More Bad Reviews for Smidget

[shipperx]

I have to say it makes me giggle over that interview with Smidge where she says that The Grudge is the direction she wanted her career to go after BtVS. Anyway, more excellent (excellent in the way they make me giggle) reviews:

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Bad acting, cheap scares and unintentional humor rule in this lame remake.

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The main reason that The Grudge is actually slightly worse than its not-so-great counterpart is the acting. Sarah Michelle Gellar is just terrible in the film. In fairness, there really isn't a lot for her character to do except to look curious, look surprised and look scared, but she's not even good at that.

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The American actors he’s chosen - particularly Ms. Gellar and Mr. Behr - are far too dry, delivering dialogue that is both clumsy and unpalatable.

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The secret to scary success is found in creating prospective victims we care about - the boy who saw dead people in The Sixth Sense, poor little Regan in The Exorcist - or at least villains fascinating in their perversity, à la Norman Bates in Psycho or Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs.

The Grudge has neither. Sarah Michelle Gellar, who plays an American exchange student in Japan, is ostensibly the star of the film, but she is tangential to the main haunting

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The Grudge brings you something truly terrifying: Sarah Michelle Gellar speaking Japanese!

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The Grudge stars Gellar and Clea Duvall's chin, both of which are more prominent than they deserve to be. {...} It's disconcerting when fingers poke out of Gellar's head during a shower because nothing is likely to emerge from this actor's head but dialogue and roots.

Oh! And I forgot the review that someone posted just for my benefit on BAPS:


From Romanticmovies.about.com - By Rebecca Murray -
2004-10-21st

Sarah Michelle Gellar fails to impress and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” fans may despair to see Gellar play such a wimpy role. She does fine at looking frightened and confused, but a couple of facial expressions repeated over and over do not make for a great performance. Granted, there’s not much to work with in a script that’s meant for scares, not for intelligent dialogue and performances with any depth.

Comments

[miggy.livejournal.com]

From this review:

Lo and behold! Gellar cannot act. Miraculously coasting up until now, THE GRUDGE solidifies Gellar’s status as an actress in need of acting lessons. Instead of expressing emotions, she makes amateur grimaces. She is not in touch with her character. In fact, no one is. And, since for the first half of the movie the camera is trained on Gellar’s frozen face, this is not good. The most important expression in a horror movie – fear – is never seen. Perhaps Gellar needs a director who speaks English.

[drujan.livejournal.com]

Warms the cockles of my heart, it does...

BWAH!!!

More Bad Reviews for Smidget

[sarahlynnl.livejournal.com]

At least the reviews are right and SMG does need acting classes.
Sarah

[drujan.livejournal.com]

Too bad we were stuck with a horrible actress playing Buffy. Someone capable of creating depth and emotion would have made the whole mess a bit more palatable...