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Worst Actress I've ever seen

posted 18 years ago by schlubbie
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I'm surprised at the number of fans of this movie that have written in. I caught the last 30 minutes of it on cable and was initially very curious to see more of Amanda deCadenet since I only saw a brief amount of her acting in Four Rooms. Her poor acting skills verge on camp, particularly her "shh" gesture at the end of the film and her rants about how she "doesn't like being lied to". She is truly an awful actress and I really don't understand how anyone took her seriously in this film - particularly "the most beautiful women in the world" (she is pretty, but in a cheap and contrived way). Actually, her poor acting led me to tune out the final monologue although haven't read through some of the transcriptions here, it apparently was not that bad.

How could anyone love this movie when the lead actress is so trite and unbelievable in her role? I'm not trying to be antagonistic, but really looking for an answer.

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[–] Michael-sk 18 years ago

i so second video3s opinion.

how good the lead actress was ... yeah, i was stunned.
you may not have seen the entirely movie and maybe thats why you didnt see the ending monologue ... god you really missed something there. it was brilliant.

back to her acting.

get the movie and watch it in full length (though i kinda know you wont...) and focus on her movements, gestures, voice, tonality etc. totally like in real life man, totally convincing and true.

check out the part in the beginning when they meet again in front of that coffee shop ... how she walks up to him totally confident, full of value and a little bit stuck up, close to arrogant. and then how her mouths drops on the floor literally after he says a specific line. im not gonna say which one to spoil the fun.

but that ... after all ... was a great pickup scene as it would work in real life too, trust me.

also, notice the part before that with her in his cab ... she totally snobbish cuz hes just a cab driver ... he totally confident as a man should be.
and when he got out of the cab with her back towards him, you see her smile that knowing smile ... the smile that she is glad he got the balls to do what he did ... although she rejected him that time.

i could go on with at least 2 other very important scenes (which also ring very true for picking up), but i just dont want to ...

dude, you missed a brilliant movie, and its up to you if youre gonna see it someday or not ... if youre gonna keep believing she is a bad actress and the movie sucks (from what youve seen) or if you wanna be corrected in your way of thinking...

so long

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[–] schlubbie 18 years ago

I actually appreciate the time that you took to write back and set me straight. I will definitely give it a second chance.

[–] Michael-sk 18 years ago

i appreciate you saying that and giving it another chance =)

[–] fss-6 18 years ago

Maybe you would enjoy it more if you watched the movie from the very beginning. True, she's not an academy award winning actress, and will most likely never be, but it is a great movie. Try it from the beginning. See what you think. Enjoy.

[–] jpardes 18 years ago

the original poster of this statement should not have bothered writing this if they were so easily swayed by other people's opinion of a movie they haven't seen all the way through. But the instincts were right: Amanda DeCan'tAct is a terrible actress and that's probably why she hasn't been in a film since '99. Four Rooms sucks too. (except for Rodriguez's sequence)
Eric Schaffer is a hack and his poetry is bar none the worst sappy crappola. Remember The Postman? It's a lot easier to feature great poetry by a great poet when it actually is great poetry! Maybe in Schaeffer's next film he'll be a great composer or painter, and what marvelously tacky tripe we'll be priveleged to witness then, aye?
His last film had him choosing between Sarah Jessica Parker and Elle Mcphierson. What's more fascinating than his egotistical, masturbatory sense of himself as the irresistable charmer is that someone actually puts money into it.
I'm sure his show Starved is less self indulgent.
Let's all forget this film ever happened.

[–] mblue541 18 years ago

I do agree that at times the actress seemed a little weak. But I think it's unfair to call Schaffer a hack. He's not a Browning, Donne, or Wordsworth but we knew this going in. I'm not sure if it's his poetry because in "If Lucy Fell" he used an artist's paintings. I happened to watch "Fall" with the subtitles on and that made the difference for me.

Schaffer is egotistical and that's part of his charm. Besides if you were writing and directing your own movies, wouldn't you want to act opposite the most attractive leads you could? Otherwise, Ed Burns and Woody Allen are guilty of the same charge as writer-directors.

Starved has since been canceled but if you've seen any of the episodes he's a bigger jerk than in any of his other movies. And it makes the show awesome!! People put money into his films because they see his vision like when he convinced SJP to play in "If Lucy Fell" when she rode in his cab one day.

[–] evlinlake 12 years ago

You're a nut. She's amazing in Fall. Your comment actually pisses me off. Someone's jealous or angry with her.

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[–] tippietoejones 12 years ago

The answer lies more within you than in the movie. Sounds like you have some serious anger issues. Perhaps she reminds of a past girlfriend, yes?

The popularity of the movie rests primarily with the writing and directing but in a sea of mediocre acting jobs, hers is certainly not noteworthy as bad. You may not have come across many super models (or even models) in their day to day lives, but I think her portrayal was certainly satisfactory. It was clear that she was an actress playing a model as opposed to a real model (by the way she handled the runway) but I highly doubt that 99.9% of real full time model could pull off her highly sufficient acting job.

Does that help?

[–] Ithilfaen 10 years ago

Why are you making it personal? He just disagrees with you on an actress. The fact she plays a model doesn't change the fact all her facial expressions are contrived and fabricated.

For every lie I unlearn I learn something new - Ani Difranco