Michelle Williams vs Carey Mulligan

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They are practically the same person. They should play sisters. Do you have a preference?

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Poll Results

OptionVotes
Michelle 45
Carey 18


buzza, Friday, 9 September 2011 17:12 (twelve years ago) link

Love Michelle. Loathe Carey.

Gus Van Sant's Gerry Blank (Eric H.), Friday, 9 September 2011 17:13 (twelve years ago) link

Love that you reversed their pics, tho, to drive your point home.

Gus Van Sant's Gerry Blank (Eric H.), Friday, 9 September 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link

michelle, because of the shia labeouf taint

sonderangerbot, Friday, 9 September 2011 17:17 (twelve years ago) link

i think carey rocks the pixie look a bit better, prefer long-haired michelle

buzza, Friday, 9 September 2011 17:19 (twelve years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HcF7Ux4Yag&NR=1

buzza, Friday, 9 September 2011 18:06 (twelve years ago) link

I haven't seen a single decent Mulligan movie or performance.

Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 September 2011 18:08 (twelve years ago) link

michelle >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> carey!!!!

not sure why i have such strong feelings about this.

you've got male (jim in glasgow), Friday, 9 September 2011 18:09 (twelve years ago) link

Her specialty is cute bobble-headed sincerity, and it makes my skin crawl.

Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 September 2011 18:09 (twelve years ago) link

love michelle. didn't realize everyone hated carey. i don't think i've ever seen her in anything.

horseshoe, Friday, 9 September 2011 18:10 (twelve years ago) link

i thought her precocious schoolgirl movie was ok

goole, Friday, 9 September 2011 18:11 (twelve years ago) link

Mulligan was the only thing in the Wall Street sequel that didn't make me irrationally angry

although there was so much TheBeef in that movie, TheBeefing all over the place, I might have given anyone a free pass in that role

Tal Berkowitz - Vaccine advocate (DJP), Friday, 9 September 2011 18:11 (twelve years ago) link

CM's that is

xp

goole, Friday, 9 September 2011 18:11 (twelve years ago) link

Mulligan cried a lot in Wall Street 2, didn't she

Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 September 2011 18:13 (twelve years ago) link

well her dad was a total dick in it, it's not a surprise

Tal Berkowitz - Vaccine advocate (DJP), Friday, 9 September 2011 18:14 (twelve years ago) link

i like carey mulligan but i LOVE michelle williams

max, Friday, 9 September 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link

Williams gets more impressive and handsome with each movie.

Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 September 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link

michelle williams is best friends with busy phillips
carey mulligan used to date shia lebeouf

NUFF SAID

max, Friday, 9 September 2011 18:23 (twelve years ago) link

more Michelle love...

rip van wanko, Friday, 9 September 2011 18:31 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah, Carey is charming and adorable, but I respect Michelle more as an actress and person.

*ter jacket (jaymc), Friday, 9 September 2011 18:32 (twelve years ago) link

In interviews, Michelle is so serious sometimes that it comes off as haughty, but I think she's just someone who finds a lot of reward in acting and isn't as comfortable with all the other trappings of celebrity.

*ter jacket (jaymc), Friday, 9 September 2011 18:35 (twelve years ago) link

Well, when you've got an elephant in the room like MW's dead babydaddy...

Status Update...in my Seether? (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 9 September 2011 18:37 (twelve years ago) link

michelle williams is an angel, carey mulligan's a slag

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Friday, 9 September 2011 18:38 (twelve years ago) link

Much love for Carey, but Michelle is Binoche-like in her ability to get more beautiful as the years move on.

Gukbe, Friday, 9 September 2011 18:43 (twelve years ago) link

omg MICHELLE!!!

otm everyone itt so far, but also she is a nice person. she kindly held a door for me at a show in chapel hill(bright eyes/grandaddy iirc lol had to have been at least 10 years ago) -- she was there b/c of dawson's creek and also she was dating some local musician dude -- and her beauty was like a dazzling bright light, no exaggeration

it's also hard to know how carey will age because she is 15

i drive a wood paneled station dragon (La Lechera), Friday, 9 September 2011 18:49 (twelve years ago) link

I love Carey, I've never paid any attention to Michelle.

Matt DC, Friday, 9 September 2011 19:17 (twelve years ago) link

Oh it's her from Dawson's Creek. Still Carey.

Matt DC, Friday, 9 September 2011 19:18 (twelve years ago) link

I think every girl I've had a crush on has been 50% Jen Lindley.

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 9 September 2011 19:22 (twelve years ago) link

i feel like the 'practically the same person' in the same way that a piece of cheap of glass and a diamond are 'practically the same stone'

Lamp, Friday, 9 September 2011 19:32 (twelve years ago) link

the la beef connection is a little eugh but i have to say i don't quiiite get the hate for CM.

goole, Friday, 9 September 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link

Gotta say I'm pretty trepidatious about Michelle's forthcoming Marilyn Monroe biopic, though.

*ter jacket (jaymc), Friday, 9 September 2011 19:47 (twelve years ago) link

http://cdni.condenast.co.uk/592x888/o_r/rzellweger_gl_23apr10_pa_b_592x888.jpg

HEY WAIT GUYS WHAT ABOUT MEEEE, I'M NOT TOO OLD TO BE DESCRIBED AS A 'PIXIE' ALREADY AM I!?!?!?

