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She's got to win a Oscar someday


She's not yet 25, and she's already considered one of the best of her generation. She's like a young Cate Blanchett, Saoirse hasn't even started her peak yet. So she's got to get Oscar for best actress someday. I hope it's not a DiCaprio type deal, that she gets a dozen nominations and they just give her a charity Oscar.

I like her as a actress, she's not alway's in the best of films i.e The Host and The Lovely Bones but I like how brave she is when it comes to some of her films. She do something like On Chasil Beach, Loving Vincent,The Seagull, Lost River, Stockholm, Pennsylvania and Byzantium. Films that won't get a wide release but that she probably feels push her as a actress. Do small roles in films by respected directors like The Way Back and the Grand Budapest Hotel. Then given knockout performances in Atonement and Brooklyn, two of her greatest performances. I got to be honest I wasn't that big a fan of Ladybird, massively overrated and I don't think it was anywhere near Saoirse best performance.

But she's one of the best actresses working today.

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She is not “one of the best” of her generation. Like Jodie Foster before her, she is THE best film thespian of her generation. She will be in the films that she wants. She will be happy with herself and her craft and her art. She will never be Jennifer Lawrence. She is ‘WAY too good for that.

I love the daylights out of her. Compare her action performance in Hannah (a sorely under appreciated film) with anything that Jolie or Lawrence has ever done, and it’s not even a contest; and that’s to put actress comparisons in the crudest, lowest-common-denominator comic-book buck-grabbing terms. She is in a class of her own. She is not an action movie actress. Can you imagine how hard she trained to fulfill that role? I can. That’s real dedication. That’s real determination, to make herself into her character while retaining her soul as an actress and not just becoming yet another badass bad bitch riding a Harley crotch rocket.

No wonder that she’s ignored. That wind that the public just felt was she passing over the top of their collective head.

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What the? She can not act worth a damn. She was one of the worst thing about the lovely bones who was eclipsed in the scenes with Stanley Tucci a real actor. I gave her another chance in ''Brooklyn'' but she still sucked. Why do people think she's talented? she has the acting style and level of someone who works on a netflix drama.

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Who do you consider to be a good actress?

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Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard

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Yeah I don't get the fascination with Ronan, she is quite a mediocre actress and has a very plain jane look.

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There is a whole lot that you “don’t get.” Why should this subject be any different?

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Give her time. She's still at the beginning of her career

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