Worst "Serious" Actress of All Time

SJP isn't all that bad, at least next to Andie MacDowell. Pieces of wood go to her for lessons on how to be dry and stiff. Styrofoam goes to her to learn how to be more plastic and insubstantial . White rice goes to her to learn how to be bland.

R1 she worked in Groundhog Day

For me, a legitimate serious actress would have to be someone who has been nominated or even won awards. Like Hilary Swank, who I consider the epitome of one note acting.

I can't believe she's 51 in that photo, OP.

The Groundhog gave a better performance.

Here's my pick.

Shanghai Hong Kong Egg Foo Yung

Madge's film choices always wrong

Madonna would've been huge if she'd been around during the silent era.

Wow. R8 may be joking but they're right. She has the face of a silent film vamp.

I don't think Madonna counts. No one has ever considered her a serious actress excet herself.

You know who.

[quote]You know who. —G

No, who?

R11 / R12 I know you Cunts are talking about me, count my Oscar wins and nominations. I'm still doing feature film work. When was the last time you two opened in the Top 10? 102 Dalmatians and/or Big Fish...15+ years ago?

Nicole Kidman.

Jennifer Jones

Jennifer Lawrence. All hype with nothing to back it up.

I wasn't joking about Madonna. I really do think she would've been huge in silent movies.

Pia Zadora.

When was the last time you had a hit that wasn't a glorified ABBA karaoke night, R13?

Demi Moore

All three of Tom Cruise's Ex Wives. They weren't particularly convincing as the foot stool role.

Mia Wasikowska. After seeing the highly disappointing “Crimson Peak” I thought to myself, “man that dull milquetoast girl looks familiar.” After looking at her IMDb page I realized I’ve seen her in half a dozen movies but she was so unmemorable in all of them I plum forgot.

Poor Barbra Streisand. Great voice, very funny in her early comedy roles, but then she wanted to be a "serious" actress and only do "issue movies." Turned herself into a joke. She's not a very good serious actress. Same with Bette Midler. I'm kinda glad her GYPSY movie died, because I'm picturing it being about as bad as the Midler version with Streisand being appealing for the first 90 minutes and then falling apart when she's asked to be more serious in the later half of the story.

Watching Julie Andrews in anything as a lucid adult in 2018 feels like getting gay-bashed with a giant candy cane.

Grace Kelly in The Country Girl owns this thread.

Julia Roberts.

Lawrence will go down in history with this title. She can thank Harvey.

[quote] All three of Tom Cruise's Ex Wives. They weren't particularly convincing as the foot stool role.

Well, he's not particularly convincing as a heterosexual.

the mention of Harvey reminded me of another bland ass actress who thought she was all that and isn't - Goop

Q: No one considers Jennifer Anuston a serious actress, do they?

A: Yes, a seriously bad one.

WTF R30 -- no. No one does, and your hostility is weirdly out of place.

In DataLounge? This is not FluffyBunnyLounge, R31.

So funny, R8, I was going to say, Madonna looks gorgeous but I HATE her fake Noo Yawk goil accent (which she continued to use in interviews, I remember).

They're proposing the FluffyBunnyLounge over at that other thread, R31. You get to pay to lay eggs.

Worst “legitimate” actress...that’s tough, but I’d go with Gwyneth Paltrow. Even sucking all that HW dick couldn’t get her decent acting instruction.

Andie MacDowell is one of those odd actresses who was just right in a couple parts, like Sex Lies & Videotape and Groundhog Day, but often was stiff and awkward.

I love her but Sigourmey Weaver is pretty stiff in everything.

Ali MacGraw owns this thread.

R19 Meryl's The Post made $175 million

Jessica Chastain...I don’t get it. Also Ellie Fanning.

It was still a fetid piece of self-congratulatory crap, R39. I'm glad Frances McDormand won the Best Actress Oscar even though I was rooting for Margot Robbie.

