Moore said that she always believed the film fell a victim of sexist double standards. Moore, pictured in 2021, wrote in her 2019 memoir, “Inside Out” that the critical reaction to the film “felt like kind of a collective decision just to trash me and treat me as the joke I’d always feared I was.” Samir Hussein/WireImage “It felt like kind of a collective decision just to trash me and treat me as the joke I’d always feared I was,” she writes. “It was gratifying to see that someone as smart as Ebert got it,” Moore writes in her memoir, while admitting the majority of reviews were not nearly as generous. Moore is serious, focused and effective.” “They are good cinema because Ridley Scott, the director, brings a documentary attention to them, and because Demi Moore, having bitten off a great deal here, proves she can chew it. “The training sequences are as they have to be: incredible rigors, survived by O’Neil,” Ebert wrote at the time. Almost as if fueled by the negative reaction to “Striptease,” Moore leaned into her take-no-prisoners role in “G.I. Variety and Rolling Stone offered praise Roger Ebert commended the action and the actor. Contrary to its reputation as a high-budget bomb - to make matters worse, war veterans weighed in negatively as well, disparaging the film’s inaccuracies - the movie did receive some acclaim. Jane” would appeal to Moore, who leaned all the way into her role as a female soldier who’s put through training hell and then a simulated torture scenario, engineered by her captain (Viggo Mortensen). She never gives in and - in one of the film’s more iconic, if eye-rolling moments - wins Mortensen’s character’s respect by kicking him in the groin while spitting out blood and yelling “Suck my d – – k!” It then made sense that a movie like “G.I. Moore’s last major movie, 1996’s “Striptease,” had been savaged in reviews, and the star’s status as one of the highest-earning actresses in Hollywood brought a wave of backlash: “Yet another case of the star’s salary being much more interesting, and exuberantly vulgar, than anything the screen reveals,” complained one critic. Jane,” Moore went through rigorous training. ©Buena Vista Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection Before taking abuse from Master Chief John Urgayle (Viggo Mortensen) in “G.I. You can’t sit with us: The fictional story of the first woman to train as a Navy SEAL was not favored by critics. The star was facing an uphill battle from the start, and not just in the boot camp she and her “G.I. Jane,’ ” she writes in her 2019 memoir “Inside Out.” “It is the film I am most proud of, because it was the hardest for me to make - emotionally, physically and mentally.” “I think very few people who aren’t athletes or members of the military themselves can truly grasp what I went through to transform myself to star in ‘G.I. As Moore tells it, this was the role she worked the hardest for. Ridley Scott’s 1997 action thriller starred Moore as a (fictional) woman recruited to be the first female Navy SEAL. Mostly, it was just plain forgotten.īut its caricatured reputation, embodied by Demi Moore’s shaved head, belies a more nuanced truth: The film is actually pretty great. Jane” was the punchline of a throwaway joke that instigated the slap heard ’round the world.īefore that, the movie, which came out 25 years ago this week, was also a forgettable joke, at least to critics.
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