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>think of it this way. you do a couple two three movies >(Cold Comfort Farm, The Last Days of Disco) , all of a >sudden you are a Hollywood It girl. you're making some >cash. you have to strike while the iron is hot. you do a >standard romantic comedy (Serendipity) and a big budget >blockbuster (Pearl Harbor) because you have to do those >movies if you're offered them. they stink and you get no >heat from them. so, you come back with a smaller, artier >movie like Laurel Canyon (which was totally indie and >"adult" even though i thought it was pretty blah. Francis >McDormand was great, but what else is new?) and that doesn't >really get you any heat either. so now you get a chance to >be the star of a cool, action movie where you get to wear >Matrix outfits, do stunts and shoot werewolves. oh, and the >writer/director is your fiance. >who's gonna say no to that?
She and Wiseman became romantically involved DURING the filming of "Underworld," NOT before so she took on the project w/o any personal factors coming into play... "Laurel Canyon" is what you do when your last couple of vehicles tank - not necessarily in a fiscal manner, but on a critical level...
>her next movie, Tiptoes, has Gary Oldman in it, so it >automatically gets the benefit of the doubt from me. and >she's currently filming a Scorsese movie about Howard Hughes >with Leo, Cate Blanchett, and Gwen Stefani. >looks like she's doing alright to me.
Here's why I think this is suspect - both Oldman and Blanchett remind me of Dietrich in that they don't mail in performances, BUT do feature in movies that are subpar - who's to say that Beckinsale can deliver despite lackluster material? I'm not so sure - Stefani's not a ringing endorsement w/ regards to producing a standard of excellence from my vantage point...
"other than some of cann ox, el-p's beats sound like somebody molesting a household pet" - soundsop
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