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11 responses to “Joy”

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   xykademiqz

   January 7, 2017

   That movie had everything to be an actual work of art until that robot crapped all over it.

   Thank you! I also think Natalie Portman is vastly overhyped. Wherever I have seen her, she comes across as emotionally stunted, as a prepubescent child. I have never seen her actually successfully convey any impulse or emotion that adult women feel. People say how Hayden Christensen ruined Star Wars, I am “What about the wooden Portman?” “Nooooo, she would have been great, if it weren’t for him”; sorry, I don’t buy it. She stars in Thor, and seems uncomfortable and completely unresponsive to the superhot Thor (and she’s supposed to be swooning over him). There are movies where she is supposed to play a character with an actual sex life (“No Strings Attached”) and it just seems wrong; in “Closer” she plays a stripper, and it’s just really icky to watch, like someone is making a child strip for the movie. Now they are hyping her up in Jackie, which I am guessing is more closeups where she looks like a vaguely tormented (possibly constipated) child in a wig being made to hold brown liquor that looks like booze rather than as a grown woman who lost her husband. (This is where my almost-friend D would say, “Wow, why don’t you tell us how you really feel.”)

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      cliff arroyo

      January 7, 2017

      “I also think Natalie Portman is vastly overhyped. Wherever I have seen her, she comes across as emotionally stunted, as a prepubescent child”

      I have the feeling she hasn’t grown or changed as an actress (except for accents) since Leon. She was fine in that (though I’m not as crazy about it as some)
      But since then…. a whole lotta nuttin’

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         cliff arroyo

         January 7, 2017

         I’ll add that she wasn’t terrible in the other Boleyn girl but her competition was Scarlet Johanson (sp?) talk about a slow horse race….

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            Clarissa

            January 7, 2017

            I haven’t seen the movie but yes, I don’t even want to imagine her against Scarlett Johansen (I don’t know the spelling either)

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               Shakti

               January 7, 2017

               I’ll add that she wasn’t terrible in the other Boleyn girl
               No, she was wooden and bad in that one. A good actress can make the dumbest material more interesting. She’s not of that caliber.
               Just don’t bother seeing The Other Boleyn Girl. It’s trashier and duller than the book, if that makes any sense. Just watch Anne of the Thousand Days instead if you have some odd desire to watch a film about Anne Boleyn.

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                  cliff arroyo

                  January 8, 2017

                  “Just watch Anne of the Thousand Days instead if you have some odd desire to watch a film about Anne Boleyn”

                  For better or worse, I don’t.

                  Anna Bolena by Donizetti, though, is one of my favorite bel canto operas, though note for note I’d say the Jane Seymour character (Giovanna) has better music. It’s much more forward looking and her final plea to Enrico to spare Anna’s life (it’s not very historically accurate) sounds almost as if it were written by mid-Verdi.

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      Clarissa

      January 7, 2017

      Wooden, exactly. She’s the favorite actress of male geeks precisely because they are afraid of adult female sexuality and are comforted by seeing a perpetual gawky adolescent in her.

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   Shakti

   January 7, 2017

   I still can’t get over how the horrible Natalie Portman slaughtered I Black Swan.
   You think a good actress would’ve made Black Swan anything other than a big budget Lifetime movie?

   I caught the second part of the film Joy with Jennifer Lawrence. It’s incredible how horrible this movie is, and not only because of the egregiously untalented Lawrence..
   LMAO. She’s the highest paid actress in Hollywood and she won an Oscar for Best Actress. They keep casting in parts originally written for older women. I wonder if that has something to do with it? Hilariously, the Academy nominated her for this role too.

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      Clarissa

      January 7, 2017

      Yes, the actress in The Girl on the Train who played the murdered woman would make the film. The film had enormous potential but it needed somebody who could play an artist creating a work of art and not a wooden stick figure.

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      Clarissa

      January 7, 2017

      It was hilarious how Lawrence played a teenager in Hunger games 3 and a middle-aged woman in Joy in the same year. 😆😆😆

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   Tal Hartsfeld

   January 10, 2017

   These days it’s all about the “trophy” sex symbol celebrity, not the art or of any substance.
   We don’t have any real actors/actresses or any real singers or musicians recording popular songs. That all went out years ago.
   Try the oldies or classic TV if you want anything worth watching or listening to.

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