Nicole Kidman: Classic Or Dud

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Because Nick Dastoor demanded it. Or at least vaguely suggested it, and since the Sensitivy or Censorship thread was mine I feel vaguely justified in putting it up.

So Redheaded Antipodean Jawdropper, or Lanky, Ginger Tom Cruise Knobber. Your abe judged on references to Moulin Rouge, Dead Calm, Bankok Hilton and scientology.

― Pete, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

She is the only screen goddess working in Hollywood today. The only one I would be totally floored by meeting. I am bewitched by her.

― Nick, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And she can ride BMX's.

― Jonnie, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Fancying Nicole Kidman must have missed my generation, possibly due to our superior eyesight.

― Ronan, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I didn't really think much of her until a few years ago. I think it coincided with her hair getting less curly.

― Nick, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Also Ronan, you're Irish and have a prejudice against red hair.

― Nick, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What if you met her and her hair was au naturel? Think of the crushing disappointment. The spell would be broken.

― Emma, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

for once, I have no opinion either way, she's alright I suppose, but her acting's not so hot. like jonnie said tho' she can ride a mean bmx

― cabbage, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think she's gorgeous.

― berbis, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That could be true, but either way I don't think I'd like Nicole Kidman. Just cos loads of Irish people have red hair shouldn't make me prejudiced against it should it? I mean I don't have any strong feelings of hatred towards smelly unshaven toothless drunks.

― Ronan, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I say shes crap. She seems haughty and dull. And she dumped Maverick!

― Pennysong Hanle y, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nicole Kidman circa "Dead Calm": Dreamy goddess. I worship her porcelain feet.
Nicole Kidman circa "Batman Forever": WHAT HAPPENED TO HER NOSE??????
Nicole Kidman circa "Eyes Wide Shut": Oh God, PLEASE put her back on the screen. I can't take all this Cruise-ing.

Final tally: A casualty of plastic surgery, but quite palatable when faced with the prospect of three hours of Tom Cruise practicing the fine art of smuggery.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Question: Can Kidman do comedy? Mugs badly in Moulin Rouge and completely outclassed in Practical (pah) Magic. So can she do the giggles or is she po-faced ice-maiden.

― Pete, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Not an ice maiden but definitely has a stick up her bony arse.

― Emma, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Best ice maiden delivery: To Die For Gained new found respect for her as her role was so plastic, psychotic and bitchy to the hilt...

― jason, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And no curly hair! Or red hair for that matter.

― Nick, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think Eyes Wide Shut was a really funny movie. Kubrick had to have known what he was doing when he cast her. I think he was making fun/laughing at her and her performance the whole time. I mean, the last line of the movie was "let's fuck" or something of the like

― hans, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Completely dud. Although in Deadcalm she was... promising. Sadly she hooked up with Cruise.

― nathalie, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I thought she was perfect in 'Eyes Wide Shut'. It was only a shame she almost totally disappeared from the film after about half an hour. According to Freddie Raphael's memoirs, Kubrick liked stars in films cause he saw them as professionals who knew what they were doing. He wasn't looking to 'make fun' of them. Also, he wasn't such an autocrat that he didn't let talent actors make their mark on the film. In 'Dr Strangelove' he recognised Peter Sellers' genius enough to give him fairly free (perhaps too free) rein.

Also, he was a bit of an old lech who wanted to see Kidman naked.

― Nick, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am completely foxed by Kidman worship. Her acting has been so characterless in the films I've seen. She's never stopped being Nicole Kidman. And I don't find her in the slightest bit good looking, either. I can't work out why somebody would fancy her. She looks like a very plain woman who's been able to spend tons of money on a personal trainer, clothes and the right lotions and potions. Sorry Nick. Stick with Thea Leoni (sp?)

― Madchen, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Reasonably dull. Pretty much a nothing, really. Hollywood goddess?!? That seems extreme hyperbole to me.

― Ally C, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

One man's Hollywood Goddess is another man's, um. Nicole Kidman.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Prefer Cate Blanchett. Bunches.

― DavidM, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

As I mentioned with Posh Spice so I do with Nicole Kidman - delicious feet!

― Kodanshi, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I couldn't care less about Ms Kidman but her version of "One Day I'll Fly Away" is a Dud.

― Tom, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You're so wrong Tom, and I'm not kidding here. It's fucking transcendental.

― Nick, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two months pass...

http://www.ananova.com/images/news/birthdaygirl2PA410x500.jpg

Sorry, I just wanted to.

― N., Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

cough cough *ROBBIE WILLIAMS* cough

― DG, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

doesn't this belong in that "pop-culture images that scare you" thread. somethin' stupid, indeed.

― Alan Trewartha, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

NICOLE KIDMAN IS VILE.

― ALly, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What do you mean? ? You don't think she's the best actress of the last twenty years, after Naomi Watts ?

― Otis Wheeler, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah, I'd think that if I was insane.

― Ally, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Are you saying there's someone better? CUZ THERE"S NOT. Except Rachel Leigh Cook, maybe.

― Wheeler, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If she keeps caving in to Hollywood pressure to straighten her hair, she will go bald from those harsh treatments. Which serves her right for selling us out.

― Kerry, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dude, I'm better than Nicole Kidman.

― Ally, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Absolutely horrific dud.

― electric sound of jim, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I just wanted this to go to the top of the tree again.

― N., Thursday, 27 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What about Days Of Thunder?

