Over the weekend, Celebuzz had one of the advanced “first look” clips from The Tourist, the Angelina Jolie-Johnny Depp film coming out in just a few weeks. I didn’t find this clip very exciting at all – I think this is Depp and Jolie’s first scene together in the film, their “meet-cute” (I’m sorry, The Holiday was on over the weekend). The whole thing is rather boring, and Jolie’s accent work… oh, God. I mean… I hope this film does well, and I think it will, but someone has to just sit Jolie down and tell her to stop with the hokey accents. And I liked her Marianne Pearl accent! But this fakey English-lite bullcrap has to stop. Take it away, haters:
‘The Tourist’ Exclusive Clip
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In other Jolie news… there’s still some residual drama about Angelina pulling out of the film shoot in Bosnia. Other stuff…Josh Whedon is still working on getting The Avengers script done, and he told Entertainment Weekly that he based his Wonder Woman on Angelina Jolie: “For me, Wonder Woman was basically Angelina Jolie. She spends a lot of time flying around. She works in a lot of different countries. She’s very global. And she’s appalled by the way people treat each other.” He also said that he based his Wonder Woman character on Jolie because she was “what he imagined a real Amazonian goddess would be like.” Cute. One last piece of news: on Saturday, Angelina and Brad donated $150,000 to the SOS Children’s Villages in America. Jolie has long been a financial and moral supporter of the SOS Children’s Village program, both domestically and abroad. She and Brad donated the money in honor of National Adoption Day:
The Jolie-Pitt Foundation today announced a donation of $150,000 to SOS Children’s Villages – USA. The donation is given in recognition of National Adoption Day, which celebrates adoptive families and highlights the needs of the over 100,000 children still waiting for adoptive families in the United States. SOS Children’s Villages play a vital role in the healing and stabilization of foster care children, and constitute a critical step along the way to family reunification or adoption for many children.
SOS Children’s Villages provides loving, stable homes to children around the world whose biological families cannot properly care for them. Founded over 60 years ago, SOS operates over 500 Villages in 130 countries including Illinois and Florida in the US. The Jolie-Pitt Foundation donation will provide the supplemental long-term financial support needed for a family of four foster children in an SOS Village in the US.
Dr. Heather Paul, CEO of SOS Children’s Villages – USA expressed her gratitude for the on-going support from Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt: “I am truly thankful that Angelina and Brad understand the power of family – the kind of stable family that SOS holds as an essential part of healthy child development. Together, Angelina and Brad have been eye-witnesses to the great work of SOS in Ethiopia, Jordan, a Darfur refugee camp in Chad, and Haiti. Angelina and Brad know that children’s need for a family is universal.”
In the US, SOS Children’s Villages is a haven for a foster child, a haven from the storm of multiple placements, abuse or neglect. SOS puts foster children back together again with their brothers and sisters, and strengthens them for a bright future – a future that can include reunification with a biological parent, adoption, or success as an independent adult.Through this donation, The Jolie-Pitt Foundation will provide support to an SOS foster care family for a number of years. This long-term approach is crucial to transforming a child who has suffered years of abuse – healing cannot happen overnight.
SOS Children’s Villages in the US have achieved impressive results. Less than 50% of foster care children in the US complete high school, while SOS youth have a completion rate of almost 100%. Over 300 foster children now call SOS home in Illinois and Florida, including many groups of biological brothers and sisters.
SOS Children’s Villages operates under these core principles:
Siblings should grow up together in a family-based environment.
Children should be re-unified with their biological family whenever possible.
Foster care children should never “age-out” of the system. Post-high school support is critical to a young adult’s long-term success.SOS Children’s Villages in the US receive public support for the basic needs of their foster children. The additional services needed to transform a child’s life are provided by private donors. The $150,000 donation from The Jolie-Pitt Foundation will fund numerous services such as full-time, professionally trained caregivers, counseling, intensive support toward family reunification, vocational training or college preparation.
[From PR Newswire]
To read more about the SOS Children’s Villages, or to donate, go here.
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I honestly think they coulda done a better picture with each other in some other kind of capacity. I am not sure this movie will do well to be honest.
