.Every time I post anything about John Carpenter's next movie
The Ward and its star Amber Heard, I get what feels like this earth-shattering round of boos. Boo on
Amber Heard you say! Boo! She oughta be strung up and skinned alive for our deranged amusement!
Well I say boo on you. Boo on you!
Alright, so I don't exactly
adore Heard. I thought the buzz on
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane turned out to be a little overdone once I actually saw the film - I never got around to properly reviewing it, but it's never actually been properly released yet anyway and I don't feel properly enthusiastic enough to bother. But while I liked the final act I found the acts leading up to it relentlessly dull. None of this was really Heard's fault, mind you. She was inoffensive, sure maybe kinda dull, but I've seen much worse. Then there was her tiny tiny bit in
Zombieland, which I found very funny, and she went for it with extreme gusto, so a point in her favor. Then there was
The Stepfather,
a movie which I hated, but somehow I never much commented upon the fact that even though it was her character's addition to the plot that messed up that whole daddy-son dream-scape I was hoping for, somehow her character was the only one I found appealing at all on any level. (ETA I did talk about it a little bit
here). Anyway I kinda liked her in the film. Besides Penn Badgley's torso, she was all there was worth liking therein.
Anyway! Another new picture of Miss Heard from Carpenter's
The Ward has appeared, is my point. (
via)
I just thought I should get all that defense-of-her outta my system before showing you that picture, in which she has The World's Dumbest Look plastered across her face. My work is done!
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