T/S Amy Adams vs. Anne Hathaway

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For whatever reasons, the public has been treated to an avalanche of movies featuring these two young actresses in the past couple of years. We now stand at the cusp of a new year, a year wherein many more such movies are bound to appear. To anyone with half a brain and an appreciative eye for beauty, it is obvious that one of them has an abbreviated nose, the other an enormous breadth of mouth.

Therefore, mainly due to it being a very slow time of year on ILX, the question had to be asked: which of these women do you prefer, and why, for heaven's sake?

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Anne Hathaway 39
Amy Adams 30


Aimless, Thursday, 23 December 2010 19:17 (fifteen years ago)

I like both just fine, actually. Adams has a gift for playing treacly characters well. She gave my favorite performance in The Figher -- a leap that worked.

Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 December 2010 19:18 (fifteen years ago)

I have a huge crush on both

Joolia Stylez (admrl), Thursday, 23 December 2010 19:19 (fifteen years ago)

hathaway for rachel getting married

irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 23 December 2010 19:25 (fifteen years ago)

hathway for HAVOC

would like a calmer set (Eazy), Thursday, 23 December 2010 19:25 (fifteen years ago)

Hathaway, easy. the first time i watched a movie and was conscious of it being, like, AN AMY ADAMS MOVIE was Leap Year and it was terrible and she did nothing to make it better. she was good in The Fighter though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMf0MTweXYc (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 23 December 2010 19:26 (fifteen years ago)

however, adams was in one of my favourite episodes of buffy... oh this is tough.

irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 23 December 2010 19:27 (fifteen years ago)

For the record, I voted AH. I think both of them have pretty good acting chops, but AH is better at broad comedy and AA at tremble-lipped gamines. I suspect that when the dust settles AH will edge out AA in terms of her accumulated body of work. That crack about their respective noses and mouths I added just to put ILXors into the proper combative mood for a knockdown dragout discussion of their relative merits.

Aimless, Thursday, 23 December 2010 19:29 (fifteen years ago)

i like adams better but hathaway has probably been in better movies. otoh shes never carried a movie like adams does 'enchanted' & gd is she charming so

Hyrule's (Lamp), Thursday, 23 December 2010 19:30 (fifteen years ago)

hathaway for those bj lips.

Let me explore your musky garden. (chrisv2010), Thursday, 23 December 2010 19:32 (fifteen years ago)

A at tremble-lipped gamines.

A in The Figher will knock your block off if you call her a gamine.

Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 December 2010 19:34 (fifteen years ago)

what are some amy adams movies i should see to improve my opinion of her

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMf0MTweXYc (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 23 December 2010 19:37 (fifteen years ago)

'enchanted' and 'miss pettigrrew for a day' are her at her princess-y best: the word i keep thinking is delightful but shes warm & charming & lush. those are the two that really sold me on her but i also think shes quietly good in 'catch me as you can' and does some solid work in 'doubt'.

Hyrule's (Lamp), Thursday, 23 December 2010 19:45 (fifteen years ago)

AH

conrad, Thursday, 23 December 2010 19:48 (fifteen years ago)

oh yeah i meant 2 see doubt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMf0MTweXYc (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 23 December 2010 19:50 (fifteen years ago)

Love both these ladies. I think Amy Adams has more roles that I've really enjoyed, but I think Anne Hathaway is absolutely stunning just to look at. Not to say I don't think Anne can be a great actress at times, but I'll willingly watch her in an awful movie while I can't say I'd do the same for Amy Adams. Also, my wife has granted me a free pass with Anne Hathaway.

one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 23 December 2010 19:51 (fifteen years ago)

use it wisely

conrad, Thursday, 23 December 2010 19:54 (fifteen years ago)

haha

Joolia Stylez (admrl), Thursday, 23 December 2010 19:55 (fifteen years ago)

adams for being ginger

moholy-nagl (history mayne), Thursday, 23 December 2010 19:56 (fifteen years ago)

she's not really though

Joolia Stylez (admrl), Thursday, 23 December 2010 19:57 (fifteen years ago)

what up ginger balls

Let me explore your musky garden. (chrisv2010), Thursday, 23 December 2010 19:57 (fifteen years ago)

voted Hathaway but dayyum at both tbh

I write the lols that make the whole world zing (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 23 December 2010 19:58 (fifteen years ago)

someone should probably contact gabbneb for his vote

mookieproof, Thursday, 23 December 2010 20:00 (fifteen years ago)

Ok what's his email address

Joolia Stylez (admrl), Thursday, 23 December 2010 20:02 (fifteen years ago)

Ok what's his Hathaway's email address why she look intresting

one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 23 December 2010 20:06 (fifteen years ago)

Adams

da croupier, Thursday, 23 December 2010 20:07 (fifteen years ago)

I would marry her, just to be called Adam Adams

Joolia Stylez (admrl), Thursday, 23 December 2010 20:07 (fifteen years ago)

People I get confused: Amy Adams, Amy Ryan. Must be the Ryan Adams thing.

would like a calmer set (Eazy), Thursday, 23 December 2010 20:08 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIi4pUmuatk

da croupier, Thursday, 23 December 2010 20:08 (fifteen years ago)

adams has definitely done more interesting work (like that link, xpost)

she's eight years older than hathers

moholy-nagl (history mayne), Thursday, 23 December 2010 20:09 (fifteen years ago)

hard to believe this isn't a picture thread

contenderizer, Thursday, 23 December 2010 20:15 (fifteen years ago)