I love Johnny! LOVE LOVE but I just dont see any chemistry with her at all, he could never speak in an entire film and make it work, Angelina? Not so much.
Good for them on the donation.
I’ve seen a couple of trailers on TV, and the movie (while I expect it to do well in the theaters financially) looks boring and kind of cliche. the accent got me, too. Why bother with them? she doesn’t need them to make her character more exotic or interesting. the other thing I noticed about the trailers is the difference in how the movie is being marketed. The first trailer was making the movie look like an action/intrigue comedy, the second one made it look like an action/intrigue spy drama. I’ve found that studios do that when the first marketing blitz is not received well, or doesn’t produce much interest. If a studio doesn’t know how to market a movie, or to which segment of the population to market it, it often doesn’t bode well for the movie.
and the bf doesn’t usually comment on actresses’ looks, either, but what did he say about Jolie in the trailer? (after commenting on the terrible accent) “looks like the bloom is off the rose, huh? she REALLY needs to put on a few pounds…right now she looks like an alien.”
EDIT: I think Jolie would be a good Wonder Woman, but she’d need to bulk up a bit to play an amazon.
What happened to her neck?
This poster is awful!!!
why did i click on the courtney love link? *shudder*
Of course her accent sucks, unless she’s blowing something or someone up she can’t act for her life. This movie is going to bomb and all the loons are going to blame Johnny Depp because of it. Having said that Johnny looks like sh!t in this movie, fat & bloated. The fact of the matter is there is no chemistry here regardless of what their press agents say or what they say in interviews. These two HATED each other, you can’t come right out and say that but it’s true.
Why can’t I just like her like everybody else? Why do I have to find her acting laughable and her voice work irritating? Why can’t I feel the goodness coming out of her pores, making the world a better place?
Oh, well…
Oooooooo Kaiser, you in danger gurllllllll! ; )
@Whamo-Depp, for the last time, gained weight for the role.
As far as I remember Angie did one bad English accent and that was for Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, I guess people didn’t like her Tomb Raider accent either. However Lara Croft was English and I thought Angie sounded fine.
I don’t think Angie sounds bad here either. I am not sure if people think their is only one correct way to sound English or what. I have heard the English accent done a variety of ways (by actual English or people from Wales), including the way Angie is speaking here. This sounds fine to me. I do think Angelina is one of the rare actress of today whose natural voice is sultry and sexy and extremely pleasing on the ear, I wish she was just using her own natural voice. Angie isn’t playing The Tourist she is gonna be a foreigner and they usually have an accent.
Oh well. I am excited. I loved the clip. Johnny and Angie make a sexy ass team. I love the donating. I have never not loved Josh Whedon so sexy and hawt with his sci fi writing.
You do realize that she lived in England for about 3 years? She probably used the same accent that she used for Tomb Raider. That didn’t seem to kill anyone.
According to the hens every movie of hers is supposed to bomb but they never do. I am a fan of both of them and I can’t wait to see it.
Yeah, yeah, this looks like crap, she’s always sucked at English accents. W/E. I just want to know what happened to Johnny Depp’s face?? He looks…weird. Puffy yet wrinkly? Is it the hair added? Dunno, but it is not good.
Doesn’t Oscar love woodeny and English?
“You do realize that she lived in England for about 3 years?”
So? I was born & raised in Los Angeles, but now I live in the South, & I don’t run around with a southern drawl. She sounds like a nimrod.
I didn’t find her accent offensive. At all, actually. I was expecting the worst.
The published article states that they donated $150,000 NOT 1.5 million.
is she in wax?
she needs to stop “bitch face” acting(i know she can:i saw her Eatswood movie) Depp’s face looks different
on the trailer, i don’t know:nice cinematography…? and awful FX(behind them)
I have seen the trailer for this a few times now, and it looks like the two of them have ZERO chemistry. How could that be possible? Johnny Depp looks AWFUL (and I am a big fan of his). He looks too tan (fake tan), wrinkled in a Mel Gibson kind of way, his gently waving hairstyle is NOT sexy in the least and it looks permed. I don’t know, I am not feeling this movie.
she looks like a wax doll
i have heard accents like that with people who are expats or move around a lot internationally with army or oil families… sort of a hybrid sounding homogenized accent.
not sure if that’s what she’s going for though.
don’t mind the accent as much as the acting, if it can even be called that.
