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Post by janntosh on Nov 28, 2020 19:59:33 GMT
She is in
She’s been a few good movies, Robocop, Dressed to Kill, Blo Out, Carrie but these movies are good in spite of Nancy Allen and would have been better with someone else
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Post by MCDemuth on Nov 28, 2020 20:05:00 GMT
You're entitled to your opinion... But I don't agree.
She's fantastic.
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Post by moviemouth on Nov 28, 2020 20:07:48 GMT
Nancy Allen is terrific in Carrie.
Other than that, she is the very definition of a mediocre actress.
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Post by darksidebeadle on Nov 28, 2020 20:23:53 GMT
I like her
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Post by mstreepsucks on Nov 28, 2020 20:27:43 GMT
i don't mind, this woman.
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Post by ck100 on Nov 28, 2020 22:24:19 GMT
I'm fine with her.  |
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Post by kolchak92 on Nov 28, 2020 22:46:56 GMT
I think she's perfectly fine. Nothing special but I don't think there's anything especially bad about her.
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Post by rudeboy on Nov 28, 2020 22:51:49 GMT
She’s not very good in Blow-Out - the best of her films which I’ve seen - but I actually think she is very effective in Dressed to Kill.
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Post by shannondegroot on Nov 28, 2020 22:53:10 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Nov 28, 2020 23:39:23 GMT
I have no strong feelings towards her for the most part. Although I thought she was good in her brief role in Out of Sight.
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Post by Marv on Nov 28, 2020 23:57:11 GMT
I definitely don’t have strong feelings about her. She was ok in Carrie and Robocop, but I don’t remember her from anything else.
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Post by dwightmachinehead on Nov 29, 2020 0:51:29 GMT
I don't have any strong opinion on her, never struck me as terrible.
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Post by vegalyra on Nov 29, 2020 0:54:55 GMT
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Post by petrolino on Nov 29, 2020 1:02:47 GMT
Nah, she's all kinds of awesome.
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Post by dirtypillows on Nov 29, 2020 1:36:48 GMT
I thought she was perfectly cast as Chris Hargensen. Nobody could have done it any better.
She was just fine in "Dressed to Kill".
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Post by Hamplanet on Nov 29, 2020 2:21:07 GMT
You're talking about her in Verhoeven and De Palma movies. Those two are probably the worst directors I can think of for portraying female characters ie either they were being drilled into a floor or they were psychos, skanks, bullies, airheads, hookers, butch, dykes etc. I've seen a few films where Allen played characters with more heart and she was pretty good.
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Post by Toasted Cheese on Nov 29, 2020 3:04:00 GMT
Allen was very generic pretty when she blew onto the scene in the late 70's. I can't say that I can really complain about her though, except for her awful and terrible performance in De Palma's Blow Out -81'.
I didn't get to see this film until the mid 80's on vhs and was really looking forward to it for Allen mostly and boy was I disappointed in her. Not that fond of the film overall either. I have had previous discussions before about her acting in this film, but whatever De Palma allowed her to get away with, it must've been because he was her husband at the time and trusted her too much. There is nothing inspiring, skillful or even ironic in her performance as a stalked hooker. She was just pure 100% dense bimbo with no layers and it came across as cheap as her character. She did so much better in the previous DTK in a similar role. She had so much more radiance about her, plus she was using her brains as well.
I like her presence in the Robocop films too. She worked in well with Weller and his robotic ways and was the tough heart of the films.
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Post by vegalyra on Nov 29, 2020 14:12:00 GMT
I know a lot of people dislike 1941 quite a bit but she’s great in that film as the airplane obsessed object of affection of Tim Matheson.
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Post by johnspartan on Nov 29, 2020 14:36:25 GMT
WRONG, she is great in Robocop.
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Post by Ransom on Nov 29, 2020 15:27:29 GMT
I only know her as Mrs RoboCop. So I'm afraid I can't really add much to this thread. I'm not qualified enough on this topic to speculate on if the OP is a blonde actress hating serial killer in training or not.
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