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)

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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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