Bad special effects, terrible writing, wooden acting (on her part). Johnny actually isn’t that bad, given the material.
Man that writing is awful though. It’s like a college film class project.
“I’m Elise”
“I’m Frank”
“That’s a terrible name”
“It’s the only one I’ve got”
Hardy har.
Anyway, her English accent was horrible in the Tomb Raider movies as well. They are the only films I’ve ever actually liked where she was the main character-mostly because the special effects were really neat at the time and the stories were wonderfully preposterous (I love a good adventure film). But yea, her accent dropped in and out and sounded off.
And her voice is not naturally sultry-it has a kind of high-pitched girlie quality to it that, in my opinion, doesn’t match her image. In this clip her voice more closely resembles what I would think she sounds like all the time which isn’t the case.
But good on her and Brad for donating $150,000 (not 1.5 million) to the SOS Village. Foster children have a really hard time in life and I’m glad that someone is doing something to help them get a better start.
I’m not saying the following because I hate Angelina – I don’t care either way. But she is just a terrible actress. TERRIBLE.
I literally cannot watch her, I am so embarrassed for her. It’s cringe worthy her acting in movies. Can directors not see as they’re filming that she is simply horrible?
Yes, there is ZERO chemistry between these two.
@merry: That’s me too. I don’t usually comment on her because I can’t think of anything nice to say.
Is she SUPPOSED to have an English accent in the movie? Because in some of the clips, she doesn’t use it… did she forget to talk in her horrible fake accent for part of the time and no one noticed? Confusing.
I love Depp but I’m iffy about this movie. I see ZERO chemistry between these two and Johnny looks bloated and the hair is bad. I hate AJ’s bangs in this, too. Her look is off.
And that poster? The fuck? Where is Angie’s neck? Her nose is wrong, too. Depp looks weird.
It appears I have nothing nice to say. ha.
Good on her and Brad for donating to the SOS Village!
As for her acting it’s pathetic to watch. Hopefully she’ll be better at directing.
What time period is this supposed to be set in? If it’s say, 1930s, her accent would make sense. Modern times? It’s stupid. I wanted to like this movie very much but this doesn’t look good.
Is there going to be a bit where he goes ‘Listen, stone-faced rich lady, I was actually quite into my book until you came along. Do whatever you need to in Venice but leave me out of it!’? If not and the conversation goes on in this tortuous force-flirty manner, I don’t think I will bother with this film. Or put it on mute to watch the beautiful scenery in blissful silence.
Another thing I wondered – since when do trains to Venice look like the most modern German ICE trains which are virtually silent? Usually they are crappy old italian ones with plenty of loud chatty people in them.
As for the poster, they each look as if they are mid-shoot and taking directions from two different directors. Maybe the producers thought that if they don’t have to face each other nobody will notice there’s zero chemistry and not enough acting skills to cover that up.
Oh Sassy what other clips have you seen? In the trailers I have seen and in this clip whenever Angie was onscreen she had this accent. I am uh quite curious I haven’t seen the clips you mentioned.
God, she’s awful. She wouldn’t have gotten anywhere without nepotism… Her father opened doors for her in the entertainment industry…
i’m also annoyed by the accent! so i will not watch it even though i love johnny awww <3 him!
sidenote-i can’t watch true blood either b/c i can’t get past the voices…especially the blonde.
Sigh – she looked like a lovely amazon in the tomb raider films. I was struck by her extreme thinness in Mr. and Mrs. Smith. It’s gotten worse, and I no longer find her to be a believable action hero.
I am with the people who think she should study her accents more, cause they are not even close to good, and as for her acting she is ok, she almost gets the same roles, sexy, mysterious, daring.
But you got to love the humanitarian side of her, also how nice she seems to be in real life.
I was of two minds as to whether or not I wanted to see this movie but after watching the trailer on TV a few nights ago, I might give it a shot. The trailer on the TV commercial didn’t look bad at all.
I bypassed “Changeling” in the theater and caught it on cable. A lot of people loved it but I didn’t like it at all. It’s just not my kind of movie.
