School’s Out for the Jolie-Pitts!

Plese don’t forget rating this movie.
Fake watchers had been devaluing this film.

see above {users rating}

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mighty_heart/

584 Elaine | 06/21/2007 at 8:23 pm
I just wanted to share on the topic of Angie’s weight loss. I don’t know the cause of her weight loss, but I went through a similar ordeal January 2007. My only child was killed at the tender age of 19. I was so consumed with grief until it took others to point out my weight loss. I was looking gaunt and frail to others, but my appearance was the last thing on my mind. After 3 mos I went back to work and got on the scale. I had lost almost 20 lbs in 3 mos. I thank God for having love ones around me who cared enough to pull me through. My faith pulled me out of despair and now I am taking care of myself. I am taking vitamins and supplements when I don’t have the desire to eat. Just wanted you all to know that grief can be brutal if not dealt with properly. I have been a nurse for 24 years and still needed the faith, love and support from others to get through my ordeal. I have learned how to grieve properly. I am praying that Angie will find that time heals all wounds. Cherish the memories and enjoy life to come. Don’t judge her unless you’ve walked in her shoes

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thanks for posting your story and giving some of us an insight of what Angelina maybe going through.

Jolie’s ‘Heart’ pumps life into Oscar Chatter

By Gregg Kilday
29 minutes ago

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - There’s no official starting gun to the annual Oscar race, and the finish line for the 80th Annual Academy Awards isn’t until February 24. But a number of races already have begun — some quietly, some not so quietly.

This weekend, Paramount Vantage is launching “A Mighty Heart,” director Michael Winterbottom’s re-creation of the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl at the hands of Pakistani militants. Starring Angelina Jolie as Pearl’s wife Mariane, who led the search for her husband, the film debuted in May at Cannes.

As of Thursday, the documentary-like thriller rated an 80 percent positive rating on RottenTomatoes.com, but higher-end critics have been even more positive. Vantage isn’t being shy about using the “O” word: Print ads quote Ben Lyons of E! Entertainment proclaiming, “The early favorite for best picture at this year’s Oscars,” while TV ads also invoke its Oscar-worthiness.

Actually, months from now, when the Oscar campaigns are in high gear, “Heart’s” awards hopes probably will coalesce around Jolie’s performance as the actress succeeds in the tricky job of capturing a real-life woman whose tragic story made headlines in 2002. But a nomination isn’t automatically guaranteed since this year’s best actress field is one of the strongest in years.

Lionsgate already has released Sarah Polley’s “Away From Her,” a portrait of a couple coping with Alzheimer’s, starring a luminous Julie Christie as a woman battling the disease, which could earn the actress the fourth nomination of her career. Picturehouse recently launched “La Vie en Rose,” starring French actress Marion Cotillard as chanteuse Edith Piaf. At the Seattle International Film Festival, which concluded last weekend, Cotillard was rewarded with the audience award for best actress, a harbinger of future trips she could well make to the winner’s podium.

Next weekend, another possible contender enters the field when Focus Features debuts “Evening,” Lajos Koltai’s screen adaptation of the Susan Minot novel. Vanessa Redgrave stars as a dying woman looking back over her life.

And that’s just the best actress heat, which is destined to get more crowded as the year progresses and other films — like Universal Pictures’ “The Golden Age,” in which Cate Blanchett reprises the role of Queen Elizabeth I, which earned her an Oscar nomination for “Elizabeth” in 1999 — enter the field.

At the same time, other categories are just beginning to take shape. Next weekend also will see Disney’s release of Pixar’s “Ratatouille,” which is earning rave advance reviews. Although just nine reviews have been posted on RottenTomatoes to date, they have registered a resounding 100% approval rating. There’s still a wide array of animated films to come: among others, 20th Century Fox’s “The Simpsons Movie”; DreamWorks’ “Bee Movie”; and Sony Pictures Classics’ “Persepolis,” which uses animation to tell a very grown-up story of a young Iranian woman caught up in the Islamic Revolution. So “Ratatouille” isn’t necessarily a shoo-in, but by summer’s end, it’s likely to have established itself as the animation front-runner.

However it ultimately fares at the box office and with critics, Michael Moore’s “Sicko,” which also moves into wide release next weekend, is sure to kick-start discussions about the documentary race. The film itself already has elbowed its way into the national conversation.