Tal Bachman - Highness advocate (some dude), Friday, 9 September 2011 19:59 (twelve years ago) link

i have some kind of irrational hatred of girls who look like they're squinting even when they're not tbh

Tal Bachman - Highness advocate (some dude), Friday, 9 September 2011 20:00 (twelve years ago) link

hilarious pic

goole, Friday, 9 September 2011 20:03 (twelve years ago) link

Stone cold

Taylor Swift has the same little eyes/big mouth but not the hair.

i drive a wood paneled station dragon (La Lechera), Friday, 9 September 2011 20:05 (twelve years ago) link

Michelle wins vs anyone. No problem with Carey but she needs to get some good movies / roles. Oh that 'Drive' looks good.

abcfsk, Friday, 9 September 2011 20:06 (twelve years ago) link

people who LOATHE carey are pretty fuckin weird. she has poor taste in guys i guess [off colour 'hope mumford guy kills himself, that way they'd be even more similar' joek] but enh.

voted carey bc she does better work in 'an education' and 'never let me go' than i've seen from MW. who i don't dislike, but i had to look at imdb to see what she's done. there's a few things i ought to watch but im not bowled over. and im somewhat more stoked for 'shame' than MW playing marilyn.

a hurrrr hurrrr (history mayne), Friday, 9 September 2011 20:11 (twelve years ago) link

also carey was in a michael mann movie

a hurrrr hurrrr (history mayne), Friday, 9 September 2011 20:12 (twelve years ago) link

Whatev, An Education is terrrrible inside and out.

Gus Van Sant's Gerry Blank (Eric H.), Friday, 9 September 2011 20:20 (twelve years ago) link

Even Rosamund Pike is *yawn*

Gus Van Sant's Gerry Blank (Eric H.), Friday, 9 September 2011 20:21 (twelve years ago) link

well, you have bad taste

a hurrrr hurrrr (history mayne), Friday, 9 September 2011 20:22 (twelve years ago) link

And you have arrogance.

Gus Van Sant's Gerry Blank (Eric H.), Friday, 9 September 2011 20:23 (twelve years ago) link

win-win?

Tal Berkowitz - Vaccine advocate (DJP), Friday, 9 September 2011 20:25 (twelve years ago) link

Score one, mod.

Gus Van Sant's Gerry Blank (Eric H.), Friday, 9 September 2011 20:26 (twelve years ago) link

history mayne OTM

had no idea ppl disliked CM so much!

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 9 September 2011 20:26 (twelve years ago) link

too twee. i'm not super into girls who look like small boys. i've only seen her in lame movies and she wasn't good in them. can see where the hate comes from. although personally cgaf.

you've got male (jim in glasgow), Friday, 9 September 2011 20:28 (twelve years ago) link

'an education' was great, but prob not pretty and boring enough for ppl who think douglas sirk films set the high water mark for cinema.

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 9 September 2011 20:29 (twelve years ago) link

On no, actually An Education was plenty boring enough.

Gus Van Sant's Gerry Blank (Eric H.), Friday, 9 September 2011 20:30 (twelve years ago) link

Don't people hate Carey for the same reason they dislike Zooey Deschanel: wide-eyed doll-like ingenues that "sensitive" dudes fawn over?

*ter jacket (jaymc), Friday, 9 September 2011 20:30 (twelve years ago) link

like MW's dead babydaddy

Wait, WHAT?!

em vee equals pea queue (Michael White), Friday, 9 September 2011 20:32 (twelve years ago) link

surprise, you have a babydaddy (he dead tho)

Tal Berkowitz - Vaccine advocate (DJP), Friday, 9 September 2011 20:33 (twelve years ago) link

You are NOT the dead babydaddy.

Gus Van Sant's Gerry Blank (Eric H.), Friday, 9 September 2011 20:34 (twelve years ago) link

It came as one helluva shock to me, let me tell you

em vee equals pea queue (Michael White), Friday, 9 September 2011 20:36 (twelve years ago) link

An Education is so boring it could only have been directed by a man.

Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 September 2011 20:37 (twelve years ago) link

Boring enough for a man, made for a woman.

Gus Van Sant's Gerry Blank (Eric H.), Friday, 9 September 2011 20:38 (twelve years ago) link

i have never seen a carey mulligan movie but has she been in something as horrible as Deception? (michelle looked vv pretty tho)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFgFQekrVIE

buzza, Friday, 9 September 2011 20:38 (twelve years ago) link

CM was cute in 'An Education' (and Pike wasn't dull!) but she's no Michelle Williams.

em vee equals pea queue (Michael White), Friday, 9 September 2011 20:38 (twelve years ago) link

Man, I know it's middlebrow and all, but I found An Education pretty gripping.

*ter jacket (jaymc), Friday, 9 September 2011 20:40 (twelve years ago) link

I don't mind middlebrow -- I mind middlemuddled.

Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 September 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link

I mind boring.

Gus Van Sant's Gerry Blank (Eric H.), Friday, 9 September 2011 20:43 (twelve years ago) link

you guys are silly

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 9 September 2011 20:45 (twelve years ago) link

Sillier than a movie that posits Skarsgaaaaaaaard (with that accent!) and Mulligan as a couple? Sillier than those scenes with her bickering parents?

Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 September 2011 20:46 (twelve years ago) link

I'd mind less if I didn't read a positive review which didn't praise the movie in the same terms over and over ("The debut of the next Audrey Hepburn"! "Quirky!" "British!" "It has Oscar written all over it!"). I'm sure I didn't read them all.

Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 September 2011 20:48 (twelve years ago) link

Cracks > An Education, as far as movies about the debasement of upper class British dolls goes.

Gus Van Sant's Gerry Blank (Eric H.), Friday, 9 September 2011 20:50 (twelve years ago) link

Sillier than a movie that posits Skarsgaaaaaaaard (with that accent!) and Mulligan as a couple?

You don't buy that Jenny would fall for a sophisticated handsome older guy or that he's enough of a cad to take advantage of her?

*ter jacket (jaymc), Friday, 9 September 2011 20:53 (twelve years ago) link

Granted, Molina is kind of a cartoon.

*ter jacket (jaymc), Friday, 9 September 2011 20:54 (twelve years ago) link

Don't people hate Carey for the same reason they dislike Zooey Deschanel: wide-eyed doll-like ingenues that "sensitive" dudes fawn over?

― *ter jacket (jaymc), Friday, September 9, 2011 4:30 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark

there's probably some crossover there but it feels different to me since CM hasn't taken any unpleasant stabs at being a singer or comic actress yet

some dude, Friday, 9 September 2011 20:54 (twelve years ago) link

I feel like they provoke the same kind of "you guys" eye-rolling from women.

*ter jacket (jaymc), Friday, 9 September 2011 20:59 (twelve years ago) link

Deschanel's an okay actress who comes off worse because most of her roles are written as male-indie fantasies by and for men.

Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 September 2011 21:00 (twelve years ago) link

Which must be why I don't hate her...

em vee equals pea queue (Michael White), Friday, 9 September 2011 21:05 (twelve years ago) link

to whatever extent i've even heard of anyone discuss CM it seems like she's well liked by women, although she seems like one of those """"famous"""" types who gets an Oscar nod and a bunch of roles in movies that weren't necessarily big hits before people in America really have any idea who she is and is still in the middle of that process

some dude, Friday, 9 September 2011 21:07 (twelve years ago) link

Love Michelle. Loathe Carey.

― Gus Van Sant's Gerry Blank (Eric H.), Friday, September 9, 2011 5:13 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

pandemic, Friday, 9 September 2011 21:07 (twelve years ago) link

Zooey at least seems like she has some personality (for better or worse), instead of being a vacant pursed mouth porcelain doll

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Friday, 9 September 2011 21:10 (twelve years ago) link

yeah noone will ever want to drown Mulligan

some dude, Friday, 9 September 2011 21:14 (twelve years ago) link

I don't usually loathe celebrities until they do something egregious or have annoying voices or something. CM is at the very distant periphery of my consciousness (until someone mentioned 'An Ed' I wouldn't have put her together with the person mentioned wrt laBeouf) and that's all I know her from; a cute film that I barely remember. She's cute. We'll see if that turns into anything.

em vee equals pea queue (Michael White), Friday, 9 September 2011 21:23 (twelve years ago) link

Don't people hate Carey for the same reason they dislike Zooey Deschanel: wide-eyed doll-like ingenues that "sensitive" dudes fawn over?

― *ter jacket (jaymc), Friday, September 9, 2011 9:30 PM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark

CM in her movies isn't an ingenue exactly (she's a gamine, if that's a noun), have no idea what her 'star brand' is, but it's not like zoey's whatever it is. zo-zo's is pretty toxic at this point.

h8 sensitive dudes tho

a hurrrr hurrrr (history mayne), Friday, 9 September 2011 21:27 (twelve years ago) link

Gamine is a noun not an adjective.

em vee equals pea queue (Michael White), Friday, 9 September 2011 21:29 (twelve years ago) link

I haven't followed Zooey enough to see the toxicity. I'm awfully sensitive but I'm kinda lazy.

em vee equals pea queue (Michael White), Friday, 9 September 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link

gamine can be an adjective

anyway, CM's brand probably more towards zoey's 'your highness'* co-star nathalie portman: small, short-haired fine-featured ladies who do the acting

*a truly toxic film

a hurrrr hurrrr (history mayne), Friday, 9 September 2011 21:32 (twelve years ago) link

Can't remember being impressed by Michelle Williams in anything, Carey Mulligan is always pretty good but has pretty much only been in dire movies.

Melissa W, Friday, 9 September 2011 21:32 (twelve years ago) link

Brokeback Mountain
Synecdoche...
Wendy and Lucy
Blue Valentine

Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 September 2011 21:34 (twelve years ago) link

i liked carey mulligan when i first saw her in the Bleak House miniseries, in fact i am annoyed to realize that she doesn't somehow permanently exist in victorian london.

six or less and racist (reddening), Friday, 9 September 2011 21:36 (twelve years ago) link

Oh, I thought she was awful in Brokeback Mountain. x-post

Melissa W, Friday, 9 September 2011 21:36 (twelve years ago) link

speaking of zooey being toxic was there ever a thread for "our idiot brother"? her wide-eyed loveliness was really grating in that film

six or less and racist (reddening), Friday, 9 September 2011 21:38 (twelve years ago) link

This reminds me that I still want to see 'Blue Valentine'.

em vee equals pea queue (Michael White), Friday, 9 September 2011 21:39 (twelve years ago) link