@Olivia: Her father may have opened some doors but they would have slammed shut if she hadn’t shown some acting chops. You don’t get nominated for three Oscars and win one with bad acting. I wouldn’t put it past you to believe she slept with every man on the nominating committee to secure those nominations.
At least on what I could percieve on the trailers, they have no chemistry what so ever.
Awful acting by Jolie. Her mouth/lips do all the acting. Terrible!!!!!!!
@ LoveAngelina…I know you worship AJ and all…but come on…her accents suck…and don’t forget that god awful Dracula I vant to svuck your vblouuud. accent she did for Alexander. I know it’s hard for you…but she does stink in the accent department.
And the movie looks kinda boring to me. I’ll wait for HBO.
@Lena80 I did admit that one accent she did sucked. Also with Alexander we don’t know how people talked back then, how do we know they didn’t sound like that? I thought Angie was amazing in Alexander. Fierce. Her accent in A Mighty Heart was spot on. Her accent in The Tourist, from the bits and pieces we have seen sounds fine to me. I think people should give the movie a chance or reserve the HARSH criticism until they have actually seen it.
I actually have a theory about this bad accent – I think maybe the character isn’t really English, and so Angelina is supposed to be doing a very obvious fake accent, which she will then lose once Depp’s character finds out who she really is. That’s my hope/theory.
Cheyenne:…You don’t get nominated for three Oscars and win one with bad acting. I wouldn’t put it past you to believe she slept with every man on the nominating committee to secure those nominations.
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Someone has to give those guys some TLC. It would be wrong for her to reserve all of the love from the goodness of her heart for her family and those women, children and families in desperate need. 🙂
Her accent sucked in tomb raider as well.
I like Angelina’s voice, very sexy. Can’t wait to see the movie.
Looking forward to the movie.I’m not really a fan of Depp but if Angie is in it I will check it out.
wow…that is brutal. johnny blinks his eyes before responding, and it really seems like his face is saying, do i really need to pretend i’m intrigued? YIKES!
Somewhere, Linda Carter is shaking her head.
Joss, you’re an idiot. Pick someone who actually LOOKS like she can kick ass; an unknown without all the drama attached, please. AJ looks like she’d fall down in a stiff wind, let alone Wonder Woman’s invisible jet.
Her accent makes me cringe, her acting is awful. I can’t believe I’m expected to think she’s some beautiful goddess when she looks like a praying mantis with a drug problem.
This movie is going to suck, and that makes me sad for Johnny Depp.
Her accent makes me cringe, her acting is awful. I can’t believe I’m expected to think she’s some beautiful goddess when she looks like a praying mantis with a drug problem.
This movie is going to suck, and that makes me sad for Johnny Depp.
I actually thought the clip that was kind of adorable. The first half she was incredibly stiff but after that, she was cute. The whole thing looks like easy fun to me.
It’s nice to see Brad and Angelina doing their charity work. They seem to have fingers in so many charity pies but it’s nice to know they give to all of them and don’t just slap their name on it.
As for Wonder Woman, hmmm. I get it in theory and I’m hoping that’s all Joss was using her for- inspiration. Because Angelina is a lot of awesome things but kicking bad guys asses is not really one of them to me. She’s badass in other ways that aren’t Wonder Woman to me.
@LOVE ANGELINA: Oy-vay, let’s face it: Alexander and everybody in it was a major disaster.
twokids2: Her mouth/lips do all the acting. Terrible!!!!!!!
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At least she doesn’t call twirling her hair and icing her nipples “acting”.
it’s very femme fatale.
i feel like angelina’s very plastic in this scene. hopefully, she’ll liven up and give johnny something more to work with. he’s acting as hard as he can!!
bellaluna, Angelna is not going to play Wonder Woman!! This director said he based his character on Angelina Jolie. I think he would fall flat on his face if Angelina called him and said she would do Wonder Woman. At this point he doesn’t have anybody cast to play the part.
Angelina sounds wonderful as Elise; Johnny looks great; and the movie will be a mega-hit. So, keep on hating haters!!
