Worst/Best Julia Roberts movie?

I'd say Mystic Pizza was her best role - a very enjoyable film, to boot. I found her excessively annoying in Erin Brockovich.

Best/worst Julia Roberts movie or performance?

I liked Steel Magnolias because she died.

I thought it was implicit a movie starring her had a lot to do with her performance, but silly me.

I havent flocked to enough of her movies to make much of a comparison. I liked her okay in Brockovich and was surprised how good I thought she was in The Normal Heart. I think she's best at light comedy like My Best Friend's Wedding. What she sucked in doesn't dstand out for me. But I never hated her or disdained her as an actor, just like I never have with Paltrow, who I also think is perfectly fine in movies and tv stuff.

Worst: Pretty Woman. Best:

Worst: Eat, Shit, Love

Best: ,My Best Friend's Wedding

Well, I did enjoy her climbing across the dining room table and attacking Meryl Streep in August: Osage County.

The only movie she was “good” in was My Best Friend’s Wedding and that was because she was allowed to fully cunt out.

The rest is corny mainstream sludge where her giant mouth distracts me from the goings on. Steel Magnolias has camp value, and The Pelican Brief has hot daddy Sam Shepard (well so did Magnolias but Pelican Brief isn’t camp fun, it’s a boring 90s legal thriller).

Forget playing Martha Mitchell. Roberts was born to play Martha Raye!

Worst: Mary! Reilly, Best: Sleeping With The Enemy

Mary! Reilly I knew enough to avoid, just based on how she looked in it. What was she in that, a scullery maid or something? No thanks. Dreary Julia was always worse than bubbly Julia.

I like Julia she's good at what she does, the only thing I can recall seeing her in where I questioned her casting was Michael Collins, but the part was a nothing part and her Irish accent was dubious.

Hook was her worst performance. So bad are my memories of it that I can't offer a best.

Best: Pretty Woman

Worst: I Love Trouble (although it’s almost a ten way tie with many of her other films)

Her presence in Michael Collins probably was a necessity to get financing. Thankfully, she didn't detract from anything else.

I don't how many bad Roberts performances are out there, but you bitches seem to have seen them all!

They were busy going to Julia Roberts movies in the 90s.

'Scuse me while I go off on Mystic Pizza.

Shoulda called it Cringey Mystic Pizza and it could've been a better movie without the usual Hollywood silent lecturing through the script of how they think we should all act. Endlessly pushing their agenda's ' just have sex don't get married' because that's what they do and it makes them feel like shit if anyone out there is sweet and innocent. Or their idea of a rich kid whose parents are a movie cliche now by having 'establishment' parents with racial prejudices. They still live in the sixties Norman Lear days. Or the girl so afraid of commitment she is terrified of marriage, fainting at her wedding refusing to marry her bf but wants to go on having sex with him. Yeah there's a lot of girls out there like that/not.

Then there was the scene where Julia Roberts gets mad over a misconception and ruins a beautiful expensive convertible by dumping fish in it, but the guy doesn't care because 'he loves her so much'. Hollywood trying to make out like they can give a nod to love, only this is so ridiculous it's not believable. That would end it right there and we all know it. This girl has an anger and a behavioral problem.

The actors were better than the writers in this movie and Tim Suhrstedt, the Cinematographer, director of photography was the real artist in all that mess of a plot because the photography in this movie sells it. If Julia Robert's could be good in something the writers made sure this wasn't it. Her character, like the others, is not real.

But then Julia Roberts never seems different to me in any movie anyway. Like R8 ' her giant mouth distracts me from the goings on'. I thought I was the only one who thought that. Am glad to see I'm not.

if you said ANYTHING but that fucking Ocean's sequel where she plays Tess as a Julia Roberts lookalike who for Danny's con has to pretend to be herself (the real Julia) to meet Julia's dear old industry friend pre-dementia Bruce Willis? then just. just fuck you. it's the most cynical empty in-joke moment included in 2000s mainstream film

The character who has a fit and ruins a car is a feisty latin type from the wrong side of the tracks. Terrible movie almost as shitty as Pretty Woman and Sleeping with a closet case.

