With V for Vendetta coming out, let's discuss the film career of Natalie Portman. What is your favorite movie with Natalie Portman? What's her best role ever? Is she a great actress or just a good one?
I haven't seen her do anything to suggest she's better than good.
I know a lot of people really think she's great, and maybe she could be. But I dont think she's found the right role to show it.
I really LIKE her... she just seems like a cool chick, really bright, genius even. But while she's a solid actress, I don't think she is a GREAT actress, at least not yet.
My favorite performance of hers is in Garden State... but again, just very good.
I think her performance in The Professional raised her up in many people's minds. I'm not sure if she has ever topped that role. Garden State is my favorite film of hers though. I seem to like all her movies. I might be the only person who remembers Beautiful Girls.
She was bad in Star Wars but I think Lucas is partially to blame. I think she grew tired of the story and sorta phoned in her role too.
I think it's more Green Screen that's to blame.
That's what killed everyone in Star Wars. Too much green screen. Some people do worse with it than others, but it never helps performances.... and Lucas doesn't make it any easier.
But whatever the reason, to me she seems worse than most of the other Star Wars victims. Even in Revenge of the Sith, where the others seems a lot better.
I still remember seeing her in Beautiful Girls and she definitely caught my attention. She definitely has the potential of winning a Supporting Actress Oscar one of these days, but not lead. Phantom Menace was the only one of the prequels she was good in. I blame Hayden mostly, she didn't have that much to work up against there
And yes, Garden State was her best performance. Never seen her in The Professional though
I thought Beautiful Girls was her best performance. I think it is very hard to make it believable that Timothy Hutton would even have the sort of crisis he was having with his relationship with her, and she made it easy to think that it could happen. But, except for the Rosie O'Donnel character, I love that movie.
Everyone but Ewan McGregor was pretty terrible in the Star Wars movies, so she didn't stand out to me.
She hasn't really bothered to top The Professional. That was a really intense role for her and had a lot of range to it. Now all it seems she does are romantic comedies or insipid sci-fi flicks. Why doesn't she do something that involves screaming and being scared and running and stuff? She'd be great in The Hills Have Eyes or something. Point is, she needs to branch out from romcom's.
That film hinged on her role being believable, and she made it believable. I still hope for her to top it though, she deserves to be thought of as one of the best actresses of her generation - she just needs one or two good roles to prove it.
What I would like to see is Portman working alongside a director like Sofia Ford-Coppola, or some director that can bring good character driven movies to life.
Word is that she's VERY good in V. Maybe this will be her big performance. The role is certainly much more than that of some empy sci-fi hero. She don't know Kung Fu.
1. Garden State
2. Closer
3. The Professional (though I forget this movie and need to see it again)
I think she's a good fit for the role, and am very anxious to see her in the movie. V for Vendetta was just a great great graphic novel, hopefully it can be half as good as Alan Moore's stuff.
Garden State is head and shoulders above the rest.
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