Sharon Stone in "Casino"

Oh Sharon, please go do a bong hit and chill.

And to think Madonna was "considered" for the role of Ginger

😆😆😆😲😜🍖

Traci Lords auditioned for the role.

[quote] But mostly, she just looks good in jewels and furs.

I just watched Casino during a long cooking project at my house. I've seen it several times and it's one of the few movies that I own a copy of.

Reason for non-acclaim (Stone & a lot of other contributors to the movie): It's too fucking long and it's a rehash of earlier Scorcese movies. (Even the soundtrack had repeat song: Sympathy for the Devil.)

As I was watching it during this past cooking session, I could pick out actual scenes that could have been cut. The point was made, already.

Sharon looked absolutely beautiful in the first maybe 1/3rd of the movie and horrible in the remaining part with her dried-up Carol Brady wig. Sharon has a good figure, but is a little bit thick in the middle with small chest. You have to dress her accordingly. Some of the outfits were not very flattering to her figure.

I loved Casino and thought Sharon Stone was awesome in it.

It becomes a series of over-the-top showdowns and is too long.

Ooooooh, and look, Robert DeNiro playing.....himself again always. ;)

Sharon has said she was Ginger McKenna when she was in her early 20's, she had her issues with addiction and promiscuity.

I thought she was amazing in this. She was styled brilliantly too.

Looking back on it now, I wish Sharon should've walked away with the Oscar, instead of Sob Sister Sarandon.

***would've

[R10] Stone wasn't up against Sarandon for the AA.

Twit.

^Didn't Sarandon win for Dead Man Walking that year?? (With Stone competing as Ginger McKenna?)

Cunt.

SS was nominated for Supporting Actress, not Best.

Huuunn.

even if that's true, I'm still pretty sure you're a cunt.

Wasn't that the year Mira Sorvino "happened"?

R14 quit while you're behind: both Sarandon and Stone were nominated for Best Actress with Sarandon winning for Dead Man Walking.

^ I knew it.. THANK YOU!

Thanks OP for dropping that, it’s been a while since I’ve seen it with all the Fucks left intact,

Maybe this movie is just too entertaining to be considered “great.”

As others have said, while Sharon Stone nailed the part and looked gorgeous in it, it is way too long and a rehash of other Scorsese movies. Not his best unfortunately.

I love her in that movie

She was superb. And it was very realistic: my mother screamed at my father in the same way when they were getting divorced.

R14, check your facts:

[quote]SS was nominated for Supporting Actress, not Best.

[quote]Huuunn.

No she wasn't. SS was nominated for Best Actress.

Cuuunnt.

I thought she was good when she sat in the casino looing gorgeous. The minute Sharon opened her mouth it all went downhill for me. Her screechy performance was a combination of simpleton writing and her not having enough know how to make the role more multidimensional. Lorraine Bracco was more nuanced in Goodfellas, and she's extremely limited. For the life of me I do not understand why people consider over the top crying, yelling, red in the face over acting "good."

As had been said, as a movie, Casino is waaaay too long and is only partially successful. I enjoyed De Niro's performance as the Jew, he left some of the usual swagger saved for Italian characters at the door. Everything else is half cooked Goodfellas shit.

[quote]Sharon has a good figure, but is a little bit thick in the middle with small chest.

That's the way normal thin women look. Perhaps you're too used to seeing surgically altered ones.

Another tired variation of a theme ginzo movie by Scorcese. Does he know how to make films about anything else? Oh, I forgot about the leaden and uninvolving Age of Innocence.

Sharon is a true STAH! No amount of (mostly) shitty movies she made can change that fact!

Terrific film. I always felt Michelle Pfeiffer not only would have been better in the role, she might have won an Oscar for it. Though Stone did have a sort of blowsy quality that worked.

[quote] Ooooooh, and look, Robert DeNiro playing.....himself again always

The son of downtown NYC artists who grew up knowing Jackson Pollock but anyway.

[quote] Lorraine Bracco was more nuanced in Goodfellas, and she's extremely limited

I disagree, but ouch!