She was at her best in Mystic Pizza. She should have quit acting then and gone out on top.

I loved her in Sleeping with the Enemy.

Some of her best: Pretty Woman, Mystic Pizza, Steel Magnolias, My Best Friend's Wedding, Erin Brockovich, Sleeping with the Enemy, The Normal Heart, August Osage County, Mona Lisa Smile.

Undeniably her worst: Mary Reilly, I Love Trouble, The Mexican, Runaway Bride (who jilts an in-his-prime Chris Meloni at the altar...and for an elder Richard Gere?!), Conspiracy Theory, Ready to Wear/Pret a Porter, The Pelican Brief, Notting Hill (wayyy too autobiographical).

Are we going to talk about.Julia’s ratty Korean wig in “Homecoming”?

Mary Reilly is her only good film. Deglamorized, actually having to rely on her acting instead of her full head of hair and even fuller teeth. Strong script, impeccable cast and direction. Weird and dark. Not for mindless dead eyed popcorn munchers. Her only film for adults. The rest are the worst. Pretty Woman on the bottom. THAT film is depressing.

I thought she was great in both Mystic Pizza and Sleeping with the Enemy. The big hair, the smile, the charisma. She was actually really likable in these movies. She was the reason people went to see Sleeping with the Enemy in addition to it being an effective thriller. It was and still remains very rare to have a female star be the main draw of a film.

The Worst: Ocean's 11. She's just so drag and bitchy in the role. It's such a stellar cast and she looks miserable. By 2000, after winning her Oscar and fully embracing her inner "A Low Vera" cunt, she pretty much gave it up although she was excellent in that movie where Meryl tried to eat everything and everyone on screen.

R25 agree with this list , except I’d swap Sleeping with the Enemy (which was awful and she was awful in ) for Closer.

She's only good in comedies. She's absolutely awful in dramas--all she does is yell.

Any movie where she cackles or flares her nostrils is her worst

Best: My Best Friend's Wedding. There are other films/performances of hers I like, but nothing comes close to this movie. And, yes, I think her performance is enhanced by, ahem, how little acting she had to do.

Worst: Mary Reilly & I Love Trouble. There are other bad ones, but these two were pretty awful.

I absolutely love that scene she had with Sam Rockwell in the seriously underrated Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. Great movie, very clever scene. Oh and she was great in it as a spy, as was Sam Rockwell of course, who played Chuck Barris.

Worst: Pretty Woman. Not for the passable performances but the subject matter and plot is repulsive. And the overall message: Be a whore and get your prince charming!

Best - August: Osage County Worst - America's Sweetheart

Best : Can't choose. So many iconic and legendary performances to choose from.

Worst : I don't there's a worst. But if I were to do the ranking I'd put The Player at the bottom only because her role was a cameo and we couldn't see much of her in the movie which is sad.

Ha! I was about to suggest The Player's film-within-film Habeas Corpus (co-starring Bruce Willis and Susan Sarandon) as her best. When we see that Richard E. Grant has totally sold out and compromised on what he had claimed was so dear to him (no stars, a bleak ending), it's a great punch line. "What took you so long?" "Traffic was a bitch."

Looking at Adam Stork was the only good thing about Mystic Pizza.

R32 She always makes me think of Pauline Kael's comments about the way Ali MacGraw and Candice Bergen seemed to come from the Natalie Wood school of acting through nostril flares. She's really no different than MacGraw or pre-comedy Bergen.

I lost my virginity while watching a vhs rental of Mystic Pizza

An excerpt from Roger Ebert’s review of Mystic Pizza from October 1988.

I have a feeling that “Mystic Pizza” may someday become known for the movie stars it showcased back before they became stars. All of the young actors in this movie have genuine gifts. Roberts is a major beauty with a fierce energy. Gish projects intelligence and stubbornness like a young Katharine Hepburn. And Taylor, who is given what’s intended as a more comic role, finds human comedy in her ongoing problems with the earnest and chaste Bill.

I really love Mystic Pizza, it's really charming in spots despite the corny "girl from the wrong side of the tracks vs hot rich ivy league guy" mediocrity. It was actually a great role for Annabeth Gish and the aforementioned Moses. What happened to that guy? He was a pretty good actor.

