sure I'd call anything either of them's done great. To me that ranks them below Natalie and Scarlett but some people might put consistency above peak.
Knightley is similar to the two above but a cut below since there's more good with her and not so much very good. Also not a whole lot of range, her top performances are as the dignified English rose and not much else.
Hathaway's big dramatic performances are all pretty meh to me but I like her in her early girl next door parts and in comedies so it kind of evens out and I guess I like her.
McAdams has one terrific comedy performance in Mean Girls and is meh and dull in everything else I've seen her in, especially when she does drama.
I have no idea where this forum and Film Twitter's Dunst stanning comes from. All she does in things like Virgin Suicides and Melancholia is stare into the middle distance looking vaguely mopey. I don't know why we're under the impression that that's "great acting". Same deal in Power of the Dog which some people seemed to call out that time I guess because she got an Oscar nod for it. She's laughably bad in Marie Antoinette, worse than anything anyone else has done here. To give her some credit Interview With the Vampire is an excellent child performance and still her best, and she's fine in movie star stuff like Mary Jane in Spider Man and rom-coms. But she's clearly the worst here for me. Haven't seen enough of Byrne to really comment.
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Aug 22, 2023 2:16:09 GMT
Goddamn, am I the only one who likes all these actresses? Emily Blunt - I like her best when she is doing a lot with a little ( Sicario, Edge of Tomorrow, A Quiet Place). She's usually pretty consistent, but never quite astounded or surprised me with her imagination in roles and I very much lean towards actors that go for bigger swings. Rose Byrne - There's the bigger swing. She was already damn good in her dramatic work, then Get Him to the Greek revealed she was secretly one of the best comedic actors alive. Straight-up win worthy in Spy and if Hollywood was better she'd have more star vehicles than Ryan Reynolds. Kirsten Dunst - Obviously great. Been great since she was a kid, still great now. Never really developed much of a star persona and didn't make an ideal fit as a movie star (though she's good in Bring It On and the Spider-Man movies) but thankfully carved herself a very nice spot in the industry. Anne Hathaway - The hate train on her was weird. I guess she was too pretty, too famous, too eager? She's one of the most technically proficient and versatile on this list, able to fit in both Get Smart and Rachel Getting Married in the same year. A more natural movie star than most on here (makes sense, she started as a Disney princess) and still able to turn it on when something like The Intern or Ocean's 8 comes around. Scarlett Johansson - It is a rarity to get someone who's that talented and that much of a bombshell and it was utterly bizarre how Hollywood seemed unsure of what to do with her for about a decade (from her massive splash in 2003 to her do-it-all 2013). I don't understand it. Anyway, she has some of the highest highs of any actress on this list and her lows are not terribly bad so much as they are just dull and usually come from her being saddled with a director who can't conceive of her being interesting beyond her sensuality. She probably should've been producing her own work like Margot Robbie is currently doing. Keira Knightley - As a kid, it felt like I only ever saw her as being in Pirates or some stuffy British movie. After seeing said British movies I liked her a bit more, but I don't find her terribly interesting as an actress. Consistent, proficient, and the camera likes her, but not terribly inspired (except in A Dangerous Method where she's totally without vain and laughably so). Rachel McAdams - Effortlessly charming and way more interesting as a performer than she's given credit for. I suppose that is in part because her filmography is not particularly good and she gets saddled with a lot of thankless parts in studio movies. Would love to see her do more stuff like Passion or Disobedience and just recently found her incredibly lovely in Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.Natalie Portman - A more ambitious and volatile talent. She can really go for it and I feel like early in her adult work it was hard not to see the effort in stuff like V for Vendetta or The Other Boleyn Girl (I lean on the side of really liking her work in Closer though). When a director is firing on all cylinders, they can get a ton out of her. When they're as interested in the acting side as George Lucas, it's gonna be rough. Michelle Williams - I think she is often brilliant and highly suggestive in her acting, able to communicate a lot within a character in as much as what she isn't doing as what she is. In that way, she can go well beyond the page and use her performance thematically - I'm thinking very much of the sorrow at heart in Blue Valentine or Take This Waltz as well as the more manic-depressive energy of something like The Fabelmans. Kelly Reichardt is one of the most ideal collaborators she could possibly have.
