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She acts age inappropriate

posted 9 years ago by movieliker1
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Everything I see her in, she acts like a silly young girl. That juvenile squeal she alway uses is something a young girl might do but, she is too old to be acting like that. It is not cute. It is age inappropriate.

She is always playing a love struck little girl. I have never seen her play a mature woman. In contrast, Reese Witherspoon, who is approximately ten years younger, has played older, more mature women. For example, Four Christmases, a stupid movie, Witherspoon plays a single woman who is getting tired of being single. She comes across as much more mature, wise, introspective and serious than anything I have ever seen Parker ever play.

[–] MycroftHolmes 9 years ago

Name a film where she acts this way. I don't think you've seen her in anything in a while.

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[–] movieliker1 9 years ago

I just saw her in New Year's Eve.

I don't claim to have seen everything she has ever done, but, whenever I do see her, she is always playing the same character she played in Sex in the City.

[–] MycroftHolmes 9 years ago

Have you seen Smart People? Spinning Into Butter? The Family Stone? Did You Hear About The Morgan's? She's really nothing like her SITC character in those. The problem with actor's from popular tv shows is that people have such preconceived notions of them that they can't get that out of their heads when they watch them in other things so they imagine they are seeing them acting the same way even though they really aren't.

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[–] movieliker1 9 years ago

I just saw The Family Stone. First of all, it was a terrible movie. Secondly, I thought I was watching Carrie Bradshaw spending Christmas with a liberal nightmare family somewhere in the Northeast.

She plays the same character in everything I see her in --- a silly, love-struck little girl.

[–] MycroftHolmes 9 years ago

That's really silly. Those two characters are nothing alike. I guess you just can't look at her objectively. A lot of people are like that with TV actors. They get their TV character locked in their heads and can't see anything else even when the role is clearly different, as this example was.

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[–] movieliker1 9 years ago

I was never a big Sex in the City fan. I never watched that show regularly. I just saw a few episodes here and there. I don't see how I could get her TV character locked in my head. I have never seen Sarah Jessica Parker in a lot of things. But whenever I do, she always seems to be playing the same character --- silly, love-struck little girl.

[–] MycroftHolmes 9 years ago

Then you may have Asperger's Syndrome.

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[–] movieliker1 9 years ago

If I have Asperger's Syndrome how can I see the difference between the characters Reese Witherspoon, Meryl Streep and Kate Winslet play, but all of Sarah Jessica Parker's characters seem the same?

No, it may be Sarah Jessica Parker just doesn't have any range.