Hathaway. Mostly can't stand Adams.

benanas foster (Eric H.), Thursday, 23 December 2010 20:16 (fifteen years ago)

think adams elevates enchanted several notches, but cant ever vote against anne hathaway in anything.

all i gotta do is akh nachivly (darraghmac), Thursday, 23 December 2010 20:22 (fifteen years ago)

contenderizer, make it so

Aimless, Thursday, 23 December 2010 20:22 (fifteen years ago)

AH why because bewbs

the distance between me and a sackful is gonna be like 0 inches (rip van wanko), Thursday, 23 December 2010 20:24 (fifteen years ago)

yeah i wanna cum in her meowth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMf0MTweXYc (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 23 December 2010 20:32 (fifteen years ago)

stay classy

one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 23 December 2010 20:44 (fifteen years ago)

Hathaway slightly, tho I wouldn't mind if she got a little sun once in her life...

Bitch, it cold outside!!! BURR (San Te), Thursday, 23 December 2010 21:11 (fifteen years ago)

that said she's uber pretty. and yes, Rachael Getting Married was awes.

Bitch, it cold outside!!! BURR (San Te), Thursday, 23 December 2010 21:14 (fifteen years ago)

you wouldn't mind if she got a little sun once in her life

conrad, Thursday, 23 December 2010 21:17 (fifteen years ago)

what are ya, a parakeet

Bitch, it cold outside!!! BURR (San Te), Thursday, 23 December 2010 21:19 (fifteen years ago)

this should be adams vs. hathaway vs. fisher imo

Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 23 December 2010 21:20 (fifteen years ago)

was gonna say, I often confuse Adams w/ Fisher if I'm not paying close attention

Bitch, it cold outside!!! BURR (San Te), Thursday, 23 December 2010 21:20 (fifteen years ago)

if you're not paying close attention

conrad, Thursday, 23 December 2010 21:22 (fifteen years ago)

http://mcaaron.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/fuck-off-smokers.jpg?w=400&h=450

Bitch, it cold outside!!! BURR (San Te), Thursday, 23 December 2010 21:23 (fifteen years ago)

Her mother was a semi-professional bodybuilder. Adams was raised as a Mormon, although her family left the church after her parents' divorce when she was 11 years old. Regarding her religious upbringing, she said, "... it instilled in me a value system I still hold true. The basic 'Do unto others...', that was what was hammered into me. And love."

buzza, Thursday, 23 December 2010 21:44 (fifteen years ago)

Much more attracted to Anne Hathaway. I read the introduction, and I don't think this is about acting.

clemenza, Thursday, 23 December 2010 22:14 (fifteen years ago)

hathaway for reasons tamtam puts forth above. adams was good in cruel intentions 2.

balls, Thursday, 23 December 2010 22:23 (fifteen years ago)

Nobody was any good in Cruel Intentions anything.

buildings with goats on the roof (James Morrison), Thursday, 23 December 2010 22:27 (fifteen years ago)

I think Amy Adams is a much better actress. Junebug is another good one to check out. It was the movie that put her on the map to begin with.

Moodles, Thursday, 23 December 2010 22:50 (fifteen years ago)

Junebug, and Sunshine Cleaning is also really good

buildings with goats on the roof (James Morrison), Thursday, 23 December 2010 23:16 (fifteen years ago)

i like adams better but hathaway has probably been in better movies. otoh shes never carried a movie like adams does 'enchanted' & gd is she charming so

― Hyrule's (Lamp), Thursday, December 23, 2010 2:30 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

^^^ First saw Adams in Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can and damn was she good.

Tub Girl Time Machine (Phil D.), Thursday, 23 December 2010 23:20 (fifteen years ago)

If they just ran this as one of those mini-commercials between commercials, this would've been a hit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFGswd4mk-4

would like a calmer set (Eazy), Thursday, 23 December 2010 23:23 (fifteen years ago)

Adams is pretty and a reasonably good actress, but there's something more magnetic about Hathaway.

Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Thursday, 23 December 2010 23:26 (fifteen years ago)

I don't particularly like either of them and am not even sure if I've ever seen Adams in anything. I think she's sorta bland though - at least Hathaway is interesting looking so, her.

ENBB, Thursday, 23 December 2010 23:27 (fifteen years ago)

was she julie in julie and julia? she was very good at inhabiting the loathsome reptilian nature of that creature, like michael douglas-level creepy.

Philip Nunez, Thursday, 23 December 2010 23:28 (fifteen years ago)

These two would've been a good alternate cast for Black Swan.

would like a calmer set (Eazy), Friday, 24 December 2010 00:16 (fifteen years ago)

there are no 36 year old prima ballerinas.

I am a man and I use the typewriter method (rip van wanko), Friday, 24 December 2010 00:19 (fifteen years ago)

Margot Fonteyn danced into her fifties.

Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Friday, 24 December 2010 00:24 (fifteen years ago)

i would just like to point out that i really really really love that it is AIMLESS of all people that started this thread, when i just assumed it would be one of my fellow 77 horndogs

aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 24 December 2010 04:01 (fifteen years ago)

hathaway, by the way. amy adams is pretty like the girl at the office, hathaway is pretty like the icon.

aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 24 December 2010 04:02 (fifteen years ago)

i really really really love that it is AIMLESS of all people that started this thread

yes!

they are both lovely, though i'm not sure i've seen an entire AH film, and only seen junebug and enchanted. props to AA for playing a slutty popular girl who hooked up with hyde (but wouldn't admit it in public) on that 70s show

mookieproof, Friday, 24 December 2010 04:20 (fifteen years ago)

Although most of you have already noticed, I'd like to point out that thisthread is already the #2 result on Google for "enormous breadth of mouth".

Aimless, Friday, 24 December 2010 04:26 (fifteen years ago)

btw, as a 56 year old eminence gris, I am above all suspicion of being a "horndog". Above all suspicion, d'ye'hear me?

Aimless, Friday, 24 December 2010 04:30 (fifteen years ago)

i'm suspicious

mookieproof, Friday, 24 December 2010 04:32 (fifteen years ago)

I once witnessed a Hathaway v.s. Megan Fox debate, which had one dude say that "Hathaways is, like, a classic beauty, while Megan Fox, she's, like, porn star hot." This was said in a way that you'd think those were equally good compliments to receive.

Adams.

Cunga, Friday, 24 December 2010 05:39 (fifteen years ago)

they are!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMf0MTweXYc (Princess TamTam), Friday, 24 December 2010 05:42 (fifteen years ago)

A lot of girls I know would claw the eyes out if a guy said they were pretty like a porn star. (but then that probably just says a lot about the girls I know)

Cunga, Friday, 24 December 2010 07:48 (fifteen years ago)

I think that's a pretty spot on description tbh although a lot of Megan Fox's porn starish image comes from how she's styled. I've seen pictures of her where her hair/makeup is diff and she looks classically gorgeous too.

ENBB, Friday, 24 December 2010 12:11 (fifteen years ago)

lol w/ jaymc

balls, Friday, 24 December 2010 17:45 (fifteen years ago)

I have a huge crush on both

― Joolia Stylez (admrl), Thursday, December 23, 2010 2:19 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i like adams better but hathaway has probably been in better movies. otoh shes never carried a movie like adams does 'enchanted' & gd is she charming so

― Hyrule's (Lamp), Thursday, December 23, 2010 2:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i agree w/ these two posts

max, Friday, 24 December 2010 17:51 (fifteen years ago)

my answer is rachel mcadams btw

max, Friday, 24 December 2010 17:52 (fifteen years ago)

also lol http://blogs.villagevoice.com/dailymusto/2009/08/anne_hathaway_v.php

max, Friday, 24 December 2010 17:52 (fifteen years ago)

it's creepy how amy adams, anne hathaway, megan fox look exactly like how you would expect them to, based on their names, not like say, regis philbin or conan obrien.

Philip Nunez, Friday, 24 December 2010 17:57 (fifteen years ago)

Oh, also Amy Adams was on an episode of Buffy. That's kind of a clincher for me.

Tub Girl Time Machine (Phil D.), Friday, 24 December 2010 18:01 (fifteen years ago)

hathaway has probably been in better movies

nuh-uh

moholy-nagl (history mayne), Friday, 24 December 2010 18:02 (fifteen years ago)

she was in one of the scooby doos

all i gotta do is akh nachivly (darraghmac), Friday, 24 December 2010 18:05 (fifteen years ago)

Rachel Getting Married, yes?

R Baez, Friday, 24 December 2010 18:05 (fifteen years ago)

raise yous the fighter

moholy-nagl (history mayne), Friday, 24 December 2010 18:12 (fifteen years ago)

you know who else was in scooby doo and deserved to be a much bigger star was linda cardellini

max, Friday, 24 December 2010 18:28 (fifteen years ago)

Freddie Prinz, Jr. yo

Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 December 2010 18:29 (fifteen years ago)

rowan atkinson son

balls, Friday, 24 December 2010 19:28 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Friday, 31 December 2010 00:01 (fifteen years ago)

Adams is hawt

gravity explodes (CaptainLorax), Friday, 31 December 2010 00:51 (fifteen years ago)

hathaway. no contest.

sonderangerbot, Friday, 31 December 2010 00:54 (fifteen years ago)

Still minimal action on the pix front?

http://www.enchanted-movie.com/images/amyadams02.jpg

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u142/anahit_b/annehathaway.jpg

Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 31 December 2010 06:28 (fifteen years ago)

i chose adams because for some reason i respect her more but i seem to enjoy hathaway's movies more.

tehresa, Friday, 31 December 2010 06:34 (fifteen years ago)

voted adams, she speaks to me

ice cr?m, Friday, 31 December 2010 06:38 (fifteen years ago)

http://backseatcuddler.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/amy-adams-w-magazine-photos-4.jpg

real Gs move in sleds, like toboggan (Pillbox), Friday, 31 December 2010 06:40 (fifteen years ago)

Amy Adams bc of her Amelia Earhart in Night At The Museum 2. she should do advertising for jodphurs. does wonders for them

VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 31 December 2010 06:49 (fifteen years ago)

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_QmykW6KKkJ4/STbTcoqKu1I/AAAAAAAAcOM/HZc7p-adRsc/s800/anne-hathaway-81204001.jpg

Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 31 December 2010 16:13 (fifteen years ago)

http://partylicious.com.pk/wp-content/gallery/anne-hathaway-gq-shoot/anne_hathaway_gq_uk_7.jpg

Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 31 December 2010 16:14 (fifteen years ago)

MY CLOTHES WERE SO SAD

Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 December 2010 16:31 (fifteen years ago)

I was thinking about Get Real the other day. It was the this flop Fox family dramedy that starred a pre-Princess Diaries Hathaway as an angsty teen. Jesse Eisenberg played her little brother.

