Jodi Foster - Classic or Dud

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is she a control freak or just a normal intelligent woman trying to stay on the sidelines of hollywood for the sake of her own sanity? The best American actress of her generation or lost it years ago? It seems to be more difficult for her to do real emotion other than steel-eyed intensity but she's always fascinating to watch even when her films aren't.

I say Classic.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 16 May 2005 12:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Michael Jones to thread!

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Monday, 16 May 2005 12:13 (twenty-one years ago)

john f. hinckley to thread!

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 16 May 2005 12:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Classic. She was the only famous person I have ever fancied.

― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 16 May 2005 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

She is so far beyond classic it's embarrassing (embarrassing for me, anyway).

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 16 May 2005 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2004/06/07/reagan5.jpg

Almost classic.

― Jimmy Mod, Sultan of Sexxitime (ModJ), Monday, 16 May 2005 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

However, has she made a good movie in the last 15 years? (I didn't much like Silence of the Lambs, but I'll even give you that one.)

I was really AMAZED when she licked Woody Allen's nipple in Shadows and Fog.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 May 2005 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

i enjoyed Contact. i enjoyed bits of Panic Room (ok, none of the bits i liked were her bits but...). she looks less human and more like something that should be walking down the ramp at the end of Close Encounters every time i see her though.

can remember seeing Candleshoe and Freaky Friday at the cinema...

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 16 May 2005 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I loved Contact too - the film would have been uber-classic had it not been for the God-bothering and the rubbish line about public investment.

― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 16 May 2005 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

she should try acting more, but i have liked what i've seen of her.

― N_RQ, Monday, 16 May 2005 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

"Contact" must be the film (along with "signs") i have heard the most mixed reports about,

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 16 May 2005 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw Bugsy Malone, The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and (I think) Foxes within an 18-month period when I was 11-13. There weren't any girls like that at my school.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 16 May 2005 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw Taxi Driver at that age, and there definitely weren't any girls like that at my school.

― N_RQ, Monday, 16 May 2005 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I hate hate hated Contact and Panic Room, and her directorial effort Home for the Holidays (and Little Man Tate wasn't so hot either).

Underrated perf: Stealing Home

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

She seems to have retreated into a film-every-couple-of-years-I-forget-about mode. But what more does she have left to prove, after all? Let her do what she wants!

Was she the last popular actress to emerge from the live action Disney stable until recent years?

her directorial effort Home for the Holidays

...wait, what was that one again?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Dysfunctional family Christmas... Holly Hunter, Anne Bancroft, Robert Downey Jr babbling improvisationally til you wanna smack him hard (repeatedly).

Now directing this:

http://imdb.com/title/tt0125751/

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Mike OTM. She was beautiful and clever and I hearted her. I had pictures on my wall.

― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Was she the last popular actress to emerge from the live action Disney stable until recent years?

you mean before lindsay 'the new jodie foster' lohan?

― N_RQ, Monday, 16 May 2005 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Thus.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

From what I can tell (never having studied the question deeply, not being a star-struck fanboy) Ms. Foster is reasonably intelligent, has the requisite pert nose, sharp cheekbones and blue eyes to allow pleasant sensations in closeups, and can play a variety of self-contained characters. These are all to the good.

She does not have the classic theatrical personality. She draws her characters with a pencil, shading carefully and adding sharp details, but she doesn't have a fluid wrist and her emdium isn't very colorful. Not dud, but not quite classic either.

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I like her

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

so classic.

(and BTW Dave, she's gay.)

― don weiner, Monday, 16 May 2005 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I like her a lot, but Nell is one of my favorite bad movies. If I watch it again I probably will not be able to stop myself from doing Nellspeak for days and days.

― Leon Federline (Ex Leon), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I avoided that one as the trailers gave me fears. But does it rival Rosie O'Donnell's recent turn?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Tay inna win!

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

That Rosie movie (from the 3 minutes I saw of it) seemed merely amusing/irritating, but Nell is classic.

― Leon Federline (Ex Leon), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

She's not met me yet

― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Don' cry missachickapeeeeeee

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

lindsay 'the new jodie foster' lohan?

Lindsay's too bubblegum.

― ... And suddenly Ian Riese-Moraine is a naked man saying, 'Volvo! Volvo!' (Easte, Monday, 16 May 2005 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually I like the idea of a Nell/Showgirls double bill for some reason.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

i'd pay to see it!

― latebloomer: the rebel sound of grits and bacon (latebloomer), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

If I ever come to some sort of FAP a Showgirls/Nell double bill should be in order.

― Leon Federline (Ex Leon), Monday, 16 May 2005 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

i think nell is better then its reputation says, i think panic room is one of the best movies of the last 5 years--with a structural, real time, self contained well panic that i find goregous.

i love her deeply, as an actress and a personaea

― anthony, Monday, 16 May 2005 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Darlington's "Jodie Foster" is classic.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.celluloidpropaganda.com/darlington-jodiefoster.mp3

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I liked her best when she was still really young and spunky. My favorite movie growing up was Freaky Friday.
http://www.jodiefoster.nu/gallery/ch9.htm

(Also, see: here)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Freaky Friday was also one of my childhood favorites and I have refused to see the remake as La Lohan cannot possibly be as sarcastically wonderful as Foster.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Here's a link to the red X pic.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't seen enough of her films, but I love her in The Taxi Driver. Yes, she is not bubblegum.

― youn, Monday, 16 May 2005 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

'Jodie Foster' and 'Spunky' are not natural bedfellows.

― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 16 May 2005 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I was smitten with Jodie in my pre- and actual pubescence. What a butch lil tomboy.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 May 2005 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

she's in A Very Long Engagement uncredited and speaking french the entire time. she's good!

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

When I first saw Alice Doesn't... I didn't recognize her and thought the actor was actually a boy playing a somewhat feminine boy who went by the name "Shirley."

Who remembers her in the Courtship of Eddie's Father? She had a few episode arc playing a girl that bullied Eddie until they become friends.

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 06:21 (twenty-one years ago)

the lohan 'freaky friday' is great, mostly for jamie lee curtis tho'.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 17 May 2005 07:38 (twenty-one years ago)

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