Always knew you were a jenhen but it now proven. Angie’s accent is great. Hope the money from Huvane is worth it. Praise Aniston the D list actress and slam Angie the A list actress. Whta;s Aniston doing getting even more desparate. Used to like this site NO MORE
So if someone has something bad to say about St. Angie its only because they like JA? Cheyenne you need to get a grip!
@Cheyenne I like Alexander. It wasn’t the epic film Oliver Stone tried to make, despite how long it was. I thought Colin and Angie were great. They really embodied their characters.
I won’t bother watching the new trailer/clip, but I do intend to rent this film when it comes out on DVD, it looks light and fun, nothing to get worked up over.
Yeah AJ’s acting can be hit and miss sometimes, especially when accents are involved 😆 , however the woman has a TON of charisma and is so fun/fascinating/mesmerising to watch that I kind of give her a pass if her acting isn’t as good as it can be.
*Now backs away slowly away from the thread before the ‘loons’ and the haters bring on the apocalypse* 😆
@carol: What on earth are you going on about?
Ugh, how ANYONE could say Alexander wasn’t SO bad it actually became funny is beyond me. That accent! I wasn’t there, but I find it highly unlikely that people in ancient Macedonia had Count Chocula accents.
As for this, it looks flat and stiff, and the accent is off enough to be irritating, but not as awful as I expected.
@LoveAngelina… if you watch any of the clips (all have been posted on this site I believe and you can Youtube them if not. I don’t remember how many clips are available in total, because I don’t really care all that much), you can hear AJ’s accent fading in and out. It’s ridiculous and I’m not even going to TRY to convince you otherwise. I get it – you LOVE AJ and she can do no wrong, so whatevs. To me, she’s meh. Yawn.
Oh dear god! She’s beyond terrible. She’s looks like an anorexic tranny.
Everything looks awful. Hair, make-up, clothes. Don’t get me started on her accent. She’s a terrible actress and that fact that she won Oscar once means nothing. She won for playing herself, which back then was a psycho.
Anybody would win Oscar by playing herself. And she sounds awful.
I know I’m going to regret this, but…
“At least she doesn’t call twirling her hair and icing her nipples “acting”.”
it’s pretty clear who you’re referring to here.
which begs the question…what does Aniston’s acting skills (or lack thereof, depending on your take) have to do with this person’s opinion of Jolie’s acting? did this person compare Jolie’s acting to Aniston’s? no. so why did you? it couldn’t POSSIBLY be that you have some unnatural dislike for Aniston that stems from a five year old divorce, right?
for all of the times you’ve said “Brad didn’t divorce you, hon, get over it already”, you sure don’t seem to be “over it” yourself…you know, since you felt the need to bring Aniston into a thread that had NOTHING TO DO WITH HER.
@ mslewis – Thank God for small favours. And Joss, epic fail for basing your character on AJ.
I don’t understand why people are saying the accent is bad. It’s just a faint one. I know most people are saying it just because they hate Angelina but saying it’s the worst ever is over the top. I’ve heard a lot worst than this. Also Johnny isn’t supposed to be hot. He’s supposed to be an average joe.
Again with that Oscar stuff?
Oscars mean nothing, don’t you see that most of the greatest actors usually receive their first award just because “it’s time to”, as RDJ said in one of his latest interviews? Or that some others get the award because the others nominees’ performances were appalling.
EG Leonardo Di Caprio has never won one but according to most of the critics, reviewers, common people he is one of the best actors of his generation.
Kate Winslet won hers last year after many terrific performances.
Meryl Streep would get a nomination even if she’d just stood still holding her breath (don’t misread, she’s a great actress, but some of her nominations aren’t always well deserved).
Back to the topic, I loved Florian Von Whatever’s Das Leben der Anderen, that means that probably this movie isn’t as bad as those trailers make us believe.
Even Salt’s trailers were ridiculous, but the movie is quite decent (in its genre, of course) and enjoyable despite the fact that I can’t stand her so called acting.
@Janeth: Grip this, honey. You hens have no problem sticking in a snide aside about Jolie on every thread about Miss Hair Flip. Don’t dish it out if you can’t take it.
@LOVE ANGELINA: I like and admire Jolie, but let’s face it — Alexander was an unmitigated disaster for everybody in it, never mind for the people who sat through it.
