Julianne Moore

How the fuck did she win an Oscar for that basic-ass performance in that basic-ass terribly-written role in Still Alice? Still Alice was about as Oscar-worthy as any frau-favorite Hallmark movie.

If anything, she should've won an Oscar for her performance in Magnolia instead of that piece of shit film...

Her version of butch usually involves wearing cargo pants and it makes me uncomfortable.

See - or rather don’t see - the kids are all right, hannibal, psycho.

R1 = retard

J’adore La Moore!

Not a huge fan. I liked her in Maps to the Stars. But I get bored when she plays the role of a beautiful woman suffering nobly.

She was pretty much going through the motions in that film where she fucks her son and her son murders her.

The son was played by Eddie Redmayne so I guess they got the ginger part down

Laura Dern bland? What's wrong with you OP?

R6 Yes. For such a lurid subject the Barbara Baekland film ( I can't recall the title) was bafflingly boring. It just sort of dragged.

Give her a strong well written character and she is great. Give her a poorly written character and she is terrible.

She is a great actress but doesn't have the ability to rise above poorly written characters and she is no alone there.

A good example is The Kids are Alright. The Annette Benning & Mark Ruffalo characters where so well written and defined. But poor Julianne was lumbered with what amounted to a ridiculous character that didn't make sense (I wasn't sure if she was meant to be bi or a full on lesbian who just happened to be wooed by a very appealing Mark Ruffalo). As a result Moore is terrible in the film, those aspects of the film don't work and undermine it. Benning and Ruffalo where impressive and managed to rise above the problems with Moore's character but Moore simply couldn't.

It was the writer/director's fault. Is the director a self loathing dyke because that is the impression I got watching the film.

r1 she had a bunch of nominations in the past and there was no clear other choice that got of a lot of acclaim so they gave her a makeup win. (poor Glenn should have had the same thing.)

I think her performance in the Psycho remake is so interesting. It is a shot by shot line by line remake. Everybody else fails under the pressure of being compared to the original.

She makes the sister character a man hating lesbian with the same dialogue as Vera Miles had just with her physicality and attitude. Miles was all goodness. Julieanne is angry.

Julianne Moore? Seriously?

R1 AGREED. It was a Lifetime movie with great casting.

She has no warmth or charisma on the screen.

There was no one else to give it to that year. Marion Cotillard was in a little seen film and already a winner. Same with Reese Witherspoon who is also a bitch and they didn't want to vote for again.

That left Felicity Jones who was just serviceable in The Theory of Everything and Rosamunde Pike in Gone Girl who didn't really bring enough crazy to the part.

Julianne got her makeup Oscar.

I liked her as Sabrina Hughes.

She showed her ginger minge in Short Cuts!

I like her when playing more unhinged characters (Boogie Nights, Cookie's Fortune, Magnolia, Safe, Sarah Palin lol...), but I also got a bit tired of the 'suffering woman' tropes and she can be a bit soapy in a lot of work.

She can also be a bit same-y. I feel like i've seen her give that crying-voice monologue the exact same way in 15 different films. The Kids Are All Right was one of the worst examples ("ya just start seeing weird projections of each other's junk!"), but she does it in The Hours and a tonne of others too. Repetitive delivery. I feel like you always know what you're going to get when you watch a Julianne Moore film. But I love that for some that is a comforting feeling. :)

Has anyone seen Bel Canto?

I liked After The Wedding with her and Michelle Williams.

R19 - It is a dog of a film and everybody in the film is terrible. Avoid unless somebody is prepared to pay you lots of money to watch it.

Rosamund Pike probably would have won it in 2014 if Gone Girl were a little more well-received by the Academy. I guess it was just too dark?

What the hell is a “Laura Dern blandness?” Dern is anything but bland.

And Moore is one of the very best; check out Vanya on 42nd Street, Safe, and Gloria Bell.

She certainly is down. I've always been struck by how willing she seems to do any sex scene. No, I can't cite examples at the moment, it's just a general impression I've had. Part of me is like, you're above that, don't give in to some sleaze director's fantasy.

She was terrific in Boogie Nights. An Oscar worthy performance.

OP? Julianne Moore reads Datalounge. It's really rude of you to start this thread.

She has a hot husband. Datalounge priorities

She is superb in SAFE (95). But then all she had to do was be a mousy little hypochondriac hausfrau.

She was able to prove the carpet matches the drapes in Robert Altman's 1993 SHORT CUTS.

I like her in most things but it seems she’s not so picky anymore and seems to be in too much. But I guess she has to pay bills. She reminds me of an American Isabelle huppert, they are used in almost everything in their respective languages.

You guys are harsh. I took a shit on camera way before that old lesbian McDormand did, so there.

R27 In one of the gossip threads, someone posted that her hot husband cheated on her with Catherine Zeta-Jones.

R32 that's not possible! I just turned 18!

I think she most deserve the Oscar for Far From heaven.

She was an emotional wreck since she was pregnant during filming and they actually had to let out her costumes because she was getting bigger. I think it added to her performance.

She was so bland in the remake of Carrie. So was Patricia Clarkson in the TV version. Only Piper Laurie can play the role I guess. (and Betty Buckley I guess seems pretty good in the youtube clips of the notorious musical.)

She's overrated and she has a terrible agent or terrible taste in picking projects. As someone said above, she just can't elevate a shitty script. I liked her better when she was younger. She seemed to have more fire, more energy, and tried different things. She's gotten really lazy. I found her pretty terrible in those Hunger Games movies.

