14 thoughts on “Jessica Chastain Movies”

1. I rated Steve’s Jessica Chastain 98% for my personal satisfaction; and The Work Horse and Steve agree on 5 of Jessica’s Top 6 best reviewed movies. Steve includes The Help in his 6 whereas instead WH goes for Coriolanus. Best STILLS in Steve’s video are for me-

   1/Texas Killing Fields
   2/Dark Phoenix
   3/The Huntsman
   4/Salome

   5/
   “Eleanor Rigby. Picks up the rice in a church where a wedding has been.
   Father McKenzie. Writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear. Ah look at all the lonely people.”

   6/Zookeeper’s Wife
   7/The Debt
   8/Miss Sloane
   9/Lawless
   10/Coriolanus
   11/Tree of life
   12/The Help
   13/The Martian
   14/Mama
   15/Crimson Peak
   16/Zero Dark 30

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2. The best POSTERS in Steve’s video my opinion are:

   1/first one for Miss Julie
   2/Stolen
   3/first one for The Huntsman
   4/Salome
   5/Mama
   6/Crimson Peak
   7/The Debt
   8/two for Miss Sloane
   9/IT 2
   10/Madagascar 3
   11/two for Lawless
   12/two for Most Violent Year
   13/foreign langue one for Molly’s Game
   14/Tree of Life
   15/two for Take Shelter
   16/two for Interstellar
   17/foreign language one for Zero Dark 30
   18/two excellent ones for Dark Phoenix.

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3. 1/Jessica Chastain’s name is one that I have heard bandied about but I have seen none of her movies and my only on-screen familiarity with her comes from a Murder on the Orient Express feature-length episode in 2010 of the Hercule Poirot TV series starring David Suchet.

   2/The Poirot feature is one of 11 television productions that Jessica made 2004-2018.

   3/From 1998-2017 she appeared in 7 stage plays four of which are recognised classics: Othello; The Heiress; The Cherry Orchard; and Romeo and Juliet.

   4/In 2017 she made a music video which also featured Beyoncé; and in 2018 Jessica narrated and executive-produced a Virtual Reality presentation of Spheres: Songs of Spacetime.

   5/IMDB credits her with 85 awards and 117 nominations [crazy!] and according to Celebrity Net Worth site she currently has a $40 million net worth.

   6/She continues to rival our own Work Horse in the commitment to a hectic activity schedule having 7 new projects in the pipeline and advance cast lists suggest she is the lead and top-billed star in all 7:

   2 movies at post-production state: an actioner 355; and a drama The Eyes of Tammy Faye
   1 movie filming; The Forgiven a drama with Ralph Fiennes
   4 movies at pre-production stage: a crime plot/another action plot/a drama/and a biography in which she will play singer Tammy Wynette in a story about the latter’s romance with fellow-musician George Jones. Parts 2 and 3 to follow later

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   1. Hi Bob, thanks for the review, generous rating, info and trivia, much appreciated.

      Glad you liked the posters and stills.

      Jessica Chastain has only been in Hollywoodland for about 10 years and has already starred in some big films, okay, ‘the female lead’ in some big films. (Bob nods)

      Zero Dark Thirty (the manhunt for bin Laden) was her first big film and remains her highest rated film. It made her a star. But not a bankable star, unlike Hollywoods golden age there are very few bankable stars today, in fact I can only think of one, Tom Cruise.

      One film scored 10 out of 10 from my sources – Zero Dark Thirty. Two scored 9 – Interstellar and The Martian. Four scored 8 including The Help and Coriolanus.

      No.1 at IMDB is Interstellar and tops at Rotten Tomatoes is Zero Dark Thirty, which is also no.1 on my video chart and Bruce’s critics chart.

      “When I was ten years old I was such an ugly duckling: bright orange hair, my freckles. I never really got attention from boys and when you’re a redhead all you get is old ladies coming up to you and cooing, not much else. I felt invisible.
      When someone tells me I’m a sex symbol I’m like, ‘What?’ But I’ll take what I can get. That’ll teach all those boys back in junior high school. It’s a huge compliment when someone says you’re attractive, especially when I was such an awkward kid, I was very tomboyish, with very short red hair, running around with cowboy boots on.”

      “I love being around great actors and film-makers, and I try to hide the fact that I’m in awe of them. I try to pretend with Al Pacino or Helen Mirren that, you know, we’re just part of the same team, we’re all in this together, but really, secretly, the whole time my heart is beating very fast.”

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      1. HI STEVE: Thanks for the feedback. I always look forward to your comments and quotes and your unique way at looking at a lot of things; and I like gathering new information and you provide that when the subject matter enables you to do so.

         I agree with you about there being very few bankable stars around today; but they don’t seem to need to be bankable or turn in exceptional performances. The big money and the awards are thrown by the bucketload at virtually everybody and anybody these days.

         That is why I genuinely remain mystified that two guys like you and The Work Horse who are so knowledgeable and level-headed in every other way seem to take the awards so seriously.

         The Oscars especially were always manipulated and never necessarily reflected the best performances in any year once the Hollywood internal politics/commercial hype/”It’s Jace’s turn this year” etc got working overtime.

         Continued in Part 2.

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         1. Continued from Part One.

            However I always pinpoint the harbinger of how crazy things were going to get and how badly even modest standards were beginning to slip as arriving when I saw Stallone getting even a nomination for Rocky back in 1976. For me “HE is the marker” as Martin Scorsese would express it.

            A couple of times WH has tried to tell me he gets “fun” out of watching the Oscars and I feel like replying to him “Now tell me the one about the three bears” because it is clear to me from what he said to me elsewhere that he was in agony over Indie missing out and Hanks dropping by the wayside at the Academy – just as you seemingly wanted to kill dead things when ET missed the boat.

            The Work Horse will probably advise you “When writing to Bob don’t give him the opportunity to get started on that hobby horse of his about how behind he perceives a lot of todays thespians are in achieving the standards by which true stardom has traditionally been measured.”

            However if WH thinks about it he must actually agree with me – certainly in relation to the women – because in his book [in which I think he gets it largely right about who have been the 50 greatest stars of all time] he ranks only one woman in that 50: Meryl Streep at no 28.

            Further: on page 16 of his book he gives honourable mentions to 25 actresses who he says just missed his Top 50. Yet there are only four of those 25 actresses whom he additionally honours whose ACTING careers began in the last half century ie in 1970 or after: Diane Keaton; Cate Blanchett; Sandra Bullock; and Julia Roberts – and I agree with him that those 4 deserve a mention.

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4. I was watching Chastain last night in Crimson Peak, a violent ghost story by Guillermo del Toro, it’s not one of his best movies.

   Nearly 40, I thought she was younger too. I think the first film I noticed her in was Zero Dark Thirty, she is a good actress and has gotten to work with some big directors these past few years.

   I’ve seen 9 of the 16 films here, favorites are The Martian, Interstellar and Zero Dark Thirty.

   Voted Up!

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   1. Hey Steve….I figure Crimson Peak is a “library movie” for me….I will watch it….but only when it is for free. 40 no way…..but then I see she was born in 1977…so she is only 38…lol. 39 next month. I first noticed her in Tree Of Life….I have a weakness for redheads….so she caught my eye. Let’s see I have seen 14….but I have to admit I do not remember her part in Coriolanus at all…..then again I really really did not like that movie. I have Crimson Peak and Stolen left to watch. So far this page has not been a crowd pleaser….maybe it will get better as time passes. Thanks for the comment.

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5. She is a very lovely actress. Shocked she is almost 40. Very well done.

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   1. Yep she is quickly closing in on 40….but her career is just getting in gear. Thanks for the visit.

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