Sally Kellerman

But...I'm hugely entertained by her hamminess. She was a hoot as Jodie Foster's mom in "Foxes"

Natalie Wood. Overwrought and amateurish at the same time.

Jodie Foster. Wooden beyond belief.

Judi Dench. Another veddy proper RADA-type actress who is extremely one-dimensional.

R1, I thought Andie Mcdowell was good in Robert Altman's Short Cuts.

[quote]Judi Dench. Another veddy proper RADA-type actress who is extremely one-dimensional.

She and Air Supply's Russell Hitchcock are actually the same person.

I agree with R16. Saw that piece of crap Mother and the part where everyone broke in the house and she's breathlessly yelling "Get out of my house " made me cringe.

She also made me cringe in Silver Linings Playbook. She must have swallowed a gallon of Weinstein cum to get that Oscar.

If there was a book about how Weinstein sleazed his way to Oscar gold, it should be called "Fool's Gold: How Miramax Took Over The Oscars".

Natalie Portman--how is she considered a "serious" actress by the industry???? All she does is cry in all her movies.

Another vote for Jodie Foster. Tight-lipped, tight-jawed, no range, conveys fear or uncertainty or discomfort or confusion by saying her lines breathlessly and then sucking in some air, dead-eyed, a piece of driftwood.

Don't know if Demi Moore fits into this category, but she's another one. She does a similar thing to Jodie where she will jut out her chin when confronted with any kind of negative situation, or one in which she wants to convey indignance.

Norma Shearer. Her Juliet is impossible to forget -- no matter how hard you try.

Melanie Griffith. I will forever be mystified by her Best Actress nom for Working Girl.

R51, she is great in Body Double and Something Wild. She's so good in Something in Wild that Madonna tried to recreate that role in Who's That Girl.

I was going to say Melanie, R51, but I don't think she was ever considered 'serious.' I see her more in the Rom/Com Kate Hudson vein of actresses who are exceptionally watchable and very good at playing themselves. She was better than Kate, but never serious.

Joan Crawford

Miriam Hopkins

Faye Dunaway

Don't forget Audrey Hepburn. all she could do is stand in the frame with her hips thrust forward and her feets splayed in the first position while she whined in flutey nasal tone that never varied

True r47. I have wondered if maybe the Hollywood elite didn't help the whole me too thing along in hopes of getting rid of Harvey and his strangle hold on the Oscars. Once he got his hands on Miramax that was the death of the variety in well done small films. I haven't liked any of the actresses he forced on us either, all of them are forgettable. He's got horrible taste in talent. He did his business like a mafia boss, people on all levels were afraid of him. I hope excellent smaller films have a rebirth now that he's gone.

Okay 55 say what you want but I still love watching her, hard to take your eyes off her.

Greer Garson is reaching out of the grave to grab this award!

Seriously, how can you bitches have forgotten her smugness, asexuality, and humorlessness? And all the praise that was heaped on her during her too-long heyday?

Bitch was like Maggie Smith's alternate-universe opposite, vaguely resembling Maggie, but lacking everything that makes Maggie so great to watch.

Easy. Keira Knightley . Most of the actresses mentioned above have been good in at least a few roles, but Keira Knightley is bad in everything. And she's been given a lot of good roles.

Not anywhere in the deepest reaches of the darkest recesses of the universe would Sarah Jessica Parker ever, EVER be considered a serious actress, OP.

SJP was good early in her career. The whole SATC bullshit ruined her acting. Now every role is Carrie Bradshaw (even when u see her acting very hard to not be

Agree with Gwyneth and Julia Roberts. Both one note actors. Julia Roberts is particularly annoying with that horse laugh.

[quote]Julia Roberts is particularly annoying with that horse laugh.

It matches her face.

After reading a lot of these suggestions, I'd have to agree with Julia Roberts as the winner. You always know it's her in the role, always.

