Beauty vs Beast: Home is Where the Hearts Are
Monday, February 26, 2018 at 2:00PM Jason from MNPP here with the last "Beauty vs Beast" before the Oscars. This week's poll doesn't have anything to do with the Oscars though because let's face it - the Academy, bless their shiny hearts, is never going to be as cool and adventurous as our host Nathaniel is. Nathaniel dropped his Top Ten of 2017 over the weekend and at #9 was a movie AMPAS was never going to go anywhere near - Darren Aronofsky's spectacularly divisive mother! starring Jennifer Lawrence (who's got Red Sparrow out this weekend) as a sink-bracing Suzy Homemaker under, uh, extreme duress. But we're never going to forget mother!, and we doubt you will either - even if it's just to picture Michelle Pfeiffer whenever you slip a little extra something into your lemonade...
PREVIOUSLY We wished Sidney Poitier a happy birthday last Monday, wondering why he wasn't the one who got AMPAS' attention in 1967's In the Heat of the Night - he certainly got our attention, rounding up 85% of your vote from his co-star (and statue-snatcher) Rod Steiger. Said Red:
"Watching Sydney Poitier reassured me that I could grow up into the kind of adult I wanted to be. He still had what we kids had and adults had lost. He was honest, honourable, brave and full of joy."
Reader Comments (13)
I am going for Team Woman b/c that Woman took no guff whatsoever. Mother mostly just said "excuse me, EXCUSE ME" a lot and worried too much about her floors. I'm not a fan of those kinds of people in real life, much less in the movies.
I'm giving Jennifer a sympathy vote but we all know who is going to walk away with this.
Not fair. I'm always team Michelle even when I'm not.
Yeah, I’m sure Michelle is gonna run away with this one (I voted for her), but I do think Lawrence’s work in this film is underrated.
Give me a movie where Michelle Pfeiffer taunts and tortures Jennifer Lawrence for six or more hours and I'll be happy forever.
I can't say no to Team Woman, who I'm pretty sure just makes vodka lemonades and calls them a "family recipe".
Team Woman, if for no other reason than that she knows exactly who she is and what she wants.
I wonder if Michelle has lemonade on stand by for guests now?
Not a big J-Law fan but why the hell did they have to nominate her for her Razzie in this movie ? Mother! was a terrible film (well, the second half was) but Lawrence just did the best she could with her oh-so-passive character.
Thank god they didn't go with Pfeiffer in Worst Supporting Actress .....
An obpfious choice!
Michelle Pfeiffer in Mother: Most Overrated Performance in The Film Experience of All Times?
THIS LAST PERSON WHO COMMENTED NEEDS TO SHUT THE FUCK UP :)
Love this film, it`s in my top 10 list of 2017. I`ll definitely be paying more attention to Jennifer Lawrence as an actress if she keeps choosing daring, polarizing projects like Mother! It was just the third time I cared for her as an actress ( the other two being Winter`s Bone and American Hustle) but the winner here gotta be The Woman cause, well, she`s pleasingly cruel, feisty and menacing as a tigress and she`s played by Michelle Pfeiffer bringing her extra-Pfeiffer sauce making the character not just colorful and electric (Pfeiffer, encircling a pallid, frightened Jennifer Lawrence, with a cutting smirk on her face that suggests her character is capable of great violence) but with a hint of pathos and layers of complexity that elevates your regular nasty woman to a whole other level, she straddles the boundaries between embodying a symbol and granting the character enough gravitas to feel like a flesh and blood woman.