This is one of those films where the leads seemed to have no chemistry at all. Tim Robbins is so much taller than Samantha Morton, it was awkward to watch. They should've cast someone else in either role so that they were a better match overall.
shareI admit- she looked f'ing stupid with that short, army buzz haircut. He was fine tho, he deserved to work with someone as hot as him!
shareI thought they had good chemistry.
shareGlad I'm not the only one! A lot of critics have been saying "no chemistry" but I really felt it, more than in most films. And I liked her haircut, a lot.
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That haircut is incredibly unattractive. No one could like it.
shareObviously you are wrong, because I am "one" (though I doubt the only one) and I like it. A lot, in fact.
But then, I always thought Jean Seberg and Mia Farrow were super hot back in the day with their pixie cuts:
http://www.pixieforever.com/tag/jean-seberg/page/2/
Guess what, not everyone has the same taste you do...and that's okay.
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Few things are more unattractive that the short haircuts worn by Samantha Morton and Mia Farrow and Jean Seberg. Completely. Unattractive.
Feel free to embrace your bad taste in women's hairdos and abandon literal thinking (yes, "no one" can like them).
I think the real problem is that your tastes are not very hip. Who would you nominate as a beautiful woman with an attractive hairstyle? Why am I picturing your "type" as those one might find on a life-size cutout for Coors at a dive bar?
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My tastes are beyond hip. I don't care at all whether a style is "hip" or not so long as it looks good.
Cindy Crawford's hair, particularly in her 1990s heyday, would qualify as attractive. Nothing beats the long, raven-haired look.
If you think that Morton's awful hairstyle gains any points as "hip", add that to your pile of FAIL.
"Nothing beats the long, raven-haired look."
For your specific tastes, which you seem to have trouble understanding exist subjectively within your brain and do not represent objective truth. For me, even if a woman has longer hair, it almost always looks better if it is worn up so her face, ears, and neck are visible.
And that btw is clearly not just a preference of a few hipsters: lots of mainstream women pay good money to get their hair put up on their wedding day when they obviously want to look their best.
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Those women are clearly wasting their money. No woman looks their "best" with their hair up, compared to the look with long hair being worn down. And I get that not every woman can achieve that full hair look, so when they accent it so that a shorter look covers the ears and neck, that looks infinitely better than the super-short look, or having it pulled up.
Oh, I'm having trouble "understanding" subjective versus objective truth? Er, try again. Fill a stadium full of people who say that the short look is more attractive- they're all wrong. All of them. Because it won't be true...ever...for me.
Oh, what is the "objective" truth? There isn't any. We all get that attraction, like taste in foods and music, are subjective. There's a collective agreement that Cindy Crawford is what's attractive, and that Rhea Pearlman is not, but that doesn't lead to an "objective" truth about it.
Samantha Morton looks worse every time she wears that super short haircut, as Mia Farrow did in "Rosemary's Baby" and any couture model does in Vogue. That is the world as my eyes see it. That anyone else can't simply means they've got it wrong....by my taste in attractiveness and hairstyles. That anyone else's don't align with mine is of marginal interest, as theirs are indifferent to mine. Get it?
Except that you go beyond stating your opinion, and say they are "wasting their money". Which means it is a waste, apparently, to look attractive to anyone but Mr. Blue??? LOL
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Pixie cuts have always been hot.
Even J Law looks adorable with a pixie cut:
https://pmchollywoodlife.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/jennifer-lawrence-pixie-cut-why-beauty-ftr.jpg?w=600&h=750&crop=1
I thought she looked fantastic, though like the OP said, there was no chemistry at all between them. It was definitely a casting mistake. I think that Maria should have been played by someone else. I like Samantha Morton and I find her very attractive, especially with the short hair, but she was definitely miscast in this film. Tim Robbins was right for his part.
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