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Post by TylerDeneuve on Aug 22, 2023 3:41:04 GMT
Scarlett Johansson - It is a rarity to get someone who's that talented and that much of a bombshell and it was utterly bizarre how Hollywood seemed unsure of what to do with her for about a decade (from her massive splash in 2003 to her do-it-all 2013). I don't understand it. Anyway, she has some of the highest highs of any actress on this list and her lows are not terribly bad so much as they are just dull and usually come from her being saddled with a director who can't conceive of her being interesting beyond her sensuality. She probably should've been producing her own work like Margot Robbie is currently doing. I love this and completely agree. I wanted to add how incredibly adept she is at inhabiting the singular worlds of auteurs, too - from Sofia Coppola to Jonathan Glazer to Wes Anderson - she's totally in-sync with all of their styles. Also, fun fact! Scarlett Johansson and Michelle Williams share the same middle name - Ingrid. Hopefully they're named after Bergman!
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Aug 22, 2023 3:58:49 GMT
Hate to be predictable, but where’s my favorite Oscar-winning, Emmy-nominated, and Tony-nominated redhead??
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Post by avnermoriarti on Aug 22, 2023 8:32:27 GMT
Emily Blunt. Oddly enough she's one of the most consistent actresses of this group, one that looks like can do it all and yet I don't she's had that one defining role yet, I think she's fantastic in A Quiet Place but she's just playing mother... also I'm a bit disappointed that her first oscar nom is probably gonna be for not one of her strongest skills (playing drunks)
Rose Byrne. Miss her drama days but she did find her place in comedy and has gone through many different paths within the genre. And from this particular bunch, she's the one I'd marry to... Physical, has anyone seem Physical ?
Kirsten Dunst. Is she the ultimate 90s child actor ? At least that's what I remember thinking back in the day (her and Claire Danes actually), she should've been major just for her 94-99 period but for some reason (tabloids ???) took her a long time to be taken seriously and she sort of took herselft too seriously in most of her most acclaimed roles. Her Fargo performance: utter perfection and for some reason is something she has't tried once again. Sad
Anne Hathaway. Cute in the 00s, then the thing happen and nobody knew where she was although if one paid attention, she gave a couple of very good performances in between (Colossal, The Intern) but now that she's a little older and hotter, her public persona gives an "on the joke" vibe that I find incredibly appealing and I hope she uses on the big screen asap.
Scarlett Johansson. She's always been insanely watchable and giving quality performances from the beginning. Very true that Hollywood didn't knew what to do with her but fortunately she landed key roles at the right time that showed she can do it all !! she made Marvel compelling from an acting point of view. I know everybody cried when Iron Man died but Endgame is all about her for me. And she just delivered one of her best performances in Asteroid City.
Keira Knightley. Never in the noughties I thought her massive stardom would fade away. I think the last time I saw one of her films was Colette and remember thinking she was finally getting rid of all her mannerisms.
Rachel McAdams. Annonymous
Natalie Portman. Likes to collect auteurs as far as i know and as a result she has built interesting and ecclectic group of movies. From this group I think she's the one I would throw the word iconic (characters/movies/performances) but her style of acting I found really annoying, from voice to facial expressions to everything. I do like her a lot in Jackie because despite all the detailed work there's a looseness in what she does, maybe has to do with the director behind, but the tone helped a lot imo. Very excited for May December
Michelle Williams. On her way to become a goat
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Post by Nikan on Aug 22, 2023 9:23:17 GMT
I'll just name my favorite moments from them with drips of opinions attached.
Emily Blunt: The Edge of Tomorrow and The Devil Wears Prada. Not a fan of her in Oppenheimer outside of one scene maybe which comes too late anyway.