I really liked "Mystic Pizza," but that's because her character is with Adam Storke! It was a great ensemble cast.

"Sleeping With the Enemy" is noteworthy for one scene, and you know which one I mean. Julia is very good in this somewhat unrealistic look at domestic violence, or at escaping it, anyway.

The reveal and the moment she realizes she herself drank the poison is just pure gold. Both Rockwell and JR are great in that scene. George Clooney never made a movie this good.

Here is another great scene from Confessions of a Dangerous Mind where Clooney as a CIA agent is trying to recruit Rockwell as Barris to work for hem. Rockwell at least should have gotten an Oscar nomination out of it, he's freaking brilliant in that scene

I wish there were some way to find out, r44.

Osage County had awful, screen-chewing performances from everybody. She fit right in.

I found her big smile and hair most irresistible in "The Harriet Tubman Story."

I like her best in Best Friend’s Wedding, Closer and, yes, Mary Reilly (r27, i thought i was alone for n having liked that movie).

I dont much like her persona and movies as America Sweetheart, it is a type of movie I generally dislike, not her in particular who gives serviceable performances. I do find it risible that the mindless Pretty Woman is deemed almost a classic.

I think overall she is a good actress, but in no way she stretches herself or does any kind of daring or interesting choices. Is it that she is insecure or simply is not much interested or interesting? No idea.

I never got this push for her as a “great beauty” she’s average looking with big teeth and hair.

I was like Anabeth Gish’s character - Kat in Mystic Pizza. I had an illicit affair with a hot looking married guy in his 30s. I also projected myself into his life while his wife was unaware of our hot love. He told me he loved me so deep he would be crushed if I ever decided to break up with him. Which I did after his wife found out about us and threw a fit. I didn’t want to deal with the aftermath of that. So I left.

Looking at the OP poster, it's hard for me to realize that Vincent D'Onofrio was ever a young handsome guy in a romantic part.

Looks like “Erin Brockovich” isn’t getting much love. I thought she was good in that one and in “Sleeping With the Enemy.”

She was a downer or as another poster said, “playing herself” in “Notting Hill.” Didn’t care much for the film but I can’t stand Hugh Grant.

I’d say the worst for her and Tom Hanks is Larry Crowne. What a bad movie.

No love for Satisfaction?

Justine Bateman sang her little heart out in that.

The original script for Pretty Woman was much darker. It was supposed to end with him throwing her out of the car and throwing the $3000.00 at her. The last scene was to be her and her friend kit going to Disneyland with the $3000.00. Disney changed the ending because they wanted a happy ending. The original ending would have been more realistic. Rich guys don't generally marry streetwalkers.

[quote] Yum. Billy Moses.

He was really hot. Too bad his career never went anywhere after that.

Speech fore youself! RFifteeAte

Closer is her best performance and most challenging. I remember reading Clive Owen saying something like he was nervous because it was Julia Roberts but then that she was good it threw him off. He said he didn't expect her to be so good and prepared. She's a cunt but she's very professional. Always knows her lines and motivation.

No one mentioned Notting Hill?

Was Billy Moses a regular in a nighttime soap opera?

[quote] Was Billy Moses a regular in a nighttime soap opera?

Falcon Crest. A look at his IMDb shows he’s been working constantly since then but nothing big happened for him.

I think Julia's worst role was playing the "dull sister" to Catharine Zeta Jones (???) in that stupid movie about working in the film industry or whatever the hell that was. She looked nothing like CZJ and was obviously trying to do that annoying thing of faking being a "plain Jane".

Her best was probably Pretty Woman. She elevated the hell out of a nothing part. Great hair, great energy and just fun.

Moses was also was on Melrose Place in the first season and beginning of the second. He was Alison's love interest/stalker.

R45 Which Sleeping With The Enemy scene do you mean?

I always think of the one where Julia notices the towels rearranged and the kitchen cabinets organised and knows that OCD rage case Patrick Bergen is back

R68, Bingo! The kitchen cabinets!

R2 Lol. I also love Sleeping With The Enemy, partly because she gets the shit kicked out of her. It's a family favorite.

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