"Favourite Meryl Streep Film" Topic

Another year, another slew of awards for one of the finest actors of the last 40 years. But what's your favourite Streep movie ? Maybe this should be a favourite 5 poll, to whittle it down to a reasonable number for the final pick!

Julia

The Deer Hunter

Manhattan

The Seduction of Joe Tynan

Kramer vs. Kramer

The French Lieutenant's Woman

Still of the Night

Sophie's Choice

Silkwood

Falling in Love

Plenty

Out of Africa

Heartburn

Ironweed

A Cry in the Dark

She-Devil

Postcards from the Edge

Defending Your Life

Age 7 in America

Death Becomes Her

The House of the Spirits

The River Wild

The Living Sea

The Bridges of Madison County

Before and After

Marvin's Room

Dancing at Lughnasa

One True Thing

Music of the Heart

Ginevra's Story

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Adaptation.

The Hours

Stuck on You

For me ? The French Lieutenant's Woman, Out of Africa, The Bridges of Madison County : what can I say? I'm such a romantic.

Haven't yet seen – but want to Suffragette and Florence Foster Jenkins. What can I say ? I believe women should have the vote and be allowed to sing really badly.

None of them.

The Devil Wears Prada.

Julie and Julia.

Momma Mia.

None of them.

Hadn't thought we'd need that option – but ok!

Oh – I also want to grab Plenty. Great film.

Hadn't realised she's in The Homesman – that's sitting on the "to see" pile – but I was only aware of Tommy Lee Jones / Hilary Swank.

None of them.

Struggling for my fifth – The Deer hunter is very good of course…

Sophie's Choice. Partly that is due to Kevin Kline however.

Kramer vs Kramer – but only due to Saturday Night Live's "Kramer vs Godzilla"

Ghost Busters 3

The Deer Hunter for me, with Bridges of Madison County next. She's a great actress, but I haven't actually seen all that many of her movies, I'm ashamed to say!

Kramer vs. Kramer

Death Becomes Her

I've only seen the Deer Hunter, Sophie's Choice and A.I. and I don't think I watched A.I. the whole way through and didn't remember she was in it. I thought Deer Hunter was pretty terrible. So I guess Sophie's Choice. I haven't deliberately avoided her movies.

She's a great actress but usually I'm not interested in the films she makes. "The Deer Hunter" and "Sophie's Choice" are easily my favorites of the few I've seen.

Loved her in Julie and Julia and Postcards from the Edge.

Also was in the NBC 1970's TV miniseries "Holocaust" playing James Woods' wife.

The Devil wears Prada. Being a male nurse,I have worked for the Devil.

She always got on my nerves….not sure why though

I haven't seen enough of these to vote. I would like to see the new one though.

Julie and Julia
Devil Wears Prada
Iron Lady

None. Her movies never interested me. Kevin Bacon was good in The River Wild.

Funny so many don't seem to like her. I'd go so far to say she is the best American actress alive, and has been for some decades.

Having said that, I haven't seen the vast majority of her films (which might disqualify my input!). Of those I have, top pick would be Out of Africa – she was also great in Postcards from the Edge.

To be fair, I would not consider Julia to be a Meryl Streep film, but without it I wouldn´t have five. So:

Manhattan
The French Lieutenant´s Woman
Postcards from the Edge
Defending Your Life
Julia

I notice Mamma Mia is not on the list, and I thank you for that.

Mamma Mia!
YouTube link

Looking at that list I realized I have only seen a couple of those films.

But the only 2 I have cared to watch more than once were:
The Deer Hunter
It's Complicated (which was not on the list, but a very funny comedy.)

But wanting to watch either had nothing to do with her being in it. I think both films would have been just as good with someone else playing her role. She just happened to be in them.

I used to really like her. But now all I can think of when I see her in film is the image (and sound) of her creepy comments at a certain convention, and that is enough to cancel out all those years of admiration.

Dan

She always got on my nerves….not sure why though

Ditto here, but Momma Mia! was good.

Surely this was posted today because of her rude and nasty comments last night at the golden globes awards?? No doubt looking for some poor soul to express openly what a horrid person she truly is?? Well it won't be me…..

I would not watch any film because of her. She reminds me of my mother-in-law…

skipper John nailed it.

After looking over that list of films I'd have to say I'm not a fan of her work. So I'd have to say none of the above.

Don't really care what her political leanings are. I'm not influenced by any Hollywood types.

Skipper John, I hadn't even heard about last night. She must be starving for attention. :)

Dan

She is an excellent actress who appears in movies I do not care for (except The Deer Hunter)who has political opinions I tend to ignore.

Although I liked The Devil Wears Prada and Momma Mia, the vast majority of those moves I have never seen. Hated the film Iron Lady.

Reviewed the list. May have seen a few on TV. Not interested in seeing any of them again. No box office draw for me regardless of political leaning.

Surely this was posted today because of her rude and nasty comments last night at the golden globes awards?? No doubt looking for some poor soul to express openly what a horrid person she truly is?? Well it won't be me…..

I see what you did there. You may not have liked it, but her commentary was far above the rude and nasty comments that are the modus operandi of the subject of her speech.

After all we are now in an era when anyone and everyone can spew 140 characters of baseless nonsense at whomever they desire. The stripping away of any sense of decorum starts at the top and flows downhill.

It's Complicated is my favourite, followed by The Devil Wears Prada.
Her politics are not my concern, she is an actress and a good one.

…its a trap!

I have seen most of these films and have thought she was outstanding in them. Her politics are not mine and I wish she, and her colleagues would keep them to themselves. The sad thing is that there was some truth in her diatribe.

You're being presumptuous in assuming there is one.

There's not.

Mamma Mia!

Redmist1122: "… it's a trap!"

You almost made spit out my coffee!

Dan

I notice Mamma Mia is not on the list,

I just grabbed the list from Wikipedia (other universal encyclopedias are not available ), so not sure why it isn't there.

I'm not a fan of her singing & comedy roles – I think she's better than that in serious roles and lots of other people are better at singing.

Her quavering, ill-spoken rant- while accepting her Cecil B. DeMille Award, no less- put me off her for good. Hollywood is full of imbeciles who don't understand that there is a time and a place for everything. Or maybe they just don't give a rat's ass.

If I wanted to make such opinions known, accepting an award on (inter)national TV would be far and away my best opportunity. But Meryl Streep can stand out on her lawn at any time of the day or night and tell the world what's on her little mind, and everyone would hear, anyway. But why not ruin the moment and sully the honor?

In answer to the OP, "Death Becomes Her". Though I doubt she had to reach too deep for that one.

Interesting. Death Becomes Her was the first Streep film I came out of really disappointed in her performance.

Florence Foster Jenkins

I had a somewhat well known boss when I lived in Boston who was hiring a personal assistant and asked me and our office manager to make sure that every candidate watched the Devil Wears Prada as an example of what they could expect from the job and what his management style was. He wasn't trying to be funny or ironic. Somehow, we still found someone to take the job.

Florence Foster Jenkins

That does look good – I know she sings….but it's a bit…different

Interesting. Death Becomes Her was the first Streep film I came out of really disappointed in her performance.

Maybe so. It's been a really long time. I just really liked the movie.

Not saying you're wrong to like it – just chatting!

I love "A.I." but don't remember Streep being in it. She must be doing voice-over work; maybe the Blue Fairy?

That would my only pick, then, sad to say. None of the movies I've seen that she's in really grab me, and most of them I haven't seen at all and am not interested in.