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I love Judy Garland, and I haven’t seen the movie, not because I don’t think Renee didn’t do a great job, it’s because she sang the songs. I don’t want to hear anyone’s singing voice other than Judy’s in a movie about her life. You can’t train for it, you can mimic, but it’ll never be her and that fact annoys me. I can imagine that it would annoy Liza too.
That was my problem with Rocket Man. It was a great film and Taron Egerton was wonderful, but he’s not Elton.
Renee did NOT do a great job. She employed her usual cutesy Renee mannerisms-squinty eyes, scrunched face, pursed lips. None of that applied to Judy Garland. I’m old enough to have seen plenty of Judy in her 50s/60s tv appearances as well as having seen all her 40s/50s musicals. RZ’s portrayal missed by a mile. Skip it.
Thanks for the warning!
That whole squint eyes, pursed-up lips and face things she did……ugggghhhhhj
Actually the vibe I got was Judy Garland doing an imitation of Reenee. 🤷♀️
They should have done what they did with the Patsy Cline biopic years ago: use Judy’s actual voice. It can’t be matched.
I watched Judy, and do not understand why Renee got acting nominations for either squinting her eyes and/or opening them really wide, IMO that’s all she does, trying really hard to mimic Garland
The Academy really likes Renee. They nominate her every time they have the chance. I didn’t like her portrayal at all. All I saw was Renee in Halloween drag. Liza wasn’t a fan of any of it either. I loved Michael K’s Dish on just how much a diva Liza was about it.
I agree. She’s got that squinting down to a science. Me personally, I question her acting abilities.
I disagree with all of you. I think Renee did an amazing job. And, yes, I too am old enough to have watched many live Judy Garland performances and interviews. I did see the film and I hink she got the essence of Judy and the issues she was dealing with at that time in her life down pat. Renee herself says that she deliberately did not try to copy Judy’s singing. She tried to capture the emotional moment and I think she got it. I used to love Liza. Maybe it’s all the drugs or all the joint pain, but she is snarky as hell anymore; especially if the focus is not all on her.
See, here’s the thing with the singing-that’s the main appeal as Judy Garland was a one of a kind who was amazingly accomplished with the gift of her voice. Don’t bother trying to capture the “moment” just play Judy’s recording because it was a force of nature and anything less is a let down.
I really liked it,and I’m 50/50 on Renee.
I don’t know if she did well as much as to say she told the story well,and captured something-pain,hardship,addiction.I said before on here that I really only remember Judy from wizard of oz reruns,so I’m not really entitled to much say,but I enjoyed the telling of this story as done by Renee,and my 17 year old daughter watched it with me…twice,and we looked up Judy Garland after the movie and really loved what we learned,so maybe the movie had its positives??
Is that supposed to be Liza on the cover because, holy hell, that’s some over-the-top photoshop. I haven’t seen the film yet so I can’t speak on Renee’s performance, but I imagine Liza would have a hard time with it regardless of who was portraying her mother since it revolves around such a difficult period in her life. From what I’ve read it’s not exactly a sunny trip down memory lane.
Yes to both points – why would she be excited about a movie picturing her mother’s tragic life and pain? And holy photoshop.
Photoshop?Lol,I thought it was a picture from many many years ago..
I seriously thought it was a completely different person and wondered why they had a young Lena-Dunham-look-alike posing on the cover of the magazine when the lead article is about Liza..
Then I had to stare at the magazine for a solid minute, re-read the byline for mention of any other actress, and then stare at the photo a little more before I finally landed on the conclusion that this was a photoshopped Liza Minelli. I can’t believe they gave her the skin of a 17-year-old. I guess it was her provision for the interview?
I came here to say the same: Who the hell is that?
Liza was so mad about the bad Zellweger imitation movie that she had Jane Krakowski do a bad imitation interview and photo shoot on her behalf.
Haha haha…..I feel evil laughing but I scrolled back up and…laughter. Very good.
I know I’ve said this before but honestly I am just so sick and tired of people winning Oscars for imitating other people, particularly dead people. That’s just not acting. It’s mimicry. There is just so much footage available of those people to study and mimic. Give out separate awards then for Best Imitation. 😡
Interesting thought. And I, too, thought Renee was imitating rather than acting.
The main reason these movies win so many awards is because of nostalgia. Everyone wants to relive their past, and the easiest way to do that is by rehashing the old pop culture that we all enjoyed from our youth.
RZ’s interpretation of Judy was awful and her singing was an embarrassment. The script was filled with ridiculous myths and lies. The casting of Liza and Lorna was ridiculous.
See Lorna’s miniseries about her mother, ME & MY SHADOWS. Superb.
Judy plaid brilliantly by Tammy Blanchard (girl) and Judy Davis (adult) — with Ms Garland singing.
It’s genius.
Mom knew Judy Garland personally all the way back to the Andy Hardy movies in1938 way before I was born.
I feel for Liza, Joey and Lorna .
Renee Z can try as hard as she can, but sorry, she doesn’t have the talent required.
Hollywood has no appreciable ability to bring any of those legends back either.
That Hollywood is dead and buried. Sorry.
Why would Liza Minnelli be happy with the way this movie portrayed the mother that she knew and loved and had plenty of years and experience with? She knows, better than anyone, better than any script writer and biographer and anyone else, what Judy Garland was like. I imagine that it’s terribly difficult for her to square away the portrayal of her mother on screen in a movie like this, especially because it depicts the lowest moments in her mother’s life, and she has witnessed them first hand. To see someone else’s sensationalized interpretation of it all, especially as a means of Oscar fodder, must be quite difficult.
I don’t think Liza’s comments were shady at all. She denied some rumors that she had anything to do with the film, and she “hoped [Zellweger] had fun making it.” As far as I can tell, any shade is implied, not directly stated.