What the *beep* happened to Kim Basinger's career?
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Century_hades — 10 years ago(August 22, 2015 10:44 PM)
Wow that is some interesting stuff. I didn't know any of that. I think Bless the child was the last movie I watched with her in it.
There are a few movies with her I want to see, but haven't yet. Like L.A. Confidential, and Cool world. (I think she was in cool world?) -
TMC-4 — 9 years ago(May 23, 2016 04:08 PM)
Even GQ wants to know what's up:
http://www.gq.com/story/the-curious-career-of-kim-basinger -
TMC-4 — 10 years ago(January 09, 2016 02:20 AM)
http://www.fame10.com/entertainment/over-the-top-demands-of-7-popular-90s-movie-stars/2/
4. Kim Basinger
Kim Basinger was one of the big stars during the 80s and 90s; however, her big demands on set may have cost her the promising career she once had. During filming for The Marrying Man, where she met her ex husband Alec Baldwin, her demands were excessive. She insisted that the director of photography be replaced because she didnt look like how she looked in the test shots that he had taken. That wasnt all. Four weeks into filming, she asked to change the dialogue, telling the screenwriter, Whoever wrote this scene doesnt understand comedy.
Basinger also kept production waiting on the set of The Marrying Man. One reason for this was her elaborate morning routine, which included washing her hair with only Evian water and shampoo. Were not entirely sure if her excessive demands were what derailed her career. All we know is that she doesnt get those high-paying roles anymore.
http://www.clipd.com/awards/31850/14-actors-and-actresses-whose-careers-fell-off-a-cliff-after-winning-an-oscar#page=2
KIM BASINGER
Kim Basinger is probably better known for being married to Alec Baldwin then for her budding acting career, but she used to be a bright spot in Hollywood. She had been in the scene since the '70s, before 1997 came along and she landed a role in "L.A. Confidential," which earned her the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Apparently that honor was so much that she had to take a three year hiatus, successfully ensuring any hype she had fizzled out. Now it seems that she's back to acting in projects no one's ever heard of just like before.
http://screenrant.com/where-are-they-now-batman-1989/?view=all
Vicki Vale is an on-again-off-again character in the Batman comics, with an on-again-off-again love interest in Bruce Wayne. For Batman, it was definitely in the on-again phase, and supermodel-turned-actress Kim Basinger was cast to fill the shoes of the character allegedly originally based on Marilyn Monroe. While her performance was panned by critics, the character remains a mainstay of Batman fandom.
Kim Basinger was born into a show-business family, and her striking looks kept her busy as one of the worlds top models in the 1970s. Cast as Bond girl Domino in the questionable 1983 non-EON James Bond movie Never Say Never Again, she remained one of Hollywoods hottest commodities in the 1980s and 1990s. Basinger won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1997s L.A. Confidential, she still works consistently. Basinger will feature as Christian Greys ex-lover in 2017s Fifty Shades Darker.
http://www.starpulse.com/news/Lucille_Barilla/2014/03/02/10_oscarwinning_celebs_whose_movies_al?page=4
4. Kim Basinger
There was no one more glamorous than Kim Basinger as she stepped up to the podium to receive her Best Supporting Actress award in 1997 for "L.A. Confidential." Wearing a gold dress, it looked as if Oscar herself had come to fruition. Graciously she thanked "everyone I have ever met in my entire life." Following "Confidential," Basinger made the big-budget "I Dreamed of Africa," which tanked at the box office. From that point on, her career has been on a slow decline with few notable hot points. Bassinger gained more notoriety for her continued domestic and family struggles with ex-husband Alec Baldwin. Her last film, the 2013 boxing movie "Grudge Match" grossed only $42M at the box office.
http://fandom.wikia.com/articles/five-oscar-winners-who-didnt-endure
Kim Basinger (L.A Confidential)
Basinger was part of Curtis Hansons truly terrific L.A. Confidential back in 1997. She did a fantastic job, even if the part wasnt as fleshed-out as it could have been. Basinger had been around for awhile before she won the Oscar but post-award, her career hasnt taken off as many had predicted.
She followed up Confidential with the abysmal I Dream of Africa (remember that one?). Then it was 8 Mile with Eminem, a well-regarded and successful film.
Sadly, it dwindled after that. She popped up in Cellular, The Sentinel and other little-seen films. Her next role will be in Fifty Shades Darker, which will (probably) be her first hit in nearly fifteen years. Lets hope Basinger makes a comeback.
http://thegeeknerdom.com/original-1989-batman-movie-actors-where-are-they-now-2/
3. Kim Basinger, Vicki vale
Then: Kim was cast as photojournalist and love concern to Bruce Wayne Vicki Vale after sean young was contrived to drop out of the film following an onset horse riding injury. After working as a former fashion model transformed herself as the leading lady through films like The Naturals , The Blind Date & Nine 1/2 Weeks.
