I am deeply attracted to Toni Collette.

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There. I've said it. Again.

Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 19:08 (eighteen years ago) link

In Her Shoes looks dire.

Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 19:14 (eighteen years ago) link

And yet, I will watch it, if only to spend 96 minutes basking in her glory.

Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 19:26 (eighteen years ago) link

In Her Shoes would look less dire with anyone but Shirley MacLaine and Cameron Diaz.

milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 19:27 (eighteen years ago) link

who the hell is she?

strng hlkngtn (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link

She's the mom in "I See Dead People" and About a Boy, and Muriel in Muriel's Wedding, and the sexbomb in The Last Shot and lots of other movies.

Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 19:31 (eighteen years ago) link

She's awesome in Muriel's Wedding. I used to have a bigtime crush on her.

gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 19:31 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm glad you've backed off, because I'm terribly jealous.

Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 19:39 (eighteen years ago) link

See also Japanese Story.

nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 20:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Search: Clockwatchers and her hilarious Citizen Kane rip-off in Velvet Goldmine

Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 20:26 (eighteen years ago) link

I loved Japanese Story!

Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 20:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Muriel's Wedding is gygax's favorite movie! I know this and it's why I saw it in the first place! and now I've seen it twice!

I can kind of see having a crush on her.

kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 20:50 (eighteen years ago) link

She is totally emotionally available to the camera, but not in a cringeworthy open-wound way.

Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 20:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Well, a little open-woundish, but nothing a bandaid won't fix.

Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 21:04 (eighteen years ago) link

When the coach is introducing Muriel to David Van Arckle, she begins making (adlibbing!) these goofy faces to David that the coach can't see and the actor (either in character or not, maybe both) is completely bewildered. I'm not familiar with her later work, but in that movie she's fantastic.

gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 21:17 (eighteen years ago) link

she is very very good in About A Boy (although not really crush-worthy unless you are HELLA FUKED UP). I really love that movie actually.

kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 21:45 (eighteen years ago) link

"When the coach is introducing Muriel to David Van Arckle, she begins making (adlibbing!) these goofy faces to David that the coach can't see and the actor (either in character or not, maybe both) is completely bewildered. I'm not familiar with her later work, but in that movie she's fantastic. "

Yes. This is one of my favourite movies ever as well.

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 22:02 (eighteen years ago) link

about a boy is great. when i first saw this thread i thought of it and thought: no you cannot be attracted to toni collette. but now that i read the love and think about it, she is awesome and you are right to be attracted to someone so talented and warm. even if the character in aab is unattractive. i approve wholeheartedly! good luck to you Huk-L!

carly (carly), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 22:11 (eighteen years ago) link

she's no toni halliday

mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 29 September 2005 01:32 (eighteen years ago) link

See 'The Boys'.

It has the added bonus of being a good film, not a shit one. Quite disturbing though...

Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 29 September 2005 04:32 (eighteen years ago) link

i remember being so shocked when i saw muriel's wedding at how much better it was than i expected it to be (iirc a roommate rented it and i had nothing better to do that night)

s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 29 September 2005 04:36 (eighteen years ago) link

"Muriel's Wedding" is great; also see "Cosi" about psychiatric patients. It's very good. Really.

salexander (salexander), Thursday, 29 September 2005 06:32 (eighteen years ago) link

its louis nowra! its on the hsc reading list! (has it got noah taylor in it too - i seem to remember?)(o fuck we have a small pool of actors)

mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 29 September 2005 06:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Yay Louis Nowra. It has many stars, including Barry Otto, Ben Mendelsohn, David Wenham, Colin Friels and RACHEL GRIFFITHS who many Americans will know from "Six Feet Under".

salexander (salexander), Thursday, 29 September 2005 07:25 (eighteen years ago) link

She is a very worthy crush.

Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 29 September 2005 11:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm glad my crush has such a high approval rating. Too bad she's married (though that's never stopped me before)(never stopped me from having an impossible-to-bring-to-fruition-crush, that is).

Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 29 September 2005 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link

She's the Yoko Ono of Gelbison.

kit brash (kit brash), Sunday, 2 October 2005 04:21 (eighteen years ago) link

I LOVE that stupid giraffe neck of hers and that face looks so clever and fuck-a-nigga-up-and-make-him-cry knowing smirk of hers. I wanna fuck her in the neck dogg like Nacho Vidal (don't judge unless you've seen Nacho pull this - it's really quite elegant and I guess the sexual equiv. of 'non-intrusive surgery'). C'est bon!

Fuckin giraffe I love you

LeCoq (LeCoq), Sunday, 2 October 2005 09:46 (eighteen years ago) link

three years pass...

man i love toni collette.

the black balloon looks possibly interesting. her new showtime series looks deeply suspect (diablo cody, hmm), but i will watch it at least once just on her account.

anyway. she's great. let's appreciate her.

(anyone but me seen the boys? scary movie, she just has a supporting role, but she's fantastic.)

tipsy mothra, Friday, 5 December 2008 02:39 (fifteen years ago) link

what a talent

what. a. talent.

Surmounter, Friday, 5 December 2008 02:40 (fifteen years ago) link

i need to watch muriel's wedding again, haven't seen it since it came out.

tipsy mothra, Friday, 5 December 2008 02:42 (fifteen years ago) link

I've prob said this before but it's based on my home town!

Cam3ron C. (wilter), Friday, 5 December 2008 02:45 (fifteen years ago) link

Also gf sold her shoes a while back and said she was v nice.

Also really did not enjoy Japanese Story.

Cam3ron C. (wilter), Friday, 5 December 2008 02:46 (fifteen years ago) link

i am deeply attracted to toni collette.

very quotatious (tehresa), Friday, 5 December 2008 02:47 (fifteen years ago) link

i am deeply attracted to toni collette.

gabbneb, Friday, 5 December 2008 02:48 (fifteen years ago) link

I wanna fuck her in the neck dogg

:O (wilter), Friday, 5 December 2008 02:49 (fifteen years ago) link

eww

Surmounter, Friday, 5 December 2008 02:50 (fifteen years ago) link

:O

:O (wilter), Friday, 5 December 2008 02:51 (fifteen years ago) link

a good actor she might be but in no way is she attractive

thereminimum chips (electricsound), Friday, 5 December 2008 02:51 (fifteen years ago) link

^^

She has a little bit of a weird head imo

:O (wilter), Friday, 5 December 2008 02:52 (fifteen years ago) link

come on. just because she looks like a chipmunk doesn't mean she's not stunning and you know it

Surmounter, Friday, 5 December 2008 02:52 (fifteen years ago) link

<3

tipsy mothra, Friday, 5 December 2008 02:57 (fifteen years ago) link

underrated piece of ass

cankles, Friday, 5 December 2008 03:00 (fifteen years ago) link

she let me tape a microphone to her boob

Every Day Jimmy Mod Is Hustlin' (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 5 December 2008 03:02 (fifteen years ago) link

<33

very quotatious (tehresa), Friday, 5 December 2008 03:03 (fifteen years ago) link

I love her but I don't think she's v attractive either. That pic may be the best I've ever seen her look.

Lady Gorgorrand (ENBB), Friday, 5 December 2008 03:03 (fifteen years ago) link

I LOVE that stupid giraffe neck of hers and that face looks so clever and fuck-a-nigga-up-and-make-him-cry knowing smirk of hers. I wanna fuck her in the neck dogg like Nacho Vidal (don't judge unless you've seen Nacho pull this - it's really quite elegant and I guess the sexual equiv. of 'non-intrusive surgery'). C'est bon!

Fuckin giraffe I love you

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Sunday, October 2, 2005 5:46 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark

underrated post

cankles, Friday, 5 December 2008 03:04 (fifteen years ago) link

Ramosi was too good for this board.

