tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post4520338787272025463..comments2024-03-10T10:56:38.185-04:00Comments on the passionate moviegoer: façade: Jennifer Anistonjoe baltakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11467420961490314339noreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-40534755639371010652017-10-29T12:43:14.101-04:002017-10-29T12:43:14.101-04:00A splendid actress who continues to amuse and stun...A splendid actress who continues to amuse and stun us.<br /><br />williamnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-31249328381587163932012-06-22T09:19:15.567-04:002012-06-22T09:19:15.567-04:00This is usually a splendid post. Thanks for devoti...This is usually a splendid post. Thanks for devoting a large amount and spending some time to describe this all out for all of us.<br />It truly is mostly a great guide!Cherylnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-64423179731032220522011-12-14T13:03:10.684-05:002011-12-14T13:03:10.684-05:00Big Aniston fan here! I just passed this onto a co...Big Aniston fan here! I just passed this onto a colleague who I had a bet with on Jennifer. And he actually bought me lunch because I found it for him, So let me rephrase that: Thanks for lunch!Beachbodyhttp://pledgetostayfit.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-73869032593547340262011-05-17T13:12:41.221-04:002011-05-17T13:12:41.221-04:00"Management" was brilliant and one of he..."Management" was brilliant and one of her most underrated films. Critics analyzed it as though it was another romcom when in fact it was a highly artful treatment of the most basic of human relationships - that of parent/child. Any doubts? Just notice how the movie opens and closes, and look at each relationship in the movie. it couldn't be more obvious and yet the critics missed it.Ramonahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09921664082290447579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-42716021472620403682011-01-20T10:43:45.291-05:002011-01-20T10:43:45.291-05:00Thanks a lot!!!!
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NIce postThanks a lot!!!!<br />Soo good Page..<br />NIce postTüpbebekhttp://www.tupbebekgebelik.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-79595276062418273102010-09-05T10:29:22.349-04:002010-09-05T10:29:22.349-04:00a nice piece you've done on Anistona nice piece you've done on Anistonwaltnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-3123124257623917802010-09-05T08:37:08.391-04:002010-09-05T08:37:08.391-04:00Your comments about Jennifer Aniston are incredibl...Your comments about Jennifer Aniston are incredibly articulate, hilarious, opinionated and inciteful all at once. It all came home in one piece.Mortnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-43138657984420741912010-08-26T17:25:50.630-04:002010-08-26T17:25:50.630-04:00I agree with Alex. Aniston is a young pro. I thin...I agree with Alex. Aniston is a young pro. I think she knows exactly what she's doing both in terms of her on-screen career and her off-screen life that makes the tabloids.Jen411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-80978863527011658652010-08-25T15:56:05.224-04:002010-08-25T15:56:05.224-04:00People forget that Jennifer Aniston became a star,...People forget that Jennifer Aniston became a star, almost overnight, on "Friends." Arguably, when the show came on in '94, she was its most popular personality. She was 25. It ran for 10 years and her popularity remained. That is nothing to dismiss. Her critics can remain oblivious but <em>she</em> is a star. In the years since the show went off the air, she's experimented with roles. There are quite a few indies on her resume. The current hostility toward her says more about her critics than about this most likable actress.Alexnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-62036701862549013072010-08-24T22:58:44.708-04:002010-08-24T22:58:44.708-04:00Claire- It's interesting that you bring up the...Claire- It's interesting that you bring up the Doris Day comparison because that's exactly what I said about Aniston in a post on Carrie Rickey's site,<a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/flickgrrl/Love_Autopsy_Reports_of_The_Death_of_the_Romantic_Comedy_are_Greatly_Exaggerated.html" rel="nofollow">Flickgrrl</a><br /><br />I guess great minds think alike.joe baltakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11467420961490314339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-22900981168280458032010-08-24T22:06:43.388-04:002010-08-24T22:06:43.388-04:00Joe, I was going to write something in support of ...Joe, I was going to write something in support of Jennifer Aniston, but you said it so much better to last poster. Critics may come and go, and will be quickly forgotten, but people in movies live forever. If my memory serves me correctly, what everyone is saying about Aniston is the same things that people once said about Doris Day. She faced the same ridicule in her day. Now we realize what a treasure she was. Thanks for putting it just right.Clairenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-1315999767124355942010-08-24T21:42:30.045-04:002010-08-24T21:42:30.045-04:00Jim- I knew Jan very casually when I was reviewin...Jim- I knew Jan very casually when I was reviewing from Northern California. She was very kind and welcoming to me and was very social in general - in short, an "up" person. It's hard to imagine her being nasty in one of her reviews, but I take your word for it. Maybe she was having a bad day. Or maybe she's bought into the new anti-Aniston agenda that so many critics (mostly young and mostly male) have today. The bottom line is that, years from now, no one will know who Jan or I was, but people will remember Jennifer Aniston.joe baltakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11467420961490314339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-4133797832159076092010-08-24T15:46:54.504-04:002010-08-24T15:46:54.504-04:00Regarding Aniston, I have always been a fan. I li...Regarding Aniston, I have always been a fan. I live in Northern California and, on Saturday, as I was driving to Burlingame for an appointment, I heard the reviewer Jan Wahl on the radio and all she did was TRASH TRASH TRASH poor Jennifer. I was stunned that she, of all people, was criticizing Aniston's abilities as an actress.<br /><br />There's no doubt in my mind that Aniston has talent.<br /> <br />HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, I believe, liked THE SWITCH; or at least its critic liked the Aniston/Bateman teaming.jimnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-57203641421618652872010-08-24T14:56:42.122-04:002010-08-24T14:56:42.122-04:00Sturges! There are a lot of morons out there and ...Sturges! There are a lot of morons out there and most of them are professional critics who, for some bizarre reason, are operating as if they are celebrity gossip columnists. Frightening.joe baltakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11467420961490314339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-39258089979931093652010-08-24T13:47:26.502-04:002010-08-24T13:47:26.502-04:00Whenever I hear some moron complain in any way abo...Whenever I hear some moron complain in any way about Jennifer Aniston, I just think, "Have you seen The Good Girl?" and I mentally walk away...Sturgesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-16257832328188526862010-08-24T08:31:44.098-04:002010-08-24T08:31:44.098-04:00FYI.