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

From The New York Post:

PROFILE IN COURAGE
By LOU LUMENICK

June 22, 2007 — ANGELINA Jolie, whose offscreen antics have consistently upstaged her acting career since winning an Oscar seven years ago, puts aside her celebrity long enough to deliver a dazzling performance as Mariane Pearl in “A Mighty Heart.”
Greatly abetted by the no-nonsense, very un-Hollywood-ish approach that British director Michael Winterbottom takes to this fact-based thriller, Jolie dons dusky makeup, dark contact lenses and corkscrew curls.

She’s surprisingly successful at disappearing into the role.

Mariane, of course, is the widow of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and executed by Islamic fundamentalists in Pakistan.

“A Mighty Heart,” adapted by John Orloff from a memoir by Mariane Pearl, focuses on five agonizing weeks beginning on Jan. 23, 2002 at the Pearl home in Karachi, Pakistan.

Daniel Pearl, who is researching a story on shoe bomber Richard Reid, disappears after a scheduled meeting with a source.

The Afro-Cuban-Dutch Mariane, a fellow journalist and onetime radio host in her native France, quickly assembles an international team - Daniel’s colleagues from the Journal and Pakistani and American officials - to find her husband.

Even before it’s revealed the source is bogus and Mariane starts getting e-mails containing ominous photographs from the kidnappers, it’s clear that Daniel is in real trouble.

Because he’s Jewish, some in Pakistan assume he’s a Mossad agent. Because he’s American, others suspect he’s working for the CIA.

“A Mighty Heart” is remarkably apolitical, considering that it comes from the director of the Bush-bashing “The Road to Guantanamo.”

The focus is on the desperate hunt for Pearl’s kidnappers, and Mariane never stops asking questions - even though she’s six months pregnant with the couple’s first child.

Though she’s a devoted and apparently fearless journalist, the film doesn’t adequately explain why she chooses to spend her pregnancy in such a dangerous place.

Winterbottom isn’t the sort of director who spells things out neatly.

He also doesn’t encourage movie-star showboating. Jolie isn’t allowed to let loose until Daniel’s body is found.

Even then, Winterbottom shoots in near-darkness - but it’s still enough to pretty much guarantee Jolie a Best Actress nomination.

Among the standouts in the well-chosen cast are Irfan Khan (”The Namesake”) as the resolute head of Pakistan’s anti-terrorist unit and Archie Panjabi as Mariane’s reporter pal Asra, whose Indian nationality alone is enough to make her a target in Pakistan.

Daniel Pearl is played by Dan Futterman (the Oscar-winning writer of “Capote”), a look-alike who makes the most of his extremely limited screen time, primarily flashbacks of the Pearls’ life together before Daniel’s kidnapping.

The movie eschews demonizing Pearl’s killers and instead focuses on the difficulties of international communication - a theme it has in common with “Babel,” another film that was produced by Jolie’s husband, Brad Pitt.

“A Mighty Heart” isn’t nearly as affecting as the earlier movie, though. Like Mariane Pearl, it’s tasteful and restrained - there is only the briefest snippet from the beginning of Daniel Pearl’s death tape, which Mrs. Pearl has refused to watch.

Still, it’s pretty heavy going for a summer movie.

lou.lumenick@nypost.com

A MIGHTY HEART
Well acted, well made.
Running time: 108 minutes. Rated R (profanity). At the Empire, the Cinema 1, the Chelsea, others.

“Still, it’s pretty heavy going for a summer movie.”

Why didn’t they release it in the fall, anyone knows?

I don’t know why they released it in the summer, but I was surprised that the NY Post gave it such a great review. Evidently their Page 6 doesn’t speak for the rest of the paper.

Rottentomatoes ratings as of right now: 78% for general reviews and 86% for COTC reviews.

Was reading the a local newspaper over dinner tonight and the review for AMH was titled “A Classy Heart”. The reviewer really enjoyed the film and appreciated the class and tact with which the murder of Daniel Pearl was handled.

738 Sheri | 06/21/2007 at 10:25 pm
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I saw your post and I just wanted to say a big THANK YOU. You are not alone in your observations and I appreciate you speaking your mind on this subject. I find it deplorable that some of the people here supporting the Jolie-Pitt family and who post such wonderful posts, videos, articles and such can turn around and be so utterly intolerant of another fan’s point of view. We are grown women, for the most part, and yet some continue to act like they are in Grade 8. If they don’t figure out how to be more tolerant of other peoples’ point of view, eventually they will drive off some of the newer fans of the JP’s who bring fresh ideas, viewpoints, etc. to the discussion. Then they will turn to tearing each other apart and stabbing one another in the back I guess.