Now: Following Batman Basinger was notably sued for dropping of the racy film Boxing Helena and became a tabloid fixture thanks to her public custody clash with ex-husband Alec Baldwin. Despite everything she won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for L.A. Confidential. We havent seen that actress lately her last big role -
TMC-4 — 10 years ago(December 28, 2015 11:40 PM)
http://www.chud.com/community/t/131409/the-oscar-career-barometer#post_3130297
Basinger was good in 8 Mile and The Door in the Floor, so she didn't completely disappear, but I think sort of fitting out of the scene was a combination of a couple of things including her age, her choices, and (and this is just an impression I get) not having a whole lot of support in the industry (probably from being seen as flaky). Reminds me of Winona Ryder, good actress who got her thunder stolen on her own passion project by Angelina Jolie, and then fell off like a beep in part because she's flaky and (from what I understand) has some enemies. -
TMC-4 — 10 years ago(March 11, 2016 01:09 AM)
On the downside however
:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifty_Shades_of_Grey_(film)#Critical_response
Fifty Shades of Grey was criticized for its acting, writing, and pacing; however, some critics noted it as an improvement over the book, and praised the performance of Dakota Johnson. The review aggregator website Metacritic gave the film a score of 46 out of 100, based on 46 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[182] On Rotten Tomatoes, another review aggregator, the film was reviewed positively by 25% of 228 critics, with a rating average of 4.2/10. The site's consensus reads, "While creatively better endowed than its print counterpart, Fifty Shades of Grey is a less than satisfying experience on the screen."[183] In CinemaScore polls conducted during the opening weekend, cinema audiences gave the film an average grade of "C+" on an A+ to F scale.[184]
Claudia Puig of USA Today wrote that "the dialogue is laughable, the pacing is sluggish and the performances are one-note."[185] Moira Macdonald of The Seattle Times wrote that "Fifty Shades of Grey the movie, for the record, is not quite as bad as Fifty Shades of Grey the book. But that's not saying much."[186] We Got This Covered critic Isaac Feldberg gave the film one and a half stars out of five and wrote that it "feels like two, distinct films grappling for dominance over the screen: one a sensual and stylish romance, and the other a numbingly explicit Harlequin bodice-ripper brought to life. Regrettably, the latter and lesser of the two ends up on top.".[187] The Guardian lead film critic Peter Bradshaw gave the film one star out of five, calling it "the most purely tasteful and softcore depiction of sadomasochism in cinema history" with "strictly daytime soap" performances.[188] A.O.Scott of The New York Times called the movie "terrible", but wrote that "it might nonetheless be a movie that feels good to see, whether you squirm or giggle or roll your eyes or just sit still and take your punishment."[189]
In a positive review for The Daily Telegraph, Robbie Collin called the film "sexy, funny and self-aware in every way the original book isn't."[190] Elizabeth Weitzman of New York's Daily News praised the directing, screenplay, and Johnson's performance, but called Dornan's performance, the leads' chemistry, and the supporting cast "underused". She praised the film for honoring the essence of its source and the director's way of balancing "atmosphere with action".[191] In The Guardian, Jordan Hoffmann awarded the film three out of five stars, writing "this big screen adaptation still manages to be about people, and even a little bit sweet", and that the sex scenes "are there to advance the plot, and only the most buttoned-up prude will be scandalised."[192] Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a B, writing: "This perfectly normal way of consuming erotica suggests that the movie Fifty Shades of Grey will work better as home entertainment, when each viewer can race past the blah-blah about how well Christian plays the piano and pause on the fleeting image of the man minus his pants."[193] In The Sydney Morning Herald, Timothy Laurie and Jessica Kean argue that "the film provides a language for decision-making around violence more developed than most Hollywood fodder", and that "film fleshes out an otherwise legalistic concept like 'consent' into a living, breathing, and at times, uncomfortable interpersonal experience. It dramatises the dangers of unequal negotiation and the practical complexity of identifying one's limits and having them respected."[194]
Various critics have noted the similarities between Fifty Shades of Grey and Adrian Lyne's 9 Weeks (1986).[195][196][197] Both films centre around a sadomasochistic affair and both are coincidentally literary adaptations.[198][199] -
TMC-4 — 10 years ago(March 28, 2016 12:08 AM)
Really Kim!? How the beep do you go from
Batman
and
LA Confidential
to this beep Is she really that hard up for money or desperate to revitalize her otherwise stagnant acting career?
http://jezebel.com/kim-basinger-has-been-cast-in-fifty-shades-darker-as-ch-1755939162 -
fiero-49251 — 10 years ago(April 02, 2016 02:41 PM)
The woman is bent; personal and professional choices were a lot to be desired! Her "word" wasn't worth much as well; cancelling deals and opportunities she had made years ago! ;-(
http://scifiblogs3.blogspot.com/2012/12/batman-forever.html
http://www.childrenofrassilon.com/batman-forever.html
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soundwave5 — 9 years ago(May 27, 2016 08:52 AM)
How many actresses really have strong careers into their 40s?
