Fair enough. Personally I’d settle for any one of Rod Stewart’s ex’s.
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Harvey Weinstein was a terrible person, but he was a gatekeeper who prioritised traditional Hollywood beauty standards, casting conventionally attractive women. Since his downfall, there has been a noticeable shift in casting choices.
While we're on the topic of all-time screen beauties, my top 3 are...
Audrey Hepburn
Monica Bellucci
Ana De Armas
Yes, I have a type.
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It could have been because of the movie Sicario where she plays a "tough" yet feminine FBI agent who gets completely manhandled and put in her place by Benecio Del Toro. Great movie.
I'll add Rita Hayworth... Beautiful and a very talented triple threat (acting, dancing, singing).
Classic stuff
Nicole Kidman has become a poster child for excess plastic surgery. She looks like her face is made of porcelain. However, that's not surprising for a woman who will soon be old enough to have great grandchildren.
When she was in her early 20's, I thought she was exceptionally beautiful.
She has a Predator forehead.
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I went to the theater to see Parasite recently, as one of the rare times there was a cinematic option outside of capeslop, CGI slop, globohomo slop, degenerate subversive horrorslop etc.
6 trailers before the film and I kid you not, each one had a black woman as either the lead or the female lead/love interest.
I hope with the cultural swingback we will be seeing less of this but it will lag by a few years during production times and it will take time, if it ever happens, to get talent back into industry.
Trump can't change Hollywood. It's still going to be as screwed up and Leftist as it's been for the past few decades.
Still to this day, I cannot understand why some rich Republican hasn't started up their own studio to make normal movies that appeal to white Americans. And no, Angel Studios doesn't count.
I think it's pretty clear that at the time they started making this movie, they were certain someone else was going to be President
Iakobos
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I'm hoping moreso that the financial chickens will come home to roost and force the industry to actually make good products again. They really can't be making that much on garbage like this (although they're probably not spending much on it either these days). Then again the masses seem to be so easy to manipulated into consoooming through astroturfed hype that maybe such tactics are more cost-effective than making good movies and series.
I'm not sure the industry has staying power, to be honest. It seems like there's a generational shift in younger kids toward YouTube. The only people who seem mildly interested in what Hollywood is up to are Millennials, Gen X and Boomers and that seems to be diminishing every year. Younger kids aspire to have YouTube channels -- not to be celebrities like it was when names like Leonardo DiCaprio or Tom Hanks were household back in the 90's and early aughts.
I liked her in Edge of Tomorrow.
I don't think it's been mentioned here or even on RVF, but I just rewatched the film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing. It was nominated for a few Oscars and won a couple (Best Actress and I think best supporting actor).
It's the story of a woman who buys space on the titular billboards and uses them to put up a message accusing the local police of not doing enough to find out who raped and murdered her daughter several months before. It's a small town and the message is very divisive.
I liked it first time around and I liked it again; solid performances from all the cast. It's a solid story and several of the characters have a chance to grow. I just found out it was written by the same writer who wrote the film In Bruges, which I also liked (both films feature a dwarf too, lol).
Despite the sordid backstory and the tragic events that arise, it manages to end on a relativeley positive note, which is as good as I can hope for in a movie nowadays. I recommend it.
It's the story of a woman who buys space on the titular billboards and uses them to put up a message accusing the local police of not doing enough to find out who raped and murdered her daughter several months before. It's a small town and the message is very divisive.
I liked it first time around and I liked it again; solid performances from all the cast. It's a solid story and several of the characters have a chance to grow. I just found out it was written by the same writer who wrote the film In Bruges, which I also liked (both films feature a dwarf too, lol).
Despite the sordid backstory and the tragic events that arise, it manages to end on a relativeley positive note, which is as good as I can hope for in a movie nowadays. I recommend it.
Ed, you should watch The Banshees of Insherin if you haven't already but I think you might have already like.... you seem quite up to date.
But if not, it's of course well worth it if you haven't been bothered so.
I love In Bruges dearly, but Banshees takes it so much deeper I guess it's just brilliant writing, characters and all that. My favourite of Martin's films ya know.
Excellent, thanks for the recommendation.
I meant to write this in my original post but I was half asleep at the time; in "Three Billboards" I really liked the themes of forgiveness and letting go of anger.
Both of them are fantastic. I still quote some lines from in Bruges "it's just like a fairytale" when something is beautiful but the situation is off, it always cracks my wife up we love that film.
"What about the Vietnamese? What?" "He hit the Canadian" legendary.
Fantastic writer
I’m turing into a Taylor Sheridan fanboy. The Yellowstone universe, Tulsa King, Landman and Lioness are all high quality shows. One could say Lioness with a mixed race woman as the lead of a CIA unit has a tinge of wokeness perhaps, but it’s still a badass show. It’s not pushing any fake woman power agenda or anything, and the CIA and Specials forces Ops guys under her watch are as tough as nails. Landman was great.