could Denise Richards have been anymore miscast?
alabamabondfan
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She seriously may be the worst actor/actress in the series. I cannot fathom how they decided to cast her for that part. (I just watched TWINE for the first time if your wondering why I bring this up)
What in her acting resume told them that she was believable as a nuclear scientist???
Was there any doubt that she would end up with the wet t-shirt at the end? I guess that's what got her the part.
A friend of mine and I have joked for years that the worst actors on the planet are Casper Van Dien and Denise Richards. I guess Casper was busy when the Bond producers called............
What in her acting resume told them that she was believable as a nuclear scientist???
Was there any doubt that she would end up with the wet t-shirt at the end? I guess that's what got her the part.
A friend of mine and I have joked for years that the worst actors on the planet are Casper Van Dien and Denise Richards. I guess Casper was busy when the Bond producers called............
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I thought she was terrible with the "technobabble". She's certainly not the only person to not be believable in a Bond film but she is the worst in my opinion.
When did i say her appearance made her miscast in this role??? Or that she was too young???
What I objected to most of all about Richards was her character's name. There was absolutely no reason whatsover to call her Christmas -- it was only so they could insert that corny "I thought Christmas only came once year" joke at the end.
Another odd thing about her character's name: when Brosnan first meets her, she says something to the effect that she's already heard all the jokes about her name. She says this as if there was this multitude of obvious, cliched jokes that would apply to someone by the name of "Christmas." But for the life of me, I couldn't think of a single one. Did I miss something there?
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Batman: "The Hammer Of Justice is UNISEX!"
-Batman: The Brave & The Bold -
I don't know if that line is corny (perhaps it is) but I really loved that line. IMO it remains one of the series' truly great lines and among the absolute best closing lines of all time.
I can think of a few, but this happens to be a family site. :v
As to the closing line, I dislike it so much because it is such a stale line. It's been used for many years, long before TWINE premiered. As a matter of fact, I saw the line used in MAD magaine over 30 years before TWINE premiered. I had read a review of the movie before i saw it, and it mentioned that the movie closed with a really bad line involving Dr. Jones. It wasn't had to figure out what the line was going to be. It was an old, overused cliche.
Denise Richards can't act, has big breasts and is probably not that bright. Sophie Marceau can't act, has big breasts and is probably not that bright. I don't see why one should be described as a bimbo and not the other. Maybe it's a cultural thing. Richards is American. Marceau is French and her hot accent seems to fool men into thinking that they are interested in more than just her body.
I love Vegas in DAF, but visiting Vegsa recently, it didn't seem so great at first and if you were a local in any way it just might seem a come down to see it on screen, ditto US women perhaps?
Roger Moore 1927-2017
"So Christmas, have you been naughty...or nice?" :x
Agree with alabama, although I'm still a big fan of TWINE.
However I would say that Tanya Roberts or Britt Eklund are just as bad at acting, but at least they aren't supposed to be portraying a nuclear scientist.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
I think I just found Denise Richards so hard to accept because she is pretty well known and if they'd just found an attractive lesser known person I probably wouldn't have noticed. And I started this thread before I'd seen Die Another Day. I've got to say, Halle may actually be worse than Denise. It's close.
I just started watching Bond movies in the last 6 months so the older movies don't bother me as much as the last three Brosnan films do.
Someone mentioned Eva Green (who I thought was brilliant) and compared her to Denise Richards. To me though, that is brilliant example to use to try and get my point across. I'd never seen Eva Green before CR. So I had no preconcieved notions about her. Imagine if they'd have cast Jessica Alba instead. Now, Alba is very attractive but she can't act and she's well known. So I would have based how I liked her character on more than just the material presented before me.
That's my basis for hating the casting of Richards and Berry.
Actually, that's a pretty good analogy.
Batman: "The Hammer Of Justice is UNISEX!"
-Batman: The Brave & The Bold -
And I agree with Dan Same. I love that last line. Guess we'll have to start a small club, because I realize I'm in the minority.
I kinda took Jones's line about jokes to be a bit more all-encompassing, like she doesn't need to be reminded she has a wonky name, she heard all the variations in college, etc. Just her normal response to a smartass, endearing as it was.
I disagree with you about Lois Chiles...but that's about it. I just watched an interesting documentary on YOLT which talked about the casting of the two women in that film. I guess the producers were in Japan having a terrible time finding two women who could act as well as speak passable English. In their desperation they recruited two girls (Mie Hama and the one who played Aki) and brought them to England to take lessons in English. Aki came along fine but apparently Mie Hama just couldn't pick it up. The producers were going to send her back to Japan but when (the fellow who played) Tanaka talked to her about this she said that if that if they were going to do that she would commit suicide in the hotel. As a result she's still in the movie, spotty English and all. That being said I've always found her one of the most strikingly beautiful women in the whole series.
I've always loathed Kissy, but I also am one that doesn't mind Richards either, she's by no means the best, but she handles the "independent yet vulnerable 90s woman" archetype. She's also quite beautiful.
However, I'd put Bach, Chiles, Roberts and Wayborn above her.
I missed that other one. I kind of like that one better, with the double punchline. I guess it's not so much the joke but naming of the girl for no apparent purpose other than to validate the joke two hours later. It suppose it could have been worse: they could have called her "Nantucket."
or a beach babe, but she doesn't convince at all as a scientist. There is no reason why a professor of physiscs can't look great, and in a Bond film she has to look great. But Denise doesn't come across as a smart woman (perhaps she is, I don't know her), but she looks more like a **** (she probably isn't, judging by the press and interviews).
They should have cast an equally hot actress, but someone older who can act better and can convince in the role. Monica Bellucci or Jennifer Connelly would have been much better.
For me, though, the juxtaposition between a supposed nuclear physicist and a woman dressed for a wet t-shirt contest is a little hard to swallow. Isabella Scorupco is a gorgeous woman (IMO) but they made her nerdy in GE, which lent some credibility to the character. They should have done the same with Richards in TWINE.