The main actress: Unlikable?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Forest
RollingInTheAngst — 10 years ago(January 11, 2016 10:35 PM)
For some reason, I had a very hard time watching this movie, not because of its content, but because of the main actress.
For the most part, I thought Natalie was pretty bad in this movie. I never heard or recognized her before, but her acting was just flat, wooden, and awkward. Maybe she was miscast, because she couldn't really carry this film and deliver the emotions.
Plus, she looked incredibly rough, and I found her facial expressions to be a cold-hearted you-know-what, but like as if she was a recovering druggie. In general, and this may sound bad, but I found her face to be incredibly annoying.
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zumaondeki — 10 years ago(February 14, 2016 11:00 PM)
I am stunned, I thought most contributors here would know their Movie Facts.
Natalie Dormer is Just short of Drop Dead Gorgeous as far as I am concerned and is Not HollywoodREAD from IMDB profile/Bio of her.
Natalie Dormer born 11 February 1982 is an English actress. She is best known for her roles as Anne Boleyn on the Showtime series The Tudors (2007-10), as Margaery Tyrell on the HBO series Game of Thrones (2012-present), Irene Adler on the CBS series Elementary (2013-15), and as Cressida in the science-fiction adventure films The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014) and Part 2 (2015). She has been nominated for Best Performance at the Gemini Awards for her work in The Tudors. She has also been nominated for a Screen Actor's Guild Award for her performance in Game of Thrones. -
Strazdamonas — 9 years ago(May 15, 2016 11:41 AM)
I am stunned, I thought most contributors here would know their Movie Facts.
Cha! Thats a good one! Most contributors here havent even seen the movie they are commenting on!
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randyraysadberry — 9 years ago(August 12, 2016 09:37 AM)
Funny a bit, haha Speaking of looks, the Japanese girl going to forest initial trip, is she Yuriri Naka? I had never seen before and was mesmerized by her beauty, my goodness, spectacular looking girl Randy
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lathe-of-heaven — 9 years ago(August 12, 2016 08:21 PM)
Ah yes, quite lovely!
Some Japanese girls have such an otherworldly beauty
enough to make you quite 'Randy'
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xystophoros — 9 years ago(September 08, 2016 02:58 AM)
More like 'Dropped on her face' gorgeous
Her name is Natalie Dormer, and she plays Queen Margaery Tyrell in Game of Thrones, and previously played Anne Boleyn in The Tudors.
The former is a role that specifically calls for a young, radiantly beautiful woman, and the latter is the role of a woman the King of England became so infatuated with, he literally changed the religion of his entire country so he could marry her.
Obviously looks are subjective, but there are two things to keep in mind here: 1) Clearly, plenty of people find Natalie Dormer attractive, otherwise she wouldn't get the roles she does, and 2) British actresses tend to have a natural beauty as opposed to the synthetic ideal of American women.
In other words, while you make like platinum blondes with plastic breasts and half a ton of makeup caked on their faces, there are those of us who have much different tastes. I'd take a naturally beautiful British actress over some uptalking C-list American reality TV girl any day. -
lathe-of-heaven — 9 years ago(September 09, 2016 12:49 AM)
"2) British actresses tend to have a natural beauty as opposed to the synthetic ideal of American women."
"In other words, while you make like platinum blondes with plastic breasts and half a ton of makeup caked on their faces, there are those of us who have much different tastes. I'd take a naturally beautiful British actress over some uptalking C-list American reality TV girl any day."
Fully agree
'Subjective' is right honestly, (and I originally just said this mainly to 'play' on the other guy's comment) she truly, in my lowly and wretched opinion really does indeed look like she's been dropped on her face my humble apologies Just different taste, I know BUT if it makes me at least seem just a TAD more genuine, please let me throw out to you a few actresses who a LOT of people probably think are either plain or very unattractive and yet I personally find them either somewhat or very attractive. And you will see that in principle I COMPLETELY agree with you.- Rebecca Hall
- English actress who sort of looks like a bit plainer Molly Ringwold - NOT gorgeous and progressively not improving (in my taste - getting skinnier and rougher looking as opposed to more 'girl next door' like I felt at first) BTW, she is frigg'n AWESOME in the British film 'AWAKENING'!
A good, natural example I think:
http://viewingworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Transcendence-2014-09.jpg
Sarah Silverman - I kind of have a weakness for Jewish looks http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/kalw/files/styles/medium/public/201510/sarahsilverman.pngJennifer Grey
(pre-nose job) - again, kind of Jewish looking
https://impeccabletablemanners.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/anigif_enhanced-buzz-17304-1381261448-17.gif?w=474
etc, etc, etc
So, you see absolutely NO blonde bimbos in site
Cheers mate!
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rlwremo — 9 years ago(December 02, 2016 07:02 PM)
Agree with you Zumaondeki. Have liked Dormer since I first saw her (all too briefly) on Elementary and then of course on Game of Thrones.
Actually I thought this movie was decent. Wouldn't have given it a shot except that Dormer was in it ("scary" movies are not my style, so many bad ones over the years).