Dig this IMDB review:

I see potential for this show, but it just isn't hitting that mark. First of all, the show is trying to hard with doing new things with the camerawork, that it gets to overdone rather than "cool." They emphasize on the unimportant stuff (with the camera). It just doesn't work. The storyline is good, but some of the things they do to make this movie just blows. It's not a tv show that you would make a great effort to watch. You don't feel any deep connection with any of the characters. I don't feel any sympathy for any one of their problems, and I don't get much out of any of them that makes me want to watch their pathetic lives for the rest of this season.

They still gave it a 6 of 10.

Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 31 December 2010 18:09 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce6PPtfye3o

did they just use the same set as The Bronze?

boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Friday, 31 December 2010 18:18 (fifteen years ago)

jimmy mod pushed me off the fence

ullr saves (gbx), Friday, 31 December 2010 18:21 (fifteen years ago)

I know--that cig pic, goddamn.

Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 31 December 2010 18:32 (fifteen years ago)

http://i52.tinypic.com/n5ngox.jpg

Kerm, Friday, 31 December 2010 18:44 (fifteen years ago)

Damn that looks uncomfortable. It shows around her mouth.

Aimless, Friday, 31 December 2010 18:47 (fifteen years ago)

haven't seen most of the movies of hers that are supposedly good and/or she's supposedly good in but i've come from my limited experience w/ Amy Adams with the impression that she's kind of a terrible actress, or at least one without enough presence to make the crap she's in remotely as watchable as the crap Hathaway's been in.

hann am0n tana (some dude), Friday, 31 December 2010 21:38 (fifteen years ago)

like i don't know if Leap Year or Sunshine Cleaning would've been miles better with Hathaway but they probably wouldn't have been quite so vacant and devoid of any entertainment value whatsoever. didn't mind her in Julie & Julia like i thought i would, though.

hann am0n tana (some dude), Friday, 31 December 2010 21:43 (fifteen years ago)

Movies in which Adams has been good:

Catch Me If You Can
Junebug
Enchanted
Charlie Wilson's War
The Fighter

Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 December 2010 21:54 (fifteen years ago)

i like Catch Me If You Can and Charlie Wilson's War a lot, but can't really remember anything about AA's roles in them beyond thinking "oh, Amy Adams is in this"

hann am0n tana (some dude), Friday, 31 December 2010 21:57 (fifteen years ago)

basically she's such a pleasant non-entity to me that threads like this are kind of like someone trying to tell me the girl that plays Pam on The Office is the most talented young actress in Hollywood or something

hann am0n tana (some dude), Friday, 31 December 2010 22:06 (fifteen years ago)

no one's implied as such...?

Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 December 2010 22:07 (fifteen years ago)

My point remains: Adams has a gift for playing treacly characters well.

Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 December 2010 22:07 (fifteen years ago)

oh i know nobody's selling her THAT hard but like her career trajectory in general, i'm not really sure how AA got out of the rom com ghetto and got a fairly good critical rep

hann am0n tana (some dude), Friday, 31 December 2010 22:10 (fifteen years ago)

You'll have to ask her agent, right? Not to be glib, but who knows why any actor gets roles and critical acclaim? Meryl Streep is often awful, and I can't stand Colin Firth, but there they are, getting Oscar nods.

Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 December 2010 22:14 (fifteen years ago)

because of junebug, i imagine

mookieproof, Friday, 31 December 2010 22:23 (fifteen years ago)

^ yeah, this, in concert with enchanted, in which her performance puts her well above the general run of the "rom-com ghetto." she often gets by on charm, and perhaps as a result, she isn't getting the credit she deserves ITT.

contenderizer, Friday, 31 December 2010 22:36 (fifteen years ago)

She's charming and has some ability; nothing more need be said, I think (or for Hathaway for that matter).

Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 December 2010 22:38 (fifteen years ago)

hathaway in "rachel getting married" >>>> amy adams' whole career

J0rdan S., Friday, 31 December 2010 22:40 (fifteen years ago)

really? she's good in it, but no better than adams in junebug. just darker, sharper, more cynical and urban.

contenderizer, Friday, 31 December 2010 22:42 (fifteen years ago)

enchanted is a weird one because she really does nail it buuuuuuuut the role itself is (intentionally, obviously) very narrowly defined. it's a "character actor" part given centerstage (like Elf, i guess) and she pulls it off well, but it's hard to gauge her "chops" you know?

nb i haven't seen junebug or the fighter or w/e

ullr saves (gbx), Friday, 31 December 2010 22:45 (fifteen years ago)

hathaway in "rachel getting married" >>>> amy adams' whole career

I like RGM more than Hathaway.

Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 December 2010 23:21 (fifteen years ago)

Alfred otm

VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 31 December 2010 23:29 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Saturday, 1 January 2011 00:01 (fifteen years ago)

no.

☜(⌒▽⌒)☞ (jeff), Saturday, 1 January 2011 00:12 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.topnews.in/files/Anne-Hathaway101.jpg

C'mon... it was the right choice.

Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 1 January 2011 00:30 (fifteen years ago)

...and really, in the end they're both winners.

Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 1 January 2011 01:06 (fifteen years ago)

That's the spirit!

Aimless, Saturday, 1 January 2011 02:46 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R15PZetz9Dg

ℳℴℯ ❤\(◕‿◕✿ (Princess TamTam), Monday, 28 February 2011 14:39 (fifteen years ago)

I kinda wish Hathaway hadn't gone all anorexic and twiggy because she used to be one of the most beautiful women in the world. Oh well **eats pistachios**

frogbs, Monday, 28 February 2011 16:39 (fifteen years ago)

i have no idea who amy adams is, and have never knowingly seen her in anything

the only reason i know who anne hathaway is is because i watched a movie where she played a young ingenue working for a fashion magazine. i thought she was gorgeous and sophisticated until she opened her mouth

progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, 28 February 2011 16:47 (fifteen years ago)

I like how you've divorced yourself from popular movie culture despite admitting having watched The Devil Wears Prada.

mh, Monday, 28 February 2011 16:49 (fifteen years ago)

I thought she looked great last night. She was definitely thinner than she's been previously but still gorgeous.

ENBB, Monday, 28 February 2011 16:50 (fifteen years ago)

well yeah but she used to be like, super-gorgeous

frogbs, Monday, 28 February 2011 16:58 (fifteen years ago)

Tracer was probly taking one for the husband team there

kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 February 2011 17:00 (fifteen years ago)

no, it was on and i was bored :( no excuses

i have just realized that if i read "amy adams" anywhere my brain translates it to "rachel mcadams" who i have always had pegged as a fifth-rate parker posey

progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, 28 February 2011 17:05 (fifteen years ago)

i barely knew who AA was until a few months ago too trace

ℳℴℯ ❤\(◕‿◕✿ (Princess TamTam), Monday, 28 February 2011 17:10 (fifteen years ago)

I love rachel mcadams even though I think Mean Girls may actually be the only thing I've ever actually seen her in and yeah I've only seen AA in The Fighter.

ENBB, Monday, 28 February 2011 17:11 (fifteen years ago)

five months pass...

Don't know if this has been posted elsewhere...

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

Hey T-Paw, mow my lawn! (Dan Peterson), Friday, 19 August 2011 17:10 (fourteen years ago)

Everything about Anne Hathaway, whether it's her movies or seeing the words "Anne Hathaway's Lil Wayne style rap" or hearing about her doing coke at Vassar with friends or her LGBT activism, is so much more interesting and charming to me second-hand. But there's something obnoxious about actually witnessing her, so self-consciously performative, like this deep-seated drama-nerd need to be loved manifests in intense try-harding that it becomes uncomfortable. She is beautiful though, would've been a great silent film actress esp with all that mugging she pulls.

Amy Adams I thought was just charming and fun until she pulled off the best performance (by far) in The Fighter

suckin em down like they name was jack daniels (billy), Friday, 19 August 2011 17:35 (fourteen years ago)

im on-board the amy adams hype train now. rewatched catch me if you can recently and she was really f'in good in it (great movie btw), hard to believe its the same woman who was so brassy in The Fighter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Friday, 19 August 2011 17:49 (fourteen years ago)

just coming on here to say she was great in "the fighter", and also why did "the fighter" not get a thread?

mr peabody (moonship journey to baja), Friday, 19 August 2011 22:19 (fourteen years ago)

it did Marky Mark and Christian Bale and Amy Adams in David O Russell's THE FIGHTER

like hathaway but that rap was painful

sonderangerbot, Friday, 19 August 2011 22:23 (fourteen years ago)

I couldn't watch!

Jung Danjah (admrl), Friday, 19 August 2011 22:29 (fourteen years ago)

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buzza, Friday, 19 August 2011 22:30 (fourteen years ago)

so self-consciously performative, like this deep-seated drama-nerd need to be loved manifests in intense try-harding that it becomes uncomfortable

yeah the entire oscars broadcast was like that for me

max, Friday, 19 August 2011 22:50 (fourteen years ago)

franco is a more vile drama club kid personality than she could ever hope to be. i love him but can't help seeing him as a monster created by sorting daniel desario into an Intro To Theatre high school class as a last-ditch attempt to satisfy graduation credits that resulted in him being worshipped by girls and boys alike

A B C, Saturday, 20 August 2011 00:13 (fourteen years ago)

i will never watch that rap video, though.

A B C, Saturday, 20 August 2011 00:13 (fourteen years ago)

i saw her do the 'rap' on Conan the other night, i thought it was funny. i mean she's clearly a dorky theatre kid, maybe i'm more comfortable with that because of the number of times i've seen Ella Enchanted?

some dude, Saturday, 20 August 2011 00:43 (fourteen years ago)

Franco is way more obnoxious creative writing student than drama nerd. Full disclosure: I've been both.

suckin em down like they name was jack daniels (billy), Saturday, 20 August 2011 00:51 (fourteen years ago)

yeah, i think i was conflating every personality that ever went to arts camp

A B C, Saturday, 20 August 2011 01:18 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

I heard someone say off-handedly about A.H., looking at a magazine cover of hers "She needs to come off 'coping drugs' because it's obvious looking at her eyes that she's on something"

As mean as that was, I can't unsee it.