The estimable Daryl Chin weighs in on the on...FYI.<br /><br />The estimable Daryl Chin weighs in on the on-going Jennifer Aniston lynch-mob mentality on his ever-fascinating site, Documents on Art & Cinema (http://d-a-c.blogspot.com/), and his this to say:<br /><br />"I can't seem to shake it. Just watched 'The Ghosts of Girlfrends Past'; obviously, not a movie that i would watch in a theater, but i decided i should see it because it has Jennifer Garner, who (along with Jennifer Aniston) was an object of scorn in a recent column by Maureen Dowd. Jennifer Garner isn't bad, in fact, there are moments when she's very charming. In a way, i don't understand current critical standards (or the lack thereof). It's like the current critical animosity towards Jennifer Aniston: where is this coming from? But it's coming from the same mentality which Hollywood foists on everyone, in which there are winners and losers. So Angelina Jolie is a winner (especially because 'Salt' was a success) and so Jennifer Aniston must be the loser. And one of the problems with critics now is that so many critics want to be insiders, they want to know who's on top in the Hollywood hierarchy, they want to back the winner.<br /><br />"It's kind of a hideous situation. And nobody wants to break the trend."joe baltakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11467420961490314339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-5997460252406564582010-08-23T19:54:27.480-04:002010-08-23T19:54:27.480-04:00Potent! Baboom!Potent! Baboom!Tuckernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-13888408638180356732010-08-23T15:06:30.981-04:002010-08-23T15:06:30.981-04:00That's a great point, Patrick. Yes, stars wer...That's a great point, Patrick. Yes, stars were once protected by the studio system, fed roles, but many times, they were held back and had to rebel and strike out on their own. I guess that acting has always been a "survival of the fittest" situation and still very much is - only more so.joe baltakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11467420961490314339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-45036653247700475532010-08-23T14:36:55.903-04:002010-08-23T14:36:55.903-04:00Fair points, Joe, but I'll make this rejoinder...Fair points, Joe, but I'll make this rejoinder to Grant and Hepburn (both in one of my top ten films, The Philadelphia Story): Hepburn's great comeback, in that film, was not only without studio help but also her way of forcing Hollywood to take her back, and Cary (as I'm sure he would have had me call him if we had actually met) so defied the studios and his--eventual-- fellow Academy members that it was more of his stubborn insistence on how his image should be maintained (like having the women flirt with him as he grew older, e.g., in that other Hepburn's great romantic thriller Charade--you know other examples) than any studio advice or guidance.Patrick Stonerhttp://www.whyy.org/tv12/flicks.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-16670680286146154502010-08-23T13:06:53.626-04:002010-08-23T13:06:53.626-04:00Bruce! I think you should check your facts. Mayb...Bruce! I think you should check your facts. Maybe you don't see Aniston playing Mariane Pearl,but that was the idea when she and Pitt optioned the material - which apparently Pitt owned and took with him when they parted. Angelina Jolie was very good in the film but the fact is, Aniston would have been more interesting, more adventurous casting. If anyone else out there is fairly certain that I am wrong and can document it, let me know. I'm operating strictly on my memory here.joe baltakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11467420961490314339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-61923699802934837532010-08-23T12:21:02.078-04:002010-08-23T12:21:02.078-04:00Aniston was never going to act in "The Mighty...Aniston was never going to act in "The Mighty Heart." Check you facts. Aniston is an average actress. She makes millions of dollars. If she wanted or thought she could play anything other than Rachel, she would. I don't feel sorry for her. She deserves all the negative articles. She makes McMovies.Brucenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-5098230567812888772010-08-23T11:34:24.399-04:002010-08-23T11:34:24.399-04:00I agree with you. I don't think Jennifer Anis...I agree with you. I don't think Jennifer Aniston deserves the latest...I do think she is a talent and isn't given enough credit.Susienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-67866642662431511522010-08-23T08:34:13.232-04:002010-08-23T08:34:13.232-04:00Joe, I agree with you completely. Except for the p...Joe, I agree with you completely. Except for the part about Maureen Dowd being "one of the crown jewels of the Times's op-ed section."susanyhnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-17658188583288081262010-08-22T20:55:40.782-04:002010-08-22T20:55:40.782-04:00You go Joe! Thanks for putting your learned opini...You go Joe! Thanks for putting your learned opinion out there!Stevenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-15168267341397335782010-08-22T13:25:07.670-04:002010-08-22T13:25:07.670-04:00I agree. I like Jennifer Aniston. She can be very ...I agree. I like Jennifer Aniston. She can be very funny and her timing is impeccable.Karennoreply@blogger.com