Julia Roberts is a move star, of course you always know it's her in every role, that's what she is paid for. It's the same thing with Harrison Ford and many others. Within the realm of her acting range, Julia does just fine, she's rarely inauthentic, doesn't make cliched choices, has a solid emotional accessiblity and has been moving in some performances. For what she does and what she's paid to do, she does just fine.

Keira Knightley. IKEA tables have given less wooden and more charismatic performances.

THREAD CLOSED.

Even I'm not that wooden.

R64, there is a difference, clearly, between a movie star and a serious actor. A serious actor, imo, is immersed in a role to the point where he is unrecognizable. This never happens with Julia.

[quote]Norma Shearer. Her Juliet is impossible to forget -- no matter how hard you try.

You're entitled to your opinion, R50, but I think you're wrong. Shockingly wrong!

I would like to nominate Miss Vera Hruba Ralston.....

Greta Garbo. Boring.

Ikea Knightley.

R70 = Little Orphan Annie falling asleep during [italic]Camille[/italic].

R67 that’s what R64 pretty much said

Definitely Jennifer Lawrence.

Which is why she is not considered a serious actress, R73. Why defend her on that basis (movie star) when discussing her acting abilities? She has none. But she does have charisma!

Rula Lenska

Jennifer Lawrence is a bad actress. She's pretty dumb too.

ROSANNE "TRUMP" BARR

ROSIE O'DONNELL

Only role she was believable in was the Fappening

Minnie Driver

But she knew how to sell an Alberto VO5 hot oil treatment, R76

Sjp is ugly!

Halle berry

[quote]But she knew how to sell an Alberto VO5 hot oil treatment, [R76]

And Rula was wonderful when it came to showing friends from America around London!

Rula was the vampire of my dreams in the 70's. I was so jealous of her full, thick mane and that exotic accent.

Rula was so glamorous. People were always rushing to hand her flowers as she stepped off airplanes.

Magdalena Montezuma......

Vanessa Redgrave

Eleanor Parker. Just awful. That wheezing breathiness masquerading as emotion.

Vera Hrubá Ralston's "talent"was extremely limited. That's why she married the head of the studio, who was 40 years her senior and left his wife and children for her. She got leads until he retired. A girl has to do what a girl has to do, I guess.

[86]: I adore you for remembering.

R86, What am I, chopped liver?

Vera Hruba Ralston was not a "serious" actress, she was a figure skater who married the head of the lowest-budget, least-respected studio in Hollywood! She was regarded as a joke in her day, and ever after.

Greer Garson was taken very, very seriously in her day, for some reason. Same for Ikea Knightley during the last ten years.

I just watched Pride and Prejudice again and ugh, Keira Knightley’s wig is just atrocious! But even worse, she really is very stiff. All she does is sort of pull her lips back from from her bottom teeth. The woman who plays Cersei on Game of thrones does this too, but to sinister effect.

If you turn the sound off of the Kiera Knightly version of "Pride and Prejudice", it suddenly looks like a teen boy in drag is playing Lizzie Bennett.

The more you know about that period, the worse that movie becomes!

Actually Republic was far from the worst of the old Hollywood studios, R92. It was considered the best of the "poverty row" studios, a term you can google. Republic turned out many excellent westerns over the years. It was home to John Wayne during the first half of his career and occasionally John Ford. Sometimes they even managed to turn out a true quality film like A Quiet Man. There were many much worse studios.

I cannot think of a lousier actress than Nicole Kidman!

She's an empty cipher in EVERYTHING!

Even compared to EVERY other actress here I think she's FAR SHITTIER!

I have a soft spot in my heart for Greer Garson. I absolutely adored Mrs. Miniver. I managed to track down the sequel to it, called The Miniver Story, and I loved it, too. I cried my eyes out. They managed to get everyone back for it except for the actor that played her son. Greer was married to him IRL, but they divorced before the sequel, and it was not a happy parting. I remember the lingering, on-the-mouth kisses she gave him during Mrs. Miniver. Awkward!

Aren't you a dear, r97? I do hope you caught me in Auntie Mame.......

