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Shouldn't you be watching the footie?!!
Mind you, its a crap game!
Are you implying that women can't be both extremely beautiful and smart, @bondjames ? That's pretty sexist, n'est-ce pas? :/
Having said that, these are Bond films, so they tend to be relatively sexist, at least until lately.
No, I am saying Richards is not credible as a physicist. Not one bit. That's all.
Halle Berry may not have been perfect as Jinx, but she sure made an impact and was very popular and still is. Just here she gets all the hate from the usual bunch of Brosnan-era haters.
It's funny how in EVERY SINGLE Bond montage showed at Oscar's, GoldenGlobes, and about every other film award show HALLE BERRY always gets a very prominent spot.
Just strange isn't it.
Christmas Jones only has less than a hand full of scenes and isn't even the focus of the scene's she's in after her introduction. Miscast yes but not as bad as Jinx.
I like my Bond girls smart and exotic. Not picked out of the latest GQ magazine.
Jinx is the worst Bond girl though. Annoying and trying to steal screen time she doesn't really deserve.
Agreed, she seems to think its her film.
Richard just wasn't credible to my eyes. It doesn't help that she's an awful actress (wooden as a plank) and completely botched her line delivery on several occasions, as follows:
"Avoiding those kind of questions, just like you."
"I don't know. But the world's greatest terrorist running around with 6 kilos of plutonium can't be good. I have to get it back, or somebody will have my ass."
"Or sour cream." (*giggles*)
"Are you here for a reason? Or are you just hoping for a glimmer? And you are...?"
Emphasis on the wrong words in some instances, monotone delivery in others, and expressionless as can be. Marceau seemed much sharper and could have easily been cast as the physicist instead. I honestly thought they were taking the piss with this casting choice.
Wild Things is excellent and made for her talents. Particularly the car wash scene in slow motion.
I wonder whether the line "are you here for a reason?" in TWINE is a nod to the similar line here.
I'm not THAT fond of Louis Chiles either but I her "Trust? Out of the question" exchange with Moore is perfectly played. Pretty much every line Richards says is laughably bad.
I wouldn't say Richards is irritating though in the same way Goodnight or Jinx are. More of an "aww bless her" quality.
The obvious aside, and on another note, literally, Wild Things has a great soundtrack.
Well, out of those lines I'd say "sour cream" is the sole bad delivery where I roll my eyes but otherwise it's all fine because it's her character. I like the 2nd one you pointed out due to Brosnan's "first thing's first" quip afterwards.
Sure, Denise ain't a great actress compared to Marceau but that doesn't mean that she's awful. Nor does it make her less credible in the role.
Jinx isn't slated because of her "Yo Mama" line, she's slated because her entire performance is utterly terrible. The "Yo Mama" line is the zenith, it represents everything that's bad about her character and her performance which is why it's referenced.
Clutching at straws their, mate.
I'd be interested to know what you and @ClarkDevlin find so interesting about her performance, rather than digging Brosnan haters (which I am not). 'She was very popular and still is', 'She's in montages' don't really stack up as far as I'm concerned, they're just words.
As I've already pointed out, there are myriad examples of Berry doing her best to sink the ship. The film ticks along pretty effortlessly until she appears and the initial Cuban scenes are neat, then we get the intro. Between Tamahori's lifeless direction and Berry's terrible, perfume ad performance, we get a completely subpar homage to Andress. In this one shot alarm bells are ringing; it plays like a comedy.
Then we have her initial exchange with Brosnan - up until this point Broz has been decent, but she just drags him into the abyss. The whole back and forth is arguably the worst written and performed scene in the canon and by far the most cringeworthy introduction to a Bond girl ever. Next to this Richards intro seems excellent.
And it continues... the exchange with Dr. Alvarez - ridiculous facial animation, bizarre intonation, the general affectation. And on... 'Here for the vieeeew again'. And on... 'Oh yeah, I think I got the thrust of it.' And on... 'Switch them off, or I'll be half the girl I used to be!' And on... 'He did yooou?'
Endlessly awful. And this isn't about poor writing, there's been subpar writing throughout the series, but most of these are reasonably generic lines that a competent actor would deliver with some class. Berry absolutely mangles them in the search for some sort of sassy, girl power performance.
Watch it again. She ruins every scene.
She's that type of girl, and that isn't a favourite of mine. But, all the lines out there you mentioned doesn't slightly tick a box of irritation with me the way it does with the majority of you. It's like you're forcing yourselves to hate the movie just because it's over-the-top and as some of you say, "ridiculous". I find Berry's performance a lot better than Michelle Yeoh's or at times even Izabella Scorupco's. Despite her flaws, she actually has great flavors, too. But, you choose to ignore it because it's not "serious.". You're right, and everyone else is wrong.
Lots of actor performance routines changed in the pacing of ten years, and especially with the arrival of the post-9/11 era, every actor is now changing one's own routine to blend in as "serious actors". Before that, they didn't have to. Just watch the most of the 1990s action movies and you'll see the difference yourself.
For all it's worth, I'd rather have another Jinx come in and sex things up a little than have another Madeleine Swann play the "tragedy girl" type of character and almost bore me to death. That's my opinion.
I don't hate DAD at all. I've always defended it. My irritation is with the fact Berry makes it a much lesser film, purely through her performance.
I certainly haven't ignored anything. I've outlined where and why I feel Berry dismantles the film with her performance, but it would be interesting for you to do the same because I don't see anything that trumps Scorupco, or Yeoh.
This is just waffle. Berry isn't bad because she's not "serious", Berry is bad because she's bad, plain and simple. People acted capably in blockbusters prior to 9/11.
I think we should set an appointment for you with the doctor.
Exactly. It's bloody awful.
Now, Brosnan himself was known to be a master at this too, but he was extremely restrained and in control in DAD, and it was Berry who went out of her way to overdo it in every scene.
It was completely unnecessary, because she's highly charismatic. All she had to do was tone it down and stop trying to outdo everyone in every scene. She should have just underplayed it rather than overplaying.
If I could use one word to describe her Jinx, it would be trashy, which is something nobody wants in a Bond film.
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Absolutely. A superb atmospheric score. That opening scene when Matt Dillon is on the airboat is truly something due to the setting and the score.
Thanks for posting that. This is her speciality. Seduction, not physics.
I'm with RC7. My irritation is also with the fact Berry makes it a much lesser film, purely through her performance. She's annoying and crap. Even her Lesbian short hair annoys me. The only positive thing I can say about Jinx is that she has nice boobs. Bar that, nothing.