Demi not always awful?
I stayed up late last night watching A Few Good Men. Again. What struck me this time was that, if it was the only one of her movies you ever saw, you would have no idea how bad Demi Moore sucks.
Seriously; she's absolutely adorable in this movie, like she hasn't been since Blame It on Rio. (Remember? She was Michael Caine's teenage daughter, pouting because her father was sleeping with her best friend. She had no implants and almost no lines, and she was too unknown to be icky yet. I digress.)
Anyway, how can this be? Anyone who has had the misfortune of seeing Mrs. Kutcher actually try to act knows that she's just terrible (nearly as unbelievable as her ex-husband, Bruce Willis, who somehow gets a free pass from everybody).
Some of it has to be Aaron Sorkin's super-snappy dialogue, which I figure can hold up pretty much anybody. But it's more than that. She's playing this uptight, rigid, sexless lawyer, and it's easily her sexiest, most charming performance. The question is, is this actually talent? Or is it an illusion? I mean, any actor can look good in the right role, yes? (Even Willis was almost good in Pulp Fiction.)
When the woman tries to be sexy or heroic or -- God forbid -- serious, she's a disaster. But pin up that hair, button up those mighty, man-made boobies, make her act nerdy and vaguely incompetent and cast her opposite a guy with absolutely no interest in her [insert your own Tom Cruise joke here] and, well, damn. I totally wanted to kiss her.
Which, fair enough, is not necessarily the ultimate barometer of whether a performance is any good.
Seriously; she's absolutely adorable in this movie, like she hasn't been since Blame It on Rio. (Remember? She was Michael Caine's teenage daughter, pouting because her father was sleeping with her best friend. She had no implants and almost no lines, and she was too unknown to be icky yet. I digress.)
Anyway, how can this be? Anyone who has had the misfortune of seeing Mrs. Kutcher actually try to act knows that she's just terrible (nearly as unbelievable as her ex-husband, Bruce Willis, who somehow gets a free pass from everybody).
Some of it has to be Aaron Sorkin's super-snappy dialogue, which I figure can hold up pretty much anybody. But it's more than that. She's playing this uptight, rigid, sexless lawyer, and it's easily her sexiest, most charming performance. The question is, is this actually talent? Or is it an illusion? I mean, any actor can look good in the right role, yes? (Even Willis was almost good in Pulp Fiction.)
When the woman tries to be sexy or heroic or -- God forbid -- serious, she's a disaster. But pin up that hair, button up those mighty, man-made boobies, make her act nerdy and vaguely incompetent and cast her opposite a guy with absolutely no interest in her [insert your own Tom Cruise joke here] and, well, damn. I totally wanted to kiss her.
Which, fair enough, is not necessarily the ultimate barometer of whether a performance is any good.
posted by DC at 10:29 PM
1 Comments:
She may be bad but damn she's sexy in some roles. Even as a "never really been a fan, probably never will" I thought she looked hot in Charlie's Angels. I have to admit I was barracking for her against Drew, who sure is cute in an ET sort of way, Cameron, who is too self-consciously trying to be sexy in most things and sure, she is, but let's not rub it in; and Lucy who is, well let's say she's sexy but kinda takes herself a bit seriously I think. Given that trio and Demi in the tight leather pants, I can see why Ashton took the journey. Hell, I reckon he'd have to 'die hard' [pun intended] looking at that rig every day.
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