Look at the snout on SJP though. I mean, just look at it.

R38 is correct.

There are a lot of terrible actors. I've always wondered how the hell they keep getting parts when it is obvious they can't act.

What? No mentions of Kristin Stewart, Megan Fox, or Tara Reid?

R102, Kristen has done some excellent work. Nobody would consider the other two to be serious actors.

Are you considered a serious actor if you appeared on Melrose Place?

Joan Crawford is the worst "serious" of all time. She did mostly dramas and melodramas and she seriously sucked balls. Hysterically bad work with Jekyll and Hide contortions required for her to change expression.

[quote][R102], Kristen has done some excellent work.

I thought she was pretty bad in The Clouds of Sils Maria and that was lauded as her best work.

Susan Hayward

I agree with R105, Joan was bad camp in everything she did. I think Gloria Swanson was using her as inspiration in Sunset Boulevard.

Anyone who's seen Keira Knightley in "A Dangerous Method" knows the definitive response to this thread.

Paltrow would win this IMO except that after her ingenue years the industry caught on that she was bad and she stopped getting work.

Julianne Moore. Seriously.

Helen Cunt. I mean Hunt. She’s a terrible actress.

Demi Moore sucks also.

Lina Lamont

I'd go with Lana Turner.

Others who deserve mention:

Anne Baxter

Kim Novak

Julia Roberts

Winona Ryder

That's not to say all of these women are incapable of being affecting onscreen. But none of them can act worth a damn.

I have nothing to add other than that is an absolutely horrific pic of SJP at OP.

[quote]R43 Natalie Wood. Overwrought and amateurish at the same time.

Agreed.

Elizabeth Taylor is fairly wretched in almost everything, too...with a few exceptions.

I definitely co-sign the people that said Lawrence and Portman. Portman's line readings are always totally artificial sounding.

Back when she was a serious contender-- Winona Ryder. I never understood why my peers were so in awe of her.

R115, I'm going to kick Kim Novak off your list, just because of "Vertigo". She was astonishingly good there, in a very complex role.

Other than that, though, yeah. She was a pretty terrible actress, but she got it right once!

Harris Glenn Milstead, also known as Divine.

Bitch was a total ham.

SJP is more known as a comedic actor than a dramatic actor.

R119, she's very good in Heather's but her only good role after that is in Stranger Things, literally almost thirty years later. Her worst acting is in Dracula and Age of Innocence. She should sign a contract never to star in anything before the 70s. I actually think both she and Michelle are miscast in Age of innocence, just one reason I dont like that movie.

Jane Russell.

R76, Rula Lenska, like Elsa Clench, get a pass for their cool name alone...

I never understood Winona’s appeal, either.

Michelle Pfeiffer and Keira Knightley. Both are more interested in doing pretty faces for the camera than acting. Keira pouting her mouth, doing annoying things with her nose, and playing the charming little girl, and Michelle pouting and giving intense stares like a porn actress playing for the camera.

Knightly's performance in Pride and Prejudice is one of the worst I've ever seen. She spent the entire film with a bemused smirk on her face, something which Jennifer Ehle's Elizabeth Bennett had done to great effect on occasion in the '90s BBC version, but not for the entire film.

Dishonorable mention: Meg Ryan in Restoration, hurly burly, in the cut, etc

I think I'm the only DLer that likes JLaw. She blew me away in Winter's Bone.

Keira Knightley was great in Pride & Prejudice. Completely sold it to me. Jennifer Ehle being homely doesn’t make her better. R129 I love JLaw in Silver Linings Playbook.

The fact that Kristen Stewart was lauded by critics (and received awards for) her not-terrible but otherwise unremarkable performance in 'Clouds of Sils Maria' says it all: they were shocked that she could give a halfway decent performance in a not-very-challenging role.

Greer Garson is profoundly dreadful in Mrs. Miniver.

Kiera Knightly has the most irritating vocal inflections ever - especially in Pride and Prejudice. In fact her performance in P&P makes Cybill Shepherd's performance in Daisy Miller seem like the work of a great thespian.