Every Day Jimmy Mod Is Hustlin' (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 5 December 2008 03:04 (fifteen years ago) link

RIP

Tanganyika laughter epidemic (gbx), Friday, 5 December 2008 03:05 (fifteen years ago) link

She's sixth sense kids mum, tis too much!

not_goodwin, Friday, 5 December 2008 03:17 (fifteen years ago) link

I'd tap it but still not forgive her for Muriel's Wedding which caused the plague of crap Australian ABBA tribute bands.

A bright pair of newcomers called BROS (King Boy Pato), Friday, 5 December 2008 09:24 (fifteen years ago) link

That's not her fault.

moley, Friday, 5 December 2008 13:45 (fifteen years ago) link

i am deeply attracted to toni collette.

ledge, Friday, 5 December 2008 14:44 (fifteen years ago) link

Earlier this year I think, I saw most of Dirty Deeds, an Aussie gangster flick w/Toni & Bryan Brown, on late night tv. It was good. Then the next week, I saw most of Clockwatchers the same way. It was better.

The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 5 December 2008 20:45 (fifteen years ago) link

one month passes...

fyi the new show is pretty corny

8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Monday, 26 January 2009 03:01 (fifteen years ago) link

they insist on showing the fourteen year old girl in her underwear in 1/2 her scenes

8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Monday, 26 January 2009 03:02 (fifteen years ago) link

yeah i watched it for a sec just to see how shit it was.

half the people on this thread otm, there is something almost intangibly magnetic and appealing about her.

some dude, Monday, 26 January 2009 03:14 (fifteen years ago) link

the new show is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO diablo cody it hurts/ is wrong / etc.

Vichitravirya_XI, Monday, 26 January 2009 03:25 (fifteen years ago) link

idk the more unsubtle and plastic it becomes the more i like it. i mean wtf the dude personality -????- something so obvious and stupid-clever about it like what a clearly terrible idea and yet so self-satisfied in execution i guess i relate to that

Lamp, Monday, 26 January 2009 04:42 (fifteen years ago) link

i want to say collette carries it but less on the strength of her acting and more on her charisma; big fat greek wedding is pretty good too despite his character being 100% unbelieveable. in fact the acting/directing/etc is all pretty good but there are maybe 3 lols/episode and the treatment of youth culture/the 15-yr-old personality is just like X-S

8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Monday, 26 January 2009 04:46 (fifteen years ago) link

it's a pretty odd show. i'll keep watching for toni, at least for a while, but it all seems liable to collapse under the weight of its ridiculousness.

paper plans (tipsy mothra), Monday, 26 January 2009 04:49 (fifteen years ago) link

i mean i m tryin so hard to be ilx contrarian abt diablo cody and defend her but she just sucks so hard at writing and every time i see her on tv she reminds me of the girls who would show up at my house when i had parties in college and be really fucking annoying and steal my liquor and throw up in my washing machine

8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Monday, 26 January 2009 04:53 (fifteen years ago) link

collette does her best i thought she was really good but i mean how much acting like "acting" is this show looking for? if you cant stay away from retarded joke-y superobvious cartoon stuff like the youngest sons effeminacy then what value nuance and realism in your lead?

lol burt_stanton but its kind of like indie/fashion chix i see on the subway like the ones that only go halfway with like a knit hat and contrasting mittens and crinoline leggings but a sensible jacket and nice boots look terrible but the ones that really commit and like add that second art deco brooch to their beige yarn hat-contraption you just kind of admire

Lamp, Monday, 26 January 2009 04:56 (fifteen years ago) link

yeah thats kind of what i mean when i say shes carrying it on her charisma and not her acting, its not like shes creating four different real characters, shes doing one character and then 3 unfunny snl skits, and if she wasnt sort of magnetic it would just be like knife in the eye bad

8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Monday, 26 January 2009 04:58 (fifteen years ago) link

i in no way think d.cody is a good anything but i'm also really fascinated by the show's ability to make the most obvious joke possible so it reads - sometimes - like a total parody. its like a show that the home movies kids would put on as a joke about these kind of jokes which makes me feel uncomfortable, a little, because of the actual mental illness not really being funny