Cunga, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 02:08 (thirteen years ago)

i dislike anne hathaway and i'm not sorry

veryupsetmom (harbl), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 02:20 (thirteen years ago)

http://25.media.tumblr.com/0c397bfdac7c7f7c130c7dd77dcc4df3/tumblr_mgufkmWLAx1qln00mo1_500.jpg

johnny crunch, Saturday, 19 January 2013 14:03 (thirteen years ago)

i dislike anne hathaway and i'm not sorry

― veryupsetmom (harbl), Tuesday, January 15, 2013 9:20 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark

same

turds (Hungry4Ass), Saturday, 19 January 2013 14:04 (thirteen years ago)

smh at these poll results.

turds (Hungry4Ass), Saturday, 19 January 2013 14:04 (thirteen years ago)

last few years have really soured me on hath

max, Saturday, 19 January 2013 14:08 (thirteen years ago)

i've only seen a couple of her movies and she's ok at acting but i didn't like rachel getting married and the way she talks in interviews and stuff is sooooo faaaaaaaake

veryupsetmom (harbl), Saturday, 19 January 2013 16:40 (thirteen years ago)

signed veryupsetmom

veryupsetmom (harbl), Saturday, 19 January 2013 16:40 (thirteen years ago)

last few years have really soured me on hath

hath no fury or scorn

the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 19 January 2013 16:45 (thirteen years ago)

she comes across to me as not terribly likable but not at all 'fake,' like she's not even trying to pretend she's more likable than she is. which in a weird way makes me like her more.

the legend of bigger yansh (some dude), Saturday, 19 January 2013 16:45 (thirteen years ago)

seriously dying @ "i'm not looked at as a sex symbol enough, this outfit will take care of that"

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/02/article-2255932-16B8936B000005DC-559_634x799.jpg

the legend of bigger yansh (some dude), Saturday, 19 January 2013 17:28 (thirteen years ago)

wkiw her neck

(panda) (gun) (wrapped gift) (silby), Saturday, 19 January 2013 17:33 (thirteen years ago)

and the way she talks in interviews and stuff is sooooo faaaaaaaake

― veryupsetmom (harbl), Saturday, January 19, 2013 11:40 AM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, fake in the too-into-drama-club kid kinda way imo. it's awful

johnny crunch, Saturday, 19 January 2013 17:33 (thirteen years ago)

i dunno i feel like there are a lot of actors who are way faker in how they better conceal their drama club roots if that make sense

the legend of bigger yansh (some dude), Saturday, 19 January 2013 17:35 (thirteen years ago)

some stuff in this interview w/ her drove me crazy iirc

http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/12247

johnny crunch, Saturday, 19 January 2013 17:46 (thirteen years ago)

I feel like her Golden Globes acceptance speech encapsulated everything I love and hate about her at once.

jaymc, Saturday, 19 January 2013 17:51 (thirteen years ago)

Meanwhile, Hollywood seems to have thrown Amy Adams off the boat ever since The Fighter.

Aimless, Saturday, 19 January 2013 17:59 (thirteen years ago)

we're talking about the Amy Adams that has since been in a $100+ mil blockbuster, is currently nominated for an Oscar, and plays Lois Lane in next summer's Superman movie? that Amy Adams?

the legend of bigger yansh (some dude), Saturday, 19 January 2013 18:02 (thirteen years ago)

i dunno i feel like there are a lot of actors who are way faker in how they better conceal their drama club roots if that make sense

And yeah, I agree with this: I get the sense that Hathaway just can't help being that person all the time. She is always going to be eager to please in that hyper, jokey way, and she is always going to be overly reverent about Acting.

jaymc, Saturday, 19 January 2013 18:05 (thirteen years ago)

xpNo, I am talking about Amy Xaviera Adams, who was in charge of continuity on the set of The Fighter. What Hollywood has done to her career is a scandal!

Aimless, Saturday, 19 January 2013 18:06 (thirteen years ago)

haha

the legend of bigger yansh (some dude), Saturday, 19 January 2013 18:15 (thirteen years ago)

Thats like the least sexy corset i've ever seen.

She needs to put on some weight imo if she wants to be seen as a sex symbol. She has too much of a ballet-thing going on.

Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 19 January 2013 19:41 (thirteen years ago)

she IS a sex symbol and doesn't need to do anything (although i think people will generally be relieved when she grows her hair back out). it's just a silly quote and a terribly unflattering outfit.

the legend of bigger yansh (some dude), Saturday, 19 January 2013 19:58 (thirteen years ago)

aforementioned Hathaway sitcom Get Real:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEtPXXWUfwY

momgasm intro is awkward!

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 19 January 2013 20:06 (thirteen years ago)

so you think she's sexy some dude? i think she's gorgeous - i always ask straight men what they think and i've gotten varying responses.

surm, Saturday, 19 January 2013 20:12 (thirteen years ago)

i am pretty into her personally -- not saying everyone is or has to be. but y'know, if you're cast as Catwoman and there is anticipation just over your costume, you're a sex symbol.

the legend of bigger yansh (some dude), Saturday, 19 January 2013 20:16 (thirteen years ago)

not saying you personally, surm, although maybe that would be a good role for you?

the legend of bigger yansh (some dude), Saturday, 19 January 2013 20:17 (thirteen years ago)

bahaha. ok cool, glad to know i am not making her beauty up in my mind

surm, Saturday, 19 January 2013 20:27 (thirteen years ago)

a lot of people are weirded out by the mouth for sure but generally she is a looker

the legend of bigger yansh (some dude), Saturday, 19 January 2013 20:29 (thirteen years ago)

i mean, she definitely has Julia Roberts Syndrome. but it's hot

surm, Saturday, 19 January 2013 20:30 (thirteen years ago)

movie stars don't look like ordianry people. their beauty isn't even very conventional as a rule.