@carol: Take two Haldol and if you don’t feel better, call the white coats in the morning.
Alexander was awful, Angelina has nothing to do with that.
The Elephants scene, talk about bad special affects. And Colin’s hair.
It wasnt a history film, it was a shitty one just like troy.
High five, Praise St. Angie.
Cheyenne, Aniston’s acting has nothing to do with Angelina’s. Stop citing irrelevant nonsense to “make a point”. You’re just making your “point” seem completely unjustifiable.
Angelina is a bad actress? Yeah well..this other actress is bad too!
So? That doesn’t suddenly negate the proposition that Angelina Jolie might be a bad actress.
Cheyenne: First of all I’m no hen so STFU! Second I don’t think I’ve ever talked shi* about AJ and don’t care to!!!! What I was pointing out was that just because someone has criticism of AJ doesn’t mean they are in love with JA or obsess about her like you do Angelina. Just like you criticize JA people have the right to criticize the HOLY ONE. NOW CALM DOWN AND GO TAKE YOUR MEDS!
Completely agree Praise – Every time there’s an AJ post where somebody says something mean about her Cheyenne ALWAYS brings up JA. Its creepy, irrelevant, and disturbingly mean – and for the love of God it does not look THAT bad, some of you are acting like its Glitter
hmmm,
I’m English and i think her accent is alright, very posh.
what bothers me more is the dodgy script she has. I do actually think the woman can act but shes a bit stiff here. But i think maybe the character is supposed attempting to be mysterious so its part of it.
as for her accents, tomb raider 1 i actually thought her accent was just fine so I dont get the hate for it. Alexander, not entirely sure what she was going for, or why she had an accent but other characters didnt.
Her marianne pearl accent was actually really really good. If you watch videos and see how marianne talks she has this weird french accent thats really off.
I’m not going to listen to this at work, but I will say that when I listened to a previous trailer, her accent struck me as very close to a British marine biologist that is on Plant Green. I must ask my British bf to listen to AJ here. I’ll be interested in his opinion.
this movie seems realllyyy boring and stale
Praise/Hamm/Janeth: Agreed. In fact, her hatred is so bitter and irrational, it actually startles me on occasion.
And, Cheyenne, before you say it: The nasty things people have said about the JPs on other sites does not in any way justify your behavior here.
Wow. A few hundred thousand dollars. That’s what they pay their managers, nannies, and security staff per week.
What a generous gesture! And they get to write it off on their US taxes.
Stupendous. Yawn.
Bullcrap.
Angelina Jolie is wooden
That’s because she has the acting range of a plank of wood.
I don’t know why ppl think she’s a good actress. She’s terrible. Like Ash Rai, she may be beautiful to look at, but she’s a horrible actress.
@ Kristin – ROFL @ Count Chocula accents! Very nicely said!
@sara: It’s probably $150,000 more than what’s-her-face donated. Just sayin’.
Let me settle this age old debate about JA and AJ’s acting skills:
They are both terrible. Done.
JA never rises above romcom pleasant, and Angelina hasn’t been even vaguely interesting to me since “girl interrupted”. I cannot fathom why people get so heated about either actress.
For me, comparing these two is like comparing lunesta to ambien. They are both so painfully boring! The tabs have been recycling the same stories about these two for FIVE YEARS! I think it’s high time we all moved on.
If I could give either of these women career advice, it would be this:
JA: please retire from trying to be a movie star and put out a line of work out videos and health food products. People would eat that up! For example, you couldn’t pay me enough to sit through your latest movie with Adam Sandler. But, I would indeed pay you to find out your diet and work out routine!
AJ: Keep the humanitarian work up, and take a year off. Take some more time to enjoy your travels, bulk up with a little much needed muscle and especially take some time to enjoy your kids. Kids are the most fun when they’re little. Don’t miss the joys of watching them learn to do everything for the first time! You’re rich and you will never get that time back. Plus, you are so very, very overexposed. If you go away for awhile, and return to a believable shape for action films, I may eventually netflix your future movies.
Ok, end of rant.
I’m with you Camille, her acting is hit or miss but I still feel the need to watch her. I don’t care that Alexander was trash… (yes that accent could kill)… but if you turn off the volume… wow did she ever look gorgeous and I wish she had more screen time in that movie.
