Halle Berry is celebrating the twentieth anniversary of “Catwoman” with admirable poise.
Although the 2004 comedian ebook film drew horrid opinions and earned Berry a Razzie Award for “worst actress,” she argued Thursday on “The Tonight Show” that it’s discovered a complete new viewers lately — and she or he disagreed with critics.
“I loved it,” Berry informed Jimmy Fallon. “I mean, it got panned. You know, the critics said it sucked balls. That’s not that bad; I’ve gotten worse reviews — and balls aren’t that bad.”
Although viewers members and social media customers alike have certainly used these phrases to explain the movie earlier than, skilled critics had been barely extra eloquent of their opinions — and slammed the cartoonish depiction of Batman’s off-and-on ally as “a very poor effort.”
“Catwoman’s director, a visual-effects specialist named [Jean-Cristophe] Pitof [Comar], is not contained by the rules of filmmaking,” wrote Wall Road Journal critic Joe Morgenstern in 2004. “Scenes that make sense? Nonsense. Characters with inner lives? Utterly passé.”
Berry admirably leaned into these reactions nearly instantly and accepted her Razzie Award in individual — changing into probably the most well-known superstar to ever achieve this — and lately posed topless with a number of cats to commemorate the movie’s twentieth birthday.
The Oscar winner (in 2001 for “Monster’s Ball) even claimed to have noticed newfound appreciation for the film, which grossed only $82 million worldwide on a budget of $100 million, and she used the viral title of Charli XCX’s latest album, “Brat,” to explain her reworked notion because the movie’s star.
“What I’m happy about is that the children have found it now on the internet, and they love it,” Berry informed Fallon. “So it’s so vindicating. Because now they’re saying it’s cool and what the heck was everybody’s problem with it, so I’m like, ‘I’m so brat now.’”
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Fallon naturally couldn’t assist himself and cleverly christened Berry “Bratwoman.”
The movie’s common evaluate rating of 8% marked one of many lowest in Berry’s profession — and “Catwoman’s” plot bafflingly revolved across the unethical manufacturing of an anti-aging pores and skin cream — Berry argued that the opinions are worse than the film itself.
“People have the freedom to discover it on their own without a reminder of what critics said about it,” she informed Entertainment Weekly in July. “Younger generations don’t know what was said back then. They discover it on their own and enjoy its merits without being mind-led to think a certain way.”
When requested whether or not she’d reprise her function sooner or later, Berry didn’t flinch.
“If I could direct it,” she declared Thursday.
