Is it just me or Helen Hunt looks really horrible in this movie?! I mean, she's supposed to be a 39 year old woman, but instead she looks over fifty. Didn't she hear of make up, facials, botox, cosmetic surgery ...?! And she is so skinny, painfully skinny!
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"She is not skinny. You have to stop watching Oprah where the fat and ugly set standards for everyone else"
I can not begin to describe how wrong what you just said is. If you think that Helen Hunt is not severely skinny in this movie and that Oprah is "fat and ugly", then you are being sucked into Hollywood's view of pretty super skinny. I like Helen Hunt, and she looked beautiful in "As Good As It Gets". She looked very old in "Bobby", but I thought it was on purpose. She looks gaunt and tired in this movie, and I don't think that's on purpose. It's like she's been starving herself and not sleeping. Helen, get healthy!
Um...I think that was sarcasm behind the "Oprah" comment.
But I totally agree on her being painfully skinny. Very shocking and sad to see. Hard to know if its the "size zero" craze to blame (though I doubt it) or some kind of illness (sad, but more likely).
I miss seeing her around, so I do hope she is well.
It *is* for the purpose of the movie.
Have you seen her at the AFI Dallas Film Festival? Or... here she is at AIFF a few days ago:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KKVnqpCewPg
She looks great.
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I was disappointed at first with how she looked too. But as I watched, it made perfect sense. It was absolutely for the purpose of the movie. In the photos/reviews of this film, she's stunning, absolutely gorgeous. The movie is about her midlife crisis - it fits that she looks like she's actually going through one. Look at what stress does to people... see the before/after pix of presidents. Shocking differences over just a few years. Combine being middle-aged and a frustrating marriage, no children, desperately wanting them, divorce, loss of a parent, a miscarriage AND a failed IVF - she's not supposed to be glowing and perfect. I was impressed with her vulnerability to let herself look that much less than how we know her. Go Helen.
shareSome people do not have eternal beauty. Like all of us. We must do our best to take pity on them. For they are surely very sad souls. :-(
shareAnyone who says Helen Hunt is not skinny is just drinking their bath water.
She is dreadfully thin and has been since As Good As it Gets. She looked good in Twister. So what happened?
I am sure that she thinks being ultra thin is just great. some people look fine that way. For Helen, she looks 10 years older than she is. And all thru the movie she thinks everyone is hitting on her and it's absurd. She must be crazy.
Two actresses who look horrible so thin are Jennifer Connally and Helen Hunt.
They look like refugees from a starving country.
Helen-- you could stand to put on 15 freakin pounds and then exercise ---
This skinny revolution has got to go...
SHE looked aweful in And She Found me.....I LOVEDLOVED Pay it Forwar, and loved " AS Good as it Gets" But I must say I really do not like her...and HEY babe, lose more weight and look 90!
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Agree she looks awful in this movie. She looked fabulous in twister.
shareRead this interview. The tiredness was deliberate here http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23676189-5009160,00.html
"I wanted her to be tired, look older, like she'd suffered a lot of challenging things. I also thought: ;I'll never make this movie if I worry about lighting me well or getting me into hair and make-up.' So I put a hat on and went to work. It was a relief to only have one woman who needed to look glamorous - and it wasn't me. Obviously.''
After three minutes, my brother leaned over to me in the theater and said, "She looks like she's ninety-one years old."
We agreed later that we were constantly distracted by Helen Hunt's obsession with her own breasts. Why does she focus on them ad nauseam? Her breasts were too important in "As Good As It Gets." In this movie, she may as well wear neon pasties imprinted, "WATCH THIS SPACE."
I think the parts that featured her breasts were foreshadowing the pregnancy. They get huge almost immediately and it is weird, but if you weren't expecting to be pregnant, you would just think your bra was having issues.
shareAh, the fact that she cared enough to change her physicality for the movie shows dedication to her job as director and actress.
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This may be years too late for the thread.
I just watched this movie with my wife, who is a doctor. She did not notice that Helen Hunt was "really old". Ms. Hunt looked like a stressed out 39 year old, and my wife has seen a lot of stressed out patients.
On the other hand, we both noticed that Ms. Midler showed only a limited range of facial expressions. My wife said Ms. Midler has all the signs of cosmetic surgery and botox and other cosmetic interventions. Her face was stretched into a smiley mask. This is great for appearing fabulous while singing on stage in a big auditorium, not so great for the closeups in this movie. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate Ms. Midler as a skilled actor and a talented stage personality, and I think she made the right choice for her principal fans, but her surgery limits her in some ways.
