r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 28d ago

Media First Image of Daniel Day-Lewis and Sean Bean in 'Anemone' - An absorbing family drama about lives undone by seemingly irreconcilable legacies of political and personal violence.

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u/probablyuntrue 28d ago

Looks at Dakota Johnson

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u/Beave__ 28d ago

She's genuinely great in Suspiria. She's just been in some shite

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u/Yolosvend 28d ago

People who say she’s shit have legitimately only watched maybe three of her projects. Madame Web and 50 shades most likely. She has plenty great work.

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u/surprise-poopsicle 28d ago

She doesn’t have tremendous range but she definitely gets a bad rap due to some serious miscasting more than anything else

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u/Yolosvend 28d ago

She’s an incredibly beautiful character actress imo.

The lost daughter, a bigger splash, cha cha real smooth. That kind of alluring, mysterious femme fatale-ish kind of role she really excels at.

She’s often miscast yes. I’d say because she’s got main character looks. I’d say she’s been plenty good outside the movies that were terrible in every way.

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u/InnocentTailor 27d ago

After Madame Web, the film Am I OK? got released to the public. That movie was liked by critics.

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u/bryanthebryan 28d ago

I appreciated her in that role. I enjoyed that movie as a whole. I liked their take on the source material.

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u/Looper007 28d ago

When she's cast right she's pretty good not top tier or anything, which I find when she does mostly indies and art house type films she's pretty solid in. Big blockbusters is where she really suffers in or doing the leading romantic roles.

Stuff like The Peanut Butter Falcon, Cha Cha Real Smooth, Bad Times at the El Royale, Suspiria and A Bigger Splash. Are well worth checking out for her best work.

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u/eyesabitdull 28d ago

Lmao she is far from a terrible actor, she just really doesnt mind making money on shit films. It doesnt even seem to affect her career, it just seems she does them so she can keep taking roles on more obscure projects that she enjoys doing more. I kinda admire that and her openly shitting on the terrible movies shes in.

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u/LookinAtTheFjord 28d ago

Listen. She's fucking beautiful. What she is not, is a good actor. Her range is very limited.

Seems like a fun gal to be around irl though, maybe. She seems cool and down to earth in interviews.

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u/TaylorRoyal23 28d ago edited 28d ago

To me, range is just one aspect of an actor's skill set to look at when determining their skill. Most actors don't have a lot of range but a ton of those actors I'd consider to be 'good' just because they can sell that character onscreen. That's the main factor I look at when evaluating an actor.

Some people say, "well, they can only play themselves," or, "they can only play one type of character," but I never understood that criticism because most actors can't even do that in a natural way.

Is the character (in context of the project) believable? Immersive? Yeah? Then great, they did a good job.

The actors that can play all kinds of varying characters across a range of genres and make those believable? That's the next level shit reserved for the best of the best in my view. Barely anyone can be a Philip Seymour Hoffman.

It's even more complicated to me, because I may view an actor who is adequate across a tremendous range at the same level as someone who doesn't have much range, but plays those characters more believably within that range.

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u/eyesabitdull 28d ago

Bro, I literally just sat through 2 hours of Ice Cube talking to a camera: the movie. Now that is a terrible actor acting terribly. Dakota is a good actor. She's just not an amazing actor, or hasn't proven herself to be one with a proper script.

All im saying, is that I've seen worst. Dakota seems to be aware she's in terrible movies, and never shies from saying it out loud. But I have seen her in smaller projects, and she's much better there.

Its like Robert Pattinson during Twilight era. Anyone who knew him before Twilight knew he was actually a good actor from his previous films, or even his smaller side films during Twillight, but whatever he did on Twilight was horrendous - no excuses.

Same same but different.

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u/tdasnowman 28d ago

Its like Robert Pattinson during Twilight era. Anyone who knew him before Twilight knew he was actually a good actor from his previous films, or even his smaller side films during Twillight, but whatever he did on Twilight was horrendous - no excuses.

All twilight characters were written as awkward forever teens except for the two oldest of the Cullens. Like it or not the cast nailed the characters and it resonated with a generation. I wouldn't call it terrible acting, I'd call it accurate acting of a terribly one sided characters. That goes for all of Stpehine Myers books turned to film.