Zooey Deschanel can't even play herself in interviews.

And I can't say this enough:

Isabelle Adjani is awful.

Kristen Stewart is a terrific actress. She’s moody, well there really are people like that. It doesn’t make her any less alive as an actress, you just don’t like that.

Kristen Stewart is a lousy actress. Wooden and ineffective. She makes Jodie Foster look like Vivien Leigh.

Natalie Wood was another awful dramatic actress.

Stewart has awful acting ticks that make her hard to watch.

Anna Paquin is shit

SJP is a good actress. She is hardly 'shit' in her roles. You have bad taste, OP.

Kristen Stewart is laughably bad. Keira Knightly is wooden.

I am voting for Glenn if she is nominated... that is, if not the divine Stefani, or even my dear colleague Viola are in the category... but, if not, my vote is on G. If.

Viola sucks on her show. Too busy trying to turn homely and black as night into something sexual

Lol about black as night. I’m not saying it can’t beautiful, viola’s just not beautiful

[quote]R132 Isabelle Adjani is awful.

WHAT? But her performance in POSSESSION is so subtle!

OP, that photo just stopped every clock in my house.

Please, r142, you mean "Possessao" -- pronounced ... "possess OW!"

Keira Knightley was charming in the first Pirates movie and awful in everything after that.

Katie Holmes, all day everyday. Miley Cryus too.

Isabelle Adjani

Charlize Theron, who was one of the most beautiful women alive when she was young, has always been terrible.

It’s strange how our impressions can change over time.

I used to think Allison Elliot was the weak link in THE WINGS OF THE DOVE (1997)...and that she was fake-y.

Rewatching the film years later, she doesn’t bother me.

Garbo...cannot stand her.

I see the racist troll has chimed in at r140/141

"It was still a fetid piece of self-congratulatory crap, R39. I'm glad Frances McDormand won the Best Actress Oscar even though I was rooting for Margot Robbie."

?????? Who thinks Margot Robbie is a better actress than Frances McDormand?

Angelina Jolie, anyone? Her only award-worthy performance was The Changeling. I don't understand her box offices. She's more a publicist than an actress.

I for one, think that Viola Davis is better looking when she is plumper.

Jennifer Lawrence is totally overrated. A product that Weinstain tried to sold as the new hot Meryl Streep. I think the best part of her career is already over, she doesn't have her godfather anymore. And I think she is nice, don't get me wrong. Not saying this because I dislike her or something

"Not saying this because I dislike her or something"

Sure sounds like you do. For some reason DLers have it in for her, even though she's been giving good performances since she was 18 (Winter's Bone)

R156 No, I don't. I can give you that, she was fine in Winter's Bone and American Hustle, but that doesn't make her the kind of super talented actress Hollywood tried to sell us for a few years. OK, she's not the worst but Def not one of the tops. Emma Stone, on the other hand, proved me a lot in The Fauvorite.

I adore Barbara Stanwyck, but she really didn’t hit her stride until the late thirties. She was awful in some of her earlier movies. Guess it was just a lack of experience in front of the cameras.

Greer Garson was terrible. Leonard Maltin said it best - all poise but no grace. And she wasn’t very photogenic. Close set eyes and those NOSTRILS.

Easily the worst actress of all time is Ali McGraw. When I see her old films from Goodbye Columbus (which was funny) to Love Story and others- well, she's just awful. That said- on chat shows and in interviews she is a lovely woman, smart, creative and beautiful- still.

Lana Turner. Iconically beautiful, but a genuinely terrible actress.

Okay, r159 wins. McGraw must be the worst actress to ever get an Oscar nomination.

Geraldine Page and Diane Ladd.

These "serious" actresses full of ticks and methods and "watch me act" mannerisms are terrible in all of their performances.

Well they each gave only ONE performance - they just did it in several movies.....