Aimless, Saturday, 19 January 2013 21:01 (thirteen years ago)

Disagree. Movie stars are not fashion models, their beauty is very conventional.

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 19 January 2013 21:08 (thirteen years ago)

conventional beauty is often very bland, quite symmetrical and balanced. that's how a starlet looks, but not a star.

Aimless, Saturday, 19 January 2013 21:15 (thirteen years ago)

So Charlize Theron is unconventionally beautiful? Scarlett Johansson?

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 19 January 2013 21:18 (thirteen years ago)

charlize theron is so pretty

surm, Saturday, 19 January 2013 21:19 (thirteen years ago)

the whole symmetry=beauty thing has been blown way out of proportion. like that recent insane Esquire piece about Megan Fox ("The symmetry of her face, up close, is genuinely shocking. The lip on the left curves exactly the same way as the lip on the right. The eyes match exactly."), who the fuck actually thinks like that.

the legend of bigger yansh (some dude), Saturday, 19 January 2013 21:48 (thirteen years ago)

megan fox and brian austin green must have a lot of fun in the sack

surm, Saturday, 19 January 2013 21:50 (thirteen years ago)

That esquire remark about Megan's fox's skin reminded me of that Neil hannon lyric "skin was whiter than the snows of Hoth."

Cunga, Saturday, 19 January 2013 21:52 (thirteen years ago)

when B.A.G. is in the sack he's all "holy shit Megan you're so symmetrical"

the legend of bigger yansh (some dude), Saturday, 19 January 2013 21:56 (thirteen years ago)

lol

he's pretty damn symmetrical himself

surm, Saturday, 19 January 2013 21:57 (thirteen years ago)

bag

turds (Hungry4Ass), Saturday, 19 January 2013 22:14 (thirteen years ago)

tuppence b. bag

mookieproof, Saturday, 19 January 2013 22:19 (thirteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIPvXTxK4Y8

Big Sambola & The Tailspinners (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 19 January 2013 22:23 (thirteen years ago)

that sitcom, jesus

goole, Saturday, 19 January 2013 22:44 (thirteen years ago)

conventional beauty is often very bland, quite symmetrical and balanced. that's how a starlet looks, but not a star.

http://www.graveandmostglorious.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/tumblrl9bzhjrcrf1qzhojh.gif

the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 19 January 2013 22:47 (thirteen years ago)

http://starsmedia.ign.com/stars/image/article/830/830126/simpsons_kyle-danner_02_1193273018.jpg

Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Saturday, 19 January 2013 22:51 (thirteen years ago)

She needs to put on some weight imo if she wants to be seen as a sex symbol. She has too much of a ballet-thing going on.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 19 January 2013 19:41 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

god stop talking

attempt to look intentionally nerdy, awkward or (thomp), Saturday, 19 January 2013 22:57 (thirteen years ago)

that sitcom, jesus

― goole, Saturday, January 19, 2013 4:44 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Still S.M.D.H. ft. (will), Saturday, 19 January 2013 23:20 (thirteen years ago)

more of a dramedy innit

the legend of bigger yansh (some dude), Saturday, 19 January 2013 23:43 (thirteen years ago)

So Charlize Theron is unconventionally beautiful? Scarlett Johansson?

This is more the sort of thing I had in mind in as being conventionally pretty:

http://www.learnit2.com/photoshop/Add-Wrinkles/1.jpg

No, I would not call Charlize Theron "conventionally pretty". She is jaw-droppingly stunningly gorgeous. Even pics of her without all the usual celebrity aids of photoshopping, good lighting, and professional makeup show her to be stunningly gorgeous.

Scarlett Johanson's features are not exactly lopsided, but her mouth and lips are largish and out of proportion to her chin, which is smallish. This is not to say she is not beautiful. Obv she is. We agree there entirely. But imo her good looks are quite striking and highly individual, not merely conventional.

...Now at least you know in more detail what kind of stupid and crazy you think I am.

Aimless, Sunday, 20 January 2013 01:59 (thirteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://gawker.com/5987089/anne-hathaway-knows-that-you-hate-her

Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 15:55 (thirteen years ago)

She looks like Tom Cruise, and, coincidentally, also shares his over-bearingly eager-to-please qualities.

DavidM, Thursday, 28 February 2013 19:27 (thirteen years ago)

defending vs the "It came true!" pile-on

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/02/anne-hathaway-in-defense-of-the-happy-girl.html

Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 2 March 2013 17:49 (thirteen years ago)

Just flip randomly through the photographs of women on the red carpet: their faces are taut and inscrutable, their bodies often posed in the defensive posture of one muscled arm on hip. They smile without teeth. Their eyes are glazed and look off into a hazy middle distance, guarding some secret. Now, look at Anne:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/anne-hathaway-oscars.jpg

Cunga, Saturday, 2 March 2013 19:22 (thirteen years ago)

photo from the article, too

Cunga, Saturday, 2 March 2013 19:22 (thirteen years ago)

three years pass...