I can only hope that Ms. Hunt doesn't read this board, or if she does she blows off the negative comments. I'm glad she is saving her real face for the rare occasions that Hollywood permits talented actors to show a full range of expression. We need both an expressive Helen Hunt and a fabulous Bette Midler, not two Bette Midlers. Good luck (and good roles) to both of them.
She is way too thin. She looks like her face might crack if she smiles too wide. Painfully skinny.
shareI'd rather be fat and ugly then look skinny sickly and old as *beep*
shareso you're fat and advertizing for it? First the US and now Europe are lost to the f* BS of political correctness, hogwash like Germans calling overweight people "vollschlank" ("fully thin", doe it make any sense?).
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shareI just saw the clip of her on Late Late. She looked much better. In fact her body looks fine. She has the kind of pointed features that just look terrible when she is too thin.
If she wanted the character to look haggard, well she got that part right.
Frankly, I don't think that was necessary. She oculd have pulled it off without wearing no makeup and losign 20 lbs.
It's called acting Helen.
How bout just acting your way thru the movie?
She truly does look plain and very very old. I think anorexia when I look at her and Angelina Jolie is not much better. It was kind of a shock to see her marry Matthew Broderick in the beginning. He looked to be about 25 to her 49.
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She doesn't look bad in the stills I've seen. She could pass as a 39 year old in those.
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I'm sorry to other posters but andree is right! She did look horrible in the film. Kind of like an aging (which is fine) skeleton. Wayyyyyyy too skinny! And there was NO way she could pass as a 39 year old. I didn't even know her real age before i saw this movie, but right when i saw her face...i knew right away (as everyone else will). I'm sorry, but she just didn't look good in this movie
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Yeah - initially, I thought they had used make-up and wax to create those wrinkles and bags. It was quite someway into the movie before I realised it wasn't make-up OOOOPS!
Helen Hunt is still very sexy :)
I think many of you are way off base. Helen Hunt isn't the one who looked skinny, old, and tired -- April is the one who looked those things. Why is that so hard to understant? It was character. It was on purpose. April doesn't sleep, doesn't eat, and is worried sick about her relationships, her not having a child, and her biological clock ticking away. If April had red hair, would people be saying "Doesn't Helen Hunt look terrible in red hair"?
shareBased upon what the character had to go through during the course of this film...her looks are appropos...
Intitally, they did distract me from the movie, but I think that's only because I haven't seen Helen Hunt in quite sometime.
There was a vibrancy missing from her in the movie...which I think is one of the points of the movie...
Bette looked so much more "alive" than Helen...and I think that "to" was one of the points of the movie...
Agreed. She's way too skinny and it makes her look older and not very feminine.
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I thought she looked very pretty and radiant "the morning after" her first night with Frank, when she is lunching with Bette Midler and asks the waiter for ginger ale and crackers.
(Then again, who wouldn't be glowing the morning after a shag with Colin Firth!)
Has she ever really looked good? :P
shareI think the look fits the role and it works. 39 year old woman have wrinkles and everything, I think those were emphasized to show what "real" women looks like.
shareHelen Hunt will soon be 45, which she looks. Yes, I did think that she didn't look good, but, that was also a part of the realism of the movie. She has lived a life of being self-repressed, a no-frills woman. Is is a little sad to see that she has aged over the years, yes, but, she always has been slim. It isn't like the woman is starving herself to death. I would rather see Helen Hunt like this, than all pumped full of botox and nipped and tucked, how many of us will be going under the knife by the time we are 45? I won't. She looks like a real woman to me, herself. I couldn't think of anyone else that could have played this role any better. And Colin Firth, say no more.
shareI couldn't say it better than drehia98
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no wonder she cannot get any roles in Hollywood anymore but that she has to direct her own movies to show up occasionally :-)
normally i adore the looks and acting of helen hunt but my jaw just dropped when i saw how sick she looked. not only that she looks skinny but she looks like she is going through a serious illness. i hope she is not.
Once again, I don't get what you're talking about. Helen Hunt wasn't "in" the movie. A character named April was. April was the one who looked skinny, tired, and worn out. Don't you get it? Have you never heard of makeup and even losing or gaining weight to "look the part"? How many people posted that Penelope Cruz looked "fat" in Volver? Duh -- that wasn't her either -- it was an attempt to look the part.
shareJust watching now and sad to say she reminded me of my dad when he got cancer. The nose and mouth in particular. 39 year old women never look this bad or as aged even when they have gone through a lot. It was vanity to cast herself in such a role.
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