― JM, Friday, 28 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Saw Dead Calm at Mann's Chinese Theatre in H'wood on my 18th birfday having flown to L.A. on my own as an adventurous 17-year-old yoof yay. Life has taken many turns — some bad, others worse — and I have steered many roads — some blocked, others missing a bridge — and trodden many paths — some muddy, others made of wet dirt — since that pivotal 40°C day in April, 1989 but through it all I remember thinking of Nicole, "Mmm, nice tits. Ass okay too." Time has not diminished that opinion nor, alas, spawned another.

― AP, Friday, 28 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In this months Face (which strangely proclaims the death of Harold Pinter), Nicole scotches the Counting Crows rumours. Phew.

― N., Friday, 28 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

Nick, have you ever thought of aiming a bit lower? It might be the closest you'll get.

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00007DWOA.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 30 January 2003 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

She actually looks a bit like her but.. wrong. Are they related?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 30 January 2003 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

With that nose? Of course they are. She's Nicole's kid sister.

(You mean you don't know?)

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 30 January 2003 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Nick Dastoor in 'Unknown Fact about Nicole Kidman' Shocker!

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 30 January 2003 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

six months pass...

OK, so she's not dating Jude Law or the bloke from Counting Crows. What's the next worst option?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Eeeeww.

― Larcole (Nicole), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

She apparently encouraged Naomi Watts to come to Hollywood, that's something.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 21:22 (twenty-two years ago)

N., we could have led happy healthy lives not knowing that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

That might be the worst trying-to-make-a-pun headline I've ever seen.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 21:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Lenny may be marginally better than the hobo from Counting Crows, but you'd have to be deranged to think that Lenny is a more attractive option than Jude Law. Jude may be creepy, but at least he is not a psuedo-hippy.

― Larcole (Nicole), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

i loved her before this - i forgave her robbie williams and hanging out w/ norman cook... kravitz i cannot allow!

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 21:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember reading an interview where Kravitz talked about how he couldn't understand why people considered him "retro," that his music and fashion had nothing to do with the 60s or 70s, that was just coincidence because he'd come to it his own way -- spontaneous invention, like the two guys who invented the steam engine at the same time.

Then I went to his house and punched him in the face and everyone laughed and laughed.

Half of that was a dream, though.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I think that is everyone's dream, Tep.

― Larcole (Nicole), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Except Nicole Kidman's! Obviously Scientology breaks the brain.

... or wait, maybe she's very very sneaky, and is just waiting for him to be caught off-guard and then UH OH face punching.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't dream it, BE IT.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

You live closer! Come pick me up, and you can be my alibi.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 21:51 (twenty-two years ago)

You'd have to delete this thread just to cover you bases then, my guntoting vampire friend.

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Apropos of nothing, I would like to remind everyone that my real name is TELEVISION'S RYAN SEACREST.

Anyway, as far as covering bases go, I'm not worried.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

This song was co-written by Lenny Kravitz (true).

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Total dud. She cannot act at all.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I know I should be agog at "I'm talking Lenny Kravitz," but ... "you take my heart and drink it for tea"?

― Television's Ryan Seacrest (ktepi), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

"Whenever he is around / He puts me six feet under the ground" ?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 22:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I MUST SAVE MY NICOLE

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 22:03 (twenty-two years ago)

She's out of your league, mate.

― David. (Cozen), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 22:04 (twenty-two years ago)

She's dating Kravitz, she has clearly abandoned the majors and leapfrogged over the minor leagues straight into software engineers' softball. Go for it, N.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 22:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Cover me Tep, I'm going in.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Kravitz is loaded, 'good-looking', 'talented' and has a mirrored ceiling in his bedroom.

― David. (Cozen), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 22:08 (twenty-two years ago)

if ms kidman was someone that i lusted after, then i would care. as it is, i don't so let 'em have at each other!

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 22:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I am a vampire and will escape detection.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 22:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Vampires have gossamer penises?

― David. (Cozen), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 22:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Your statement needs more conviction, N. i.e. all caps and several exclamation marks.

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 22:14 (twenty-two years ago)

David, that's kind of disgusting.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 22:14 (twenty-two years ago)

"Cover me Tep, I'm going in."

― David. (Cozen), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

N, I'll facepunch Kravitz, you go after Kidman, it'll be just like in Mallrats where the London kid distracts Affleck so Jason Lee can get elevator sex with Shannen Doherty.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

If we're lucky, Stan Lee will even show up to talk about vampenises.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 22:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I meant I'm going 'in' to rescue her from Kravitz.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 22:24 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

i like nicole kidman i just dont agree with alot of her choices such as the lenny one they do not make a good couple at all my sister thinks her and ryan phillippe would make a good couple

― Ashley D, Monday, 1 December 2003 18:21 (twenty-two years ago)

What does Reese Witherspoon think?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 1 December 2003 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I really fancied her in Single White Female.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 1 December 2003 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Nick, who are you talking about; Jennifer Jason Leigh or Bridget Fonda?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 1 December 2003 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Reese Witherspoon, innit. I never fancied Jason Lee.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 1 December 2003 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm pretty indifferent to Kidman as an actress, but she was very funny in "To Die For". I liked that movie quite a bit, but playing a cold, psychotic beauty may not be that much of a stretch.

"Dead Calm" is a pretty good movie, but it isn't like she was freaking off the chart as an actor or anything in that one.

― earlnash, Monday, 1 December 2003 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

i dont think reese would like it too much i've heard reese and ryan fight a lot but i think there very much in love

― Ashley, Monday, 1 December 2003 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I think Ryan's album is great. The ones with timbaland are particularly good. I love that cybernetic-clone-choir stereophonic beatbox!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 1 December 2003 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

ryan has an album? are we sure we're talking about the same ryan?

