SALON Review on Janet's Performance in FOR COLORED GIRLS

[SonofBaldwin]

http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/film_salon/2010/11/04/defense_of_tyler_perry/index.html

Consider Jackson, who made no particular impression as the title character in her debut film "Poetic Justice," but has been knocking performances out of the park for Perry. She outdoes herself here -- especially in the scene where she confronts her husband over his secret life, and Perry stays on her in a tight close-up while she describes exactly how he's broken her heart. It's not just Jackson's short haircut and traumatized eyes that might remind viewers of Jane Wyman or Joan Crawford; Perry gets at the mix of masculine hyper-competitiveness and feminine vulnerability that has always defined Jackson, and links it to the wily, lonely coldness often captured in Wyman and Crawford performances, a directorial gambit of tremendous perceptiveness.

[lexus97]

http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/film_salon/2010/11/04/defense_of_tyler_perry/index.html

Consider Jackson, who made no particular impression as the title character in her debut film "Poetic Justice," but has been knocking performances out of the park for Perry. She outdoes herself here -- especially in the scene where she confronts her husband over his secret life, and Perry stays on her in a tight close-up while she describes exactly how he's broken her heart. It's not just Jackson's short haircut and traumatized eyes that might remind viewers of Jane Wyman or Joan Crawford; Perry gets at the mix of masculine hyper-competitiveness and feminine vulnerability that has always defined Jackson, and links it to the wily, lonely coldness often captured in Wyman and Crawford performances, a directorial gambit of tremendous perceptiveness.

DAMN!!!!! :excited: GO JANET !

[hotboy06]

Even in human form, she shits!!

[lexus97]

Even in human form, she shits!!

man I cant wait. this morning i heard Tyler on TJMS and Steve Harvey. Sybil Wilkes from the TJMS show tom;s side kick OMG she got so emotionla talking to Tyler she said the movie was sooo moving that her and her 3 girlfriends that went to see it cried when they left the theathers discussing it. she said it was so powerful and all the ladies kicked ass in it!

[hotboy06]

man I cant wait. this morning i heard Tyler on TJMS and Steve Harvey. Sybil Wilkes from the TJMS show tom;s side kick OMG she got so emotionla talking to Tyler she said the movie was sooo moving that her and her 3 girlfriends that went to see it cried when they left the theathers discussing it. she said it was so powerful and all the ladies kicked ass in it!

Oh..I'm only here for Janhova..the lesser girls will get praise only after I continually praise Janhova..

[lexus97]

Oh..I'm only here for Janhova..the lesser girls will get praise only after I continually praise Janhova..

:lmao: i agree

[hotboy06]

:lmao: i agree

I'm sure the other girls will try it, seeing that Janhova is the biggest star..

[SonofBaldwin]

So far, Kimberly Elise is getting the most praise, but it was nice to see Janet get some shine because some of the other reviewers are saying that Janet (and Whoopi) are the weakest links.

[hotboy06]

So far, Kimberly Elise is getting the most praise, but it was nice ot see Janet get some shine because some of the other reviewers are saying that Janet (and Whoopi) are the weakest links.

It's so easy for Kimberly Elise..she is a great actress..

[lexus97]

So far, Kimberly Elise is getting the most praise, but it was nice ot see Janet get some shine because some of the other reviewers are saying that Janet (and Whoopi) are the weakest links.

i havent heard that at all

[hotboy06]

i havent heard that at all

I've seen somewhere where they don't even mention Janhova at all..

[Maxence]

Oh..I'm only here for Janhova..the lesser girls will get praise only after I continually praise Janhova..

[bzebabe]

I love Kimberly Elise...that bitch plays a battered, hurt, lonely, sad woman in every single movie lol

[SonofBaldwin]

i havent heard that at all

This is a kind of back-handed compliment from the New York Times:

http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/11/05/movies/05for.html?ref=movies&pagewanted=2

That might sound unbearable, but done right it’s thrilling — specific in its pain, universal in its reach — and Mr. Perry works very hard and gets it mostly right. He succeeds even when art seems to have taken a back seat to commercial choices, as in the casting of Janet Jackson, who plays Jo, a magazine editor cut along the same cool lines of Meryl Streep in “The Devil Wears Prada.” Ms. Jackson is, to put it gently, an actress of limited expression. But her quiet presence has force, partly because of her eerie resemblance to her brother Michael, though also because her character’s brittle hauteur, self-involved privilege and artificiality has — like the martyrs in ermine played by the likes of Lana Turner — its own weird truth.

Ms. Jackson’s marquee value, like that of Thandie Newton and Whoopi Goldberg, who play a warring mother and daughter, is doubtless its own justification. But the real draws in this version of “For Colored Girls” are the less familiar names, like Kimberly Elise, who plays Crystal, Jo’s beleaguered assistant.

[King Baby]

I've seen somewhere where they don't even mention Janhova at all..

Me too. I have heard Kimberly Elise and Loretta Divine as well are the show stealers, but sdome reviews also mention janet in high regard.

[King Baby]

I think Janet needs to do a few comedies and action films. All these dramas are not allowing her to grow. She's good but sometimes not natural, and that naturalness comes with doing a bunch of different types of roles.

[art]

This is the first review I've read that praised her All the other ones that mentioned her either talked about how she looked like MJ or her resemblance to a porcelain doll

Anyway, I know Janet has a lot of potential as an actress she just needs the right material. All these Tyler Perry melodramatic flicks won't make critics nor viewers take her seriously as an actress.

I hope she leaves these drama flicks behind and venture out and do action flicks. Seriously, who the fuck wants to see Janet Jackson play a successful magazine editor? I'd rather her play a poor woman or something out of the ordinary.

