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Demi Moore -- may be today's joke but she did an outstanding acting job

posted 9 years ago by lesdroits
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I loved almost every aspect of this movie, from the John Barry score, to the scenery, to the hunky Oldman, and -- surprisingly -- to very good acting by Demi Moore! Funny, I guess once you get labeled as a lightweight, there's no overcoming it (Tom Cruise to some degree has had the same fate though some of his earlier acting -- Born on the 4th of July, Rain Man -- was fantastic).

But Demi Moore's acting here was, I thought, incredible -- maybe even slightly more so that Oldman's and I love Oldman.

[–] IceboxMovies 8 years ago

This movie is dreadful. If you've read the book by Hawthorne, you'll see how much they trashed the original source material by reducing it to the level of a supermarket fanfiction romance.

Demi Moore is good in movies like Ghost and A Few Good Men -- but not in this movie, where she has a really phony British accent and takes masturbatory baths and has over-the-top speeches where she acts more like an enlightened 20th century feminist than a 17th century Puritan.

[–] TMC-4 (19453) 6 years ago

https://www.datalounge.com/thread/21535362-the-role-that-destroyed-their-careers

Demi Moore - The Scarlett Letter - her participation made her look dumb and uneducated. like sub average-education level.

[–] Mustang (5254) 2 years ago

Just re-watched it last night first time since it came out. It's an ok film if taken as separate to the source material but I agree she does not behave like a puritan woman. Then when her husband turns up we see that he is not like her either and it calls everything into doubt.

[–] agentalbert (2364) 2 years ago

Her acting here is better than it was given credit for, I think.