DICK

balls, Friday, 9 September 2011 21:39 (twelve years ago) link

What should she do, squint?

xpost

em vee equals pea queue (Michael White), Friday, 9 September 2011 21:39 (twelve years ago) link

directed by sarah polley!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckNV55kpsDw

buzza, Friday, 9 September 2011 21:40 (twelve years ago) link

I have never seen any films with Carey Mulligan in.

post, Friday, 9 September 2011 21:40 (twelve years ago) link

I love her though

post, Friday, 9 September 2011 21:40 (twelve years ago) link

really wish there was a clip of michelle williams singing 'i honestly love you' into nixon's tape recorder but ours is a cruel and injust world. carey mulligan seems cute enough, has yet to appear in any movie i have the slightest interest in seeing.

balls, Friday, 9 September 2011 21:42 (twelve years ago) link

is that the dude from sons of anarchy?

balls, Friday, 9 September 2011 21:43 (twelve years ago) link

looking up 'gamine' for myself led to this treasure trove of treats

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Terms_for_females

goole, Friday, 9 September 2011 21:44 (twelve years ago) link

carey, even though I've only seen her on Doctor Who and the Bleak House miniseries. She was way more memorable in both those shows and the ten minutes of An Education that I caught than all of Michelle Williams roles put together (scrolling through her imdb page, I've seen BM, Synecdoche, Deception, and I'm Not There and pretty much forgot she was in all of them).

Roz, Friday, 9 September 2011 21:45 (twelve years ago) link

was there ever a thread for "our idiot brother"?

kept meaning to see this but couldn't work up the get-up-and-go for some reason

good story i know

goole, Friday, 9 September 2011 21:45 (twelve years ago) link

so incorporating 'betel nut beauty' into everyday speech

balls, Friday, 9 September 2011 21:46 (twelve years ago) link

Wonder if CM's Shame role will change anyone's mind. (Doubtful.)

Simon H., Friday, 9 September 2011 22:17 (twelve years ago) link

Don't people hate Carey for the same reason they dislike Zooey Deschanel: wide-eyed doll-like ingenues that "sensitive" dudes fawn over?

― *ter jacket (jaymc), Friday, September 9, 2011 4:30 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark

there's probably some crossover there but it feels different to me since CM hasn't taken any unpleasant stabs at being a singer or comic actress yet

― some dude, Friday, September 9, 2011 3:54 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

It's only a matter of time...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDTUAgMu6VU

Although I kinda like CM on this track.

Status Update...in my Seether? (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 10 September 2011 06:57 (twelve years ago) link

Williams is my favorite living actress.

abcfsk, Saturday, 10 September 2011 07:01 (twelve years ago) link

i love michelle williams esp how from her dawson's creek beginnings she has blossomed into like legitimate actress, carey mulligan seems kindof pointless she is like the indie is the new mainstream kate bosworth

plax (ico), Saturday, 10 September 2011 11:29 (twelve years ago) link

like there is essentially no point in her existing

plax (ico), Saturday, 10 September 2011 11:29 (twelve years ago) link

Williams has a depth of character and gravitas she can bring to the table that Carey doesn't yet, from what I've seen of her. Surprised at the dislike of CM. Williams is the clear winner for me.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 10 September 2011 11:50 (twelve years ago) link

Williams was awesome in blue valentine and she looks like a yung Shirley MacLaine

ima.tumblr.com (@imsothin) (m bison), Saturday, 10 September 2011 12:15 (twelve years ago) link

sacrilege imo, maclaine shall always be the squinty pixie queene

some dude, Saturday, 10 September 2011 13:41 (twelve years ago) link

i love michelle williams esp how from her dawson's creek beginnings she has blossomed into like legitimate actress, carey mulligan seems kindof pointless she is like the indie is the new mainstream kate bosworth

― plax (ico), Saturday, September 10, 2011 7:29 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

otm, and even when she was on Dawson's Creek you could tell there was an adventurousness about her (around the same time she was pretty good in If These Walls Could Talk 2). Wendy & Lucy made me really aware of how much she'd matured, and she just killed it in Blue Valentine

billy, Saturday, 10 September 2011 15:06 (twelve years ago) link

omg Carey Mulligan was FANTASTIC on Doctor Who

Tal Berkowitz - Vaccine advocate (DJP), Saturday, 10 September 2011 15:56 (twelve years ago) link

Friend told me last night that I HAD to see Never Let Me Go - she thought Michelle Williams was in it.

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 10 September 2011 16:18 (twelve years ago) link

Much love for Carey, but Michelle is Binoche-like in her ability to get more beautiful as the years move on.

― Gukbe, Friday, September 9, 2011 6:43 PM (Yesterday)

^^^i like this, yeah

I think we'll have a better idea about Carey later this year when we've had a chance to see both DRIVE and SHAME. But she's very good in AN EDUCATION and also NEVER LET ME GO.

BLUE VALENTINE is bad, much worse than AN EDUCATION, which has a few missteps (Paris + ending) but is mostly very fun comfort food.

MEEK'S CUTOFF forever.