Rose Byrne: Bridesmaids and Juliet, Naked. Also good in X-Men: First Class, overshadowed by others of course.
Kirsten Dunst: Interview with the Vampire and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I usually like her a lot but like Blunt, her recent work (that Jane Campion piece to be exact) left me disappointed.
Anne Hathaway: Rachel Getting Married and Brokeback Mountain maybe? I don't dislike her (nor her outside persona which was very cool to hate on a decade ago) at all; I just don't care for her in the most surprising times of her career: her Oscar-winning role or when she was Catwoman ffs
Scarlett Johansson: Under the Skin and Marriage Story. Like many people I'm sure, I've grown to respect her more as she got involved more serious projects. It's that damn Marvel suit... once they make a distance from it they're cool again in my book lol.
Keira Knightley: I will always like her for the Caribbean trilogy. Can't say I'm mad excited currently though. She's closer to Hathaway here than to somebody like Williams.
Rachel McAdams: Overrated in Spotlight (I prefer if she was nominated for Midnight in Paris) but is almost always appealing to watch. Even something lackluster like The Lucky Ones isn't a waste of time mainly because of her warm presence. She's a babe, pardon my misogyny.
Natalie Portman: Leon and, un, Vendetta? (NS Jackie). She "seemed" like the most confident, calculating and professional actress right up to that second Thor movie (see? Marvel is a curse in this household) in my eyes. I just never liked her that much. By far my favorite Portman thing rn is a WIRED autocomplete interview from four years ago, and that's 70% due to her on-screen partner.
Michelle Williams: Wendy and Lucy, Shutter Island, Blue Valentine... I won't defend each and every one of her nominated work but she is what they call "the real deal"...
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Post by TylerDeneuve on Aug 22, 2023 13:41:58 GMT
cherry68 The_Cake_of_Roth - I don't necessarily "group" Witherspoon and Chastain with the women I initially posted (again, just specific to me - I probably should have had the birth year begin at 1978), but I will add entries for them in this post. ------ Jessica Chastain (United States) 1 Oscar win ( The Eyes of Tammy Faye) + 2 nominations ( The Help; Zero Dark Thirty) 1 Emmy nomination ( George & Tammy) *Pending 1 Tony nomination ( A Doll's House) Appeared in 4 Best Picture nominees ( The Help; The Tree of Life; Zero Dark Thirty; The Martian) ----- Reese Witherspoon (United States) 1 Oscar win ( Walk the Line) + 1 nomination ( Wild) 2 Emmy nominations ( Big Little Lies; The Morning Show) ------
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Post by stephen on Aug 22, 2023 14:03:48 GMT
cherry68 The_Cake_of_Roth - I don't necessarily "group" Witherspoon and Chastain with the women I initially posted (again, just specific to me - I probably should have had the birth year begin at 1978), but I will add entries for them in this post. ------ Jessica Chastain (United States) 1 Oscar win ( The Eyes of Tammy Faye) + 2 nominations ( The Help; Zero Dark Thirty) 1 Emmy nomination ( George & Tammy) *Pending 1 Tony nomination ( A Doll's House) Appeared in 4 Best Picture nominees ( The Help; The Tree of Life; Zero Dark Thirty; The Martian) ----- Reese Witherspoon (United States) 1 Oscar win ( Walk the Line) + 1 nomination ( Wild) 2 Emmy nominations ( Big Little Lies; The Morning Show) ------ Jessica Chastain: Easily -- easily! -- the best of this bunch. Dunst might squeak by on pure heights ( Fargo and Melancholia), but she has also had a longer career to do so. Chastain's versatility is breathtaking and when she's on, she's on. Haven't been overly thrilled with a lot of her post-2015 output and only just now is she returning to more interesting projects instead of the blockbuster machine, but I really do like her Oscar-winning performance and I'm hopeful she can Triple Crown it at some point. Reese Witherspoon: A very likable presence. Not the biggest fan of her Oscar win specifically (though I don't really begrudge it), but I love her performance in Wild and on any given day she'd be my pick of the nominees. I am impressed by her skill set as a producer and picking projects to push, though I haven't seen The Morning Show.