― Ashley, Monday, 1 December 2003 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, it's all over the place. You must have it! It's great. My favourite lyric is "shut that cunt's face before I come over there and fuck-start her head!" Although that may be from a film. I think his record is called Justify or something.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 1 December 2003 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)

ryan phillippe... wow omg i have to get it im like in love with him

― ashley, Tuesday, 2 December 2003 00:03 (twenty-two years ago)

He's from my small town. One of my teachers was his basketball coach, and a friend of mine's brother dated his sister.

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 00:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Nicole Kidman is, like, the worst actress ever.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 01:04 (twenty-two years ago)

im sure some people agree with you but even more dis agree why dont you like her

― Ashley, Tuesday, 2 December 2003 02:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Because she is completely incapable of subtlety.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 04:17 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

So classic.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 13 June 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

So dud.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 13 June 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

So wrong!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 13 June 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

Good actress + world's most flawless skin + now hates Tom Cruise

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 13 June 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

now hates Tom Cruise

Well, yes, she does have her good points.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 13 June 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

Re-reading this thread just reminds me of how much Lenny Kravitz irritates me. What an annoying man.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Monday, 13 June 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

I would date her.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 13 June 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

I've never liked her.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 June 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

Uh-oh, Spencer, you disappoint me!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 June 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

Ashley = unquestionably classic

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Monday, 13 June 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

xpost - jaymc, you disappoint ME!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 13 June 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

Dud. She's cold and covered for Tom "the douchebag."

― Anusol, Monday, 13 June 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

Re-reading this thread just reminds me of how much Lenny Kravitz irritates me. What an annoying man.

hahahahahaha

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 13 June 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

Whatever's happened to her face...that made it so...angular and sharp...well that is v. dud because she looks a bit Jack Nicholsony now.

― Allyzay flies casual (allyzay), Monday, 13 June 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

she reminds me of a needle in some way. needle-face too angular yes

― Vichitravirya XI, Monday, 13 June 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

She didn't look Nicholsony in The Interpreter.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 13 June 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

did she smile much in The Interpreter? Cos it's pretty much only when she grins.

― Allyzay flies casual (allyzay), Monday, 13 June 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

No, she pretty much frowned the entire time.

It was hotttt.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 13 June 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

she is magnificent!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 13 June 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

I didn't even think about seeing that movie because it would just be too much.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 13 June 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

My friend saw her in person at a restaurant last year and said she is perfect.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 13 June 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

Spencer, I love you for you are a passionate man.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 13 June 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

Anyway, more Lenny Kravitz hate plz.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 13 June 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

How come all y'all see all the "perfect" celebrities in person and the only celebrities I've seen in person are the ones who look shit without their 8 tons of makeup. WTF.

― Allyzay flies casual (allyzay), Monday, 13 June 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

Lenny Kravitz is a staggering jackass.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 13 June 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

Of heartbreaking unimportance.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 13 June 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

Hahahaha

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 13 June 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

she looks like a drag queen when she appears at premieres

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Monday, 13 June 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

Whatever's happened to her face...that made it so...angular and sharp...well that is v. dud because she looks a bit Jack Nicholsony now.

I agree! I saw her photo on the cover of some celeb mag, and she looked really weird & almost demonic, I thought!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 13 June 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

she looks like a drag queen when she appears at premieres

Why, because she's tall?

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Monday, 13 June 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

Bewitched looks fucking terrible. why does she do these films (like the Stepford Wives) when she's capable of doing things like Dogville and Birth? She could be the next Catherine Deneuve if she didn't fill her IMDB listing with shit.

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 13 June 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

she's great but she needs a new agent pretty bad

― jones (actual), Monday, 13 June 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

She has a detectably NIDA-influenced acting style - the kind you see on Aussie soaps like Neighbours. She can't act nautrally. If she's in a film my girlfriend and I would otherwise have seen, we often don't see it because of her. She is passable in roles that demand only stiff acting however - eg, playing a Victorian ghost.

― moley, Monday, 13 June 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

Bewitched looks *AWESOME*!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 13 June 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

I have this image the ultimate Spencer film will star Nicole and Lindsay and have a theme song by New Order w/MIA.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 13 June 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

and would also apparently be complete shit!

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 13 June 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

just kidding. but really it looks DIRE

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 13 June 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

haven't seen the trailer, but Kidman and Will Ferrell? C'mon, it'll probably be fun!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 13 June 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

i thought that too but the trailer is awful

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 13 June 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

The ultimate Spencer movie was already made and it is called Top Secret!

― Allyzay flies casual (allyzay), Monday, 13 June 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

Kidman and Will Ferrell? C'mon, it'll probably be fun!

Is this the tagline?

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 13 June 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

haha

xpost
Yes!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 13 June 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

I have just watched the trailer online. It suggests a work of heartbreaking genius. With a Sting soundtrack!

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 13 June 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

I thought Michael Caine looked overused though.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 13 June 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

I just watched it too. Not what I expected and the trailer itself is bad, but I suspect that actual movie will be charming.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 13 June 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

NK looked a treat, again.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 13 June 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

The ultimate Spencer movie was already made and it is called Top Secret!

Haha! Oh man, Val Kilmer, why did you have to *start* your career with all the good stuff and then just slide away...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 13 June 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

this is a NORA EPHRON movie people

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 13 June 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

i like her with the short curly hair best, and hats too. she was on charlie rose around cold mountain or maybe it was the hours, swoon.