As for this movie, I hate how she’s styled. Not that she looks bad it’s just an awful style. Her accent is slightly annoying but nothing to call home about.
I have most of AJ’s moviebut I think I miss this one. It really looks boring.
Love Jolie, love Depp…will see this no matter what.
P.S.: I’m confused about Joss Whedon’s comment…The Avengers is a Marvel’s movie. Wonder Woman belongs to DC Comics — it makes no sense that she appears in a Marvel related movie.
I just love reading how the people here find her such a terrible actress.. HOW THE heck would you know. You don’t like her yet you shell out money to see her films. And if you claim you don’t then how would you know about her performance. She is wooden. The word is aloof.
I laugh at all of you. It is the same tactic every time she has a film.. Trash her and the performance. ONE that you have not even seen. A trailer is just that a trailer.. some times what is seen in them may not even make the film. Angelina has fans all over the world that will be seeing this film. And don’t hold your breathe waiting for it to fail at the BO. it will not. Just like SALT made tons of cash.. this one will too. She is not making films for you all that don’t like her. Who would expect you to see it anyway. But my guess is many of you posting her will be front and center in a theater..
regarding her accent. MOST people that actually travel have said she is spot on. but don’t let that stop the hate fest.. It must give you all some kind of pleasure. Sick on many levels. ONE would think Angie had done something to you personally..
People donate money because they want to. If she and Brad gave a dollar it is a dollar more then they are required to give. Their money to do what they choose and in any amount they choose.
People can be such —–
I’m curious, the posters that says she’s sporting a bad accent here, what do you expect her to sound like? She sounds like anyone of my European colleagues who speaks English fluently and have picked up some accents from their various travels and assignments. We have two clients who are both Brits but you certainly detect that they are sporting different regional accents. One speaks with a cockney accent the other with an RP accent. Angelina sounds like she has a trace of an RP accent. She sounds like she has an upper class accent to me.
Whether you like her or not Changeling, Girl, Interrupted, Life or Something Like It, Gia, True Women and Foxfire were all great movies and she was great in them.
Oh look, Love Angelina is at it again. 😀 You women get stupid crazy when it comes to Angelina Jolie.
A movie with Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp, Paul Bettany, Timothy Dalton and Rufus Sewell in it, with Venice in the background? Must see it. Will go see it.
i couldn’t say whether the accent is off or not. i’m horrible when it comes to english/british accents. her accents in other films however, were very very regrettable. for me, these trailers and clips for the tourist are terrible because of her acting. she tries sooo verrrry hard to act like a seductress in every frame. she’s not relatable that way. hell, she’s not even human that way. real humans have a gamut of emotions, and she seems to stick to only one emotion/feeling at a time in each film. like she’s keeping herself contained in tupperware. it grates on the nerves. for the tombs, it was bad-ass (which was much more believable then when she had meat on her body), for the Smith movie, Salt movie, this movie, and the Alexander movie, it’s nonstop seduction. to the point of embarrassment and giggles. and finally, for changeling and the heart movie, it was crying/screaming. the one film where she played a wonderful character was in girl, interrupted. she was a psychiatric patient and whaddya know, she became a psychiatric patient shortly thereafter.
@lisa: sorry. not everyone is going to think she’s an amazing actor. there was a time when people flocked to theaters to see Jennifer Lopez in movies. or, a current example: once upon a time, there was a little get together of a so called edward cullen + bella swan. those two terrible actors actually kick angie and brad’s butts at the box office. get my drift? ticket sales do not an actress make. jolie is popular right now, and good for her if it suits her. but her acting is embarrassing. oh, and one more thing: wanna know how people see these films without spending money on them? i’ll tell you how i had the misfortune of seeing alexander: amc. I’ll tell you how i saw mr. and mrs. smith: on a date at a guy’s apartment. how i saw girl, interrupted: a roommate got the movie at a $5 bin and we thought we’d give it a shot. honestly you’re too kind! to assume i have money to waste “front and center” in a theater for a movie i have no desire to see? how you’ve read my mind. it truly is utterly amazing.
