Nicole Kidman's latest bomb: THE INVASION- Page 2

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 8/17/07 at 4:14pm

I don't like her, but I can say that I find Moulin Rouge to be the worst film ever made! Ever! It's not even so bad it's good, it's just unwatchable.

[keen on kean]

Posted: 8/17/07 at 4:19pm

Just saw this remake. Awful, awful, awful. Badly written, badly acted, everything telegraphed and then they beat you over the head with a 2 x 4 just to make sure you got it. But an interesting phenomenon may help the box office - everyone in the theater under 20 thought it was scary as hell. So I give it the weekend - then straight to DVD before the end of September. I really like Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam and Roger Rees - I guess even good actors have to occasionally pay the rent. But clearly August is take out the trash month in Hollywood.

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 8/17/07 at 4:31pm

If Moulin Rouge is the worst movie you've ever seen, you are one lucky man.

[Chloe]

Posted: 8/17/07 at 4:40pm

I haven't followed Nicole Kidman's career closely enough to be able to comment on her ability at choosing projects, but in general, it just seems to be a lot more difficult to find something good than one might think. You can have a promising idea and a bunch of cast and crew with great track records and still come up with a dud. Conversely, we all know how often great little independents have appeared seemingly out of the blue. It's a real crap shoot.

[feinstein9]

Posted: 8/17/07 at 7:11pm

I don't how you can see "Dogville" and still hate her, but alas all art is subjective. Although a big fan of hers (I try to see every film she's in), I will admit one thing that annoys my enormously. She says she originally learned how to do an American accent from watching Meg Ryan films. Now, I forgive her for liking Meg Ryan films, but you can definitely still tell that she speaks in that Ryan type of voice, especially evident in "Birth". I would really appreciate if she'd stop doing it.

[LoringsGuy]

Posted: 8/18/07 at 1:59am

I'm sorry to see this movie is getting such wretched reviews---I was really looking forward to it.

And the poster art is pretty freakin' sweet.

http://www.worstpreviews.com/media.php?id=19&image=0&place=posters&place2=poster

[keen on kean]

Posted: 8/18/07 at 1:11pm

Posters are better than the movie!

[madbrian]

Posted: 8/18/07 at 5:14pm

Its first day was awful at the box office. Early estimate is only $2 mil.

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 8/20/07 at 4:09pm

I just don't get why anyone would think another "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" is a good idea. The story has been done to death. There have been a million Dracula movies, but I think it's possible to bring something new to vampires. It's a little different with "The Invasion." I'm wondering if anything new was brought to the plot. I will probably Netflix this movie just to see it. (And just to see Daniel Craig. Mmmm...)

Totally unrelated, but whenever I see the previews, I think of The Forgotten, which was heinously bad and a total waste of all talent, even the gofers who were fetching coffee on the set. That movie gave me convulsions.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 8/20/07 at 7:31pm

She had one recently, silent but deadly, called Fur

It has her falling in love with an upstairs neighbor resembling Cousin Itt from The Addams Family

[keen on kean]

Posted: 8/20/07 at 11:12pm

SPOILERS: well, instead of the original structure with male doctor main character and female friend/patient/lover, we have a female doctor main character, male doctor/lover, former husband and young son. Instead of pods, genetic replication. Instead of meteor showers, contaminated space shuttle. In other words, a lot of superficial changes but the story is still the story.

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 8/20/07 at 11:58pm

I never found Kidman particularly compelling until seeing Dogville. Her persona as an actress just seems so cold and distant most of the time. That makes her perfect for, say, Mrs. Coulter in The Golden Compass (so hoping that lives up to expectations), but less effective when the audience is supposed to relate to her as a person. In Dogville, I suspect that my emotional response was more empathy for the situation than the character herself, but Nicole played the part well.

[DG]

Posted: 8/21/07 at 8:24am

At least they're giving us truth in advertising by showing her overly-botoxed face alongside the tag-line "Do not show emotion."

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 8/21/07 at 9:49am

Oh, DG, sad but true. As much as I love her, I wish she'd put down the needle.

I saw Fur and thought it started out intriguing and then slowly degenerated until we got to the end. It was sort of a big ol' mess.

[Roninjoey]

Posted: 8/21/07 at 4:07pm

I swear there's someone in Hollywood with a whole lot of money who just really loves the concept of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I feel like they remake it every four years.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 8/21/07 at 4:55pm

I'd just like to add that I liked The Stepford Wives remake. I thought Bette Midler, Roger Bart, Glenn Close and Christopher Walken were all wonderful.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 8/21/07 at 5:47pm

Body snatchers is the My Fair Lady of movies

They both kept getting redone over & over

[roquat]

Posted: 8/21/07 at 11:17pm

I WISH someone would remake "My Fair Lady" (with the script cut down, a camera that moved, and a leading lady who SANG!!!)

I loved "Cold Mountain", but it highlighted a (probably unsolvable) problem Nicole Kidman has onscreen--charming, attractive, and talented as she is, she just doesn't connect with the audience on the basic gut level (the way far less gifted actors do.) Maybe that's why she worked with Jude Law so well on that movie--they both have the same problem, and they were both working to overcome it the way their characters were.

I also think she could be a hell of a comedienne--she had a new eagerness and presence in the first half-hour or so of the "Stepford" remake, before the script self-destructed.

[DG]

Posted: 8/21/07 at 11:19pm

I have a feeling that Roxy meant that the Pygmallian story has been told over and over.

The devil's in the details.

[feinstein9]

Posted: 8/22/07 at 3:39am

sweetestsiren, I understand what you mean. But to me the casting made sense because of the cold nature of the film. Was her character supposed to be the warm one, so that she stood out against the chill? This is a possibility. I felt it worked well with the sort of monotone of the film, but I could see it either way. I also think I am probably such a big fan simply because I find her so attractive, which then gives me a bias. Anyone also annoyed by the Meg Ryan voice? Anyone?

[Auggie27]

Posted: 8/22/07 at 11:14am

I think BIRTH has the most promising first hour of any of her films. I was so there, and its start-up is riveting, the premise fresh and in every way compelling. The production design, upper west side location, damp milieu and blue/gray cinematography ... even Ann Heche as an eye-popping weirdo, a stretch I know. And then ...then the movie falls apart with such a shattering thud, the premise exposed, the mystery thisdeep, and the explanation bald and ham-fisted in the telling. You feel so cheated ... lead down a creepy path only to have the revelations pitifully unsatisfying.

How could such talent and creative energy be lavished on what's ultimately a dreadful script -- on that poses metaphysical questions and provides Perry Mason answers. Why did no one know how bad it was? You could not, finally, argue that it was an ambitious story -- just a cheat.

[blueroses]

Posted: 8/22/07 at 11:51am

"At least they're giving us truth in advertising by showing her overly-botoxed face alongside the tag-line "Do not show emotion."

I know! It's so creepy looking. I am happy that she hasn't succumbed to the Hollywood tan phenom. Her skin is still gorgeous and I love that us pale/porcelain gals have some representation.