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Please please please Nicole, you cannot act.


Just finished watching Cold Mountain on DVD. I would've loved to movie to pieces if it weren't for the lovely Nicole Kidman's annoyingly bad performance.

Bless, I love her. She's pretty, she's elegant, she's a strong woman. But she doesn't know how to act (or how to sing, come to think of that). Yet she keeps turning up in all those wonderful movies, destroying each and every one of them. Honestly I can't think of any movie she's in that's good. (She's even gotten an Oscar(!), the reason for which is completely beyond me.)

Please Nicole darling, it's time for you to stop acting.

Cold Mountain, I gave it 5 stars, with much bitterness.

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First of all, I am not a huge fan of Nicole Kidman. She 's done a lot of garbage. I would normally agree with a comment like this and never give it a second look. Out of all the Kidman films I've seen, this is her very best acting performance. She was awarded a golden globe wasn't she? In fact, solid performances from the entire cast. Heck, even the guy playing the dead guy!

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She's OK in some movies, but dreadful in this...her presence alone is distracting and takes away from the story.

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I'd love to see her play someone the opposite of herself and do it convincingly (ie trailer trash, not elegant, not so feminine). she basically plays herself in every movie

The ship sinks in Titanic!

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Films where Nicole isn't elegant (that i have seen):
Margot at the Wedding
The Human Stain
Dogville
Birthday Girl
The Peacemaker
To Die For
Dead Calm

Trailer trash:
The Human Stain
To Die For
Birthday Girl

Not so feminine:
The Hours (well, not 'conventionally' feminine at least)
The Peacemaker


She's just a great actress. And I thought she was amazing in Cold Mountain!


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haha. nicole herself once said that she cant sing.
i personally think her voice is decent, not amazing.
her acting on the other hand, your crazy.
shes brilliant.
come back and complain when youve starred in a whole mess of award winning films and after you get an oscar. she's an award winner because she deserves it.

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excuse me? Nicole is a very talented actress with many interesting roles.
Off the top of my head:

Cold Mountain
The Hours
Moulin Rouge!
Cold Mountain
The Others

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But she doesn't know how to act...

That is quite possibly one of the stupidest thing I've read on imdb. I can understand if you don't like her, but to say that a woman who gave such brilliant performances as in To Die For, The Others, Birth, Dogvill... as a bad actress is an obvious proof of stupidity or at least lack of any good taste.


"Let's hear you call Boris Karloff a c_ocksucker."

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"But she doesn't know how to act (or how to sing, come to think of that). Yet she keeps turning up in all those wonderful movies, destroying each and every one of them. Honestly I can't think of any movie she's in that's good. (She's even gotten an Oscar(!), the reason for which is completely beyond me.)"

If she couldn't act she would not be getting the parts she does. Maybe you are just no judge of acting and singing.

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I couldnt DIS-AGREE with you more

Nicole has put in a great performance in nearly every movie I have seen her act in , especially in this wonderful movie in which I thought she was superb , she is also quite brilliant in DOGVILLE

Also Jude Law & Rene Zellewegger were fantastic , and the rest of the cast did a tremendous job too

Anthony Minghella R.I.P

And all will turn
To silver glass
A light on the water
Grey ships pass
Into the west

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She is great actress and singer. Just has been it some bad movies in my opinion.

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7 stars. Kidman didn't bother me at all, actually she did great in this movie. Zellweger on the other hand did bother me somewhat, the way she did her accent and the way she said some things. All in all it was a good movie, not great but still okay and worth watching.

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Well, for me she wasn't the greates actress -specially if you see her in Far and Away-, but then, you can see The Others, and see that there has been some evolution. Yes, she's been given very similar roles, and maybe either her manager or herself decide not to take risky roles, but I believe that when a Hollywood movie is either an action movie, romantic comedy, or anything comercial, the expectations can't be very high. I mean, it's not Shakespearean theater in a film!

This are entertainment movies, and nothing but that. I used to think getting an Oscar meant something, but ever since Titanic got all those Oscars, I realized it's not really a parameter to judge whether an actor or movie is good. You take into account the Cannes Festival or BAFTA awards instead, and let Nicole alone -at least she's proved now that she wasn't only Tom Cruise's wife -unlike other actresses married with famous men, e.g.: Brigitte Nielsen, Syl Stallone.

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She's hot, who cares.

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