― keith m (keithmcl), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 00:42 (twenty years ago)

Bewitched doesn't look terrible, except that Kidman seems to have adopted an annoying little-girl voice for it.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 02:28 (twenty years ago)

She's boring unless she's wearing that nose she stole from Humpty of Digital Underground for her role in The Hours.

― Jacqui Pickles (Jacqui Pickles), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 04:39 (twenty years ago)

she can't do the nose wiggle right

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 04:40 (twenty years ago)

She also sucks at the Humpty dance, I'm sure. And never got busy in a you-know-what-fastfood-franchise's bathroom.

― Jacqui Pickles (Jacqui Pickles), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 04:42 (twenty years ago)

She was on Jay Leno tonight, looked awful and was really nasty.

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 05:03 (twenty years ago)

the bewitched trailer and the expedia ad are currently the twin banes of my tv time

― jones (actual), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

nicole kidman was on oprah the other day being so much less insane than her ex-husband on oprah.
i think she gets better looking as she gets older! (surely this will come to an end though.)

― La Monte (La Monte), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 01:42 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

What a great reason to get married

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 19:44 (twenty years ago)

it says something that she seems creepier than he does, even if she's less of a weirdo

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 19:53 (twenty years ago)

Oh ffs, you don't believe such rumours, do you? I can't imagine someone marrying for that reason.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 19:55 (twenty years ago)

No, I don't really believe it, though if me getting married would piss off Tom Cruise, I'd be tempted.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 19:57 (twenty years ago)

Do you know, I seldom think about Kidman -- well, at all, really, but especially without remembering that Nick worships her down to the last rib.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 19:59 (twenty years ago)

She has really really really horrible taste in men.

― Lars and Jagger (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:00 (twenty years ago)

Every time you see Nicole Kidman's mug on a magazine cover, think: hegemony. This lovely-looking yet only moderately talented woman has won blanket media approval despite no proven box-office popularity and without giving so much as a single credible performance.

http://www.nypress.com/18/25/film/ArmondWhite2.cfm

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:03 (twenty years ago)

(i completely agree with this)

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:04 (twenty years ago)

TS: Keith Urban vs. Kenny Chesney

― Je4nn3 ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:05 (twenty years ago)

i think that's the first thing Armond White has written that i agree with. except for "lovely-looking."

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:06 (twenty years ago)

haha yes, i was going to say...

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:08 (twenty years ago)

David Thomson fucking adores her. Please explain.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:32 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

So does Mikhail Gorbachev.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

And Thomson's next book is on Kidman.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

So is Mikhail Gorbachev's.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.vogue.co.jp/issues/200602/images/cover.jpg

lucky enuf to have this on my coffee table. as covers go, it rules.

― Surmounter, Sunday, 3 June 2007 06:00 (eighteen years ago)

oops

http://www.vogue.co.jp/issues/200602/images/cover.jpg

― Surmounter, Sunday, 3 June 2007 06:00 (eighteen years ago)

lucky you, surmounter

― That one guy that quit, Sunday, 3 June 2007 09:18 (eighteen years ago)

How much does a Japanese Vogue cost? Like 50 bucks?

― marmotwolof, Sunday, 3 June 2007 09:19 (eighteen years ago)

actually i got it from a friend =) so i don't know how much it costs, but it's really fun

― Surmounter, Sunday, 3 June 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

can you read japanese?

― That one guy that quit, Sunday, 3 June 2007 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

sadly no =( i mostly just keep it on the coffee table and get mesmerized by the cover every coupla nights. japanese style + nicole = nice.

― Surmounter, Sunday, 3 June 2007 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.davidduchovny.com.br/ntest/arquivos/Twin_PeaksDavid_Duchovny_01.jpg
I don't know how, but somehow!

― Øystein, Sunday, 3 June 2007 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

Oh dear, that's very big indeed

― Øystein, Sunday, 3 June 2007 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

"They have women agents?" haha
oh, naive Audrey.

― marmotwolof, Sunday, 3 June 2007 19:25 (eighteen years ago)

I do like how that Vogue cover says "Woman" to avoid confusion.

― marmotwolof, Sunday, 3 June 2007 20:00 (eighteen years ago)

lol i kno

― Surmounter, Sunday, 3 June 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

wait why do you even have a 2005 japanese vogue still

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Monday, 4 June 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

Spurred by David Thomson, I've ordered a few Kidman DVDs to rent! Including Cold Mountain, Moulin Rouge and [the greatest film she ever made and most of us have never seen] - Birth.

― the pinefox, Monday, 10 November 2008 13:28 (seventeen years ago)

She is the only screen goddess working in Hollywood today. The only one I would be totally floored by meeting. I am bewitched by her.
― Nick, Thursday, 13 September 2001

They don't make ilx posts like that anymore.

― the pinefox, Monday, 10 November 2008 13:29 (seventeen years ago)

Our Amber's better looking than NK. Just sayin'

― Mark G, Monday, 10 November 2008 13:35 (seventeen years ago)

Naomi Watts is better looking than Kidman.

― chap, Monday, 10 November 2008 13:47 (seventeen years ago)

I still hate Lenny Kravitz.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Monday, 10 November 2008 14:04 (seventeen years ago)

birth is still a really good film.

― akm, Monday, 10 November 2008 14:06 (seventeen years ago)

she used to be beautiful but not very attractive, i think. now she's not beautiful and very unattractive.

she's no rachel weisz.

