I’ve stopped doing the trailers for opening movies every week. It just entailed far too much time thinking about films I don’t want to see and finding trailers for obscure films that may or may not ever come anywhere near me or anyone I know. So I’m going to do trailers on a much more haphazard, as-I-see-them basis. Here’s one I ran across via Anne Thompson and Karina Longworth. It’s Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Jack Black in Margot at the Wedding, from Noah Baumbach, who directed the well-received-but-as-yet-unseen-by-me The Squid and the Whale. It looks good. And it looks like it’s the good side of Nicole Kidman, who I swear has schizophrenic acting tendencies (i.e., the dumb, annoying one from Bewitched and The Stepford Wives and the actual good one from The Hours and Dogville), which makes me happy because I always want to love her, and then she does stupid roles and disappoints me.
(It hurts my soul a little to use anything associated with AOL, but the player is actually pretty nice…and at least they have embeddable media–I’m looking at you, Yahoo!Movies.)
Amy
You always want to love her? is it compulsory especially when you will be spending your money? the woman gets paid $17m per movie, I doubt she cares whether you like her or not. Just go see a movie, enjoy or don’t enjoy it but don’t keel over because you are struggling to like the performer. It’s just a movie, sheesh!
Amy
You always want to love her? is it compulsory especially when you will be spending your money? the woman gets paid $17m per movie, I doubt she cares whether you like her or not. Just go see a movie, enjoy or don’t enjoy it but don’t keel over because you are struggling to like the performer. It’s just a movie, sheesh!
Jandy
Whether Nicole Kidman cares if I like her or not is irrelevant. The point is that I enjoy movies more if I like the actors and if they do a good job portraying their characters, and if their characters are well-written enough to support a quality portrayal. I already like Nicole Kidman from several films, notably The Hours and Dogville, but also Far and Away, Moulin Rouge, The Others, To Die For, etc. In other words, I’m already a fan of hers and am predisposed to like her, so it makes me happy when she chooses roles that are well-written and play to her strengths as an actress rather than to her weaknesses. She’s an uneven actress, so I’m never sure if she’s going to do a good job or not–I’m merely saying that Margot at the Wedding looks like the type of film in which she traditionally does well, and I’m pleased that the director seems to have brought out the side of her that I like.
It’s not about the film making me like her–I already like her. It’s about the film living up to that like.
Jandy
Whether Nicole Kidman cares if I like her or not is irrelevant. The point is that I enjoy movies more if I like the actors and if they do a good job portraying their characters, and if their characters are well-written enough to support a quality portrayal. I already like Nicole Kidman from several films, notably The Hours and Dogville, but also Far and Away, Moulin Rouge, The Others, To Die For, etc. In other words, I’m already a fan of hers and am predisposed to like her, so it makes me happy when she chooses roles that are well-written and play to her strengths as an actress rather than to her weaknesses. She’s an uneven actress, so I’m never sure if she’s going to do a good job or not–I’m merely saying that Margot at the Wedding looks like the type of film in which she traditionally does well, and I’m pleased that the director seems to have brought out the side of her that I like.
It’s not about the film making me like her–I already like her. It’s about the film living up to that like.