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actionman says ...

Yes, Hathaway was every buit as good as people said she was two weeks ago. I saw the film last weekend and I still can't stop thinking about it and her. And I was not a fan previously.

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Sabina E says ...

Yes, but she needs to stop signing on to do more rom-com films about brides. somebody give her a better role, for god's sake!

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JustThisGuy says ...

I have to agree with actionman. Vulture's opinion seems very....arbitrary.

comment #4

actionman says ...

TrashPunk -- you are spot on. Hathaway finally proved that she's got the acting chops with her work in Rachel. It sucks to see her going back to more empty rom-com crap. She'll get a hefty paycheck for Get Smart 2 but man, the first one fucking SUCKED and she was terrible in it. I don't get it. Working with someone like Demme, you'd think, would make you realize that you should be lobbying for better projects.

She was amazing in Rachel Getting Married. I really hope she picks better material in the future.

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K. Bowen says ...

Yes, she is every bit as good as people have said. The best I've seen other than Ledger this year. If she doesn't get a nom, I'll be disappointed. If Jolie gets in over her, I will have a cow.

I wouldn't worry too much about her projects. Bride Wars was in the can. She probably will always do girly stuff, the same way male stars do action films. So far she's had a good eye in distinguishing the respectable ones (Prada, etc.) from the lousy.

But, yeah, I want to see her in better roles. And I figure she will be in them.

comment #6

MikeSchaeferSF says ...

Hathaway is indeed very good in RGM, as is Rosemary DeWitt as her sister (I didn't even recognize her from Mad Men), but the movie is awfully overrated. A 90-minute script -- the usual dysfunctional-family tropes -- padded to nearly 2 hours with digressions and musical interludes. I know Demme loves music; he should hire Robyn Hitchcock and Sister Carol East and just make a bloody musical. During Rachel's monologue about "the incident" it suddenly hit me: RGM is Ordinary People for hipsters.

comment #7

actionman says ...

I didn't find it overlong. The music informed the film and the characters; it was all of a piece. I loved it; one of the year's best. Hathaway, DeWitt, and Irwin all deserve nominations.

comment #8

LexG says ...

Hathaway in HAVOC was the distaff equivalent of DeNiro blowing up and showing his stuff in MEAN STREETS. The movie is kinda unpleasant and low-rent, but her performance is some straight James Dean-level shit.

Sheck it out.

comment #9

K. Bowen says ...

Usually, Rachel Getting Married isn't my sort of thing. Which makes the fact that it's my favorite fiction film this year all the more surprising and all the more of an endorsement. I walked in expecting an upper-middlebrow family drama and walked out deeply, deeply moved. Sometimes films are great b/c they're original, and sometimes they're great b/c they are immaculately done. This is the latter.

By the way, in an apparently weak supporting actor field, Bill Irwin should be rating more mention.

comment #10

actionman says ...

Yes, Bowen, my thoughts exactly re: Irwin. What the hell is going on when a performance like that isn't getting any press?

Lex -- I could barely make it through the first act of Havoc...I skipped to her tit shot and sent the Netflix back.

comment #11

NC Gary says ...

I hope Hathaway wins the Oscar but her competition is stiff. Her DEVIL WEARS PRADA co-star Streep could win it instead. And the Academy could decide it's time to finally make Kate Winslet a bride instead of a bridesmaid and give it to her for THE READER. Who else has a real shot?

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Chapman Carruthers says ...

Man, praise for AH's performance is THICK in these parts, especially in comparrison to the lukewarm comments regarding Benecio's performance in Things We Lost In The Fire.

Strange.

There's nothing hipster about RGM. At. all.

comment #13

actionman says ...

Chapman -- you're right about Del Toro in Things We Lost. Everyone around here should have paid attention to that film. His performance in that film is one of the best. Ever. It's the little things in the acting, the small moments he projects. Same with Hathaway in Rachel.

comment #14

Chapman Carruthers says ...

Here's my thing.

I believe Del Toro's character was addicted to all sorts of shit. You can see it in the way he talks (or doesn't seem able to and gives short, truncated answers that his throat is able to produce instead of what he'd really want to say), his teeth, the bags under his eyes, the exhaustion in his skin, his awkward demeanor around people, his shit hair, everything.

Hathaway's character, supposedly, has been in and out of rehab for ten years. TEN YEARS! Take a pretty girl, slap on some eyeliner, have her smoke some cigs and I'm supposed to buy the fact that she's a decade long addict? Nice try, but it ain't going to happen.

comment #15

insidah says ...

she's good, not great. the movie is very, very, very similar to ordinary people and doing time on maple drive, just hidden behind some eccentric quiry musical interludes and annoyingly benetton ad ish b.s..

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