Search found 28 matches: Marilyn Monroe

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by saudade
Tue Mar 26, 2024 1:43 am
Forum: Filmmakers
Topic: Actors with the most films rated
Replies: 28
Views: 43876

Re: Actors with the most films rated

... Ricci 12. Natalie Portman 12. Joan Cusack 12. Dakota Fanning 12. Marilyn Monroe
by djross
Wed Sep 28, 2022 7:23 pm
Forum: Full Reviews
Topic: Blonde (2022)
Replies: 0
Views: 938

Blonde (2022)

... fantasies. It is worth saying a little more. The presentation of Monroe herself as a perpetually passive victim is wholly unconvincing (seeming ... Perhaps the filmmakers would say that the movie is not about “Marilyn” “herself” at all, but about her symbolic or cultural “meaning”, ...
by clepto86
Sun Sep 27, 2020 4:18 am
Forum: Help me name that movie
Topic: Mafia movie in black and white
Replies: 0
Views: 2125

Mafia movie in black and white

... quite old and dressed in a coat and wearing a hat, is threatening a Marilyn-Monroe type of woman who was lying on a bed. Because she didn't want to reveal a secret, the ...
by kyvetti
Sun Oct 23, 2016 7:32 pm
Forum: Filmmakers
Topic: Actors with the most films rated
Replies: 28
Views: 43876

Re: Actors with the most films rated

... Bette Davis 17 Marlene Dietrich 13 Edna Purviance 13 Florence Gill 12 Marilyn Monroe 12 Siiri Angerkoski 12 Katharine Hepburn 11 Ansa Ikonen 11 June Foray 10 Nash, Disney, ...
by ikkegoemikke
Wed Sep 28, 2016 6:24 am
Forum: Full Reviews
Topic: Kill Game (2015)
Replies: 0
Views: 842

Kill Game (2015)

... serial killer wears a grim mask, of course. In this case, it's a Marilyn Monroe mask. Also a list of all candidate murderers is needed. This list may turn out to be ...
by Stewball
Wed Sep 16, 2015 5:15 pm
Forum: Filmmakers
Topic: Marilyn Monroe, Lousy Actress
Replies: 11
Views: 13430

Re: Marilyn Monroe, Lousy Actress

Maybe she was, but then a large majority of actors/resses were lousy back then. Acting in some of the successful 60s movies is quite bad. And I am not even sure if all the blame can be laid on the actors - sometimes you have an actor doing reasonably well in one movie but terrible in another. There...
by ShogunRua
Wed Sep 16, 2015 5:10 am
Forum: Filmmakers
Topic: Marilyn Monroe, Lousy Actress
Replies: 11
Views: 13430

Re: Marilyn Monroe, Lousy Actress

Maybe she was, but then a large majority of actors/resses were lousy back then. Acting in some of the successful 60s movies is quite bad. And I am not even sure if all the blame can be laid on the actors - sometimes you have an actor doing reasonably well in one movie but terrible in another. There...
by Stewball
Wed Sep 16, 2015 4:24 am
Forum: Filmmakers
Topic: Marilyn Monroe, Lousy Actress
Replies: 11
Views: 13430

Re: Marilyn Monroe, Lousy Actress

Maybe she was, but then a large majority of actors/resses were lousy back then. Most are painful to watch, but at least Marilyn was pretty to look at. I mean Joan Crawford....gah! The worst were Susan Hayward, Olivia de Havilland, and just about all of the cowboys (except the Clayton ...
by Pickpocket
Mon Sep 07, 2015 3:34 pm
Forum: Filmmakers
Topic: Marilyn Monroe, Lousy Actress
Replies: 11
Views: 13430

Re: Marilyn Monroe, Lousy Actress

... pieces of ass" could act. I don't even like her all that much, but Scarlett Johansson is attractive and light-years better as an actress than Marilyn was. I agree but let's not forget that she's just 30 years old. Let's see where she is at in 10 years when she's well past the wall and can ...
by ShogunRua
Mon Sep 07, 2015 8:25 am
Forum: Filmmakers
Topic: Marilyn Monroe, Lousy Actress
Replies: 11
Views: 13430

Re: Marilyn Monroe, Lousy Actress

... pieces of ass" could act. I don't even like her all that much, but Scarlett Johansson is attractive and light-years better as an actress than Marilyn was.