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apocalypsos) wrote2007-01-15 03:50 pm
apocalypsos) wrote2007-01-15 03:50 pm
I have to retrieve my heart from under Jennifer Hudson's high heels.
Okay, Dreamgirls was kind of awesomecakes.
Seriously, that's Jennifer Hudson's Best Supporting Actress Oscar to lose. She just OWNS every damn scene she's in, even when she's not speaking, even when she's just THERE. She's fucking brilliant, just freaking amazing for someone who's in their very first movie. During "And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going", I just sat there with my jaw dropped open. She just falls apart on screen and takes you right along with her. And I know that people are making a big deal about the fact that she's never going to find another role this good -- which, let's be honest, she isn't -- but if she comes out of this experience without a record deal I'll be surprised. When you spend two hours musically kicking Beyonce to the curb, you totally win.
Not to say that Beyonce does a bad job, either. She does a pretty good job, considering the role's pretty underwritten.
Oh, and Eddie Murphy, whom I really have to mention because man, was THAT a dumb move. Not that he was awful -- he was damn near perfect. I've never seen him act at that level in my life. He takes this guy who's just looking for respect and isn't getting any and runs with it. So why's it a dumb move? Because his next movie's another fucking fat suit comedy, that's why. God, I hate goddamn fat suits, and I hate Eddie Murphy's comedies in the last decade because they require no intelligence to watch. Remember when he was actually funny? And now it's just going to be painful because he's obviously been hiding some impressive acting chops. (Granted, I imagine a lot of his acting in the movie hits home. Jimmy Early's a guy who's giving audiences what they want and hates every damn minute of it.)
Everybody else was damn good, too. By the end of the movie you just hate Jamie Foxx's character so damn much. The most adorable thing which I couldn't stop checking out was how Anika Noni Rose (the third member of the group) had to wear six inch heels to be as tall as Beyonce and Jennifer Hudson, and I had to keep myself from giggling because those were seriously some monster high heels. I have no freaking clue how she performed in them. Heh.
Oh, and Loretta Devine sings, which is very cool.
OOO! And a bonus: SCRUFFY JOHN KRASINSKI. It's only one scene but I nearly squealed out loud when I saw him. He doesn't get to say much but he makes for pretty set decoration, anyway. *rumples his untamed hair*
And now I am off to work on the School of Hard Knocks stuff. I'm not signing up for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
novel_in_90 until I get some more work done on it.
Seriously, that's Jennifer Hudson's Best Supporting Actress Oscar to lose. She just OWNS every damn scene she's in, even when she's not speaking, even when she's just THERE. She's fucking brilliant, just freaking amazing for someone who's in their very first movie. During "And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going", I just sat there with my jaw dropped open. She just falls apart on screen and takes you right along with her. And I know that people are making a big deal about the fact that she's never going to find another role this good -- which, let's be honest, she isn't -- but if she comes out of this experience without a record deal I'll be surprised. When you spend two hours musically kicking Beyonce to the curb, you totally win.
Not to say that Beyonce does a bad job, either. She does a pretty good job, considering the role's pretty underwritten.
Oh, and Eddie Murphy, whom I really have to mention because man, was THAT a dumb move. Not that he was awful -- he was damn near perfect. I've never seen him act at that level in my life. He takes this guy who's just looking for respect and isn't getting any and runs with it. So why's it a dumb move? Because his next movie's another fucking fat suit comedy, that's why. God, I hate goddamn fat suits, and I hate Eddie Murphy's comedies in the last decade because they require no intelligence to watch. Remember when he was actually funny? And now it's just going to be painful because he's obviously been hiding some impressive acting chops. (Granted, I imagine a lot of his acting in the movie hits home. Jimmy Early's a guy who's giving audiences what they want and hates every damn minute of it.)
Everybody else was damn good, too. By the end of the movie you just hate Jamie Foxx's character so damn much. The most adorable thing which I couldn't stop checking out was how Anika Noni Rose (the third member of the group) had to wear six inch heels to be as tall as Beyonce and Jennifer Hudson, and I had to keep myself from giggling because those were seriously some monster high heels. I have no freaking clue how she performed in them. Heh.
Oh, and Loretta Devine sings, which is very cool.
OOO! And a bonus: SCRUFFY JOHN KRASINSKI. It's only one scene but I nearly squealed out loud when I saw him. He doesn't get to say much but he makes for pretty set decoration, anyway. *rumples his untamed hair*
And now I am off to work on the School of Hard Knocks stuff. I'm not signing up for
novel_in_90 until I get some more work done on it.
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According to Rose, with a whole lot of pain. :P I feel a little sense of weird proprietary pride with her, because she's a Broadway baby. I saw her in Caroline, or Change just a couple of years ago, and now look! *sniffle* She'll probably be at the Oscars. Crazy.
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I agree that it's hard to watch Eddie Murphy do a really great job with something like this and then watch him go back to the shuck and jive Disneyesque stuff. I feel the same about Robin Williams too.
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