I am deeply attracted to Toni Collette.

RIP

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

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

That's not her fault.

i am deeply attracted to toni collette.

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.

fyi the new show is pretty corny

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

is that "postmodernism"

btw - steven spielberg came up with this idea

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

btw - steven spielberg came up with this idea

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this blows my mind

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

<Untitled Delta Burke Mafia Vehicle>

Hardwicke's career didn't seem to survive Twilight

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