Kim Basinger character represents every woman's dilemma - The Nice Guys (2016) Discussion

[–] backlash 8 years ago

I feel sorry for the costume designers. They worked so hard on making all the hairstyles and clothes look accurate for the 70's and the casting director hires and actress with so much plastic surgery that it's impossible to make her look time appropriate.

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[–] TMC-4 (19416) 6 years ago

http://derrickbang.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-nice-guys-abominable.html

Basinger, on the other hand, looks like a porcelain doll: utterly bereft (and incapable) of emotion. Too much cosmetic surgery has absolutely ruined her, and actual acting — that 1997 Oscar for L.A. Confidential notwithstanding — never was her strong suit.

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[–] KingNee 8 years ago

I couldn't even tell it was her

"You'll be taking a soul train straight to a disco inferno where you never can say goodbye!"

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[–] binkpanther 8 years ago

Thought you were going to say, get botox to look young or continue as an actress. Understand her role was that of a cold hearted bitch, but I don't think she can move some of those muscles in her face, even if she tried. Skin looks too tight to smile.

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[–] dark_frances 8 years ago

Indeed. Especially since "I don't want children" pretty much qualifies as the latter :D

(...gosh that sentence could sound like something ghastly. I only meant it in - admittedly sadistic - good humor. I kinda find the thought that I'm murdering children as we speak grinningly funny

there's a highway that is curling up like smoke above her shoulder

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[–] RetroRick 8 years ago

I'd never thought about it like that.

but yes I suppose any unproductive interval between pregnancy is tantamount to murder (bit extreme but what's wrong with that).

As a man you've helped me realise that my taking time off from spreading my wild oats Ghenghis Khan style is equally homicidal in the monty python 'every sperm is sacred' kind of way.

So better get off your keyboard and get back to making babies and in the spirit of sexual equality I will do the same...soon as I'm ready

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[–] dark_frances 8 years ago

Oh but there's no escaping the predicament. Every successful pregnancy is tantamount to the murder of a million other possible pregnancies, in your case. In mine, I don't know how many children a woman could bear during her fertile lifetime, but it's surely an infinitesimal amount compared to the number of eggs she was born with. Death and murder, doom and gloom, all around us.

...Better just focus on the bright side of death, and save Detroit.

there's a highway that is curling up like smoke above her shoulder

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[–] RetroRick 8 years ago

if only there were some way to automate the process to achieve maximum productivity

in the meantime we should up the incentive by increasing welfare

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[–] dark_frances 8 years ago

(not sure whether you're serious or not, so I'll give a straight answer - quite unlike my previous messages on this thread)

we should up the incentive by increasing welfare

Of course. Then again, we're overpopulated anyway so, unless the aging of the Western population troubles us too much, we could just leave it be and enjoy the remaining natural resources at a decent pace.

there's a highway that is curling up like smoke above her shoulder

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[–] RetroRick 8 years ago

Then again, we're overpopulated anyway so

ok changing gear to serious, are we over-populated? Will depend on where you are of course. The world as a whole is certainly over-populated but most western, especially western european countries actually have below replacement rate populations, that only stay more or less at sustainable level through immigration top-ups.

Germany's the most obvious example. Although it seems Angela Merkel's feeling a bit more clucky than Kim Basinger

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[–] QueenofCliffside 8 years ago

I thought the dilemma was going to be "should I stay 'younger' looking and *beep* up my face with plastic surgery or age gracefully" Too bad Basinger chose the wrong answer. She was so stunning that I am sure she would have still been quite beautiful. She must have gone to Faye Dunaway's plastic surgeon...horrid fake teeth, pointy nose and yanked back face. Sigh..

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[–] RetroRick 8 years ago

I didn't realise she'd had surgery but I noticed her looks weren't what they used to be, even beyond the natural progression of age. I'd say the best example of a woman ageing well, and gracefully, is Joanna Lumley. She could probably turn me into a momentary gerontophile

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[–] dbeane 7 years ago

Yep. Did you notice that they mostly filmed her in profile (from the side).

In the few cases were you saw her face from the front; it's now literally crooked from the surgery(ies).

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[–] TMC-4 (19416) 6 years ago

Why has Kim Basinger been relegated to playing villain roles recently (such as "The Nice Guys" and "Fifty Shades Darker")?

https://www.quora.com/Why-has-Kim-Basinger-been-relegated-to-playing-villain-roles-recently-such-as-The-Nice-Guys-and-Fifty-Shades-Darker

http://villains.wikia.com/wiki/Judith_Kuttner

http://villains.wikia.com/wiki/Elena_Lincoln

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