Well. At least Depp has the decency to look embarassed about his part in the whole thing. Angie is starting to get buttfaceitis, but bitch can still wear the hell out of those clothes.
anti:
November 22nd, 2010 at 1:36 pm
i have heard accents like that with people who are expats or move around a lot internationally with army or oil families… sort of a hybrid sounding homogenized accent.
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As someone from the oil community who has been expatting for the past decade and a half, I can honestly say that there is no “homogenized accent”, at least not in the adults.
The simple truth is that people who have a musical ear tend to do better with accents, whether that be while learning a new language or imitating an accent that isn’t their own (again, this is as an adult). It’s quite obvious that Jolie does NOT have a musical ear.
Okay love, love the fact that the way you’ve written it makes Englishy side with Wooden, because we know we English can’t act without being wooden…….
and second it’s Joss not Josh Weadon I know thanksgiving etc but come on
wow! actually i love how people hate her. i think people hate people for very selfish reasons. which means they are bad people themselves. since bad can’t associate with good. darkness can’t mix with light. oil can’t mix with water…ALL this hate actually convinces me that Angie is an amazing person. don’t care if she’s wooden. I WILL go see the movie. cos Angie always surprises me. always.
@Newbie, whoa! for someone who thinks she ‘tries sooo verry hard…but is still terrible’…, you certainly have watched EVERY movie she’s been in. why? was it an Idle Minds Project titled How to Project Hate the Painful Way – by Watching all the Movies of an Actress You Obviously Dislike? lol!
@Newbie, oh yeah, …it doesn’t matter HOW you saw them, Miss New Born Baby, fact remains you DID see them. no one put a gun to your head.
@Canuck. so every human being on earth is supposed to have a MUSICAL ear? have you heard an Afrikaans speak English? bet it sounds just like MUSIC to your oil-expatting ears. 🙂 if you just don’t like her, you should say so on this board where everyone speaks freely, Canuck.
haha, celebitchy must love getting all these hits
To all the Angelina haters: I think the haters are just annoyed that Angelina is able to half-ass her job and get paid millions for doing it and the haters are doing what…..whatever it is the AJ haters are doing. Some one made this comment to Cheyenne, so right back at ya.
It seems they do nothing but sit on their computers, so they can give negative feedback to any and every thing about Angelina Jolie, she is still getting paid MILLIONS. LOL
@ Sakyiwaa: Did I say that every human being on earth has to have a musical ear? I think that you are busy putting words in my mouth. Perhaps you could actually read what I wrote instead of blathering on about things that were never said. She has a crappy accent, and it’s probable that she doesn’t have a musical ear, much like a large portion of the human population. Sorry if that somehow offends you. She also has freakishly big feet for her size, OMG she’s not perfect!!! :eyeroll: Oh well, neither are you or I.
Very interesting display of projection from many people here.
Why are you wasting your energy on someone who is overpaid to play dressup and pretend to be someone else?
Older male actors who weren’t raised in dysfunctional families often let slip in interviews that they are embarrassed to do this kind of thing for a living.
Think about it. It’s demeaning and ridiculous.
I’ve worked on several movie productions. The first was “Coal Miner’s Daughter” before Sissy Spacek became famous. Between takes almost the entire crew joked with the extras about how totally ridiculous it was to sit in the sweltering Ryman Auditorium recreating the experience of someone who was still alive (Loretta Lynn).
Miss Jolie was raised with someone who had trouble with personal boundaries. I doubt she’ll ever be sane enough to recognize that she lives in a carefully constructed fantasy world. This chick is so aware of cameras and how she projects herself that I wonder if there’s even a person there when there isn’t some adoring validation–camera, live human–nearby. Girl defines narcissistic personality disorder, but she’s shrewd enough to hide it. Very, very well. Scary little plastic chick.
@Sakyiwaa: ?????!!!!!!?????? what the hell?
Uh-oh this looks AWFUL!
First, AJ can have a GREAT English accent, as w/Lara Croft…
but this time…well, this whole stupid scene sucks. Not just her accent, but the stiffness, the make-up (eye-liner on the two of them!), the wooden acting. Ugly and fake.
Sigh. I do love angie so. But this movie looks like a dud.