― darraghmac, Monday, 10 November 2008 14:22 (seventeen years ago)

oh that Australia trailer. If you loved the continent...

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 10 November 2008 16:32 (seventeen years ago)

Speaking as an Australian, 'Australia' the movie promises to be one cringe-inducing piece of shit.

― James Morrison, Monday, 10 November 2008 23:35 (seventeen years ago)

Our Amber's better looking than NK. Just sayin'

Also WAY younger, dude. you want Nick bewitched by her?

(also, that post pre-dated actual BEWITCHED. Nick is psychic!)

― ailsa, Monday, 10 November 2008 23:38 (seventeen years ago)

Ah. "Cold Mountain". The movie about western North Carolina that stars an Englishman and an Australian and was filmed in Transylvania.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 10 November 2008 23:46 (seventeen years ago)

Birth is really beautiful, what the hell is Jonathan Glazer doing now???

― I know, right?, Monday, 10 November 2008 23:55 (seventeen years ago)

Cold Mountain is your Braveheart then, is it?

― ailsa, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 00:06 (seventeen years ago)

ailsa, I'd post a pic, but.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 15:25 (seventeen years ago)

Our Amber's better looking than NK. Just sayin'

That's not too difficult though? Just sayin'

― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 15:29 (seventeen years ago)

who is your Amber?

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 15:32 (seventeen years ago)

daughter.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 15:33 (seventeen years ago)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y161/MarkGrout/AmberBroom.jpg

― Mark G, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 15:36 (seventeen years ago)

I wouldn't go and see Australia for all the blowjobs in the world.

― chap, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 15:43 (seventeen years ago)

right, pic off now.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 15:59 (seventeen years ago)

Unfortunate juxtaposition unintended.

― chap, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 16:00 (seventeen years ago)

I had a dream a couple nights ago that I was at a charity auction where a Nicole Kidman android was the MC. I had too much to drink and became really belligerent, yelling really offensive anti-robot slurs whenever she tried to speak. Eventually, everyone else at the auction realized that I was right and it was a mistake to treat robots like human beings.

― With a little bit of gold and a Peja (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 12:28 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/entertainment_enl_1229344182/img/1.jpg

― Timezilla vs Mechadistance (blueski), Monday, 15 December 2008 13:14 (seventeen years ago)

seriously I'd have her play my didge

― sonderangerbot, Monday, 15 December 2008 13:17 (seventeen years ago)

and then perhaps a blowjob

― Timezilla vs Mechadistance (blueski), Monday, 15 December 2008 13:20 (seventeen years ago)

mind boggles at how thomson's priapic rubbish could spur someone to watch anything, let alone the godawful 'cold mountain'. almost feel sorry for pinefox on that score.

― the cream of some young guy (special guest stars mark bronson), Monday, 15 December 2008 13:37 (seventeen years ago)

I haven't seen it yet! There's still time for me to change my mind and avert this alleged disaster.

If anyone wants to feel sorry for me, maybe they just could do it because I am ill today.

― the pinefox, Monday, 15 December 2008 13:40 (seventeen years ago)

'birth' is really good.

what indeed is glazer up to? remember seeing it in a near-deserted shaftesbury avenue odeon four years ago, which may explain the hiatus.

― the cream of some young guy (special guest stars mark bronson), Monday, 15 December 2008 13:48 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

truly hideous, no?

― sir ilx-a-lot (cutty), Monday, 1 February 2010 18:58 (fifteen years ago)

she fucking ruined her face

― you have to forgive me (surm), Monday, 1 February 2010 19:31 (fifteen years ago)

Birth was terrible.

― Blue Fucks Like Ben Nelson (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 February 2010 19:35 (fifteen years ago)

i liked it. i also loved the others

― you have to forgive me (surm), Monday, 1 February 2010 19:38 (fifteen years ago)

just watched birth, really like it tbh, but it reinforced my mixed feelings about ms kidman

her star power bankrolls films that might never get made without her, and she's made some pretty daring choices over the years (thinking of tough-sell projects like birth, dogville, moulin rouge)

but as an actress she's good-not-great, and can't do a US accent to save her life... in birth she's supposed to be an upper east side manhattanite but spends half the time sounding like a southerner in the epic struggle to suppress her aussie squawkbox

same thing bugged me in eyes wide shut, it's almost like she's so focused on sounding american she stops acting naturally

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 1 February 2010 19:55 (fifteen years ago)

at least i could still look at her in EWS and not cringe

― sir ilx-a-lot (cutty), Monday, 1 February 2010 19:59 (fifteen years ago)

she looked really good in EWS

― ('_') (omar little), Monday, 1 February 2010 20:00 (fifteen years ago)

plastic surgeons are disgusting savages (also see: heidi montag's plastic surgeon calling her "heroic")

― ('_') (omar little), Monday, 1 February 2010 20:00 (fifteen years ago)

thought she was terrific in EWS and, yes, unbelievably hot

― you have to forgive me (surm), Monday, 1 February 2010 20:02 (fifteen years ago)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/google_ac10.gif

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 1 February 2010 20:02 (fifteen years ago)

lol i know i noticed that recently. a real shame. she fucked up her face and she has no fashion sense

― you have to forgive me (surm), Monday, 1 February 2010 20:03 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/famecrawler/2008/04/01-07/nicole-kidman-wtf.jpg

