I don't know... I liked Moulin Rouge.

Hasn't just being Tom Cruise ruined his career? How would marrying him help?

anyone who thinks that Eyes Wide Shut is anything less than a masterpiece is demonstrably retarded.

brigid_fitch: The Others is a good movie! A good, old-fashioned ghost story.

Yep. I had the good fortune of going to see it in a theater without having the slightest idea what it was about ahead of time. I loved it.

Kitwilly: maybe she shouldnt have wrecked that face of hers, Meg Ryan style. I never understand that. You are massively hot and then you have a Kidman mask permanently etched over your cranium. Odd.

Beats the hell out of me, too. She was aging quite nicely, as was Meg Ryan. Then... wrong.

Nicole Kidman was 1/2 of the awesomeness of Moulin Rouge. I forgive her for her faults because Moulin Rouge is just that awesome.

/Ewan is hot, so Nicole is probably like 40% of the awesomeness of Moulin Rouge.

Talon: I don't know... I liked Moulin Rouge.

The Others was quite a good movie, and Kidman was good in it.

Kitwilly: Eyes Wide Shut is possibly the worst movie ever made by a "respected" director and if you like it you are a film snob retard. The pacing, the story, the dialogue are insipid. and this is a movie with wall to wall bush.

When are we supposed to believe anything you say?

brigid_fitch: The Others is a good movie! A good, old-fashioned ghost story.

Agreed

1) Eyes Wide Shut is pretty damn good - You have to think of it more as a piece of art - It is pretty amazing.

2) The Others - Is AWESOME. Not many people have seen it, but if you haven't you should.

3) Far and Away - Is actually a really good, epic movie, they dont really make that many movies on this scale anymore. And when they do - they bomb.

I thought she was just fine in Moulin Rouge, The Others, Eyes Wide Shut, and The Hours. I also enjoyed Cold Mountain and The Golden Compass. However, she does seem to have a knack for picking really horrible movies like The Stepford Wives, Bewitched, and The Invasion.

She made some great flicks:

The Golden Compass (2007) .... Mrs. Coulter (Scary Biatch)
The Interpreter (2005) .... Silvia Broome
Cold Mountain (2003) .... Ada Monroe (Very Good)
The Human Stain (2003) .... Faunia Farley
The Hours (2002) .... Virginia Woolf
The Others (2001) .... Grace Stewart
Moulin Rouge! (2001) .... Satine
Practical Magic (1998) .... Gillian Owens (I Loved her in it)
The Peacemaker (1997) .... Dr. Julia Kelly (EXCELLENT)
To Die For (1995) .... Suzanne Stone Maretto
My Life (1993/I) .... Gail Jones
Malice (1993) .... Tracy Kennsinger
Far and Away (1992) .... Shannon Christie
Days of Thunder (1990) .... Dr. Claire Lewicki (I liked it!)

Edipis: anyone who thinks that Eyes Wide Shut is anything less than a masterpiece is demonstrably retarded.

I agree completely. Next to the moon landing, it is my favorite film by Kubrick.

I loved Australia, but I'm not sure if Nicole Kidman is why.

Tissot: 1) Eyes Wide Shut is pretty damn good - You have to think of it more as a piece of art - It is pretty amazing.

2) The Others - Is AWESOME. Not many people have seen it, but if you haven't you should.

3) Far and Away - Is actually a really good, epic movie, they dont really make that many movies on this scale anymore. And when they do - they bomb.

"This is my land, mine by destiny!" No movie can survive a line like that. It doesn't matter who they get to deliver the line ... it just can't survive. Case in point: Brad Pitt as Achilles in Troy: "Do you see that land? It's yours! Take it!" Can't survive the badness of that. Even if he's running around half naked with fabulous hair.

tnpir: I'm sorry, but this is incorrect. Moulin Rouge was the worst piece of pretentious crap I've seen in the last 15 years. I wanted to go kick a small furry animal in the ribs after sitting through that abortion.

Pretentious Crap? I thought it was the exact opposite - it was the ultimate musical. Musicals are popcorn trash like Steven Seagal movies, but for women. Moulin Rouge took it to the next level - the Michael Bay of chick flicks.