Even Julia Roberts, who's pretty much the biggest female star of the last 30-40 years has had no huge hits after turning 40.
Basinger was already well into her 30s when she got the Batman gig, and while she was red hot for a time there, Batman never developed into a franchised thing for her because her character was not in the sequel to make room for Michelle Pfefier's Catwoman.
And yeah she made some bad career choices, but it's not like she ever was some huge mainstream type actress before, she was mostly known for the sex appeal in 9 1/2 Weeks and as a Bond girl. -
TMC-4 — 9 years ago(September 10, 2016 11:00 PM)
I've always heard that Kim Basinger was initially going to be in
Returns
. In the earlier script from Sam Hamm (before Tim Burton brought in Daniel Waters and Wesley Strick), Bruce Wayne even proposes to Vicki Vale. I felt that something like that was one of the big missed opportunities in the old Batman series. It seemed like Tim Burton was too wrapped up in making
Returns
"its own thing" (and closer to his aesthetic/personal tastes than in the 1989 movie) at the expense of further developing Bruce Wayne's character.
https://lebeauleblog.com/2014/12/08/what-might-have-been-kim-basinger/11/ -
TMC-4 — 9 years ago(August 22, 2016 11:44 PM)
While we're at it, why do Kim Basinger's other movies (besides stuff like
LA Confidential
and
8 Mile
) normally bomb at the box office:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/BoxOfficeBomb/NumbersThroughH
Bless the Child (2000) Budget, $65 million. Box office, $40,443,010. Writer Tom Rickman was cursed with only writing TV movies after this (one of which was The Reagans, which was released months before Ronald Reagan's passing.)
Cool World (1992) Budget, $28 million. Box office, $14,110,589. Director Ralph Bakshi was so dismayed by the film's reception and Executive Meddling (which included star Kim Basinger bowdlerizing the movie to show for sick hospital children even though that was not the intention of Bakshi at all) that he eventually retired from filmmaking. Cool World was also one of a few flops in the early 90's that melted the A-list career of Basinger, and film helmer Frank Mancuso's career was downgraded to B-level status ever since.
Final Analysis (1992) Budget, $33 million. Box office, $28,590,665. One of a few flops in the early 90's that melted the A-list career of Kim Basinger.
Grudge Match (2013) Budget, $40 million. Box office, $29,807,260 (domestic), $44,907,260 (worldwide).
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/BoxOfficeBomb/IThroughR
The Marrying Man (1991) Budget, $26 million. Box office, $12,454,758. Dashed Kim Basinger's hopes of being a singer, and one of a few flops in the early 90's that melted her A-list career.
My Stepmother Is An Alien (1988) Budget, $26 million. Box office, $13,854,000 (domestic). One of a handful of 1988/1989 films that caused the Weintraub Entertainment Group to implode right out of the gates, and one of the movies that ended Coca-Cola's control over Columbia and caused their merger with Tristar and Sony.
The Nice Guys (2016) Budget, $50 million. Box office, $33,364,096 (domestic), $50,364,096 (worldwide). Despite glowing reviews from critics, this was released in the midst of one of the ugliest box office summers in cinema history, and could not make up the budget as a result despite almost all of the big-budget competition getting worse reviews than Nice Guys got.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/BoxOfficeBomb/SThroughZ
Waynes World 2 (1993) Budget, $40 million. Box office, $48.2 million (domestic). While this take on Wayne and Garth had a budget that was double that of the original sleeper classic, it was not considered as fresh as the original, and it didn't have the same director because she had fallen out with star Mike Myers over the difficulty of working with him (she directed The Beverly Hillbillies instead, which was a financial success but was actually disdained by critics). Paramount and NBC let the Wayne's World sketch lie in the culture nostalgia corner after this film, but this would be one of the last times an SNL-based film would be taken seriously before it started getting derailed with It's Pat! the next year.
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TMC-4 — 9 years ago(January 29, 2017 09:10 PM)
I think that in that regard, it has more to do w/ Kim Basinger arguably at the end of the day, not being charismatic enough or being an actress who can display a significant amount of range. She pretty much eventually reached a point in which she simply couldn't rely primarily on her looks anymore and therefore, she had little else to fall back on.