It would be interesting to re-poll this today. Anne seems to have run her course, while Amy has moved from strength to strength.

a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 19:26 (nine years ago)

its all just like cycles of recognition, amy is at a career peak rn

johnny crunch, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 19:31 (nine years ago)

that said, a good t/s would be Rachel mcadams vs Rebecca hall, in a battle of fairly high profile actresses who I frequently forget what they look like

johnny crunch, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 19:37 (nine years ago)

I feel bad for Anne because I routinely see a clickbait article on entertainment sites headlined "how did anne hathaway become the most hated actress in hollywood"

akm, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 20:59 (nine years ago)

i admit I did click on it and the answer was "because of her oscar hosting gig"

akm, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 21:19 (nine years ago)

Rebecca Hall is the hotness

rip van wanko, Wednesday, 11 January 2017 02:26 (nine years ago)

RVW otm

The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 11 January 2017 02:54 (nine years ago)

three years pass...

I went to see Hillbilly Elegy, which a) was cited as the worst film of the year in two different reviews I've seen, and b) managed to close in a week at the local Cineplex, even though there are basically no movies right now. (That could have been because it's a Netflix film, though.)

I'm quite sure there have been worse films this year. It's not inept--as I imagine Woody Allen saying, it's perfectly ept. But there are at least two big problems.

1) It's mostly a kicking-drugs film, which are, in my experience, almost always a drag and prone to hysterics. I've seen one or two I don't mind (Panic in Needle Park). Amy Adams can't do anything with this role.

2) I never read the book, but that's an elevated title that promises a lot. The book came out in the summer of 2016, and the present-day part of the story is set in 2013; I don't think it's unreasonable to think it might situate itself, in some way or another, in relation to Obama (going) and Trump (coming in). Or have something to say about...something. Nothing, or least nothing that's no so general as to warrant mentioning. Race is barely present. I don't know if this absence is wholly a function of the book, or if--as he dodged math in A Beautiful Mind--the fault is Ron Howard's.

When they show some actual photos/footage over the credits, it's clear that Adams and Glenn Close look remarkably like their real-life counterparts. The energy that went into that should have been directed elsewhere.

clemenza, Friday, 27 November 2020 02:18 (five years ago)

I'd like to point out that this thread is already the #2 result on Google for "enormous breadth of mouth".

― Aimless, Thursday, December 23, 2010

It is now #1!

Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Friday, 27 November 2020 02:38 (five years ago)

xpost my brother, an actor, derisively used to call some mediocre productions of Tennessee Williams productions "Everybody Yells!". I think that description was better suited for this movie, which my folks are watching right now.

Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Friday, 27 November 2020 02:47 (five years ago)

it's nothing but broad strokes throughout, and the jumping back and forth in time, which Howard loves oh so much, really doesn't help.

Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Friday, 27 November 2020 02:50 (five years ago)

ron howard, truly the McG of Robert Zemeckises

it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Friday, 27 November 2020 02:54 (five years ago)

i kept being reminded throughout something one of my fav theatre directors used to say - "do you all do levels at all, or are you gonna do everything at 11?"

Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Friday, 27 November 2020 02:57 (five years ago)

So many films--some acclaimed--are guilty of the everybody-yells syndrome. I didn't find this one egregiously worse than the norm for that kind of thing.

clemenza, Friday, 27 November 2020 02:58 (five years ago)

To paraphrase some old theatrical wisdom: yelling is easy; comedy is hard.

Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Friday, 27 November 2020 03:03 (five years ago)

xpost tbh I did. I didn't think this was "worst movie ever" territory or anything, but I feel like most of the other oscar-baity "yelly" pics usually have some respite from the histrionics, and this one felt like a 2 hour grindcore album.

Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Friday, 27 November 2020 03:05 (five years ago)

who has even heard of these people

plax (ico), Friday, 27 November 2020 13:08 (five years ago)

i love AA and AH and the whiff of sexism across this thread is delicately sad

Bandscamp Fryday (Noodle Vague), Friday, 27 November 2020 13:09 (five years ago)

Love em both but AA is especially great

spruce springclean (darraghmac), Friday, 27 November 2020 13:19 (five years ago)

Anne 'Athaway

Mark G, Friday, 27 November 2020 13:21 (five years ago)

Love em both but AA is especially great

― spruce springclean (darraghmac)

She wasn't in Hillbilly Elegy.

Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 November 2020 13:24 (five years ago)

Enchanted is one of the most unassailable "get out of jail free for remainder of career" cards that ever existed

spruce springclean (darraghmac), Friday, 27 November 2020 13:35 (five years ago)

Loved Amy Adams in American Hustle and Sharp Objects; doubt anyone could save her role in Hillbilly Elegy.

Meant to mention that there are two great songs, neither used well. "Cruel Summer" could have been memorable the way it's used if Howard had just taken a moment out from all the misery and had some fun, but no; "Tuesday's Gone" is here and gone in three seconds.

clemenza, Friday, 27 November 2020 14:21 (five years ago)

seven months pass...

The Woman in the Window was intriguing for a while, but the last 15 minutes felt like bad '70s drive-in fare. Adams and Moore are fine. I'm sure actors lowered the bar considerably on scripts last year.

clemenza, Monday, 5 July 2021 02:52 (four years ago)

two years pass...

saw Havoc with Hathaway, unreal, what a performance. these two are the only women that compel me these days.

Swen, Saturday, 2 March 2024 18:57 (two years ago)


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