Another SMG movie

POSTED BY: Zicsoft
UPDATED: Wednesday, July 3, 2002 06:48
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MILLERNATE

Thursday, June 27, 2002 5:54 PM

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Fametracker.com did a "fame audit" on SMG. The news isn't good. But what do these people know anyway?

I don't know but judging by their "fame audit" for Jeneane Garafalo probably not a whole lot.

Darn punks

Nathan-fast on his way to becoming the "cranky young man" (I'm only 22) of the boards

NOVAGRASS

Thursday, June 27, 2002 6:33 PM

fameaudit: Well, that about sums up my opinion.

For those of you who said her performances have been lack lately, just look over at her performance in "The Body." Her first 15 minutes in that episode rival the best television acting I've ever seen.

I hated her performance in season 1. She was way too corny and over the top as the valley girl type (maybe I just hate the valley girl type?), and with the exception of Prophecy Girl, was a simple, vapid Calafornia chick.

--Dylan Palmer, aka NoVaGrAsS--

"Nice guys can only get so mad." Fillion on Mal

ZICSOFT

Thursday, June 27, 2002 7:25 PM

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Originally posted by Novagrass:
fameaudit: Well, that about sums up my opinion.

For those of you who said her performances have been lack lately, just look over at her performance in "The Body." Her first 15 minutes in that episode rival the best television acting I've ever seen.

I'm not sure I agree. But all my counterexamples are by the same actress, so I guess it doesn't matter!

But yeah. I mean, how many actors can even try to do this stuff? "Pretend your just found your mother's dead body." That's a formula for all kinds of bad overdramatic crap. Yet she pulled it off. (If your heart didn't break when she said "We're not supposed to move the...", check the lost and found -- it's probably there.) Anybody who thinks this stuff is easy knows Jack about acting.

MOJOECA

Thursday, June 27, 2002 10:09 PM

I wonder if Melissa Joan Hart (SMG's supposed equal) would have been able to carry, acting-wise, "The Body."

She did do "Clarissa Explains it All." That show had a lot of corpses.

--- Joe

NOVAGRASS

Thursday, June 27, 2002 10:46 PM

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Originally posted by Zicsoft:
Yet she pulled it off. (If your heart didn't break when she said "We're not supposed to move the...", check the lost and found -- it's probably there.) Anybody who thinks this stuff is easy knows Jack about acting.

Jack, indeed.

I also thought when she was saying/yelling/crying "mom" was amazing too. That is exactly how people react when someone dies... not with instant fury or sadness... but with subtle lack of understanding mixed in with anger, sadness, and pain.

Another great thing about The Body: Sarah Michelle Gellar didn't shed a tear. Everything was subtle... and nothing was overdone in her performance.

--Dylan Palmer, aka NoVaGrAsS--

"Nice guys can only get so mad." Fillion on Mal

ZICSOFT

Thursday, June 27, 2002 11:19 PM

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Originally posted by Novagrass:

Another great thing about The Body: Sarah Michelle Gellar didn't shed a tear. Everything was subtle... and nothing was overdone in her performance.

Always true, which is why I've turned into a rabid fan. But in this case, credit is due to the writer/director, who says to his actors, "If you cry, the audience doesn't get to."

HAKEN

Sunday, June 30, 2002 1:49 PM

Well, here's a quote about SMG right out of a SALON review of Harvard Man

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Gellar, who has proved to be such a terrific actress in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," and who showed a devilish spark of fun in "Cruel Intentions," bops her way mindlessly through this movie.

The full review can be found here:

http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2002/06/28/harvard_man/index.ht
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I'm sure SMG's acting abilities are fine. It's the movie that sucks.

ZICSOFT

Sunday, June 30, 2002 7:17 PM

Ahem. Have you seen Harvard Man? If I was gonna pick anybody to tell me what not to like, it wouldn't be Salon.com!

That being said, the only other Tolkan movie I've seen is The Pickup Artist, which I hated. But everybody else like it....

PANDORA

Monday, July 1, 2002 4:38 PM

Hey everybody...

I wanted to say a little something about SMG's talent, and misuse of it!

I have to disagree with the assessment that Gellar is not impressively talented. SMG has the raw material that could, if she would only realize how, be shaped into a phenomenal actress, on par with the best out there.

The problem is that despite the quote someone listed here about acting being about the work rather than the money, she's shown nothing but a desperate desire for fame and fortune in the film roles she's chosen.

I agree with the contention that Cruel Intentions is the only worthy project she's done besides Buffy (not counting All My Children and Swan's Crossing, which were necessary to launch her career). If Gellar was truly as concerned with her craft as she claims to be, her attention would be turned to the indy film circuit, or at least Miramax's project closet. Instead, she pics fluffy popcorn fodder, and characters who are neither interesting nor challenging, in movies by directors who should have probably spent at least another semester or three at film school.

I look at Gellar, and I compare her to Michelle Williams, who started on a WB teen drama of much less interest and quality than Buffy (of course, I speak of the infamously Paula Cole soundtracked Dawson's Creek), and took that as a springboard to build herself a much more interesting body of work (from weird political nonsense like Dick, to a small part in the ho-larious But I'm a Cheerleader, to a really touching and different role in If These Walls Could Talk II). Maybe it was because Williams was tired of working on teen fodder all the time, and wanted to see what she could *do*, and SMG was getting too comfortable with the high quality of Whedon & Co.'s writing- maybe Gellar doesn't have enough confidence in her abilities- or maybe Gellar just isn't as savvy as Williams.

Either way, while I disagree that Gellar's earlier work in the series is better than her later work (I agree that the subtlety of seasons four and five far outshine the teen angst of earlier seasons), I do think her talents are being wasted in the films she's chosen. While she could be seeking out films and directors who could help her grow, she instead she seems to rest on her laurels and ignore the potential that she possesses. Further, I think that she's being seriously short-sighted; by doing fluff now while she's hot, she's making the studios think that she'll only be a draw as long as she's hot. Once Buffy's gone, she's going to need a body of film work that proves her great talent in order to guarantee longevity in her career.

Hopefully she'll figure all this out before she falls into obscurity.

Pandora
Don't get me wrong, I like her, but she ain't right.

"Mrs. Krabappel and Principal Skinner were in the closet making babies and I saw one of the babies
and the baby looked at me." -Ralph Wiggum

ZICSOFT

Monday, July 1, 2002 5:11 PM

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