Came for the Birthday Girl pictures, leaving disappointed.

The Others was actually a fantastic movie, and as has already been pointed out, eyes wide shut was, too.

The problem lies in anyone thinking she's a superstar leading lady type, she's more a "boutique" film star, more than capable to carry a film, just not one that you expect to be a box office hit. That would be a waste of her talents, anyway.

Angelina Jolie is the same way, but I'm still waiting on people to figure that one out. Both great actresses, just not blockbuster material.

pstawicki: She made some great flicks:

The Golden Compass (2007) .... Mrs. Coulter (Scary Biatch)
The Interpreter (2005) .... Silvia Broome
Cold Mountain (2003) .... Ada Monroe (Very Good)The Human Stain (2003) .... Faunia Farley
The Hours (2002) .... Virginia Woolf
The Others (2001) .... Grace Stewart
Moulin Rouge! (2001) .... Satine
Practical Magic (1998) .... Gillian Owens (I Loved her in it)
The Peacemaker (1997) .... Dr. Julia Kelly (EXCELLENT)
To Die For (1995) .... Suzanne Stone Maretto
My Life (1993/I) .... Gail Jones
Malice (1993) .... Tracy Kennsinger
Far and Away (1992) .... Shannon Christie
Days of Thunder (1990) .... Dr. Claire Lewicki (I liked it!)

Cold Mountain was terrific and she was actually decent in it. Renee Zellweger was insanely good, Jude Law was terrific, but Phillip Seymour Hoffman damn near ran away with it all.

No one is going to mention Dead Calm?

Kitwilly: The pacing, the story, the dialogue are insipid. and this is a movie with wall to wall bush.

This.

The movie did a good job of showing Tom's hopeless sexual frustration dragging into something really twisted... but it failed on every other level. There just isn't much there - it would have been a good episode of Red Shoe Diaries, not a feature film.

And the piano thing was agonizing.

SpinStopper: Kitwilly: maybe she shouldnt have wrecked that face of hers, Meg Ryan style. I never understand that. You are massively hot and then you have a Kidman mask permanently etched over your cranium. Odd.

Beats the hell out of me, too. She was aging quite nicely, as was Meg Ryan. Then... wrong.

This. This this this this this. And Jennifer Gray. Why, God, why?

/non-reconstructive plastic surgeons need to die now.

What, no love for 'Dogville'? It was, in my opinion, one of her best films.

Superjew: This. This this this this this. And Jennifer Gray. Why, God, why?

Gray's case is an accident. As in, her first nosejob was botched. Apparently the original plan was for something much more subtle... supposedly, she's lucky she didn't come out with Michael Jackson's end-stage nose.

1lastcall: Renee Zellweger was insanely good,

Really? I wanted to strangle her when watching that movie.

Kitwilly: Pxtl:
If Kubrick didnt direct it everyone, and I mean everyone, would have hated it for the pretentious arthouse crap that it was. ooooh, Kubrick's last movie, we must bow down and genuflect. Ebert did in his review. Listen, I understand there are differences of opinion on film, but Eyes Wide Shut is awful, and anyone who likes it is kidding themselves.

I'll grant you it was no Transformers II

Silly subby. These are movies that people like. Why not pick on Bewitched or The Stepford Wives, which are loved by nobody?

Halli: 1lastcall: Renee Zellweger was insanely good,

Really? I wanted to strangle her when watching that movie.

The complaint I usually hear is that her accent is terrible.

To those of us that have no idea what the hell she was supposed to sound like, her performance was amusing. I suppose that people who thought she was butchering the dialect might feel differently.

/still does not understand the whole Bridget Jones' Diary thing
//get a skinny American to play a chubby Brit? And not even a good one? For a crappy movie like that? What?

dekko: The Stepford Wives

THIS. Seriously, could somebody explain if the women in that movie were robots or mind-controlled humans?

Kitwilly: Eyes Wide Shut is awful, and anyone who likes it is kidding themselves.

There were bits of that movie that rang so true it was at times painful to watch. I very much enjoyed the darker elements of the good Dr's strange quest to get some strange. In my mind's eye: Most movies that deal with a married guy getting some on the side deal with the humorous aspects of it (which it is) or the hangover when wifey finds out (which they do), but this movie did quite well showing why the Dr would want to jeopardize all he had for the taste of something both dangerous and illicit.

