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Is everyone on this post insane??

posted 9 years ago by kylejoner
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Just watched "Cake" after reading Ms. Aniston's complaints about her Oscar "snub" and cannot see how anyone in their right mind would ever have thought she could be awarded anything for such an incredibly amateurish acting job. I realize that today's film industry is woefully in desperate need of talent but has the standard of excellence fallen so low that people actually believe that the pointless and empty mediocrity of a film like "Cake" is award worthy?

Apparently Jennifer has no concept of what a great film performance by an actress is but I am really surprised to see so many supposed film fans here confusing her ambition with talent right along with her.

We're now in an era of actors being awarded for all the wrong reasons. They are not talented enough to inspire people from the inside so instead they wear scars, or prosthetic noses, or take off or gain 40 pounds to give a performance on the outside and are shamelessly blatant about expecting to be awarded for it! And they DO get awarded for it! But Jennifer Aniston's obvious and clueless, blind ambition in this regard really takes the "Cake."

[–] TearofLys (2398) 4 years ago

It's all terribly subjective. What one person considers a great performance, could be considered "meh" by another person. Addiiotnally, the academy, for better or worse, takes other things into consideration (e.g. social relevance), and this movie didn't check any of those boxes.

[–] TearofLys (2398) a year ago

are you effing kidding me? This is the movie that convinced me that Aniston could actually act. Take it from someone who lived that addicted life, she nailed it.