no drowning in the thread = no credibility
― im a fucking unicorn you douchebags (forksclovetofu), Friday, 7 August 2009 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Catharine Keener seconded
― Trip Maker, Friday, 7 August 2009 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link
ashley looked kinda old in her "don't shoot wolves from helicopters, okee?" ad. bummed me out.
― bnw, Friday, 7 August 2009 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Mary Louise Parker
― Mr. Que, Friday, 7 August 2009 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
haha I just reread that entire ASHLEY JUDD thread, good times
― I am over wieght and I have angelical quilities (HI DERE), Friday, 7 August 2009 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link
DEF Mary Louis Parker
― Trip Maker, Friday, 7 August 2009 20:38 (fourteen years ago) link
yep keener = always watchable
― ^prizes the praise of the media, and the Europeans (will), Friday, 7 August 2009 20:38 (fourteen years ago) link
nancy botwin has basically killed mlp for me
DEF DEF Mary Louise Parker
(but, like my Rose Byrne sitch, I've also never watched Weeds.)
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 7 August 2009 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link
HOOS otm re: parker posey
― Results 1 - 1 of 1 for vedderizer. (0.05 seconds) ;_; (jjjusten), Friday, 7 August 2009 20:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Charlize Theron. I can't objectively judge anything she's in.
― Adam Bruneau, Friday, 7 August 2009 20:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Michelle Monaghan. Except for those dreadful romcoms she sometimes appears in.
― Simon H., Friday, 7 August 2009 21:09 (fourteen years ago) link
kate winslet, drew barrymore. age prevents me putting a name to the 3rd face i can see in my mind.
― whatever, Friday, 7 August 2009 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link
got it: julianne moore
― whatever, Friday, 7 August 2009 21:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Kristin Scott Thomas and Maggie Gyllenhaal
― same dog, different leg action (Mr Raif), Friday, 7 August 2009 21:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Kirsten Dunst for me. Can't believe the crap I've watched just to see her.
― touch my bum / this is life (daavid), Friday, 7 August 2009 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link
kristin scott thomas otm
― mookieproof, Friday, 7 August 2009 21:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I absolutely love KST too, but the movies she's in tend to be good, no?
― touch my bum / this is life (daavid), Friday, 7 August 2009 21:31 (fourteen years ago) link
surprised no one's copping to Zooey...How bout Anne Hathaway?
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 7 August 2009 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b4/Under_the_cherry_moon.jpg
― mookieproof, Friday, 7 August 2009 21:50 (fourteen years ago) link
― Philip Nunez, Friday, August 7, 2009 4:38 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark
I'll fess up. It's all about Zoe. Specially in Yes Man. BE IN MY BAND YOU GORGEOUS THING YOU!!!
― Fetchboy, Friday, 7 August 2009 21:52 (fourteen years ago) link
The only thing I've seen her in was The Happening & while she was highly watchable, the film belonged to Marky Mark.
― ex-juggalist (Pillbox), Friday, 7 August 2009 21:54 (fourteen years ago) link
i will watch ashley judd in anything too but i don't really wanna marry her. maybe when she was on sisters i did. or in ruby in paradise. but not now.
― scott seward, Friday, 7 August 2009 21:56 (fourteen years ago) link
x-post - oh dude, you gotta at least see ELF. that and Bad Santa are probably the only good xmas movies of the last 20 yrs or whatever.
― Fetchboy, Friday, 7 August 2009 21:58 (fourteen years ago) link
ooh, i thought of someone. annabella sciorra. i will watch her in any movie or anything on t.v. and she does make me swoon still.
― scott seward, Friday, 7 August 2009 22:00 (fourteen years ago) link
annabella is a good one. I will kinda watch her in anything (but she doesn't seem to work too much anymore?)
― girlish in the worst sense of that term (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 7 August 2009 22:04 (fourteen years ago) link
i think she just does t.v. stuff now. probably can't get lotsa movie roles cuzza the age thing. that's usually how hollywood works.
― scott seward, Friday, 7 August 2009 22:09 (fourteen years ago) link
used to be rosario dawson. prob others, but i cant think who right now. faye dunaway too. im working my way through her films.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Friday, 7 August 2009 22:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Maggie Gyllenhaal <3
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 7 August 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah. fuck hollywood.
