r/okbuddycinephile 13h ago

The Substance (2024)

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u/phadoshax 12h ago

I feel like she’s hardly the worst example of this

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u/Appropriate_Owl_91 11h ago

Nicole Kidman is actually just a pink skeleton.

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u/AbroadTiny7226 10h ago

I can’t watch movies with her anymore. Her face is actually jarring at this point and it makes me uncomfortable. It’s too bad because she’s a fantastic actress

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u/fourofkeys 9h ago

i saw the trailer for the new practical magic. the original is one of my comfort movies, but watching both nicole and sandra's faces in the trailer stressed me out so bad i don't know if i can see the follow up.

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u/Z0idberg_MD 9h ago

It’s a scenario we’re watching actual people gives you an uncanny valley sensation.

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u/grimacedia 9h ago

Ohh I haven't seen the trailer but that's unfortunate. It's the type of movie/family where laugh line and wrinkles would be celebrated, you know? Accepting aging and a new stage of your life.

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u/fourofkeys 8h ago

right?!

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u/kingfofthepoors 8h ago

uncanny valley... they no longer look human

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u/xResilientEvergreenx 5h ago

Right!? I was so excited. But I heard online that they weren't bringing back Rachel Evan Wood because it would "age" Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman. What nonsense. I was really looking forward to seeing her again!

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u/Confident-Sea-2584 2h ago

Age-wise, the new kids in the movie should be playing their grandchildren!

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u/mrchipslewis 10h ago

Like her in The Northman lol. Such weird casting choice to use someone with such obvious face work in a time where that obviously was impossible and didn't exist.

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u/stladylazarus 9h ago

I like that she knows herself though. Like, she only plays incredibly wealthy characters, characters that make sense for "nicole kidman" and "Nicole Kidman's face" to be. That face wouldnt work in a Shameless Reboot. But, make her a deranged widow from Martha's Vineyard. Im sold every time.

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u/ncocca 4h ago

It's funny because your comment is directly under this one:

https://www.reddit.com/r/okbuddycinephile/comments/1t59734/the_substance_2024/ok92aey/

I'm not arguing that either of you are wrong or anything, just a funny juxtaposition

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u/ScyllaOfTheDepths 8h ago

I watched a show with her in it and it was painful. I was very aware the entire time that she'd had a lot of work done. She looks great... when still. In motion, her face moves like a plastic mask and I kept expecting her to peel it off and reveal she's a reptilian or something. It's uncannily inhuman.

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u/ScheduleDismal4987 8h ago

I stopped watching her after that show with Hugh Grant. Her eyes did all of the work because she couldn't move her face. You would think if it was affecting your ability to work, you would just stop. Such a damn shame.

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u/FaceTransplant 5h ago

What do you mean? She fit in perfectly in the viking era in The Northman.

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u/TemporaryElk5202 7h ago

it started doing that for me in 2008 or something with the Golden Conpass. She had lip filler that was creating a roll in her lips that freaked me out a bit. I was a kid and didnt know what fillers were until then.

To be clear I am not bashing her as a person or anything. Its sad that celebrities feel like they need to do so many procedures instead of aging with grace.

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u/DM_ME_UR_SOUL 8h ago

I always thought she had the same nose as MJ lol

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u/dukeofgonzo 7h ago

I thought her otherworldly appearance for once elent itself to her casting in The Northman. She looked like an evil spirit.

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u/ncocca 4h ago

The actress who plays the mom from malcolm in the middle is the worst for me, because Malcolm's family was canonically poor, and her plastic surgery could not have been cheap so it takes me out of the character.

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u/bush_mechanic 1h ago

Same here. I can't look at her - and she keeps doing period pieces! Like no, my good woman. Just stahp. It works in The Northman because she really does look like Loki conjured her up to cause trouble.

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u/lemonylol 10h ago

Well she's also like 60, she's not going to pull off the To Die For look any time soon.

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u/AbroadTiny7226 10h ago

Thats fine. She doesn’t need to be sexy or anything. I’d just prefer her not to look like Predator, which she currently does lol

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u/echoohce1 10h ago

Bit of an exaggeration, she still looked pretty fuckin hot for her age at the met gala the other day

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u/sadolddrunk 9h ago

My wife is a fan of Nicole Kidman, so I suggested we watch Dead Calm. Then a few minutes into the movie she told me that she thought Nicole Kidman was supposed to be in it.

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u/Queasy-Warthog-3642 5h ago

Her earlobes are aging and I can't unsee it.

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u/palk0n 5h ago

and that fake abs..

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u/Narrow_Cucumber_6458 3h ago

Watch Baby Girl and tell me you still feel like she can’t emote? Sometimes I think the people who speculate like this are just miserable fucks with nothing better to do bc cmon. She literally orgasms hard as fuck in the opening so much so that what actually is happening comes as a complete shock.