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Post by Allenism on Aug 22, 2023 16:10:52 GMT
Emily Blunt: The walking definition of "serviceable". I've never seen her be bad, but she just fails to excite me in any role she's been in.
Rose Byrne: This one hurts a little...she showed such promise in her earlier career as a dramatic performer and now she's doing stuff like "Platonic" and Insidious 3. It's good news that she's still consistently working, but the material has not been up to par with her natural abilities since the mid-aughts.
Kirsten Dunst: A natural talent, even if her career has had its own ebb and flow. I can see her hireability ramping up even more now that's "comfortably" out of the ingenue phase.
Anne Hathaway: Was she annoying as all get-out during her Les Miserables Oscar campaign? Yes. Is she a megawatt movie-star with under-appreciated prowess and versatility? Also yes.
Scarlett Johansson: Her output has been spotty, but the last couple of years have proven her worth. I don't think she's a great actress but she can be a very, very good one under the right circumstances.
Keira Knightley: Fine.
Rachel McAdams: Also fine, doesn't seem to want to act anymore.
Natalie Portman: For someone who was so horridly overrated during her ingenue phase, it's actually kind of thrilling to watch her grow as a thespian. Her recent choices have shown a daring which I didn't expect.
Michelle Williams: I still like her a lot, even if the criticisms about her being dour/glum are valid. I think she shines brighter as an indie darling than as a mainstream leading lady, though. At her best she's probaly the most gifted actress on this list aside from Dunst.
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Post by Nikan on Aug 22, 2023 18:06:26 GMT
cherry68 The_Cake_of_Roth - I don't necessarily "group" Witherspoon and Chastain with the women I initially posted (again, just specific to me - I probably should have had the birth year begin at 1978), but I will add entries for them in this post. ------ Jessica Chastain (United States) 1 Oscar win ( The Eyes of Tammy Faye) + 2 nominations ( The Help; Zero Dark Thirty) 1 Emmy nomination ( George & Tammy) *Pending 1 Tony nomination ( A Doll's House) Appeared in 4 Best Picture nominees ( The Help; The Tree of Life; Zero Dark Thirty; The Martian) ----- Reese Witherspoon (United States) 1 Oscar win ( Walk the Line) + 1 nomination ( Wild) 2 Emmy nominations ( Big Little Lies; The Morning Show) ------ Jessica Chastain: The Help and to some extend The Tree of Life... I may sound short-sighted here, but it is how I've been feeling about it and gotta clear my throat. It's her very loud activism that has put me off of her work since Interstellar. Must actors shut their mouths or be vocal about how they think/feel on issues concerning (and not concerning - which seems more often!) them personally? Idk... but in her case, it ain't good imo. I've felt like she commented on every issue and jumped on every possible train (the Last Tango scandal among them)... I've seen her out of her films a little "too much" to the point that I know when I sit to watch Tammy Faye, I'm not going to see the character but the actress. The illusion is dead for me, for the time being at least... which is a shame, cause otherwise she was doing solid as far as I followed... Witherspoon I've also grown to like more (and she's been around for ever lol). From Cruel Intentions (in which she's one of the three things that doesn't suck), Election and American Psycho... to Walk the Line (lovely) and Inherent Vice... she Fine...
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Post by stabcaesar on Sept 3, 2023 6:20:06 GMT
Blunt - Really like her since Prada. Generally awesome. The only issue she has is that she doesn't always choose the best projects.
Byrne - I've never seen her dramatic work. She's really fun in comedies.
Dunst - I like her.
Hathaway - She's pretty but I've never been a fan of her acting.
Johansson - I don't see what other people see in her appearance and her acting talent.
Knightley - Funny accent ... that's about it.
McAdams - I like her.