EMMA FUCKING WATSON I just can't stand her. She has made me hate movies that were good just because her performance. I think the most overrated actress today. In my opinion is an insult for actors like Saoirse Ronan or Chalamet in Little Women to share screen time with her like they had a seemingly talent.

Only a datalounger would think that Chalamet was miles ahead of Watson in the acting department

R164 Really bitch? You can dislike Chalamet, but honestly you can't say he is as bad actor as Emma Watson. You just can't. Emma's talent is just unexisting.

Emma Watson owns this thread

R1, McDowell worked in Short Cuts as well. I thought she did a good job.

R115, Anne Baxter is part of the reason I don't think All About Eve is a classic on the level of Sunset Boulevard--who in their right mind would believe that Anne Baxter is a threat to Bette Davis?

Another vote for Natalie Portman. Very bland.

R166 that one. For God's shake, they even offered her to star La La Land. What do Hollywood see in her?

I always found Baxter to be stubby looking, with short arms and a nonexistent neck. They picked her for the role of Eve because she resembled the original choice for Margo Channing, Miss Claudette Colbert. She too was odd looking, short and neckless.

Emma Watson is truly awful.

Surprised to see so much GOOP hate in this thread. Usually DLers agree that she’s a pretentious cunt but a really good actress. I personally love her.

GOOP isn't really much better than Emma Watson.

I like Gwyneth, just adorable and perfect in "Emma". One vote more for Emma Watson, I never liked since Harry Potter, which I think is her only acceptable role in her career.

Salma Hayek.

While I agree that Garson quickly petrified into a Great Lady, I saw her in the 1939 Goodbye, Mr. Chips with Oscar-winner Robert Donat on TCM last night, and thought she was lovely—funny, charming—and the pairing of her with Donat was genuinely sweet not saccharine.

Can't just someone make a poll between Emma W, Jennifer Lawrence, Gwyneth, Angelina and the rest mentioned in here?

Hand's down.

DEBRA WINGER!!!

Yuck. Ugh. Gag. Barf.

Goop once was a good actress, but she hasn't acted in years. She just strides through all those Iron man and Avengers movies being annoying, phoning it in . She didn't want to be an actor: she wanted to be an influencer.

Demi Moore

Goop wants us all to steam our nether regions.

The thing about my wife SJP is she may not be a great actress, but like Lana Turner, she makes up for it in beauty.

Imagine waking up to THAT every morning!

Lana Turner was superficially pretty and was very glamorous. Not toe curling beauty like Ava Gardner or Hedy Lamarr.

Elizabeth McGovern.

Even in her "serious" roles like Peyton Place, I never found Lana to be better than just okay

Has anyone seen Cameron Diaz in Gangs of New York? She should have received a Golden Raspberry for that performance.

I'm kind of amazed at how quickly SJP went from very attractive to horse-faced. That has to be a record, even Lindsay Lohan took a while to really look 45. SJP was hot in Hocus Pocus, LA Story and The First Wives Club and then became hideous by Season 2 or 3 of Sex and the City. I think a lot of people would be genuinely shocked to find out that SJP was at one point very attractive.

Jeanne Crain nearly ruined every movie she was in.

And a lot of movies she WASN'T in......

Dearest Linda,

Got a match?

ANNE HATHAWAY

Barbara Hershey

Saint Angelina

Luise Rainer

R1 I "did-tent" even consider Andie McDowell for worst serious actress!

Kristen Stewart

I know this topic is about ACTRESSES but I wanted to mention the worst serious ACTOR of all time- TOM HANKS.

Equally on topic, I would like to mention the worst kind of HAMMER of all time - BALL PEEN.

The best laugh all day, R198.

This thing. And she actually won a fucking Oscar!

R200 Mira Sorvino is fantastic in mighty Aphrodite.

Are you Weinstein?

I liked Mira Sorvino in The Bucaneer's.

Cody Horn

Angelina Jolie

Julia Roberts

Gwyneth Paltrow

Demi Moore

I’d love to see these cunts in a movie together where they all kill each other.

