Lindsay Lohan: "Hot, Ready, and Legal!"

She keeps getting praised as this BRILLIANT ACTRESS or w/e; what did she even do that was all that great?

Mean Girls and The Parent Trap

(note: I didn't see The Parent Trap but it gets brought up as evidence that she is amazing)

i did not like her accent in the parent trap, sounded stupid

she was great in freak friday

*freaky

Oh right Freaky Friday, forgot about that one

she also did this, which is amazing in its own right:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yJqDTSufBE

lol

punch that tubwater, Lindsay

i saw Freaky Friday in the cinema, A+

worst euphemism ever xp

She wasn't awful in Mean Girls but i mean come on

look, I am just telling you what her acclaimed performances are

she was never a great actress. Mean Girls is a pretty good movie with her as a decent lead, but it's hardly a compelling role or anything.

Freaky Friday is fucking stupid just for the "I hate the White Stripes!/I know right? Get a bass player!" sort of dialogue

but kids talk like that! and worse!

she was perky, confident, fresh, funny and had an innocent appeal that nobody else really seemed to have at the time, which puts her in kind of a pickle because none of those attributes seem to apply any more

she was pretty charming, idk. i think any weaknesses were minor in that role. it's just kinda of sad that it ended up like this, she went from the lead in a tina fey-scripted flick to 'machete', kinda seems like a considerable fall.

look, I am just telling you what her acclaimed performances are

― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Friday, February 10, 2012 12:29 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dude i know, i wasn't

*like yelling at you or something, i was just speaking generally

alicia silverstone achieved the same level of washedupedness w/o the drug abuse (or did she?)

she was very compelling and great and Mean Girls, with a charm and openness that nobody else had. same can be said for freaky friday.

promise was written all over those performances, so the great actress thing, tho perhaps premature, stems from that.

On May 5, 2011, Silverstone gave birth to a boy, whom they named Bear Blu Jarecki.

this is incredibly cheesy but i thought at the time that her face was like a pop song, it was new but somehow you felt that you'd known it all your life

yup

there's a vast number of precedents for Lohan's career let's not all pretend to be shocked/surprised or anything

but kids talk like that! and worse!

are you trying to sell compelling realism as a virtue for this movie or...

haha no i just mean i cringed at that line too, but in exactly the same way i'd cringe hearing most high schoolers who are "into music" talk about music

On May 5, 2011, Silverstone gave birth to a boy, whom they named Bear Blu Jarecki

this is actually making me look forward to the inevitable hoopla around lilo's future chylde, and what it will be called

A key thing to remember about Mean Girls is to look at the subsequent success her costars (McAdams, Seyfried, Kaplan--hell, even Fey & Poehler) have had as LiLo spins ever downward.

lilo basically has terrible parents (obv, like super-terrible) and awful friends whereas most of those others i imagine were either strong enough to overcome any similar obstacles or surrounded themselves with better people.

You guys are forgetting Herbie Fully Loaded.
I haven't seen it, either.

i'm also the guy who loves "just my luck" and thought she was amazing in it, but i get flack for that. i think that was right before her downfall? not sure

I don't think anybody saw Herbie/praised her role in it

I Know Who Killed Me, on the other hand...

i can't even talk about that movie

that movie should have been called "I Know This Movie Is Unwatchable"

damn

I was hoping to appreciate that movie in the same way I appreciate the Butterfly Effect but it just does not deliver

ie as goofy campy awfulness

She was great in A Prairie Home Companion

Yeah, i don't think we've lost a great talent here. She used to be really hot though

...and ready...and legal.

she's still legal unless she's now aging backwards

well, there are treatments

She was great in A Prairie Home Companion

Yeah, I agree with this.

http://i.imgur.com/3c680.jpg

Practicing her "smelling a fart" acting.

ew i'm sorry is that really her fac

i'm honestly just stunned

She gives good Jan Brewer face.

is she shaking down her coke dealer in that pic

we kind of already had this discussion upthread