I can see Cher being a good inspiration for a new take on Catwoman, but as far as actually being a good casting choice…I can’t really see it. I have a feeling it would wind up in a Storm circa X3 style disaster.
This is the worst idea ever.
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This is the worst idea ever.
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It’s worse than Hitler!
Hitler was a person, not an idea.
This is the worst casting idea for a movie ever.
Cher is the new poster-woman for plastic surgery face after Joan Rivers. With the closeups required to show her, she wouldn’t be expressive enough for Catwoman. Maybe they can get Helen Mirren.
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There’s doubt regarding Cher’s acting ability? I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything with her in it, but didn’t she, like, win an Oscar?
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Um so did Halley Berry and we all saw how that Academy Award winning Catwoman played out.
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Hitler was a person, not an idea.
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Can’t he be both, like the late Earl Warren?
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Um so did Halle Berry and we all saw how that Academy Award winning Catwoman played out.
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Too true. And yet… this intrigues me. I don’t think it’s going to happen, but it’s certainly more interesting than just taking the ‘easy’ way out and casting, say, Angelina Jolie or someone similar.
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Cher as Catwoman? Could work if they emphasize her age in a liason with Robin in which she steals Robin away form a much younger woman. (What can I say, I find older women hot.)
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Then the obvious jokes would be made about a cougar playing catwoman.
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Um so did Halley Berry and we all saw how that Academy Award winning Catwoman played out.
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Well, yeah, but that movie wasn’t bad because of Halle Berry. She did what she could with what she had to work with.
Patently absurd. Assuming they were going that direction with the character, why would they go with Cher when Angelica Huston is still alive?
If a mature, cougar-style Catwoman is being considered, an interesting choice would be Sean Young, who lobbied Tim Burton for the role in the '90s (unsuccessfully). Sean still looks great, and she’s got enthusiasm aplenty.
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Sean still looks great, and she’s got enthusiasm aplenty.
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But I don’t think anybody likes her.
And Johnny Depp as The Riddler? Cue bat-suit nipples.
Say what you will about Halle Berry as Catwoman, but at least the broad had the class to pick up her Razzies. . . in person!!
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Which doesn’t alter the fact that she can’t act her way out of a wet paper bag.
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I disagree. I thought she was excellent in Moonstruck (the role that won her the Oscar), Silkwood and Mask, and I quite liked her in The Witches of Eastwick and Mermaids (which was 10-year old Christina Ricci’s first film, adorable as Cher’s daughter). I haven’t seen her other movies. But yeah, she’s been out of the game for a long long time, which while I think is a shame because I do like her screen presence, I don’t know that I’d want to see her as Catwoman. Interesting idea though.
Total hijack, but speaking of Cher, we went to a show the other night to see a singer named Tara Jane O’Neill. She started her emoish set with a dark, stripped-down, ballad-like cover of “Believe.” My husband recognized the song before I did and started laughing with delight. Not that he’s into Cher’s music, but just that someone would cover it in such a way as to make it sound like a valid ballad.
Okay, so we need a 50+ y.o. actress who can kick ass, whose presence will not piss off the fanboys, who can actually act, and is not Cher.
How 'bout Sigourney Weaver? I think she’d be perfect.
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Cher is the new poster-woman for plastic surgery face after Joan Rivers. With the closeups required to show her, she wouldn’t be expressive enough for Catwoman. Maybe they can get Helen Mirren.
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Have you seen the photo of Helen in the red two-piece bathing suit? WOW!
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She was great in “The Witches of Eastwick,” I thought.
But wasn’t there also speculation (either by a doper or by some news source, I forget which) about Anette Benning also doing it, as crazy cat lady, instead of sex kitten?
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Cher was great in WoE and that was HOW LONG AGO?
The Annette Benning idea was floated by a Doper. I like it, but Annette is also a lot better looking than Cher, and isn’t a self-parody.
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She was generally praised for her performance in 1999’s “Tea With Mussolini”.
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And to go 3 for 3, so how did Cher do as Mussolini?
Thank ya folks! I’ll be here all week!
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So, how far would you have to turn back time to make Cher = Catwoman a good idea?
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I hate you right now.
All day…it’s going to be stuck in my head all day, I just know it…