― velko, Monday, 1 February 2010 20:03 (fifteen years ago)

noooooooo

― brews before HOOS (s1ocki), Monday, 1 February 2010 20:04 (fifteen years ago)

oh god.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 1 February 2010 20:05 (fifteen years ago)

rip

― mookieproof, Monday, 1 February 2010 20:06 (fifteen years ago)

― you have to forgive me (surm), Monday, 1 February 2010 20:06 (fifteen years ago)

try plugging meg ryan into the google plastic surgery machine

― sir ilx-a-lot (cutty), Monday, 1 February 2010 20:06 (fifteen years ago)

what a drag it is getting old

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 1 February 2010 20:07 (fifteen years ago)

i'll get me botox

― velko, Monday, 1 February 2010 20:07 (fifteen years ago)

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/081124/Always-Topless/Dead-Calm-Nicole_Kidman_l.jpg
http://www.accesshollywood.com/content/images/60/300x300/60481_video-136560-access-archives-nicole-kidman.jpg
http://jolienadine.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/nicole_kidman_close_up_far_and_away1.jpg

― ('_') (omar little), Monday, 1 February 2010 20:07 (fifteen years ago)

poor keith urban

― sir ilx-a-lot (cutty), Monday, 1 February 2010 20:11 (fifteen years ago)

that "now" photo is seriously depressing

― ('_') (omar little), Monday, 1 February 2010 20:13 (fifteen years ago)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/Plastic.jpg

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 1 February 2010 20:13 (fifteen years ago)

http://l.yimg.com/eb/ymv/us/img/hv/photo/movie_pix/cannes/cannes_2003_photos/_group_photos/nicole_kidman77.jpg

― you have to forgive me (surm), Monday, 1 February 2010 20:17 (fifteen years ago)

that's not new enough.

― sir ilx-a-lot (cutty), Monday, 1 February 2010 20:23 (fifteen years ago)

that's exactly the attitude that got us here

― brews before HOOS (s1ocki), Monday, 1 February 2010 20:27 (fifteen years ago)

lololol

yeah i think that might just be a bad picture of her when she was still bangin.

― you have to forgive me (surm), Monday, 1 February 2010 20:27 (fifteen years ago)

that's from 2003, she didn't look "bad" but there were warning signs...

― ('_') (omar little), Monday, 1 February 2010 20:30 (fifteen years ago)

separated at birth:

http://msmindy.com/rudolph/images/pictures/clarice_circle.jpg

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 February 2010 20:36 (fifteen years ago)

is there some kind of anti trout pout petition we can sign

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 1 February 2010 20:37 (fifteen years ago)

she's 30 years ahead of Joan Rivers' pace.

In the last 8 years I've only seen her in Dogville and Birth, so I'm fine with her disappearing.

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 February 2010 20:44 (fifteen years ago)

does she actually have the draw that the hollywood machine tells us she does? i can't think of anyone who would look forward to a NK film.

anyway, she used to have red hair and a ruddy freckly complexion. then she bleached her hair and skin for so long and used so much botox that she fucked herself up.

a friend of mine is a make up person and her college tutor was NK's make up artist. she insisted on using him because he was the only one to know how to make up her face. apparently when you touched it it didn't spring back so you had to be v careful how you applied the make up. if you pressed too hard you left a dent. i suspect that the newish collagen-face is a hopeless attempt to salvage that.

― jed_, Monday, 1 February 2010 20:56 (fifteen years ago)

does she actually have the draw that the hollywood machine tells us she does?

this has long been debated down 'ere - tho it must be said that taking pot-shots at anything to do with the austrealian film industry is one of the local media's favourite pastimes.

― greasy joes mobile disco (haitch), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 02:50 (fifteen years ago)

She hasn't had a hit since 2002-2003.

― Blue Fucks Like Ben Nelson (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 02:52 (fifteen years ago)

yeah, but after the run of eyes wide shut/moulin rouge/the others, she could've done any damn thing she wanted. she went from being "some australian chick who married tom cruise" to an a-lister.

but then she frittered away her hollywood bankability on a string of depressing arthouse movies, which is kinda commendable imo.

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 20:52 (fifteen years ago)

then she frittered away her face for keith urban

― sir ilx-a-lot (cutty), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 20:55 (fifteen years ago)

Seriously, having a few lines and wrinkles is preferable to looking like a cat person.

― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 21:03 (fifteen years ago)

i realize this photo is also a fair distance from the two others i posted but this was a totally decent stopping point imo

http://www.accesshollywood.com/content/images/60/300x300/60481_video-136560-access-archives-nicole-kidman.jpg

― ('_') (omar little), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 21:06 (fifteen years ago)

that one film with daniel craig a couple years ago was one of the biggest floperoos of the decade.

and every1 hates her more recent cred moves. that one by the squid and the whale guy. and the diane arbus biopic wasn't even shown theatrically.

― the highest per-vote vag so far (history mayne), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 21:06 (fifteen years ago)

― jed_, Monday, February 1, 2010 3:56 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

what??? is this actually a thing?!

― brews before HOOS (s1ocki), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 21:10 (fifteen years ago)

sounds like something someone would have told me at recess when i was 11

― brews before HOOS (s1ocki), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 21:11 (fifteen years ago)

not everyone has flawless skin like you

― sir ilx-a-lot (cutty), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 21:11 (fifteen years ago)

* blushes *

― brews before HOOS (s1ocki), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 21:13 (fifteen years ago)

oughta be a poll of her post-EWS flicks

Moulin Rouge!
The Others
Birthday Girl
The Hours
Dogville
The Human Stain
Cold Mountain
The Stepford Wives
Birth
The Interpreter
Bewitched
Fur
Happy Feet
The Invasion
Margot at the Wedding
The Golden Compass
Australia
Nine

― ('_') (omar little), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 21:13 (fifteen years ago)

damn

― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 21:14 (fifteen years ago)

god i forgot 'australia'.