✇ (Tape Store), Saturday, 10 September 2011 17:36 (twelve years ago) link

haha. carey mully crushes in that imho, i don't really take plax's opinions srsly on anything but 'there is essentially no point in her existing'? idk where this comes from, ditto the other haters. michelle williams has done a lot more and so most of it is bound to be indifferent. she did a good british accent in that one film.

dawsons creek was a thing that existed, i doubt it's better or worse than 90210 or whatever kids of 2011 watch.

a hurrrr hurrrr (history mayne), Saturday, 10 September 2011 17:37 (twelve years ago) link

xp

a hurrrr hurrrr (history mayne), Saturday, 10 September 2011 17:37 (twelve years ago) link

How is this even a contest. I really liked CM in Blink but that's about it, but Michelle is wonderful.

¯\(°_o)/¯ (Nicole), Saturday, 10 September 2011 17:53 (twelve years ago) link

Joan Collins has blasted Kate Winslet's "awful" hair and "dreadful" dress sense.

The 78-year-old actress is stunned by the Oscar winner's disappointing outfit choices and slammed her "ghastly" accessorising at the recent Venice Film Festival.

When shown a picture of the Reader star, Joan - who is famous for her glamorous look - said: "Oh, that's a dreadful dress. The worst dress. And ghastly shoes and an awful hairstyle. I'm sorry."

As well as being critical of Kate, Joan also blasted singer Adele, Gwyneth Paltrow - who recently described her late grandmother as a "****" - and admitted she is unhappy that An Education star Carey Mulligan is to star in a forthcoming production of My Fair Lady.

She told the Daily Telegraph newspaper: "Is (Gwyneth) the one who called her grandmother a rude word on air? I thought that was pretty shocking.

"I don't want to comment on Carey Mulligan. I can't believe she's playing Eliza Doolittle in a new movie.

"Adele is a very good singer, very, very talented, but she has a terrible hairpiece."

etsy buttez (buzza), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 07:45 (twelve years ago) link

Once you've gone Nolan Miller, everything/everbody else is just shabby.

¯\(°_o)/¯ (Nicole), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 12:52 (twelve years ago) link

It's a lonely world being the only person who can't stand Williams. :(
Don't think I have any idea who Mulligan is though...

Zonules of Zinn (dowd), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 22:08 (twelve years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link

i'm with you dowd

some dude, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 00:29 (twelve years ago) link

I love MW. I don't think I've ever seen CM in anything so I can't really say I dislike her but she's definitely less cute.

your mom the burrito (ENBB), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 00:31 (twelve years ago) link

pretty much the most negative response i can ever have to pretty ladies being pretty is when modern starlets dress up like someone like marilyn monroe, just terrible

some dude, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 00:34 (twelve years ago) link

i like carey mulligan but i LOVE michelle williams

― max, Friday, 9 September 2011 19:21 (5 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this, in terms of films. but the opposite in terms of cuteness. i think cm may be my #1 celebrity crush right now.

Ravaging Rick Rude (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 00:35 (twelve years ago) link

that vogue cover really doesn't work, nor do the photos inside from what i can tell online. i still love you, though, michelle!

horseshoe, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 00:36 (twelve years ago) link

mw seems like a real human being, however pixie-ish, whereas carey mulligan actually looks like she just stepped out of an enchanted wardrobe or some shit, which i cannot abide.

strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 00:37 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah that cover is pretty awful. x-post

your mom the burrito (ENBB), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 00:37 (twelve years ago) link

http://i2.listal.com/image/719936/600full-carey-mulligan.jpg

~~looking into my soul~~

Ravaging Rick Rude (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 00:37 (twelve years ago) link

like to the point where i have the uncontrollable urge to do some kinda whiney-esque OI IM SO CHARMINGSLY-WARMINGSLY shit

strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 00:38 (twelve years ago) link

Can I just say that I was chatting to horseshoe whenever this poll started and before anyone had even posted I was like - THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS - HOW IS THIS EVEN A QUESTION!? - but I couldn't bring myself to be unbanned just so I could post on a thread about MW no matter how much I like her.

your mom the burrito (ENBB), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 00:39 (twelve years ago) link

haha i wasn't going to blow up your spot but i totally would have understood breaking a self-ban for that reason. also Nicole had your back:

How is this even a contest. I really liked CM in Blink but that's about it, but Michelle is wonderful.

― ¯\(°_o)/¯ (Nicole), Saturday, September 10, 2011 1:53 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark

horseshoe, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 00:40 (twelve years ago) link

also so glad you came back e.

Ravaging Rick Rude (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 00:40 (twelve years ago) link

:) thx sam

x-post - I know! I totally wanted to otm her when I saw that post. I mean, I did kind of, in my head.

your mom the burrito (ENBB), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 00:42 (twelve years ago) link

i voted for michelle. probably would have created some socks to vote for her some more if i'd seen an education.

caek, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 02:20 (twelve years ago) link

explain in easy-to-understand-words what michelle williams has done to earn all this love

or are yall on some http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/fa34df6f44/pacey-con-with-joshua-jackson?playlist=1424 shit?

watching my swag like a hawk (history mayne), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 07:48 (twelve years ago) link

explain in easy-to-understand-words what michelle williams has done to earn all this love

or are yall on some http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/fa34df6f44/pacey-con-with-joshua-jackson?playlist=1424 shit?

― watching my swag like a hawk (history mayne), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 08:48 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

1. she is v. talented, shining in otherwise shit movies (shutter island) or making otherwise dull ideas worth watching (wendy and lucy)
2. she is v. pretty
3. she seems chill, from the rare amount of interviews she does. none of that 'that girl so annoying that i want to fuck her' stuff, that girl is nice so ilx is in love.

