I have a bad feeling about this.

[falafel]

Its hard to compare any 60yo to their 20yo equivalent. I'm impressed by the current iteration to Carrie from a few years ago.

She was told she had to lose some weight to play the role this time around. She wasn't very happy about it, but looks like she complied.

[YOhio]

Complaining about acting in Star Wars is as dumb as complaining about the science of a ray gun that harnesses the suns power. It's a movie about spaceships, aliens, superpowers, robots and lightsabers. You don't need good actors to make that fun and entertaining. Maybe one of you James Lipton wannabes will correct me.

[YOhio]

Also, leave it to Bishop Art to get all pervy.

[Commando]

I would guess a pill addiction in the 2000s did her in-- weight-wise. Here she is in 97 in Austin Powers.



Here she is in Scream 3 in 2000:



And in 2009:



Say what you will about her acting in TFA, but she is one smart lady as a novelist, screen writer, and "script doctor" in Hollywood for years. I would attribute her recent loss of articulation/acting ability to the cumulative effects of 30 years of drug abuse.

[PaloAltoCougar]

She was told she had to lose some weight to play the role this time around. She wasn't very happy about it, but looks like she complied.

I liked her statement prior to final casting for the movie that "They don't want to hire all of me -- only about three-quarters."

[Jeff Lebowski]

Complaining about acting in Star Wars is as dumb as complaining about the science of a ray gun that harnesses the suns power. It's a movie about spaceships, aliens, superpowers, robots and lightsabers. You don't need good actors to make that fun and entertaining. Maybe one of you James Lipton wannabes will correct me.

You don't understand. It was bad even by Star Wars standards.

[creekster]

You don't understand. It was bad even by Star Wars standards.

I didn't think so. I thought it was pretty typically star wars bad. Hayden Christensen in episodes 1,2 and 3 was bad. Very bad. But in TFA Fisher was not much worse than Fisher in episodes 4,5 and 6 or, and let's be honest here, Harrison Ford in any of the films.

[Topper]

She was told she had to lose some weight to play the role this time around. She wasn't very happy about it, but looks like she complied.

In one of those pictures, she looks like Jabba the Hut. OMG, she looked horrible. Her current iteration was certainly passable.

[Topper]

Her acting was always bad.

Agreed. I disliked the TFA enough that I would not see it again, unless through compulsion. The more I reflect upon the film, the more awful my experience becomes. The acting was terrible, the plot was a rehash and there were no subplots. It is wonderful that pure trash can generate a billion dollars. Wishing I had the same good fortune.

[Commando]

Agreed. I disliked the TFA enough that I would not see it again, unless through compulsion. The more I reflect upon the film, the more awful my experience becomes. The acting was terrible, the plot was a rehash and there were no subplots. It is wonderful that pure trash can generate a billion dollars. Wishing I had the same good fortune.

You couldn't figure out any sub plots? Poor guy!

[Jeff Lebowski]

I didn't think so. I thought it was pretty typically star wars bad. Hayden Christensen in episodes 1,2 and 3 was bad. Very bad. But in TFA Fisher was not much worse than Fisher in episodes 4,5 and 6 or, and let's be honest here, Harrison Ford in any of the films.

Disagree. She was way worse than she was in the three originals. Seemed like she was just mailing it in. Thankfully her screen time was relatively short.

And Hayden Christensen was not in episode 1. Just 2 & 3.

[Commando]

Disagree. She was way worse than she was in the three originals. Seemed like she was just mailing it in. Thankfully her screen time was relatively short.

And Hayden Christensen was not in episode 1. Just 2 & 3.

Disagree! Hayden Christensen was HORRIBLE in Episode 1!!!

[Commando]

Agreed. I disliked the TFA enough that I would not see it again, unless through compulsion. The more I reflect upon the film, the more awful my experience becomes. The acting was terrible, the plot was a rehash and there were no subplots. It is wonderful that pure trash can generate a billion dollars. Wishing I had the same good fortune.

Ah, yes. That old, tired chestnut about the race against time to find a map to the first Jedi temple in hopes of finding Luke Skywalker. How many SW films in a row keep using this same, tired-ass plot???

[creekster]

And Hayden Christensen was not in episode 1. Just 2 & 3.

Wasn't he? I'm sure you're right. I have tried not to think about those films too much, as they were awful. I like to imagine that when they recount the sacrifices I made as a father, all heads will bow and knees will bend in reverence when it is said that I went to all three of those films for my kids.

[PaloAltoCougar]

Wasn't he? I'm sure you're right. I have tried not to think about those films too much, as they were awful. I like to imagine that when they recount the sacrifices I made as a father, all heads will bow and knees will bend in reverence when it is said that I went to all three of those films for my kids.

By that measure, for having accompanied our youngest to The Pokémon Movie my calling and election was made sure.