Jennifer Aniston: Bounty Hunter Hottie

@fresh:
I agree which is sad. It will just give critics a chance to compare again. An unfortunate choice on her PR people’s part.

Hold it - she’s running from the law and her bounty hunter/ex-husband in THAT OUTFIT & THOSE HEELS with hair and make-up Oscar ready? Uh huh, yeah. If any of these actors can for 1 min make any of this believable, then they’re all way better than they’re given credit for. Gee, you can’t tell Aniston’s production company is on the job here, can you? Okay, I realize we have no idea at what point in the film this particular scene is meant to appear, but really this scene had better be a flash back to ‘better times’ or something. What drivel.

@disbelieving: Yes you make a great point. Do they think we are stupid? Now that movie a long time ago “Not without my daughter” where the woman is stuck in a foreign country running away from her psycho husband who took her to a place where she didn’t speak the language then started abusing her? Well that was based on a true story, but anyway, that was believeable. The woman looked like she was starved for food, was locked in a house, and beat up and threatened by her psycho husband for months. A miracle she was able to outsmart him one day and run away taking taxi’s and buses out of the country. Now something like THAT movie would be something to star in if you want to pick a good drama. I realize the Mighty Heart movie didn’t work out but if she wants to portray someone who’s been through something dramatic she should try that. That would build character and dimension to her acting portfolio.

@jaye: Okay, I see what you mean. But it would be more empowering to her character and long term acting to be in a movie in which she is beat down but lives and triumphs in the end. How many women go through something like that in life? Sometimes multiple times with multiple men in different ways. Don’t you think it would be more empowering for her to play a strong triumphant female that goes from say, Rachel, to someone who really becomes more than a lollipop and crackerjacks type of girl? It would also be a double entrende to her real life as well if she could pull it off. Don’t you think?

Jen needs to stay away from Gerard. He is mine!

Instead of taking a risk she played it safe and greedy when she remained in Friends - stayed for the money instead of stretching and taking a risk. Playing in a sitcom for so many years has meant she hasn’t developed the necessary range for movies - even dumb romcoms require some range (well perhaps limited depending on how shallow they are). Sitcoms require basic skills in portraying emotions on the small screen they are limited and acted in an obvious overt way, rather like you would for children or pantomime, (well perhaps not quite as overt)…sitcoms like Friends borders on acting for children to ensure you appeal to their limited experience and brain capacity. She struck luckier than the other Friends because they didn’t meet or marry any A-listers so their profile remained low as they couldn’t sell magazine covers on their fame alone - as would hers if she hadn’t met and married the moviestar. Once the moviestar had left her career become about gimmicks…publicity and gimmicks to promote her movies rather really good acting a stunning personality or amazing intelligence..as she lacks all three she needs gimmicks to ensure she can get an audience to fund her next trip to the plastic surgeon to ensure her body is tip-top.

in my country so many beautiful at the age of 40 and they look young without botox or anything…. she’s good at 40 but she’s not beautiful…

@bobjustbob:

bobjustbob #68

Get your eyes checked girl, every one of those roles mentioned she IS Rachel Green. You need to get out and see more movies to understand REAL talent and range. Seriously, she has no range, always plays the same Rachel character. Oh look there is Rachel as a hippy in Along Comes Polly and there is Rachel all depressed and smokin pot in Friends with No Money and then Rachel got married, bought a dog named Marley, now Rachel is being basted! LMAO, any actress with mediocre acting skills could have played any of those parts you mention, just could pop any actress into any Jennifer Aniston role and they would actually likely bring MORE to the role than she does. Watch Jennifer Aniston on Oprah’s couch or in Friends or in any of her awful romcoms and she is the same, same, same, same. Always. She knows her talented is limited and her PR knows it too (why they work the past marriage angle to the max. and the who she is dating angle).
———————————————————————————————

Well if that is true then look at films with Meg Ryan and Sandra Bullock. In my opinion, Jen has much more range than Ryan and Bullock.

Pleeeze. @ 06/22/2009 at 3:37 pm

Come on I dare any of you to look this good at forty!
———————————————-
she’s forty and have 2 kids (the eldest is 16 yrs old)
http://www.pinayshare.com/jean-garcia-fhm-photos/113/

Nisa- I don’t think her movies need to be message movies for women. Women are her target audience because they ‘identify’ with her. Not that something like that once in a while isn’t ok. I think that is the thing her fans WANTS her to be, the strong, triumphant woman who prevails despite what life has handed her. But sometimes the strong woman doesn’t triumphant, she doesn’t win the day; sometimes she just has to bite the bullet, no pun intended. Our world isn’t one dimensional, why should the movies we see be one dimensional?

Aniston’s craft is ACTING. To many SEASONED actors it’s not about making money, it’s about making the movies that challenge them; Aniston can afford to do that IF she wanted to do it. . How can you portray a strong independent woman if you don’t take chances? People who tend to be thought of as the Good Girl type or the Good Guy type oddly enough very often make GOOD villains. She showed a little of that in Derailed, but for the most part she plays the same role.

Playing to what your fans think you are OFF the screen is not acting, it’s playing it safe. Her life is mostly about playing it safe; I just think it would do her good to not play to an ‘image’. I don’t think she’s a bad actress, she’s just lazy in some respects. She obviously works a lot, but she does what’s easy. I don’t think she wants the emotional baggage or the criticism that can come with challenging roles.

I admit that I never like the character Rachel Green, but I saw some episodes of FRIENDS when it went into syndication. I thought Chandler and Phoebe were the most interesting. Rachel, to me, came off as silly , lazy and self -indulgent. When women went all the rage for her HAIR, I figured they were as superficial as Rachel; they wanted to BE Rachel. Strong independent women, don’t want to be other women, they are proud to be who they are.

# 95 jaye @ 06/22/2009 at 3:54 pm

I hope you take this as a compliment. .I hope my post will be the last. After reading your post there is nothing much to say.. I agree with you completely.. Well said.. well said.

she is to me very scared. Yes scared.. she has a Production Company and has the ability to make the kinds of movies she wants to make.. YET she is not..

she has said she wants to travel and see the world. Something she said she would do in the next year or so.. has not happened

she said she wants to direct after that short thing she did for some magazine.. has not happened. How empowering would it have been if she had directed Management.

she said that her Echo Company would be the voice for stories of strong women.. Where are these stories..

Sandra Bullock, Drew Berrymore, Reese Witherspoon are all involved in producing and acting in the films they make.. Taking control

Jennifer does play it safe. She could be a force in the business.. Courtney Cox has done several things where she has produced and starred no not all successful.. but damn she at least tried

Lisa Kudrow.. she has done some really challenging things since leaving friends. I admire and like her a great deal.

Jen is scared to fail at anything different. After Derailed not being a blockbuster.. she went back to what worked.

To be the strong woman that her fans and her friends say she is has to be measured by terms other then the fact that she came through a divorce that is 5 years old. surving a dovorce for most women is figuring out how to pay the bills, feed the kids, manage without money.. so you see she handled her divorce… NOT survived it.

lennie @ 06/22/2009 at 4:11 pm Look at those feet and knees close ups, it shows she is 40. Why pretend to look younger?
———————————————————————————————–
I love her feet and knees,and I would love to have a closer look.