Ravaging Rick Rude (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 09:41 (twelve years ago) link

didn't she just get set on fire in 'shutter island'? i can't remember, and i even liked that film a little. emily mortimer actually shone iirc.

being pretty isn't that unusual among top-tier actresses, though id agree that vanity fair did her no favours with the marilyn thing. (well: sorta: it's not all VF: she has done a film playing marilyn. but they made emma stone look less than lovely which is a kind of achievement.)

i think someone told me carey mulls is an irl lovely person but i might have got wires crossed.

watching my swag like a hawk (history mayne), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 09:45 (twelve years ago) link

Is there actually any similarity between them other than the same haircut?

Carey is mostly good in underwhelming films (An Education, Never Let Me Go) but hasn't really got much under her belt yet. Going "there is essentially no point in her existing" is a fucking weird thing to say.

I've barely seen anything Michelle's been in actually, but I get the feeling Carey is several years behind her in terms of career.

Matt DC, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 10:18 (twelve years ago) link

Also I'm not sure I believe all these people who are bigging up Michelle like she's Cate Blanchett or something.

Matt DC, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 10:19 (twelve years ago) link

helps that we all grew up w/ dawsons creek knowing that the brunette poised to be the breakout star was going to end up mental and the blonde who didnt get as much screen time was where its at

Ravaging Rick Rude (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 10:31 (twelve years ago) link

Dawson's Creek - An education

abcfsk, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 10:49 (twelve years ago) link

She's had a bit of Mumford in her in the past but less so now.

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy)

buzza, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 14:40 (twelve years ago) link

explain in easy-to-understand-words what michelle williams has done to earn all this love

or are yall on some http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/fa34df6f44/pacey-con-with-joshua-jackson?playlist=1424 shit?

― watching my swag like a hawk (history mayne), Wednesday, September 14, 2011 3:48 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

crass to say but i always thought the heath ledger thing got her a lot of public sympathy

some dude, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 15:13 (twelve years ago) link

nope

abcfsk, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 15:15 (twelve years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link

whoever wins, we all squint

some dude, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 23:16 (twelve years ago) link

I haven't seen a single Mulligan movie or performance, except the Bleak House miniseries apparently, in which I didn't recall her.

However, she has legit stage chops it seems -- I would've gone to the off-Bway version of Through a Glass Darkly if I had the cash. And I will be seeing Shame in about 3 weeks.

jaymc, it's A WEEK with Marilyn that M.W. is playing, so it's not a biopic.

incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 September 2011 02:03 (twelve years ago) link

which one is charlie's ungirlfriend?

http://i.imgur.com/JDZcn.jpg

del griffith, Thursday, 15 September 2011 02:24 (twelve years ago) link

MW gets more ethereal every time I see her. She's like a Christmas tree fairy. I <3 her

Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 15 September 2011 02:41 (twelve years ago) link

seconding carey mulligan as a stage actress. i saw her in the seagull, and she was fantastic.

kaygee, Thursday, 15 September 2011 04:38 (twelve years ago) link

while she has no character and doesn't do anything to elevate a part that was barely written at all, Mulligan is pretty stunning in Drive.

Gukbe, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 04:58 (twelve years ago) link

^^^This. The key thing is Mulligan photographs well, and they built on that. That one bit where she's fixing her hair before going out on the drive, the scene where we find out the husband's coming home, really got to me.

The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 06:14 (twelve years ago) link

is there a thread about drive?

flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 09:02 (twelve years ago) link

thankyou

flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 09:16 (twelve years ago) link

one month passes...

Michelle recently opened up to Elle about her hair: “What [my daughter] Matilda would love is for her mom to grow out the cropped hair, though that’s unlikely to happen any time soon. I’ve really grown into it - I feel like myself with short hair. And it’s been a really long time since I had long hair, five years. Of course, the only people who like it are gay men and my girlfriends. Straight men across the board are not into this hair!”

buzza, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 18:10 (twelve years ago) link

Her hair looks amazing super short like that. Not many people carry that off well but she does so perfectly. Straight men should STFU.

Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 18:12 (twelve years ago) link

"celebitchy"

Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 18:13 (twelve years ago) link

woody_allen_vs_andre_previn_who_did__mia_farrow__better

buzza, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 18:15 (twelve years ago) link

oh buzza

Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 18:16 (twelve years ago) link

haha!

goole, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 18:18 (twelve years ago) link

michelle's otm about the super short hair ime

i finally saw carey mulligan in a movie and she seemed really shockingly smug.

the MMMM cult (La Lechera), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 18:50 (twelve years ago) link

she's not good in Drive but it's not really her fault, she's horribly miscast.

jed_, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 22:53 (twelve years ago) link

five months pass...

Actress Carey Mulligan shunned traditional wedding shoes and wore rain boots as she exchanged vows with folk rocker Marcus Mumford in the English countryside on Saturday.

;_;

stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 03:22 (twelve years ago) link

like tears in rain boots

;_;

― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Monday, April 23, 2012 11:22 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

im right there with you dude

call all destroyer, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 03:24 (twelve years ago) link

you have been shunned like so many traditional wedding shoes

colin firth was there which just makes me furious

call all destroyer, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 03:26 (twelve years ago) link

otoh Michelle Williams dating Jason Segel at the moment makes me inexplicably happy. they just seem like nice people imo.