Dear Jeanne:

I have a few words for you. Hot Rods to Hell.

Who considers Cody Horn to be a serious actress?

Linda, darling,

Speaking of hell . . . Is it hot enough for you?

OP, put a trigger warning before that thing please.

Natalie Wood was an awful dramatic actress, never ever got her allure.

LOOK AT THAT SNOUT

Betty fucking Bacall.

Andie MacDowell's spawn Margaret Qualley is only slightly better than her mother.

R208, She was an excellent child actress.

JLo.

Who is the horse in op’s pic?

R208, How do you explain her three Oscar nominations?

All women who starred in Charlie’s Angels tv and movie.

Elizabeth Banks Angelina Jolie

I hate them both with the heat of a thousand suns.

R215, the Oscars nominations and awards are ridiculous (at least) 50% of the time.

Mandy Moore is awful in serious TV and movie roles.I was surprised when she got an Emmy nomination this past year.

Despite all of her self promotion, does anyone actually consider JLo a serious actress? Portman is the worst. She doesn't act as much as pretend to portray emotions that she imagines real people might have.

It's an unpopular opinion here, but not in the real world. Sally Fucking Field. She sucks balls.

R221, She wouldn't suck mine.

OP A face only a mother could love.

Judith Light is the textbook definition of overrated. Now she has two of the worst TV shows ever to her name. Whoever told her she could act was just being polite.

It was her sister, Crystal, who had all the talent, looks, and personality. At least she did before the “accident.”

Dear Jeanne,

It's nearly as hot at Daryl's office - but you would know ALL about that.

If I’m such a slut, then how come DZ cast me as the Virgin Mary and not you?

That was meant to be signed “yours truly, Linda.”

Jane Lynch

Ryan O'Neal

THREAD CLOSED

Scarlett Johansson

Oops, sorry OP, I did not see Actress. R229

Jane Lynch

Rachel McAdams should stick to light comedy. Her Oscar nomination was a joke. She gets a lot of credit because she’s the kind of woman that straight men imagine marrying but she’s quite mediocre.

R233 McAdams sucks at accents (see A Most Wanted Man or that lesbian movie with Rachel Weisz) but I do really like her as an actress. I do think she should be getting more comedy roles because she’s an excellent comic actor.

R234 Through no plan of my own, I saw State Of Play, The Time Traveller’s Wife, Midnight In Paris and Spotlight on successive days. She was a nonentity in the latter 3 with her Oscar nomination being truly bizarre but was quite awful in State Of Play. Her line readings were unbelievable to the extent she sounded like a teenage girl, and Russell Crowe had to carry the weight of their scenes.

The lesbian movie with Rachel Weisz is a case in point. She was cast as an ultra-Orthodox North London Jew (!) at the behest of the director. She is creamy and sweet and pretty and a fantasy figure for men.

[quote]She is creamy and sweet and pretty and a fantasy figure for men.

We already have Jennifer Garner. She's lovely.

Mia Farrow

Mia Farrow

r236 Jennifer Garner is a middle aged TV action hero. Her biggest cinematic presence beyond using her junkie ex for publicity.

We love Jen Garner. She's the best thing about every film she's in. And she's done many. A beautiful fantasy of a real woman. She needs no makeup or artifice to be beautiful but she can stun like the best of them. She is beloved.

Pia Zadora...

R240 = Victor Garber

[quote]Rachel McAdams should stick to light comedy. Her Oscar nomination was a joke. She gets a lot of credit because she’s the kind of woman that straight men imagine marrying but she’s quite mediocre.

I agree that nomination was a joke and I also thought Spotlight was overrated and it looked like something that should have been on HBO or Showtime.

Why was Greta Garbo considered to be a great dramatic actress?

Greer was quite wonderful in what should be in everyone's top ten favorite movies-Random Harvest.

Also in Goodbye Mr Chips and Pride and Prejudice.