[SianGracious]

I love Kimberly Elise...that bitch plays a battered, hurt, lonely, sad woman in every single movie lol

:lol: That is why she played this role so well

[hotboy06]

This is a kind of back-handed compliment from the New York Times:

http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/11/05/movies/05for.html?ref=movies&pagewanted=2

That might sound unbearable, but done right it’s thrilling — specific in its pain, universal in its reach — and Mr. Perry works very hard and gets it mostly right. He succeeds even when art seems to have taken a back seat to commercial choices, as in the casting of Janet Jackson, who plays Jo, a magazine editor cut along the same cool lines of Meryl Streep in “The Devil Wears Prada.” Ms. Jackson is, to put it gently, an actress of limited expression. But her quiet presence has force, partly because of her eerie resemblance to her brother Michael, though also because her character’s brittle hauteur, self-involved privilege and artificiality has — like the martyrs in ermine played by the likes of Lana Turner — its own weird truth.

Ms. Jackson’s marquee value, like that of Thandie Newton and Whoopi Goldberg, who play a warring mother and daughter, is doubtless its own justification. But the real draws in this version of “For Colored Girls” are the less familiar names, like Kimberly Elise, who plays Crystal, Jo’s beleaguered assistant.

Now what does her resemblance to her BROTHER have anything to do with her acting.. OMG..they are fucking siblings! Of course they look alike..damn, all my brothers look like me in some way..geez, I get it all the time when I go home.. I can't even take them seriously..and how ironic that they compare her role to Meryl Streep when Meryl got an oscar nomination..

[SonofBaldwin]

Now what does her resemblance to her BROTHER have anything to do with her acting.. OMG..they are fucking siblings! Of course they look alike..damn, all my brothers look like me in some way..geez, I get it all the time when I go home.. I can't even take them seriously..and how ironic that they compare her role to Meryl Streep when Meryl got an oscar nomination..

That's what I'm talking about. It's like the critic thought Janet did a good job, but had to, somehow, qualify the compliment by insulting her.

[hotboy06]

That's what I'm talking about. It's like the critic thought Janet did a good job, but had to, somehow, qualify the compliment by insulting her.

I swear..just like on Larry King, Janet said that it's pros and cons for being a Jackson. This is one of them. Why can't he/she say that she did a good job and kept it moving..but somehow, her resemblance to her brother came up which had nothing to do with her performance. They don't wanna give Janhova her respect..

[J.]

Janet was very natural and effortless in this movie.

Loretta didn't steal any shine.

[SonofBaldwin]

Fuck. Now they are really coming for Janet:

http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/movies/colored_girls_blind_to_subtlety_VT4aDZX9c2zLg7d8WQH5sI

A scenery-chewing Whoopi Goldberg goes way over the top as the sisters' religious fanatic mother.

Even worse is the campy Janet Jackson as Crystal's boss, an icy magazine editor whose hunky hubby (Omari Hardwick) is sleeping with men on the down low -- because, it's implied, she's so emasculating.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/reviews/2010-11-05-Forcoloredgirls05_ST_N.htm

And speaking of distractions, Janet Jackson, in a leaden performance, sounds and looks eerily like her late brother, Michael. Her overly made-up appearance might as well be a Devil Wears Prada mannequin.

http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/movies/20101105__For_Colored_Girls___Story_of_women_recovering_from_abuse.html

About the Kabuki theatrics of Janet Jackson and the actorly histrionics of Whoopi Goldberg and Macy Gray, the less said the better.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/movies/for-colored-girls,1159977/critic-review.html

The film is not, however, without its bright spots. Given the at-times-ridiculous poetry the cast must utter - "My love is too Saturday night to have thrown back on my face" - the actresses all acquit themselves well enough. That includes Jackson, whose surgically enhanced face, though largely frozen, suits her imperious character.

Ugh. I hate that even when they're paying her a compliment, a diss is not far behind.

[Little Miss Strawberry]

This is why I can't take reviews seriosuly, wow she bears a resmeblance to Michael, they're brother and sister , why is that so shocking, and it seriouly has nothing to do with her performcae. and they need to do to some research on what high fashion clothes look like, and that comment about "surgically enhanced face" gtfo like Janet is the only fucking person in hollywood to plastic surgery and Janet didn't even go overboard, totally unsseccarilly.

[aed05]

Fuck. Now they are really coming for Janet:

http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/movies/colored_girls_blind_to_subtlety_VT4aDZX9c2zLg7d8WQH5sI

A scenery-chewing Whoopi Goldberg goes way over the top as the sisters' religious fanatic mother.

Even worse is the campy Janet Jackson as Crystal's boss, an icy magazine editor whose hunky hubby (Omari Hardwick) is sleeping with men on the down low -- because, it's implied, she's so emasculating.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/reviews/2010-11-05-Forcoloredgirls05_ST_N.htm

And speaking of distractions, Janet Jackson, in a leaden performance, sounds and looks eerily like her late brother, Michael. Her overly made-up appearance might as well be a Devil Wears Prada mannequin.

http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/movies/20101105__For_Colored_Girls___Story_of_women_recovering_from_abuse.html

About the Kabuki theatrics of Janet Jackson and the actorly histrionics of Whoopi Goldberg and Macy Gray, the less said the better.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/movies/for-colored-girls,1159977/critic-review.html

The film is not, however, without its bright spots. Given the at-times-ridiculous poetry the cast must utter - "My love is too Saturday night to have thrown back on my face" - the actresses all acquit themselves well enough. That includes Jackson, whose surgically enhanced face, though largely frozen, suits her imperious character.

Ugh. I hate that even when they're paying her a compliment, a diss is not far behind.

You should have stop at the "Salon" review.

Why bring down a positive thread with bad reviews.