― the highest per-vote vag so far (history mayne), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 21:16 (fifteen years ago)

non-arthouse frittering included: Bewitched, Stepford, Interpreter, Australia

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 21:17 (fifteen years ago)

'the interpreter' had a p cool bus bomb

― the highest per-vote vag so far (history mayne), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 21:19 (fifteen years ago)

oscar bait:

Moulin Rouge!
The Hours
The Human Stain
Cold Mountain
Fur
Margot at the Wedding
Australia
Nine

paychecks:

The Others
The Stepford Wives
The Interpreter
Bewitched
The Invasion
Happy Feet
The Golden Compass

culty shit:

Dogville
Birth

co-starring ben chaplin:

Birthday Girl

― ('_') (omar little), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 21:21 (fifteen years ago)

ngl, I love Moulin Rouge. But it's very cheesy.

― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 21:23 (fifteen years ago)

glamorous roles she took after securing a-list status

Birthday Girl - russian mail order black widow
The Hours - suicidal writer w/ prosthetic nose
Dogville - indentured gang rape servant
The Human Stain - janitor
Cold Mountain - confederate sympathizer
The Stepford Wives - robot
Birth - paedo

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 21:29 (fifteen years ago)

birth ftw

― brews before HOOS (s1ocki), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 21:30 (fifteen years ago)

what??? is this actually a thing?!
― brews before HOOS (s1ocki), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 21:10 (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
sounds like something someone would have told me at recess when i was 11
― brews before HOOS (s1ocki), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 21:11 (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

god knows, this is probably just the kind of stuff that make up artists bitch about. it is highly likely that excess botox and skin lightening are going to decrease the elasticity of your skin though and NK has had a lot of both.

― jed_, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 21:30 (fifteen years ago)

i've said it before and i will say it again. her oscar-winning performance in the hours is a thing of beauty. legitimate insanity in her eyes.

― you have to forgive me (surm), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 22:02 (fifteen years ago)

http://z.about.com/d/movies/1/0/k/q/1/thehourspubc.jpg

― you have to forgive me (surm), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 22:03 (fifteen years ago)

also To Die For is one of the greatest movies of all time, obviously.

― you have to forgive me (surm), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 22:04 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/kidman_todiefor.jpg

― you have to forgive me (surm), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 22:04 (fifteen years ago)

I was (too) young when I saw Eyes Wide Shut in the theater. Watched it again recently, and thought she was great in the film and hot as hell, and wondered why I thought she seemed 'older' when I watched it originally. Her age when the film was released? My current age. Oh.

― mh, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 22:09 (fifteen years ago)

no, The Portrait of a Lady is one of the greatest movies of all time, obviously.

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 01:29 (fifteen years ago)

omg i need to see that again

― you have to forgive me (surm), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 01:39 (fifteen years ago)

i remember when i saw it, i was trying to make out with some boy so i couldn't pay attention

― you have to forgive me (surm), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 01:39 (fifteen years ago)

With her rather creepy performances in Birth / The Golden Compass / The Others, I imagine she could easily take over from Angelica Huston as the go to actress for scaring children when she gets to that age.

― danzig, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 01:48 (fifteen years ago)

THAT AGE? They're maybe 15 years apart.

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 02:07 (fifteen years ago)

so, in 15 years then?

― see also cockfarmer fanbases (sic), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 02:12 (fifteen years ago)

http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Entertainment/images-5/nicole-kidman-4.jpg

― ('_') (omar little), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 02:18 (fifteen years ago)

15 years might be becoming more trivial at the 40/55 mark, but at the 30/45 mark it is imo more significant.

― mh, Friday, 5 February 2010 01:50 (fifteen years ago)

it looks like she is sticking her tongue out from above her top teeth.

― sir ilx-a-lot (cutty), Friday, 5 February 2010 02:14 (fifteen years ago)

We saw "The Golden Compass" again recently.

Can anybody tell me what was so goddamn wrong with this film, it looked great to me.

Apart from the "ready for part two?" ending, which was too blatant, and now seems somewhat redundant if they aren't going to make the sequel...

― Mark G, Friday, 5 February 2010 09:33 (fifteen years ago)

two years pass...

http://l1.yimg.com/cv/ip/ap/default/120224/nicole_uni.jpg

― omar little, Friday, 24 February 2012 23:25 (thirteen years ago)

seven months pass...

Nicole pisses on Zac Efron....

http://movies.msn.com/movies/movie-critic-reviews/the-paperboy.3/

― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 October 2012 03:12 (thirteen years ago)

Anyone excited for Stoker?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNpDG4WR_74

― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Friday, 5 October 2012 04:19 (thirteen years ago)

Certainly.

― Alba, Friday, 5 October 2012 08:15 (thirteen years ago)

How on earth did The Paperboy get made for $12.5m? People must've really loved Precious

― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 5 October 2012 12:13 (thirteen years ago)

I mean: that's not a lot of cash for what looks like a big movie

― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 5 October 2012 12:13 (thirteen years ago)

everybody wanted to be part of Zac Efron, Nicole's Urinal

― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 October 2012 15:05 (thirteen years ago)

you know I'm not really gay for Zac Efron or water sports, but

― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 5 October 2012 16:07 (thirteen years ago)

Let's talk about Matthew McConaughey, too. He's had this crazy, career-redefining year, in part because of this movie.

