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Best and Worst Movie Moms: Now Disc. Kathleen Turner in "Serial Mom"
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Zaz
Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre
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Date Posted:
5/10 6:58pm
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Best and Worst Movie Moms: Now Disc. Kathleen Turner in "Serial Mom"
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Helen Parr (aka Elastigirl)
Appears in: The Incredibles (2004)
Portrayed by: Holly Hunter
"Moms perform superhuman feats every day. They dispense valuable advice. They're protective of their children, but know when to let go and allow them to forge their own paths. And they're always true to their own values. Thus, Elastigirl (voiced by Holly Hunter) in The Incredibles is the distillation of maternal excellence -- and she's great at crime-fighting to boot. (Alas, she probably shouldn't have left the poor babysitter alone with super-infant Jack Jack.)"
But: She tries to persuade her kids they are no different from anyone else. Losing battle.
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rumsmuggler
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Date Posted:
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RE: Best and Worst Movie Moms: Now Disc. Helen Parr in "The Incredibles"
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Jack Jack's powers didn't manifest(as far as I know) until he was with the baby sitter and the mom was already gone on her mission.
Jack Jack attack
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Zaz
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Date Posted:
5/10 8:19pm
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RE: Best and Worst Movie Moms: Now Disc. Helen Parr in "The Incredibles"
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Jack-Jack's powers are:
1. He turns into a fireball
2. He turns into a demon
3. He has laser-vision
4. He floats through walls
5. He sticks to the roof
6. He also turns into iron
Did I miss any?
And his mom didn't know?
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Date Posted:
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RE: Best and Worst Movie Moms: Now Disc. Helen Parr in "The Incredibles"
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I seem to remember one of the Parr family mentioning that jack jack didn't have powers and the family didn't know that he had powers until the end of the film.
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Did I miss any?
Super speed, or teleportation
possibly super strength as well
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Rummy is correct, Jack Jack had never displayed any powers before and it was assumed that he didn't have any.
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Zaz
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RE: Best and Worst Movie Moms: Now Disc. Helen Parr in "The Incredibles"
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I wonder why they though he had none?
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Zaz
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RE: Best and Worst Movie Moms: Now Disc. Helen Parr in "The Incredibles"
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Anyway.
Next: Mrs. Gump
Appears in: Forrest Gump (1994)
Portrayed by: Sally Field
"Six years may not seem like a long time, but for Sally Field, they were the difference between playing Tom Hanks' friend (in 1988's Punchline) and playing his rock-solid, long-suffering mother (in 1994's Forrest Gump). From the film's first act, in which she does some implied horizontal boppin' with the dean of a private school to ensure her son's admission, you know you only wished your mom loved you as much as Mrs. Gump loved Forrest. For Field -- who is, for the record, only 10 years Hanks' senior -- the role capped a string of positively received roles that brought her back from the squishy rom-com territory she'd wandered into during the mid-'80s (1987's Surrender, anyone?)."
I hated this movie, but that's not to say this is a poor performance, quite the contrary.
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RE: Best and Worst Movie Moms: Now Disc. Mrs. Gump in "Forrest Gump"
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Next: Peg Boggs in "Edward Scissorhands"
Portrayed by: Dianne Wiest
"How's this for maternal instinct? Tim Burton's 1990 suburban fable hinges on Peg Boggs, the housewife/struggling Avon lady played by Wiest, and her impulsive decision to enter the local Creepy Old Mansion on a Hill on a sales call. She doesn't sell any makeup, but she does wind up adopting the house's sole resident, a lab-created boy with scissors for hands, and taking him home to live with her family. It sounds positively daffy if you've never seen it -- or even if you have, actually -- but all of Burton's best movies need a sweet anchor to keep them from drifting completely off into Weirdsville, and Wiest -- whose early addition to the cast Burton credits with helping to get Edward Scissorhands made -- plays that role perfectly here."
It is daffy, but yes, you buy it.
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RE: Best and Worst Movie Moms: Now Disc. Peg Boggs in "Edwards Scissorhands"
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She strikes just the right note in that. She does help the movie work, no question. Her care for Edward just seemed so genuine.
