T/S Amy Adams vs. Anne Hathaway

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.

I have a huge crush on both

hathaway for rachel getting married

hathway for HAVOC

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.

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

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.

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

hathaway for those bj lips.

A at tremble-lipped gamines.

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

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

'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'.

AH

oh yeah i meant 2 see doubt

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.

use it wisely

haha

adams for being ginger

she's not really though

what up ginger balls

voted Hathaway but dayyum at both tbh

someone should probably contact gabbneb for his vote

Ok what's his email address

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

Adams

I would marry her, just to be called Adam Adams

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

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

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

she's eight years older than hathers

hard to believe this isn't a picture thread

Hathaway. Mostly can't stand Adams.

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

contenderizer, make it so

AH why because bewbs

yeah i wanna cum in her meowth

stay classy

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

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

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

what are ya, a parakeet

this should be adams vs. hathaway vs. fisher imo

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

if you're not paying close attention

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

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."

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

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

Nobody was any good in Cruel Intentions anything.

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.

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

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

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

So Charlize Theron is unconventionally beautiful? Scarlett Johansson?

charlize theron is so pretty

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.

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

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

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

lol

he's pretty damn symmetrical himself

bag

tuppence b. bag

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

that sitcom, jesus

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

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

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

that sitcom, jesus

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

more of a dramedy innit

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.

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

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

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

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

photo from the article, too

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

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

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

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"

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

Rebecca Hall is the hotness

RVW otm

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.

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!

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.

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.

ron howard, truly the McG of Robert Zemeckises

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?"

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.

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

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.

who has even heard of these people

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

Love em both but AA is especially great

Anne 'Athaway

Love em both but AA is especially great

― spruce springclean (darraghmac)

She wasn't in Hillbilly Elegy.

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

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.

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.

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