I really like her in Don Jon. Overall she's a very versatile actor.

R36 Her appearances in those Hunger Games films were nothing more than easy cash. I don't blame actors for taking 'pay cheque' roles though most of the time they are embarrassing but will be forgotten. It is the good stuff that will be long remembered.

Some easy cash for their nest eggs.

I love her, but I don't love all her films.

Still, for my money, Savage Grace is her best. If you haven't seen it, it's certainly worth a watch.

r39 I'm going to watch it right now. You better not be lying.

R40? If you're a gay man, you'll love the gay sex scenes. If you're a lesbian, be aware that the woman who plays the husband's gf is a lesbian IRL. IMHO, she is smokin' hot. Savage Grace has something for everyone! And it's a true story, if a bit exaggerated.

She slaps Madonna in Body of Evidence. But her Billy on the Street appearance is awesome

I’ve loved her since As The World Turns. And yes, that Billy on the Street clip is awesome. I was hoping she would get a nomination for Gloria Bell.

I know she is in a much lower league than Jodie Foster when I saw both of them in the role of Clarice Starling.

I loved her on 30 Rock

She's a reliably good actresss who's down for ANYTHING (returning to the soap she started out on during the height of her fame...appearing in The Ladies Man as a horny clown...showing her muff in Short Cuts...appearing in Body of Evidence...saying the line, "You suck my dick!" with comviction).

However, she's not one of those actors who can elevate the material...so she's good in good films and bad in bad films. Her Oscar might as well have been an honorary one, because it clearly recognized her career and not her maudlin performance in a Lifetime Original-esque film.

Loved her from about 1995-2002 but none of her movies since then have grabbed me, though I guess the scene of her constipated on the toilet after taking too many Xanax in Maps to the Stars was entertainingly lurid. She is aging very well for somebody so pale, no hideous plastic surgery or Botox nightmares (yet).

I’m going to stick up for Still Alice, which is very moving and well done, and she’s tremendous in it. People who call it “a Lifetime movie” are revealing their bias about the subject matter.

I just watched Savage Grace. It was an interesting movie but I had to take breaks while watching. The intense mother-son relationship was hard to stomach it was so unhealthy. I knew she was going to fuck her son when she asked him (jokingly but still) "will you still love me when I'm old and my tits are saggy". What an inappropriate thing for a mother to say to her son. I noticed he didn't react at all when she was riding his dick. I assume the fucking was just another caretaker task that Tony had to perform for his wreck of a mother.

She said she showed her bush in "Short Cuts" as a favor to Robert Altman (whom some say was a con man). Can anyone name an actress who can elevate shitty material?

She's aged very well.

Does the carpet match the drapes?

R52 Yes.

R50, nobody can elevate shitty material but they all try.

She was iconic as Marlene in Hand That Rocks The Cradle with her original teefs and curt dismissal of her breathy gay PA.

R50 Amy Adams did in the ridiculous Sharp Objects. It doesn't happen often because it's not easy. Maybe somebody should start up a thread.

Annette Benning did it too in The Kids Are Alright - ditto Mark Ruffalo. Meryl did it in the truely hideous The Iron Lady. She didn't in the offensive dementia scenes but as the younger Thatcher she rose above the standard material she had. She didn't deserve an Oscar, not even a nomination but she was the only reason to see the shitty film.

I think she’s always done films for money so there’s a lot of shitty material there. She’s a great actress, though. Safe, Boogie Nights, Magnolia if never anything else.

She has mostly good movies (Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Safe, Short Cuts, Children of Men, A Map of the World, The End of the Affair, A Single Man, Blindness, etc.), but has done more garbage than people admit (The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Laws of Attraction, Evolution, etc.)

She can elevate bad material. One of her best performances is in the awful The Forgotten.

Yes, The Forgotten is terrible but I will admit to watching it anytime I catch it on cable. She does indeed make it watchable. I have been a fan since her ATWT Frankie/Sabrina days and I think I’ve seen almost everything she’s been in. I think I skipped the Stallone movie and that fantasy thing she did..Seventh Son or something? I still can’t believe she wasn’t nominated for Magnolia.

I like her, too, OP. And I think your post's last sentence captures her likeable, winning essence. Her surreal quality-threaded filmography reflects IMO the ease with which she can absorb the energy of the wide range of characters, situations and quirky caste ensembles she as an actor seems to be able to thrive in. My guilty-pleasure favorite such film example of hers: "Chloe."

R58 I love Julianne Moore but “the forgotten” was absolute garbage and one of the only films alongside “dream catcher” that I felt like walking out of the cinema for.

I didn’t like her character in Don Jon and in fact found it off putting that it made me lose interest in her for a bit but then all the characters in that film seemed awful. Her film choices really seem to be uneven. I love her in “safe”, “far from heaven” and all the usual ones but I can’t argue she does seem to be in more crap than other actresses of her ilk.

I think some of her best work is in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle. She's really fiery and full of life in that one. I feel like she usually comes across as depressed in most of her roles. That was the major problem with her version of the mom in that remake of Carrie. She seemed so frail and depressed with none of that scary passion and strength that character is supposed to have. You were never afraid of her and you wished someone would check her into a psych ward instead. A valid interpretation of the role I suppose, but not a very exciting and scary one and you are supposed to be scared and intimidated by that character.

Dont care at all for her