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Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 100 | March 28, 2019 4:42 AM |
No one could read "Oh, hold me like you did on the lake on Naboo!" quite the way she did.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | December 18, 2014 9:02 PM |
SHE IS A HORRIBLE ACTRESS!
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | December 18, 2014 9:03 PM |
Her win for "Black Swan" was a joke. That was a performance created by editing.
Also, at least she covered. What has Hayden been up to these days?
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | December 18, 2014 9:13 PM |
Watching her in Star Wars I truly thought she was horrid!
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | December 18, 2014 9:25 PM |
"...after late director Mike Nichols revived her career by taking her on for his 2001 stage production of Chekhov’s The Seagull."
I don't know how that revived her career as she was terrible in that production, and her reviews were bad.
Nichols subsequently putting her in the movie of CLOSER probably helped, as she was good in that, though Anna Friel (from PUSHING DAISIES) played the role better on Broadway.
Part of the problem with those STAR WARS films is that Lucas doesn't know how to direct actors at all, so people are left to their own devices.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | December 18, 2014 10:23 PM |
Poor thing! She had to be in three Star Wars movies in a leading role each time!
I will cry all night long and all tomorrow!
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | December 18, 2014 10:47 PM |
How could anyone hold those performances against her?
George Lucas is the worst actor's director of all time, his young actors always look lost. No, only old pros like Alec Guiness and the guy who aged Palpatine can survive him unscathed.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | December 18, 2014 11:18 PM |
George Lucas and John Carpenter are two of the worst actor's directors.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | December 18, 2014 11:32 PM |
To be fair, even the mighty Meryl would've come off looking like a joke having to share most of her scenes with the talentless Hayden Christensen.
That said, I think Natalie's full of shit with this comment. She had the same type of reputation as Scarlett Johanssen when she started the sequel: a precocious but mindblowingly good actress for her age. And the bitch won the fucking Oscar a mere five years after the last "Star Wars" film! I would hardly call that "ruining her career."
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | December 18, 2014 11:46 PM |
Meesa think she did some dellow fellegation to get her career back on track.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | December 19, 2014 12:38 AM |
She's a good actor, what idiot thinks she's a horrible actor? Only a damn fool thinks that.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | December 19, 2014 12:42 AM |
I think she's a terrible actress, R11. She was good in "Leon: The Professional" when she was a kid. After that I kept waiting for her to give a good performance but she never did. She came close in "Closer" but didn't quite get there.
"The Other Boleyn Girl" was the end of the line for me. It was hard to tell who was worse, Planky Portman or Blancmange Johannsen. If you can't hold your own against Scarlett "basically a blow up doll" Johannsen, then you are no kind of actress.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | December 19, 2014 12:55 AM |
R12,I think Portmas was the weakest link in Closer. All the other actors were better, even Julia.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | December 19, 2014 2:28 AM |
WHAT CAREER! I don't even know who the fuck Portman was until you had the audacity to star fuck her on here. And I'm still unimpressed.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | December 19, 2014 11:20 PM |
At least you get to say, "almost," you lucky bitch.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | December 19, 2014 11:25 PM |
I thought she was good in Closer and in Black Swan.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | December 19, 2014 11:44 PM |
She is the inadvertent embodiment of everything that's wrong with how Hollywood develops actors. These days agents want to get very young kids and shove them in front of the cameras, and let them learn while working instead of getting any formal training.
People who go through this may give some "good" performances when they're young and directors can manipulate them easily, but they don't tend to develop into talented, intelligent, interesting actors. They're trained to do what they're told instead of developing a character from the inside out, and they certainly don't get any background in other times and cultures.
Scarlett Johanssen is the same, but at least she managed to get into the Marvel films, instead of the "Star Wars" prequels.
Scarlett Johanssen is the same,
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | December 20, 2014 12:11 AM |
She worked for Alan Dershowitz when she was at Harvard, on his "legal justifications for torture" project.
Also, while I would love to fuck Peter Dinklage, I find her repulsive
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | December 20, 2014 12:25 AM |
She wasn't horrible in Closer; she succeeded in convincing us that she was 22, which I think was the age she may have been in real life.
Julia was actually good... For the first time! She played an aging, passive-aggressive, banal portrait photographer like nobody else could have.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | December 20, 2014 12:31 AM |
All those movies had is cutting-edge CGI, which is now becoming dated.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | December 20, 2014 12:35 AM |
She was great in Mars Attacks - is it true she and her co-star Lukas Haas had a torrid affair during the filming?
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | December 20, 2014 12:59 AM |
Oh Natalie. I've never seen evidence that she is actually smart. She got in Harvard because she was famous.
Nor have I seen her give an amazing screen performance. What did Mike Nichols see in her? I remember she said he told her to work on her voice. It still has no gravity or weight.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | December 20, 2014 3:23 AM |
When Julia fucking Roberts gives a better performance than you in a film, it's time to hang it up.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | December 20, 2014 3:27 AM |
The writing of the prequels was horrid.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | December 20, 2014 4:14 AM |
I will never pay to go see her in anything. She is a cunt who thinks her shit doesn't stink.