While all of us who support this wonderful family appreciate what they have brought to this thread they aren’t doing themselves, or anyone else, any favours by acting like they own the site (which is the sole property of Jared) and looking down their noses at other fans.

Angie and Brad have been to some of the most impoverished parts of this planet and they would never in a million years presume to look down their noses at anyone, regardless of age, ethnicity, education or financial status the way some of the fans here do. I believe they would be very disappointed to see people who say they admire this family for their numerous incredible qualities conduct themselves in such a manner.

This is a place where the fans of the Jolie-Pitts should be able to come to share their enjoyment of this family, and their points of view (as opposing as they may be), not a Grade 8 clique. Please conduct yourselves accordingly.

RE THE TED C SMEAR: If you change “boyfriend” to “husband” you probably have POSH! To me the ‘Fake a la Ferocity’ is key. Posh has a fierce stare that is commented on endlessly and the biggest FAKE boobs on the radar at the moment. I definitely think the ‘fake’ points to someone with a boob job in any case…

Fake-a-la = Pam-e-la

965 good grief | 06/22/2007 at 3:23 am
RE THE TED C SMEAR: If you change “boyfriend” to “husband” you probably have POSH! To me the ‘Fake a la Ferocity’ is key. Posh has a fierce stare that is commented on endlessly and the biggest FAKE boobs on the radar at the moment. I definitely think the ‘fake’ points to someone with a boob job in any case
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First of all, let me just say that I don’t believe Ted has anything on anyone, not Pam, not Posh, or whoever else — he knows jack sh*t — and I think when push comes to shove and he gets in hot water, he will of course back off and probably clear Angelina (but in the meantime, and by then, his objective will have been achieved - which is, that people will be discussing HIS ‘blind item’ ad nauseum, because he made them THINK it was Angelina Jolie). His objective is to have people thinking and speculating that he is talking about Angie. He’s done that. The fact that we can come up with others that fit SOME of the criteria is irrelevant. The only person that he designed it to fit better than others, is Angelina. He WANTS the discussion to commence fast and go everywhere, no one else gives him the mileage that Angie does. So the Blind Item is tailored best to her (for instance, sure some things fit Posh, but what HW “movers and shakers” are going to be concerned over her? see what I’m saying) - nevermind that it’s a lie of course.

Hi,

I know this is slightly off topic - but I wanted to ask about the deleted wedding scene in MAMS. Did any of you see the way Brad smiles towards the end of the kissing scene. It looks as though he’s really enjoying the kiss and doesn’t want to stop. Its also quite intense the way Angie grabs him at the beginning of the scene. She wanted him bad and he wanted her. They just had very different ways of showing their passion in that kiss - it seemed so real and worked so well. Very natural. Love it!

From sunny South Africa.

You’re preaching to the converted :-) Ted C is scum, no question about it, and out to do his worst against Angelina. Just speculating that IF he actually wasn’t talking out his thunder down under that Posh would be my guess. As for Hollywood movers and shakers… whoever is producing her reality show and was gearing up for her big debut in the U.S. would fit the bill. Best as I know it has been scaled down to a one hour special at this point, but it was created as a series concept. Not big movers and shakers, but nevertheless movers and shakers.

Add in the big splash that the Beckhams are expected to make with moving to LA in general and there could be more than a few concerned parties.

I am optimistic that the demographic that will go see AMH is not likely to buy into the tabloid garbage anyway. I certainly hope not!

180 Estelle | 06/21/2007 at 2:31 pm
163 let it be
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I saw that, Angie was crying and I was crying when I saw that little boy, at that moment, I wish I could just take him into my home and give him so much love to take away his fears and his pains…and after I saw faces of so many children…*sighed*, my heart break, now I know how Angie felt the first time, when she saw them in person. I think I would just fall apart. You know, after the show, I went to my kitchen and get a glass of water, I was starring at the glass of water in my hand and thinking, how fortunate I am…with just a glass of water in my hand, compare to millions of refugees, I’m a rich person.

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That’s one of the reasons I really admire this woman. I remember when there was a landslide in my hometown. I assisted a friend who was a volunteer. I had to quit the scene quick cause it was just so heavy, emotionally. I mean, we were just there distributing used clothing (of which some are not fit to wear anymore), and you would see these people falling in line, who would normally not wear some of the clothes we were distributing ( they were that OLD.. I mean how many of us would buy new clothes to give to refugees/ to people whose house burned, etc.?) and it would just break your heart.

And Angelina gives not only MONEY but her TIME and more importantly, HERSELF. She CARES…