What the *beep* happened to Kim Basinger's career?
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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
- Batman Homage
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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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_box_office_bombs -
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.