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
― *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
― *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 MountainSynecdoche...Wendy and LucyBlue 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
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
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
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