― girlish in the worst sense of that term (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 7 August 2009 23:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Maggie Gyllenhaal
supersupercuet irl too
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 7 August 2009 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
http://images.askmen.com/galleries/actress/sarah-polley/pictures/sarah-polley-picture-5.jpghttp://www.posters555.com/pictures/Molly-Parker-picture-Z1G148422_b.jpg
Sarah Polley and Molly Parker (I seem to have a weakness for ginger Canadians). Two extraordinary actors that have always pulled way more weight than than their roles sometimes require.
― Derelict, Friday, 7 August 2009 23:17 (fourteen years ago) link
No actress can save some movies.
― Jeff, Saturday, 8 August 2009 00:24 (fourteen years ago) link
haha speaking of which what happened to all the natale portman crushes?
― Philip Nunez, Saturday, 8 August 2009 01:15 (fourteen years ago) link
julie christie
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 8 August 2009 01:17 (fourteen years ago) link
the rumors are true?
― mookieproof, Saturday, 8 August 2009 01:20 (fourteen years ago) link
whomever said Mercedes McCambridge, you are awesome!
― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Saturday, 8 August 2009 01:23 (fourteen years ago) link
xposts: I've spent so much time dreaming about Eleanor Bron
― ex-juggalist (Pillbox), Saturday, 8 August 2009 01:24 (fourteen years ago) link
BUT I would like to mention that I watched like 30 minutes of a movie called One-Eyed Monster because it starred Amber Benson from Buffy.
Amber Benson? Really? But I guess I shouldn't judge because I did end up watching Piñata: Survival Island on AMC one night at some ungodly hour with Nicholas Brendon. I think I probably would have watched it without any Buffy involvement because of the premise of a demonic piñata.
― Detroit Metal City (Nicole), Saturday, 8 August 2009 01:32 (fourteen years ago) link
i guess barbara stanwyck fits into this category for me.
― amateurist, Saturday, 8 August 2009 01:42 (fourteen years ago) link
molly parker ... i used to hate the affectation she brings to nearly every role. i still have problems with it, but i guess i can reluctantly admire it.
the movie sarah polley directed sucked.
she doesn't look like a ginger either
― velko, Saturday, 8 August 2009 01:52 (fourteen years ago) link
<3 <3 <3 Sarah Polley. Though I wish she quit doing boring dramas and did more stuff like Dawn Of The Dead.
― touch my bum / this is life (daavid), Saturday, 8 August 2009 01:58 (fourteen years ago) link
― Philip Nunez, Saturday, August 8, 2009 1:15 AM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark
I used to have a huge crush on her about 8 years ago. I don't remember when or why exactly but it's pretty much disappeared; I kind of even dislike her now.
― touch my bum / this is life (daavid), Saturday, 8 August 2009 02:02 (fourteen years ago) link
They only want you when you're seventeenWhen you're twenty-oneYou're no fun
― omar little, Saturday, 8 August 2009 02:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Maggie Cheung. Mmmmm.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 8 August 2009 02:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Hence why they fit here, and perhaps why no one's mentioned obvious contenders like Juliette Binoche or Helena Bonham Carter: they manage not to be cast in dreck without other redeeming qualities. Kristen Scott Thomas, with the exception of that Prince vehicle, probably doesn't belong in this thread either.
Few of the actresses here are chameleons of a Meryl Streep nature (and arguably, that's not an adorable type that audiences can fall in love with). These all are cast because they drag their own affectations, history, and sparks into the fray. Dying Polley in Life Without Me wouldn't be as affecting had we not watched her evolve in Munchausen and Exotica. Parker is just cast as prickly characters. It works for her. Can you imagine Hepburn cast as an ingenue? Me neither.
― Derelict, Saturday, 8 August 2009 02:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Binoche has been in plenty of mediocre films, and HB Carter has been in some true dogs. Sadly Helena's track record is so spotty that I won't watch movies just for her anymore.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 8 August 2009 02:10 (fourteen years ago) link
ctrl-f "jessica alba" ... really? nothing? dudette has been in some baaaaad movies
― me, my drums, and you (dan m), Saturday, 8 August 2009 02:11 (fourteen years ago) link