Roz, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 16:10 (twelve years ago) link

I thought Carey Mulligan was still married to Tom Cruise

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 16:13 (twelve years ago) link

Why would anyone marry Marcus Mumford, come on now.

Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:16 (twelve years ago) link

why would anyone date shia labeouf for that matter

Roz, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:39 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah she clearly has some seriously questionable taste.

wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:39 (twelve years ago) link

four weeks pass...

Carey Mulligan Vs Zoe Ball

Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 21:17 (eleven years ago) link

i watched 'take this waltz', it was really shitty, tho not really michelles fault

johnny crunch, Sunday, 27 May 2012 03:58 (eleven years ago) link

jennifer lawrence has stolen the squinty blonde throne imo

--niccimanewhore (some dude), Sunday, 27 May 2012 04:07 (eleven years ago) link

Shame = first time I sort of didn't mind Carey. I would say it must've helped her to be surrounded by such a completely horrible movie, but that didn't work when it was An Education, so she must have improved in the in between.

Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Sunday, 27 May 2012 04:19 (eleven years ago) link

Take This Waltz has good stuff but yeah mostly shit

Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Sunday, 27 May 2012 06:01 (eleven years ago) link

how have you even seen take this waltz? is it because it is vod? who even has vod? how does it worK?

Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Sunday, 27 May 2012 07:41 (eleven years ago) link

i watched it on VOD tonight. It turns up as an option, and you click "buy".

Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Sunday, 27 May 2012 07:47 (eleven years ago) link

amazing

Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Sunday, 27 May 2012 07:55 (eleven years ago) link

sarah polley is horrible, horrible, horrible. that michelle williams on baywatch thing is adorable. i hope that's still in her demo reel, not that she probably has such a thing.

flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Sunday, 27 May 2012 12:14 (eleven years ago) link

otoh Michelle Williams dating Jason Segel at the moment makes me inexplicably happy. they just seem like nice people imo.

― Roz, Tuesday, April 24, 2012 11:10 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^^^^^

he bit me (it felt like a diss) (m bison), Sunday, 27 May 2012 14:21 (eleven years ago) link

Did Mulligan and Mumford get married in a muddy manger?

Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 27 May 2012 14:29 (eleven years ago) link

she was great in SHAME but i hated the film. just for once i'd like to see a *positive*, upbeat movie about some urban geezer
who can't connect to people and bangs everything in sight.

piscesx, Sunday, 27 May 2012 14:58 (eleven years ago) link

American Psycho iirc

Björk lied (Eric H.), Monday, 28 May 2012 17:52 (eleven years ago) link

i thought her precocious schoolgirl movie was ok

― goole, Friday, September 9, 2011 6:11 PM (8 months ago)

This was an extremely drab and boring movie, BTW.

She was good in Doctor Who.

I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 01:44 (eleven years ago) link

two years pass...

time to revisit this? i'm afraid to re-watch an education b/c i'm afraid it won't hold up. carey mulligan also seems so much worse since she took up with marcus mumford. i mean, i don't know that i've seen much of her since then -- except for inside llewyn davis, i guess? -- but just the fact that she is married to him.

but i will totally see suffragette in which i gather she is the star but meryl streep showboats as emmeline pankhurst.

jaymc, Friday, 12 September 2014 06:12 (nine years ago) link

two years pass...

“Michelle Williams is in early talks to take on the role of rock icon Janis Joplin in a new biopic directed by Sean Durkin, the director of Martha Marcy May Marlene,” reports the Guardian‘s Catherine Shoard. “The film, titled Janis, is based the singer’s sister Laura Joplin’s book Love, Janis, which uses the singer’s letters to track her life from the coffee house roots of her career through to Woodstock, when she struggled with alcohol and drug addiction to cope with her sudden celebrity.”

The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 20:52 (seven years ago) link

An illustrated slide show of the documentary, great

legitimate concerns about ducks (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 21:03 (seven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssT1Bw3z3EU

Gukbe, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 09:57 (seven years ago) link

three years pass...

A very long time ago I watched a documentary about Dawson's Creek, there was lots of interviews with fans, all the fans hated the character Williams played. Why is this? I watched a fair amount of Dawson's Creek and I don't recall there being anything wrong with her character.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 21 June 2020 23:08 (three years ago) link

i had no idea that she and phil elverum had split up, and that she was already remarried

mookieproof, Sunday, 21 June 2020 23:21 (three years ago) link

The writers seemed to hate Williams's character on Dawson's Creek (cf. the way they killed her in the finale) but I couldn't begin to guess what or why the Dawson's Creek fandom thinks.

Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Monday, 22 June 2020 01:03 (three years ago) link

I've only seen a few episodes and know very little about the show, but from what I recall of the pilot she was presented as the stunningly beautiful troubled girl who all the boys instantly fall for, setting up the fans to see her as a rival to relatable girl-next-door Katie Holmes.

Greetings from CHAZbury Park (Lily Dale), Monday, 22 June 2020 01:18 (three years ago) link

I lived in Wilmington while it was shooting and hobnobbed a tiny bit. Also watched the entire series almost 20 years later to look for people and places I knew there. AMA! lol
Michelle Williams & her character are all time in my book. I couldn’t recount plot points bc it has been a few years but I remember liking her in general.