Pxtl: Pretentious Crap? I thought it was the exact opposite - it was the ultimate musical. Musicals are popcorn trash like Steven Seagal movies, but for women. Moulin Rouge took it to the next level - the Michael Bay of chick flicks.

I was a manager at a movie theater when that came out. I don't know where they made their money, because in our neck of the woods (Norfolk, VA) the movie was a bomb. There was never more than six people in there at once, even on opening weekend. The Tuesday after it came out, a pair of old ladies went in, excited about a new musical. They walked out an hour later (before the movie was done) and asked for their money back.

Just a terrible, terrible movie.

Edipis: anyone who thinks that Eyes Wide Shut is anything less than a masterpiece is demonstrably retarded.

No, you are just a film snob. No one in normal society liked that movie outside of the constant nakedness of some very hot women, so film snobs have latched onto that damn thing like a pitbull on an infant. It was a long, convoluted story which in the end amounted to nothing, as they just agreed to "talk." That's it. No climax. Just *plop*, there it is, like a wet turd on the floor.

Kubrick had his moments, but this wasn't one. This was a fever dream of a very horny, imaginative, dying old man.

1lastcall: "This is my land, mine by destiny!" No movie can survive a line like that. It doesn't matter who they get to deliver the line ... it just can't survive. Case in point: Brad Pitt as Achilles in Troy: "Do you see that land? It's yours! Take it!" Can't survive the badness of that. Even if he's running around half naked with fabulous hair.

Never seen "Far and Away," but I think Troy survived just fine. It's ancient Mediterranean culture, everyone spoke like that. And it's not outlandish to me to expect a man trying to inspire troops to come up with some big, powerful, epic (and admittedly kind of corney) words of inspiration to use as a battle cry.

Now, I wouldn't expect it to survive if Bruce Willis spouted it in the next Die Hard. But in a wannabe epic like Troy, it worked.

Pxtl: Superjew: This. This this this this this. And Jennifer Gray. Why, God, why?

Gray's case is an accident. As in, her first nosejob was botched. Apparently the original plan was for something much more subtle... supposedly, she's lucky she didn't come out with Michael Jackson's end-stage nose.

I didn't know that. That sucks. However, it only strengthens my case for the immediate incineration of all non-reconstructive plastic surgeons.

/seriously.

Pxtl: And the piano thing was agonizing.

Given that it was a Kubrick film I would have assumed you'd recognize the effect was intentional and your response as what he wanted.

Eyes Wide Shut was a bad movie, but as film art it was perfect.

Just like Moulin Rouge, it had a specific audience and a very specific niche.

Pxtl: And the piano thing was agonizing.

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Clarence Potter: There were bits of that movie that rang so true it was at times painful to watch. I very much enjoyed the darker elements of the good Dr's strange quest to get some strange. In my mind's eye: Most movies that deal with a married guy getting some on the side deal with the humorous aspects of it (which it is) or the hangover when wifey finds out (which they do), but this movie did quite well showing why the Dr would want to jeopardize all he had for the taste of something both dangerous and illicit.

Oh, I agree the movie was good at that. You can positively the sexual desperation oozing out of his pores. Very few films these days try to capture those quintessentially masculine experiences.

It's just that every other aspect of the film was catastrophically awful.

dkny: The Others was actually a fantastic movie, and as has already been pointed out, eyes wide shut was, too.

The problem lies in anyone thinking she's a superstar leading lady type, she's more a "boutique" film star, more than capable to carry a film, just not one that you expect to be a box office hit. That would be a waste of her talents, anyway.

Angelina Jolie is the same way, but I'm still waiting on people to figure that one out. Both great actresses, just not blockbuster material.

This. Well put.

But I guess it can be argued that no female lead, no matter how beautiful and talented, can carry a movie.

Shadowknight: Just a terrible, terrible movie.

Why, because two old ladies did not like it? That's a pretty stupid thing to say. I liked the movie's energy, I liked the movies riff on pop songs, and yeah I liked the visuals. It seemed a bit like Lola Montes done for the music video generation.