Mimi Rogers should have received an Oscar
...or at least she should have been nominated. Anyone agree?
shareHer beautiful rack deserves every award man has to bestow!
"It's a trap!"
- Admiral Ackbar
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MovieChat Forums > The Rapture (1991) Discussion > Mimi Rogers should have received an Osca...
The fact that this- the most remarkable female performance of the 1990s- wasn't even nominated calls into question the validity of the entire Oscar enterprise. This is a really big show, folks. Really, who even comes close? Ellen Burstyn in REQUIEM FOR A DREAM. Karen Black in DAY OF THE LOCUST.
Mimi Rogers' performance here is a staggering collection of death defying acts of terrifyingly intimate self revelation, one more appalling than the last. Which reminds me that bravura comes from the same root word as BRAVERY.
Amazing!
I agree!
He had Like ESPN.
"No he had E-S-P. There's no N."-Life or Something Like it.
Really? Are you sure?
There is a VERY good reason, and it's got NOTHING to do with her performance.
I LOVE fantasy movies, but when i saw this film i thought it was a serious critique on born again christians and their stupid ideology...
Then the rapture actually happens, and i lost interest!
THE END!
Yep, she gives the performance of a lifetime in this film. Not only did she not win the Oscar, but she wasn't even nominated. It all goes to prove how much of a joke the Oscars are. I mean, sure, it can be fun to see what gets nominated, etc., but why some people put such stock in them is beyond me.
shareYes, Mimi Rogers should have been nominated for "The Rapture". Her work in this movie is so arresting, and that scene in the desert between her character and Will Patton haunts me like no other.
shareerm... i'm not on board with this one. while the performance improves by the end of the film, the early parts (especially with her partner in menagerie...) are stagey and her reading of lines seems like a teleplay from the 50s.
shareShe's fantastic in it. There's no question it changed everyone's perception of Mimi Rogers--though it's tragic she still didn't get the "Casino" part she was purportedly seriously up for, because at the time Sharon Stone was a bigger star. If she had, maybe her subsequent career would have been higher-profile.
shareYes she should have got an Oscar. But then who cares about the Oscars. What isn't debatable is that the subject matter of this movie, and her absolutely believable playing of her part, is that it is so convincing that it's hard not to imagine that she really didn't/ hasn't been through that experience - and Hollywood, being so fundamentalist/ christian/ old testament would have just been scared of that performance - subject matter and hence her = goodbye career!
Just incredible. Deep without being sanctimonious, and thought provoking without coming down either side of the experience.
And what a soundtrack for 1991 - that minimal style, repetitive piano chords are still heard today - Donnie Darko, You Me and Everyone We Know - all sorts of crap csi type tv!
Brilliant!!!
Yes it was a great performance but the subject matter was too controversial and/or the studio wouldnt put up the money to promote her.
Did Redgrave get a nomination for playing the head nun in Ken Russell's the Devils? Too lazy to check but that was another role that was deserving of attention.
I thought she was as horrible as the movie.
Oscar??? Maybe an Oscar Mayer ...HAM !!!!