Comments on: Changeling: I Want MY Angelina Jolie Back

By: royal_flush

royal_flush — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:27:41 +0000

So by your rationale, she should stick to playing weirdos?

Now, that WOULD be typecasting.

She’s a mother to several young children; for her to prattle around snogging relatives and playing with knives would be, how do you say… irresponsible.

Do you think the same of Johnny Depp for giving up his ‘wild’ lifestyle in order to provide a stable environment for his young children?

It’s called maturity, and it is vital when you have children.

By: Daniela

Daniela — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:13:37 +0000

Great review. Honest. Clear. To the point. But you know what? It’s like the Emperor’s new Clothes.

Funny how outraged people can become over the review of a performance.

By: Whatev

Whatev — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:47:04 +0000

Angelina Jolie. Yawn. The only thing more monotonous was watching Clint pimp the movie by fawning over Jolie’s beauty. Bo-ring.

By: Ligaya

Ligaya — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:43:26 +0000

@HaddeY: Typically smug - THINK what that says about you. But don’t hurt yourself now.

By: HaddeY

HaddeY — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:45:15 +0000

THANK YOU! great article. To the other commentators; Think, but don’t hurt yourself now.

By: Ligaya

Ligaya — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:58:57 +0000

Count me in with the sentiments and critiques by the other posters of your opinion. I won’t itemize the half wrong and half right that you got of Angelina Jolie. But Angelina desperate for an Oscar? That’s your and certain others’ projections. If she was chasing Oscar, she wouldn’t do action films. Angelina Jolie is still spontaneous when it comes to choosing her projects, balancing intense films like Gia with brain-on-automatic films like Gone in 60 Seconds. She chose Kung Fu Panda and Wanted in between A Mighty Heart and Changeling - the same year of her mother’s death - so that she wouldn’t end up in bed with the sheets pulled over her head. If Angelina wanted an Oscar, she would have been calculating about her career path. Sasha Stone of Awards Daily got it right, Angelina makes movies to fund her UNHCR humanitarian projects, her fans, and to please herself.

I’ve been following Angelina Jolie’s activities ever since she adopted Maddox and became UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador. I find it extremely interesting, as a feminist of the old school in the 1970s, that her severest critics are other women - often for contradictory reasons.

By: 11/1 Oscarweb Round-up | In Contention

11/1 Oscarweb Round-up | In Contention — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:32:36 +0000

[...] • Boy…Karina Longworth really doesn’t like Angelina Jolie’s work in “Changeling.” [Spout Blog] [...]

By: Musicisourhigh

Musicisourhigh — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:51:55 +0000

The entire story fascinates me. It sounds so bizarre it is crazy to think it is based on real events

By: Kat Agahaway

Kat Agahaway — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:00:28 +0000

This sounds like a personal problem. Solution? Don’t go to her movies anymore and don’t review them.

By: Funnyyale26

Funnyyale26 — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:35:41 +0000

I have watched the film and I think is good, riveting and with a great sense of justice. At the end, everyone in my theater gave a round of applause and I heard some people crying because they were deeply moved by Christine Collins. I don’t think anyone who is NOT a mother, > 30 can really relate to this kind of film, I thought that Jolie was very convincing because any mother who loses her child would go insane.

I would go watch it and formulate my own conclusions, because I have yet to see a review that does not sound more like silly rant by people that have no set foot in a film making course or bloggers with a mask of critics. The person that wrote this article is an Angelina Jolie hater, I have read her other rants against AJ already, so of course no one who loves serious films, like those made in the 30’s and 40’s should give credence to something like this.

By: seven

seven — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:24:39 +0000

I have to agree here, Angela is an actor, she acts the part that is written. Too often, people attribute a story line to the actor. As if the actor wrote the story themselves.
I never expect an actor to act the same in any movie. I, actually, despise it when the studios obsessively type cast actors. I love to see actors do different types of roles. I think the problem is that, for you, maybe the characters she has played in the past, has given you a sort of super hero role model that you looked up too. The only problem is that it was a character in a script. It’s not her actual personality.

By: Karina Longworth

Karina Longworth — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:19:18 +0000

@Pamgela: 1. This is not a review. 2. How can you think a movie is really great if you haven’t seen it?

By: Funnyyale26

Funnyyale26 — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:01:11 +0000

You know what I find sad in all of this? that serious movie criticism is going down the drain and it is turning into these rants based on mindless, silliness and tabloid-ly wastes of time.
The more negative stuff (like this) I read, the more I am convinced that Angelina delivered a powerful performance. Every person that I have spoken to has nothing but raves on the film and on Jolie’s performance and even those people that did not like the film say that she was very good in it, even if the film was flawed.

By: Pamgela texas

Pamgela texas — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:56:03 +0000

Your review is well, eh, not that great for what I think is a really great film, although I haven’t seen it yet and I can’t wait. I just love how all of these opines come out about how Jolie wants an oscar. How the heck do you know what she wants? You are creating that she wants an oscar. I’m with Jolie and she says she wanted to work with Clint Eastwood, who wouldn’t? Jolie doesn’t need your ransacked critiques to bring her down. You’ve got your opine, it’s expressed and it’s meh. I’ll take my own opine any day. I give it a thumbs up - the movie looks awesome and Jolie gets to show her range of talent - that she can play serious dramatic roles and fantasy sexy villain or heroine roles. She is damn good that’s all there is to it. It would be cool if she won an oscar, and if she does, she very well deserves it.

By: Anna

Anna — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:57:11 +0000

OMG, GROW UP! The woman is 33 yrs old. She’s not some angst ridden teen-ager anymore. She’s a decent, dedicated partner, actress and mother and yet she’s so much more then that. Stop trying to hold this woman to 1998. It’s clear that there are so many people who are stuck in their own lives and wand Jolie to be the same way.

Girl Interrupted doesn’t exist anymore . And guess what? It was a character in a MOVIE she played.!! You clearly can’t distinguish between the person and the character on film. Therefore, you’re already seeing her on the screen as Angelina Jolie and not an actress playing a role. That’s your issue not hers.