[quote] She was superb. And it was very realistic: my mother screamed at my father in the same way when they were getting divorced.

The fighting / arguing scenes between Stone and DeNiro were interminable, but very realistic, IMO.

This was a horrible wig / horrible hairstyle

[quote] The fighting / arguing scenes between Stone and DeNiro were interminable, but very realistic, IMO.

I concur. They are some of the better domestic screaming matches in movies, if you come from a household where people yell.

Also see Husbands and Wives, Shoot The Moon and Ordinary People.

Joe Pesci had an obvious eye lift done shortly before Casino. It was kind of shocking to look at him in Casino.

Also, on rewatch, too much narration (telling, not showing). I enjoyed the Ace / DeNiro narration where he was explaining the chain of checks & balances in the Casino (to avoid rip-offs), etc. However, in general, that type of narration is a cheap device, to be avoided, IMO.

Pesci's narration was unnecessary. At some point, Frank Vincent (Pesci's right hand) started narrating as well. Too much!

For a 3-hour movie, you shouldn't have needed that much narration.

R32 and yet it continued to live long in the shorty commuter suburb I was raised in well into the early 2000s.

R4- You mean her RATTY KOREAN WIG

Sharon Stone once gifted her dork husband with a private trip to the zoo, and he ended up having a toe bitten off by a komodo dragon or something.

"Mensa member," my ass!

To me, Sharon is able to come off as harder and more mercenary than Michelle Pfeiffer so I thought she was perfect in this role.

Michelle Pfeiffer already played a gangster's moll in "Scarface," and she was bored out of her tits.

Sharon Stone plays a more natural/believable lunatic, because she's already there in her actual life. She doesn't have to act.

R38 agreed.

[quote]Joe Pesci had an obvious eye lift done shortly before Casino.

R34, Pesci had a full facelift to go with his wig before the filming of Goodfellas.

It’s another well made compelling wise guy film like Goodfellows, and she’s terrific in it. She was great in Basic Instinct too.

Funny Fact: Joe Pesci was once a hairdresser.

Hairdressers aren't funny, but Pesci as a hairdresser is.

I AM CALM!!!!! Sharon was great.

As for as acting talent goes, Rickles wiped the floor with her.

Don Rickles was great in that. He played it just right. Frank Vincent (Phil Leotardo in Sopranos) as well.

SS said in an interview that Scorcese seemed to want her as window dressing, and didn't include her in talks about character, scenes, etc. She begged him to be treated like a professional and he relented, thus we have the performance we're still talking about.

^ Scorcese knew the score, Sharon was LOUSY.

SS is good, but Joe Pesci is a standout in this film.

What R5 said.

Sharon Stone was excellent in this, but agree that her speaking voice is lacking. Not a "screeching" voice but tinny and thin. Not as bad as Madonna, but in that vein.

R51 interesting I think just the opposite - Pfeiffer is the better actress but she has a rather whiny, nasal speaking voice she often sounds like she has a cold. Stone has much more commanding and “trained sounding” speaking voice. I love it personally.

Her best work:

Basic Instinct

Casino

The Muse

Did we decide if SS should have won the Oscar instead of SS that year?

R47, Scorsese loves beautiful blondes and they visually elevate his films, but they're never excellent in their roles, giving cartoonish or amateurish performances: Cybill Shepherd, Cathy Moriarty, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sharon Stone, Cameron Diaz, Margot Robbie.

Maybe he doesn't direct women well?

I would say the roles aren’t as meaty as the men's. But he tends to make movies about about boys' clubs, told from the point of view of men. And, fwiw, I would not included Pfeiffer and Moriarty on that list. They were terrific. As was Bracco in Goodfellas, of course.

I love Stone in Casino, but the movie's too long and too much of it is a re-tred of earlier, better Scorsese material.

Of the actresses nominated for Best Actress that year, I though that Elisabeth Shue is Leaving Las Vegas gave the strongest performance, but the not nominated Nicole Kidmam really should have won for To Die For. I have no problem with Sarandon winning though.

I love her as the evil robot wife in "Total Recall", the western "The Quick And The Dead" and the remake of "Diabolique".