Portman - Can't stand her.
Williams - When she's on, she's on. Not very into her recent transitioning into an egomaniac, though.
Chastain - I really admire her work ethics but I would advise her to chill the f out. Her earlier work excites me more, but she's generally very talented.
Reese Witherspoon - I used to really dislike her, but something has clicked since Big Little Lies (or Wild). And she's a brilliant producer.
Ranking:
1. Emily Blunt 2. Kirsten Dunst 3. Jessica Chastain 4. Rachel McAdams 5. Michelle Williams 6. Reese Witherspoon 7. Rose Byrne 8. Keira Knightley 9. Scarlett Johansson 10. Anne Hathaway 11. Natalie Portman
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Post by TylerDeneuve on Jan 16, 2024 18:32:24 GMT
---- Keira Knightley (United Kingdom)She always seemed like she'd be a lot of fun to hang around with, and she's obviously very pretty. Like Hathaway, she had her moment, it was fun, it didn't last because she wasn't good enough to sustain it. ----- Now this girl... She goes in. lol
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Post by MsMovieStar on Jan 16, 2024 21:02:20 GMT
Oh honey...
Blunt - Bitch
Byrne - Whore
Dunst - Bitch
Hathaway - Whore
Johansson - Bitch
Knightley - Whore
McAdams - Bitch
Portman - Whore
Williams - Bitch
Chastain - Whore
Reese Witherspoon - Bitch
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 16, 2024 21:09:03 GMT
Oh honey... Blunt - Bitch Byrne - Whore Dunst - Bitch Hathaway - Whore Johansson - Bitch Knightley - Whore McAdams - Bitch Portman - Whore Williams - Bitch Chastain - Whore Reese Witherspoon - Bitch Whore Fixed that ^ for you Legend
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Post by Nikan on Jan 16, 2024 21:31:56 GMT
I'll just name my favorite moments from them with drips of opinions attached. Emily Blunt: The Edge of Tomorrow and The Devil Wears Prada. Not a fan of her in Oppenheimer outside of one scene maybe which comes too late anyway. Rose Byrne: Bridesmaids and Juliet, Naked. Also good in X-Men: First Class, overshadowed by others of course. Kirsten Dunst: Interview with the Vampire and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I usually like her a lot but like Blunt, her recent work (that Jane Campion piece to be exact) left me disappointed. Anne Hathaway: Rachel Getting Married and Brokeback Mountain maybe? I don't dislike her (nor her outside persona which was very cool to hate on a decade ago) at all; I just don't care for her in the most surprising times of her career: her Oscar-winning role or when she was Catwoman ffs Scarlett Johansson: Under the Skin and Marriage Story. Like many people I'm sure, I've grown to respect her more as she got involved more serious projects. It's that damn Marvel suit... once they make a distance from it they're cool again in my book lol. Keira Knightley: I will always like her for the Caribbean trilogy. Can't say I'm mad excited currently though. She's closer to Hathaway here than to somebody like Williams. Rachel McAdams: Overrated in Spotlight (I prefer if she was nominated for Midnight in Paris) but is almost always appealing to watch. Even something lackluster like The Lucky Ones isn't a waste of time mainly because of her warm presence. She's a babe, pardon my misogyny. Natalie Portman: Leon and, un, Vendetta? (NS Jackie). She "seemed" like the most confident, calculating and professional actress right up to that second Thor movie (see? Marvel is a curse in this household) in my eyes. I just never liked her that much. By far my favorite Portman thing rn is a WIRED autocomplete interview from four years ago, and that's 70% due to her on-screen partner. Michelle Williams: Wendy and Lucy, Shutter Island, Blue Valentine... I won't defend each and every one of her nominated work but she is what they call "the real deal"... Months later: let's see what's different here... Portman was damn fine in May December (I wasn't in the best mood but I realized I saw quality from her)... and I completed Williams collaborations with K. Reichardt which are *Chef's kiss*... Don't miss out on Showing Up y'all.
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