bad bad bad


I just wanted to comment on her acting in Timeline.
it was BAD!

she fit right in with Paul Walker.
BAD!

without them, the movie might have had a chance!!

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Child - when you find yourself writing a line like "made me want to vomit in rage" then it's time to take a time out. I hate to be the one perhaps to make you upchuck in anger, but A.I. is probable masterpiece. It's weird, and kinda goofy, and a little patchy, but it is brilliant and moving and engrossing, and there are moments that are nearly sublime - one of which is Frances O'Connor's moment with Haley Joel Osment in the woods. I would like to suggest that if you like the writing of Michael Crichton - acknowledged by every major critic of fiction to be basically a hack, if a fun hack - then perhaps the strangeness of A.I. and it's unexpected blending of divergent tones went a bit over your head. Watch it again, and maybe things will be apparent to you the second time around. If not, try to keep your lunch down and read some more trash fiction. As for your attitude to toward Frances O'Connor, let me give you a little piece of film school of your own - no actress can single-handedly destroy an action movie, especially not a competent actress in a poorly written part in a trashy adaptation of a trashy thriller. Simply put, it seems like what you didn't like about Frances O'Connor was that she was BETTER than the material. Or maybe - I'm guessing from your name - you don't like her politics. If I'm right in assuming you enjoy blasting Jane Fonda for her politics, then then I understand where your rage comes from - the built up frustration of thirty-five years of being wrong about everything.

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