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Post by mortsahlfan on Apr 12, 2020 23:16:35 GMT
What do you think about her? Which movies have you seen of hers? I think she took some chances and did some "far-out" movies in the late 60s and early 70s.. I also think she was at her sexiest peak in the early 70s... Even in the bad movies, when she's in the scene, she steals it.
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Post by bd74 on Apr 12, 2020 23:37:51 GMT
She got much more beautiful in middle age. The 1970s and the 80s was the high point of her beauty IMO. In the late 80s when she had lost some weight and had grey streaks in her hair, she looked amazing! The high point of her acting talent was the late 50s to late 60s. She did a tv movie in the mid-80s and she was terrible in it.
Look at how beautiful she looked in 1970:
Here's a commercial from the late 80s:
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Post by hi224 on Apr 12, 2020 23:39:25 GMT
What do you think about her? Which movies have you seen of hers? I think she took some chances and did some "far-out" movies in the late 60s and early 70s.. I also think she was at her sexiest peak in the early 70s... Even in the bad movies, when she's in the scene, she steals it. a top ten favorite of mine with so many performances worth recommending.
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Post by mortsahlfan on Apr 13, 2020 0:08:12 GMT
What do you think about her? Which movies have you seen of hers? I think she took some chances and did some "far-out" movies in the late 60s and early 70s.. I also think she was at her sexiest peak in the early 70s... Even in the bad movies, when she's in the scene, she steals it. a top ten favorite of mine with so many performances worth recommending. Could you name them? There are many movies of hers I haven't seen.
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Post by hi224 on Apr 13, 2020 0:10:47 GMT
a top ten favorite of mine with so many performances worth recommending. Could you name them? There are many movies of hers I haven't seen. I'd start with her 1950's work like Suddenly Last Summer, Raintree County etc. Some of her work within 1960's would come next like The V.I.P.s the Comedians, and Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Even as her career started declining she could still be a top presence.
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Post by mortsahlfan on Apr 13, 2020 10:20:32 GMT
If you have Comcast, you can watch "Divorce His, Divorce Hers" for free... But boy, 13% score on RT (which I don't care for too much), but I can't imagine it being great. But as said earlier, she always had presence, and with Richard Burton in it, makes it more interesting having a real couple.
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Post by politicidal on Apr 13, 2020 15:06:02 GMT
She was good. In her more mediocre movies like Elephant Walk, she's shrill and whiny. In her best roles, like Cat on a Hot Tin Roof or Giant, she's utterly captivating. Of her listed roles, I've seen eighteen so far.
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Post by mecano04 on Apr 13, 2020 17:02:40 GMT
I've seen only 4 movies (Ivanhoe, Giant, Cleopatra & The taming of the shrew) with her, which is a really small sample, but she was good.
A lovely woman too.
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Post by Archelaus on Apr 13, 2020 21:10:17 GMT
She's one of my favorite movie actresses of all time. My favorite films of hers are A Place in the Sun, Giant, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Suddenly Last Summer, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe. Despite their faults, I did like Raintree County and Cleopatra. During the 1950s and 60s, she became the prototype for the modern-day celebrity that has become commonplace when she was making scandalous headlines.
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Post by dirtypillows on May 1, 2020 6:58:53 GMT
What do you think about her? Which movies have you seen of hers? I think she took some chances and did some "far-out" movies in the late 60s and early 70s.. I also think she was at her sexiest peak in the early 70s... Even in the bad movies, when she's in the scene, she steals it. I love Elizabeth Taylor. She was the Great Hollywood Beauty, yes, but also so much more. She was very funny and intelligent and warm and generous and loyal and down to earth. I love that she loved to eat like she did! : ) She probably was very spoiled, but this didnt make her conceited or snotty, so I don't care so much if she was spoiled. She also appeared to have the courage of a lion. The way she tackled AIDS in the early 80s when everybody else was too scared to talk about it. The way she stood up for her friend, Michael Jackson, against allegations of child molestation. So many wonderful human qualities Taylor possessed. I've loved her ever since I first saw her in "The Mirror Crack'd" when I was ten years old. Having said all this, I don't think she was a very good actress. She was sweet and touching when she was 12 years old in "National Velvet", but throughout the rest of her career, I found her histrionic and hollow and shrill. She was decent in the two George Steven movies, "A Place in the Sun" and "Giant" and I enjoyed her final monologue in "Suddenly, Last Summer" (that scream! Woah!) But her heralded performance in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" I don't care for at all and she was just plain bad in "Raintree County". I also cannot say much for her performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" There is no maturity or depth in her acting, but her over the top, blowzy fakery sure did bamboozle the audience. After WAOVW? Taylor became much more interesting. I don't think her acting had much improved, but she also seemed to not be trying as hard and the difference made her a lot of fun to watch. I love her star presence in bizarre spectacles like "Boom!" and "Secret Ceremony". She was also pretty good in "Reflections in a Golden Eye". But a few years later, when Taylor was almost 40, there was something in Edna O'Brien's screenplay for "X, Y and Zee" that allowed Taylor to just let her defenses down and go all out and the below average actress gives one of the boldest, most confident and energetic comic performances I have ever seen. Her next performance in "Hammersmirh is Out", she was back to her former bad acting self, so it had to be something about this 1971 movie itself. I think that Taylor, who in real life always came across as super genuine and heartfelt, gave mostly bad performances because she wasn't enough of an actress to imbue any given screenplay with any sense of truth or reality, responded with gleeful vitality to the low-blow wit in the script. When I watch this movie, I don't think I am so much seeing a performance as I am a glimpse into Taylor herself. She is a force of nature and she greedily seizes upon the comic hostility in the lines and delivers them so quickly and so assuredly that it's like watching 10 rounds in the boxing ring. She's absolutely fascinating to watch.
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Post by Prime etc. on May 1, 2020 7:07:27 GMT
Don't like her. Find her annoying in movies.
Debra Paget on the other hand...
Or Yvonne Furneaux (Slave Queen of Babylon > Cleopatra)
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