On a side note, I read an interview one time with Brad Pitt, and out of nowhere, he started praising her. He said he thought Diane Wiest one of the best actors working today, even though she's not a big celebrity. I thought that interesting. She is awfully good. She was especially good in BULLETS OVER BROADWAY and THE BIRDCAGE.
Brad:
When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It's just a first impression. Then there's someone who doesn't catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren't what you would call beautiful sex symbols. I'll tell you who my favorite actress is, Dianne Wiest, and you wouldn't call her a sex symbol. Dianne Wiest is, to me, the most beautiful woman on the screen.
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Date Posted:
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RE: Best and Worst Movie Moms: Now Disc. Peg Boggs in "Edwards Scissorhands"
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Sarah Connor
Appears in: Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
Portrayed by: Linda Hamilton
"It's easy to forget now, but before Linda Hamilton's bicep-flexing turn as Sarah Connor in Terminator 2, women in science fiction films -- heck, in pretty much all films -- were relegated to stereotypical domestic support roles, or damsels in distress (Ripley excepted). Hamilton may not have been the first of the fairer sex to hit the gym and kick a little bad-guy tush in a major motion picture, but she was certainly one of the most convincing -- and the film's $500 million-plus gross helped convince filmmakers all over Hollywood that maybe the time had come to write female roles that involved more than screaming and baked goods."
She also appears in "The Terminator"...I'm not sure about the other Terminator movie because I haven't seen it.
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RE: Best and Worst Movie Moms: Now Disc. Sarah Connor in "The Terminator 2"
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Linda only appeared in T1, T2 & T2-3D. Her character was killed off off-screen prior to the events of T3.
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Elaine Miller
Appears in: Almost Famous (2000)
Portrayed by: Frances McDormand
"Early on in Almost Famous, Mrs. Miller's hard-nosed mothering is hard to read; however, when she lays down natural selection to a presumptuous Billy Crudup, you can't help but marvel. She doesn't just protect her 15-year-old son, a rising celebrity music journalist; she extends the stern rules to his possible bad influence. Even a rock star can become a "person of substance," if properly guided. Lioness mothers don't typically quote Goethe, which is only a tiny part of why this one is so memorable."
I haven't seen this one, either, but it sounds a bit fake.
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Elaine Miller
Appears in: Almost Famous (2000)
Portrayed by: Frances McDormand
"Early on in Almost Famous, Mrs. Miller's hard-nosed mothering is hard to read; however, when she lays down natural selection to a presumptuous Billy Crudup, you can't help but marvel. She doesn't just protect her 15-year-old son, a rising celebrity music journalist; she extends the stern rules to his possible bad influence. Even a rock star can become a "person of substance," if properly guided. Lioness mothers don't typically quote Goethe, which is only a tiny part of why this one is so memorable."
I haven't seen this one, either, but it sounds a bit fake.
Not fake at all. Brilliant movie, and McDormand is excellent.
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Yep. I like that she had enough faith that her son would more or less do the right thing and keep his nose clean.
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Bren MacGuff
Appears in: Juno (2007)
Portrayed by: Allison Janey
"Okay, so her dialogue during the first third of the film drifts perilously close to the brink of the stilted, see-how-hip-we-are patois traditionally favored by screenwriters putting words in the mouth of "real" teens -- but Diablo Cody's script quickly redeems itself, giving Ellen Page the rare opportunity to play a pregnant teenager whose journey to delivery avoids all the stereotypical Afterschool Special plot devices that Hollywood can't seem to live without. In fact, Juno's decision to give the baby up for adoption is one of the least dramatic decisions she makes during the course of the film; it takes her no time at all to decide that she is, in her own words, "ill-equipped" to give her progeny the life she wants for it. If that isn't motherly love, folks, what is?"
Haven't seen this movie, but Janney is a terrific actress.
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Date Posted:
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RE: Best and Worst Movie Moms: Now Disc. Bren MacGuff in "Juno"
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You should give us a list of films that you have seen so we could discuss those from time to time.
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