Lamp, Monday, 26 January 2009 05:02 (fifteen years ago) link

is that "postmodernism"

8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Monday, 26 January 2009 05:04 (fifteen years ago) link

btw - steven spielberg came up with this idea

8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Monday, 26 January 2009 05:04 (fifteen years ago) link

no need to talk down to me AGAIN i've seen jurassic park

Lamp, Monday, 26 January 2009 05:06 (fifteen years ago) link

btw - steven spielberg came up with this idea

― 8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Monday, January 26, 2009 5:04 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

this blows my mind

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 26 January 2009 05:07 (fifteen years ago) link

btw shipley is otm about toni collette, i would smash for sure

8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Monday, 26 January 2009 05:08 (fifteen years ago) link

i know!! even Spielberg's bad ideas, barring The Terminal, don't seem to set any kind of precedent for this.

xpost

some dude, Monday, 26 January 2009 05:09 (fifteen years ago) link

to be fair the terminal wasnt spielbergs bad idea it was um gods

8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Monday, 26 January 2009 05:11 (fifteen years ago) link

lol i totally misread that speilberg post as a joke tied to the one above it

Lamp, Monday, 26 January 2009 05:13 (fifteen years ago) link

but i thought this was diablo's idea (i like just using her first name, as in she's diabolical) ..and SS just got it greenlit? it would seem so backwards that this is his idea, and he got her to do the writing. that makes no sense... where did you read it was his?

if you got rid of all the stale pop culture references / cheap insults / hyper-hipster speak / scenes featuring people dancing to the Kills...an entire episode would last 3 minutes. but it is fascinating, in its own bad way. also, Rosemary Dewitt seems really oddly placed here

Vichitravirya_XI, Monday, 26 January 2009 06:16 (fifteen years ago) link

between this and L Word becoming a lol murder mystery..!!! it seems like Showtime execs have totally lost their minds. i hope it leads to more weirdness

Vichitravirya_XI, Monday, 26 January 2009 06:17 (fifteen years ago) link

United States of Tara is an American comedy-drama television series on the Showtime Network starring Toni Collette. Created by Steven Spielberg and developed by Juno's Academy Award-winning screenwriter, Diablo Cody, the 13-episode series follows the life of a housewife with dissociative identity disorder. It premiered on January 18, 2009. The pilot, written by Diablo Cody and directed by Craig Gillespie, has been made available for viewing on Showtime's official website.

United States of Tara has been the subject of a massive publicity campaign rivalling any new arrival on network television this minimized mid-season, partly because it arrives with the big-screen imprimatur of Steven Spielberg, who created the premise and serves as Tara's executive producer, and the hot Hollywood newcomer Diablo Cody, winner of last year's best original screenplay Oscar for the film Juno. The godfather of modern-day cinema meets the new princess of dysfunctional family dialogue.

8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Monday, 26 January 2009 11:37 (fifteen years ago) link

why would it seem 'backwards'? spielbergs not a writer

8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Monday, 26 January 2009 11:37 (fifteen years ago) link

Spielberg also "created" Freakazoid and Boom Blox - I'm really kind of skeptical whenever he does that kind of thing now.

Nhex, Monday, 26 January 2009 11:50 (fifteen years ago) link

fourteen years pass...

How is this not a Netflix/Hulu movie?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnfNrY3WAkU

Directed By Catherine Hardwicke

lmao the neck fucking posts are too much

budo jeru, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 05:39 (one year ago) link

hahaha this feels like a script from 1990 that someone found in a closet

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 2 March 2023 21:32 (one year ago) link

<Untitled Delta Burke Mafia Vehicle>

Hardwicke's career didn't seem to survive Twilight

I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 3 March 2023 00:31 (one year ago) link

I mean I guess she is still directing films but not a single one of them looks watchable

I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 3 March 2023 00:31 (one year ago) link


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