Love or Loathe No. 14: Julia Roberts in Erin Brockovich

[Sab227]

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Welcome back to another round of Love or loathe. This time we have Julia Robert’s and her iconic Performance as Erin Brockovich. I know she gets a lot of hate for this win, but I dont understand why. She is entertaining and magnetic as Erin and she completely deserved her Oscar win. I can also appreciate Ellen Burstyns heartbreaking performance in Requiem for a Dream, but I still prefer Robert’s as the winner that year. What do you all think?

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[kaziz Joined: Nov 10th, 2011 Topics: 1 Posts: 463 View Predictions]

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Somewhere in the middle: good, not the best. Roberts has done far better work on comedies. That Pretty Woman performance is iconic. I loved her in August: Osage County (controversial, I know). Wonderful in Stepmom (as were Susan Sarandon and Jena Malone, underrated movie). Erin Brockovich was a VERY baity role for someone who the industry wanted to reward at that time. It’s not as bad as Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side, but it’s not exactly Natalie Portman in Black Swan either.

Whenever I think of these won-because-“overdue” wins, I’m reminded of the hate for Julianne Moore’s win. Sure, she shoulda won for either The Hours or Far From Heaven, but I actually LOVE her win for Still Alice because she was…excellent in it. I really love that performance of hers.

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[Sab227 Joined: Dec 29th, 2012 Topics: 35 Posts: 214 View Predictions]

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I love her performance in August: Osage County as well.

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[estrelas Joined: Jul 25th, 2018 Topics: 1 Posts: 3088 View Predictions]

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I don’t love it but I also don’t hate it. It’s a good performance. But it was definitely a ‘it’s her time’ type of win, not to mention she was, by far, one of the biggest movie stars on the planet at the time. It definitely didn’t age well and considering the competition that year, Julia was far from win worthy. Ellen Burstyn was obviously robbed and should’ve won.

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[Foolio Joined: Jan 24th, 2017 Topics: 0 Posts: 338 View Predictions]

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I love J-Rob in anything. She’s a severely underrated actor.

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[SN Joined: Dec 7th, 2014 Topics: 3 Posts: 2726 View Predictions]

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It was a very good film and she was great. People dislike her win because Burstyn was more deserving.

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[ClairesCrown Joined: Jan 18th, 2021 Topics: 0 Posts: 261 View Predictions]

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Loved this performance, so many Oscar worthy scenes. Sure Burstyn may have been more deserving, but it’s Oscar worthy despite that.

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[gabspss Joined: Sep 10th, 2018 Topics: 105 Posts: 1374 View Predictions]

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Absolutely love it!

I do agree Ellen Burstyn deserved to win in ’00, but Julia was still fantastic and very committed in Erin Brockovich.

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[Atypical Joined: Dec 1st, 2011 Topics: 38 Posts: 3128 View Predictions]

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LOVE. This was Julia’s “shining moment” performance.

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[bicak Joined: Apr 24th, 2021 Topics: 0 Posts: 60 View Predictions]

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kaziz wrote:

Whenever I think of these won-because-“overdue” wins, I’m reminded of the hate for Julianne Moore’s win. Sure, she shoulda won for either The Hours or Far From Heaven, but I actually LOVE her win for Still Alice because she was…excellent in it. I really love that performance of hers.

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[ArtIsntEasy Joined: Dec 17th, 2011 Topics: 1 Posts: 412 View Predictions]

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I seem to fall under the “Good but not great” column. This was certainly far more worthy than Sandra Bullock’s win but I agree that Burstyn was robbed and I wish that Bjork would’ve gotten nominated for DANCER IN THE DARK.

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[String Cheese Theory Joined: Aug 16th, 2020 Topics: 4 Posts: 618 View Predictions]

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Hate. Peak superficial Hollywood nothing.

Also it’s spelled loathe.

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[iWantTheGold Joined: Feb 26th, 2016 Topics: 0 Posts: 138 View Predictions]

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It’s a good star role. Was also nice to see her get back to her foul-mouthed, psuedo-bad girl roots. This was Hollywood recognizing all of the money she made them – which is fine.

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[Vicki Leekx Joined: Aug 3rd, 2019 Topics: 2 Posts: 478 View Predictions]

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She and Finney were electric together, I actually like this win, but also think Björk was robbed.

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Sophia Loren, Abril Zamora, The Life Ahead (Actress, Supporting Actress)
Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman (Actress)

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[Diamond Tier Joined: Aug 14th, 2020 Topics: 0 Posts: 853 View Predictions]

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Love. I personally would’ve voted for Burstyn but Roberts deserves her Oscar.

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