I gotta tell you, I'm so proud of what he did and where he went for me, because he's so not that guy. [SPOILER ALERT] When he is looking up to those black men, those mandingoes, and he's butt naked and salivating for more, it touched me. Everything I put into this movie, I know.

― turds (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 5 October 2012 20:08 (thirteen years ago)

four months pass...

Really liked Flirting. The ending could have been stronger, but that's my only quibble. Thandie Newton's gorgeous. The guy opposite her--his resemblance to Nick Cave has probably been noted by anyone who's ever said anything about this film--has quite an unusual presence. I liked that they added some shading towards the end to the two characters (Kidman and the boxer) most susceptible to cliché. The lake between the two schools even gives it a storybook quality.

― clemenza, Friday, 8 February 2013 03:36 (twelve years ago)

The guy opposite Newton was young Noah Taylor (perhaps most famous for being the road manager in Almost Famous)

― Big Sambola & The Tailspinners (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 8 February 2013 03:47 (twelve years ago)

Yes! Totally missed that connection.

― clemenza, Friday, 8 February 2013 03:54 (twelve years ago)

six years pass...

Never in a million years did I expect to love a film about grieving parents, but I thought Rabbit Hole was great. (It's something of a miracle I even watched it--I just kind of avoid such films.) Kidman, Aaron Eckhart, Sandra Oh, Dianne Wiest, and Miles Teller are all great. A mood piece that, for whatever reason, hit me exactly right.

― clemenza, Saturday, 2 March 2019 02:15 (six years ago)

Grief is intensely human and under-represented in movies.

― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 2 March 2019 02:19 (six years ago)

It's also very difficult, I think, to find the right balance in a film. It's either so interior that it feels remote, or you overdo it in the other direction. This is a real simplification, but non-English language films tend towards the first, American films towards the latter. I thought Rabbit Hole had the perfect balance.

― clemenza, Saturday, 2 March 2019 02:24 (six years ago)

it's my favorite of her performances this decade; often I respect her ability and don't buy a note.

― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 2 March 2019 02:39 (six years ago)

In Boy Erased, she resists the urge to overdo a Southern accent too much, which I respect.

― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Saturday, 2 March 2019 03:49 (six years ago)

Interesting how Rabbit Hole ends in the exact same place as Eyes Wide Shut: "What should we do now?" (Kidman poses the question in RH; she answers it in EWS. The play was 2007, eight years after EWS--I've got to believe there's a very conscious echo there.) The answer in EWS is memorable, it's perfectly in keeping with the rest of the film, and it's a great line to end your career on--I'm not knocking it. But the less flashy answer in Rabbit Hole is the more profound.

― clemenza, Saturday, 2 March 2019 23:01 (six years ago)

I remember liking RH a lot; can't imagine rewatching it, though.

― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Sunday, 3 March 2019 02:03 (six years ago)

five years pass...

I was quite wrong about Birth fourteen years ago, which I have no memory of watching. I watched it this afternoon. The coolness coupled with its lack of affect and the way Kidman gives a largely reactive performance work in its favor.

― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 00:13 (one year ago)

the only thing I remember about it (not having seen it in nearly 20 years) is the gorgeous Alexandre Desplat score

― jaymc, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 01:23 (one year ago)

Yeah Birth was good. I remember strong Rosemary’s Baby vibes.

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 02:24 (one year ago)

The endless, wordless medium shot of her in the audience in Birth is her finest moment outside of To Die For

― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 02:35 (one year ago)

This was the first time I really noticed Desplat and its still my favorite score of his

― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 02:48 (one year ago)

six months pass...

I wrote a bit about her.

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 October 2024 14:26 (one year ago)

Our lists of her best work differ. I like her in Dead Calm, Malice, Dogville, The Others, Birth, Top Of The Lake (you overlook her TV work), The Beguiled, Big Little Lies (TV), Destroyer, The Undoing (TV again, opposite one of Hugh Grant's best performances), and I guess she's good in The Northman but the movie around her is a pile of shit.

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Friday, 4 October 2024 14:40 (one year ago)

Mildly surprised you don't like To Die For!

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 October 2024 14:55 (one year ago)

Me, or Alfred? I like some aspects of it, but it tries way too hard to be a """""subversive""""" """""satire""""" of """""our media culture""""". I would have preferred a movie where the Ileana Douglas character was the protagonist, trying to protect her dimwit brother from this creepy bitch he's married.

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Friday, 4 October 2024 15:02 (one year ago)

i don't think to die for tries hard - if anything it feels so natural that it could have only come out that way, like a great short story. one of the best films of its time without a doubt. not an errant minute.

― Swen, Friday, 4 October 2024 15:03 (one year ago)

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson),

Like I wrote, that's what I thought in 1995 too; then I watched it again last month.

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 October 2024 15:06 (one year ago)

seeing it on the big screen was uncanny - Nicole's face taking up the whole screen with that performance was legendary.

― Swen, Friday, 4 October 2024 15:08 (one year ago)

A Nineties Moment

― Swen, Friday, 4 October 2024 15:08 (one year ago)

literally telling you that - you don't matter. because you're not on TV. the gay boy inside me died multiple times that night.

― Swen, Friday, 4 October 2024 15:10 (one year ago)

two months pass...

She's good in Babygirl.

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 January 2025 23:35 (one year ago)

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