No idea why the girl next door trope persists. I don’t know any girls next door aside from the ones in tv/movies.

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 22 June 2020 01:51 (three years ago) link

Yeah, the initial presentation as hot party girl could have haters I guess (ala Marissa on the OC... but no one on Gossip Girl) but that was undermined pretty quickly.

I don’t think fans disliked her at all tbh.

Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Monday, 22 June 2020 02:47 (three years ago) link

Instead of bitchy party girl she was damaged goods because she had sex, which should be a reason to hate the writers of the first two seasons.

Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Monday, 22 June 2020 02:48 (three years ago) link

except that sadly that was a thing in almost every show of its kind in the 90’s

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 June 2020 04:06 (three years ago) link

i had no idea that she and phil elverum had split up, and that she was already remarried

on celeb sites, there's all this gossip about how michelle williams got engaged, broke up, married, divorced, knocked up and married again to three different guys in the span of two years. amazing actress but she seems secretly exhausting

Roz, Monday, 22 June 2020 04:23 (three years ago) link

Well it certainly seems like a lot of traveling

flappy bird, Monday, 22 June 2020 04:25 (three years ago) link

except that sadly that was a thing in almost every show of its kind in the 90’s

for sure - One Tree Hill and Gossip Girl were the first ones I can think of that broke the mold a bit on the "hot bitchy girl" and sex fronts

Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Monday, 22 June 2020 04:28 (three years ago) link

One Tree Hill was the second rate Dawson’s Creek that shot in Wilmington! The record store was my friend’s store!

Anyone shaming Michelle Williams for decisions she makes in her personal life should probably stfu

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 22 June 2020 13:33 (three years ago) link

Not you Roz specifically but geez gossip sites are literally the worst.

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 22 June 2020 13:34 (three years ago) link

yeah seriously

k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Monday, 22 June 2020 13:35 (three years ago) link

I don’t disagree! And I don’t care at all about what Michelle Williams does - it’s just something that I remembered seeing on one of my feeds.

Roz, Monday, 22 June 2020 14:04 (three years ago) link

Michelle Williams is a marvelous actor.

TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 June 2020 14:34 (three years ago) link

I love her in all the Kelly Reichardt movies. I just looked and amazingly, of all the stuff she's done, I think I've only seen her in maybe one or two other things. Brokeback Mountain, Shutter Island, Manchester by the Sea (lol all location titles!) ... Wait, I know I saw The Station Agent but don't remember her in it, same with I'm Not There.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 22 June 2020 14:53 (three years ago) link

The first time I noticed how great she was, was in Me Without You.

I recall that Dawson's Creek documentary having a fan reaction to each character and three or more fans said "I hate her" or something along those lines and I've been reeling in confusion about it for 20 years.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 22 June 2020 18:12 (three years ago) link

I think it's 2020 and we can let that go because it was petty and hurtful -- and Michelle Williams obviously deserves better

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 22 June 2020 18:22 (three years ago) link

three years pass...

I've seen a few films I found very overrated recently, so I might have been all set up to overrate Showing Up myself, I don't know. But I liked the mood, found everyone interesting, and am an easy mark for wounded-animal stories. I even liked Judd Hirsch for a change.

clemenza, Saturday, 9 December 2023 06:53 (five months ago) link

I liked it quite a bit.

stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 9 December 2023 10:17 (five months ago) link

I find Williams performances powerful but a bit offputtingly flopsweaty - which makes her well cast in Fabelmans. Mulligan has some kind of blank screen non-charisma that for whatever reason doesn’t work for me. She’s fun in Blink.

Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 9 December 2023 14:25 (five months ago) link

I'd have to look at them side-by-side to explain why, but I found her different here than in Wendy and Lucy or Certain Women. I like Kelly Reichardt's contemporary films so much more than the two set in the 1800s.

clemenza, Saturday, 9 December 2023 14:34 (five months ago) link

two weeks pass...

A Promising Young Woman is on Netflix, so I finally caught up with that. Definitely not a good movie--didactic, and so far-fetched--but it did hold my interest just for being so weird.

clemenza, Friday, 29 December 2023 17:29 (four months ago) link

Am surprised I was so out-of-the-gate in my dislike of CM itt. I was under the mistaken impression I came by that arrival gradually

stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Friday, 29 December 2023 17:40 (four months ago) link

What is “flopsweaty”??
Michelle Williams by a mile and also she did a great job reading Britney’s book. It was like a single chapter before I accepted the voice as Britney’s.

I find CM very cold and therefore much less interesting to me.

Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 29 December 2023 17:41 (four months ago) link

xp I guess I kind of liked her in Inside Lleywn Davis ... playing someone incredibly unlikeable

stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Friday, 29 December 2023 17:41 (four months ago) link

Definitely not a good movie--didactic, and so far-fetched--but it did hold my interest just for being so weird.

I found it kind of entrancing, despite its flaws, which is why Saltburn was so disappointing to me: It was boring!

jaymc, Friday, 29 December 2023 18:56 (four months ago) link

I liked Mulligan in Wildlife but otherwise find her unbelievable.

poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 December 2023 19:00 (four months ago) link

I had to look Mulligan up. She was in Pride and Prejudice? I guess I remember her in that.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 29 December 2023 19:08 (four months ago) link


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