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | December 20, 2014 4:20 AM |
[quote]WHAT CAREER! I don't even know who the fuck Portman was until you had the audacity to star fuck her on here. And I'm still unimpressed.
I don't understand it when people so loudly proclaim how out of touch they are. She won a goddamn Oscar, for fuck's sake. It's not like she's some nobody.
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | December 20, 2014 5:17 AM |
The pinnacle of her career was as a precocious 14 year old in Leon. She went downhill from there.
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | December 20, 2014 3:33 PM |
I wonder what her pussy looks like.
| by Anonymous | reply 30 | December 20, 2014 3:41 PM |
Wait, someone forced Natalie Portman to do the Star Wars films? Wow. At gunpoint, maybe?
| by Anonymous | reply 31 | December 20, 2014 3:56 PM |
Thanks to Star Wars, this belle of blandness has two well-deserved Razzie nominations under her belt.
| by Anonymous | reply 32 | December 20, 2014 6:40 PM |
she coasts on her looks, period. a nose job was her smartest career move. she's always do fine because of her face. it's nothing to do with talent.
| by Anonymous | reply 33 | December 20, 2014 6:53 PM |
I hate the "she's insufferable" troll.
| by Anonymous | reply 34 | December 20, 2014 6:57 PM |
R17 Do you really think she's the worst example of this?
| by Anonymous | reply 35 | December 20, 2014 7:01 PM |
She was so great in Leon, but like Anna Paquin, she does no know how to play an adult woman. The acting that worked for them when they were kids does not translate when they get older and they never developed their skills per someone like Jodie Foster. That is why Portman worked in Black Swan. She was playing a very arrested development, naive woman-child. But how many more roles are there like that for a woman in her 30's?
| by Anonymous | reply 36 | December 20, 2014 7:08 PM |
R6 You'll probably be dead tomorrow. So shut up, nobody cares about you.
| by Anonymous | reply 37 | December 20, 2014 7:13 PM |
Editors can only edit what you give them. And the dialogue might be shitty, but if you're a good actor you can still make them work... but nice try, Natalie.
| by Anonymous | reply 38 | December 20, 2014 7:13 PM |
R38 Name one good performance in those films.
| by Anonymous | reply 39 | December 20, 2014 7:21 PM |
R21 Probably not. I'd bet good money she didn't lose her virginity until years after that, and she's said in interviews she led a pretty sheltered childhood (when she went to Harvard she didn't know how to do laundry or use an ATM) so do you think her (probably overprotective) parents would let her get with a guy 5 years older than her? (she'd have been 14, he'd have been 19)
| by Anonymous | reply 40 | December 20, 2014 7:26 PM |
R39 I don't think Liam or Ewan were terrible. Then again, they're not terrible actors... unlike some whores.
| by Anonymous | reply 41 | December 20, 2014 7:34 PM |
R29 I've always loved that film and her Mathilda. But on reflection, is it really a performance beyond her years, or does it seem that way because of how her character is written?
| by Anonymous | reply 44 | December 20, 2014 7:43 PM |
Natalie at R42 please kindly shut the fuck up. No one cares what you have to say. Get back to fucking other people's husbands, okay?
| by Anonymous | reply 45 | December 20, 2014 7:44 PM |
I would probably give more credit to him casting her in Closer, which she was actually quite good in. I didn't even remember her being in Cold Mountain until it was mentioned. That's how forgettable she was in it.
| by Anonymous | reply 46 | December 20, 2014 7:48 PM |
[quote]she succeeded in convincing us that she was 22, which I think was the age she may have been in real life.
Now that's acting!
| by Anonymous | reply 47 | December 20, 2014 8:19 PM |
"Star Wars" may have had everyone thinking that Natalie Portman is a horrible actress; however, "Black Swan" confirmed it.
| by Anonymous | reply 48 | December 20, 2014 8:29 PM |
[quote]Oh Natalie. I've never seen evidence that she is actually smart. She got in Harvard because she was famous.
Um, no. She's smart alright. She's a science nerd. Not scary smart but obviously smarter than the average bear.
| by Anonymous | reply 49 | December 20, 2014 8:38 PM |
Harvard doesn't need to take people because they are famous.
| by Anonymous | reply 50 | December 20, 2014 8:51 PM |
Fuck right off this board, r43.
| by Anonymous | reply 51 | December 20, 2014 8:52 PM |
Her being famous may have helped her to get into Harvard but I don't have trouble believing she's intelligent and a good student just because she's not a great actress and seems somewhat annoying as a person.
| by Anonymous | reply 53 | December 20, 2014 9:00 PM |
Rooney Mara stole her career.
| by Anonymous | reply 54 | December 20, 2014 10:27 PM |
Is it true her son is Aronofsky's?
| by Anonymous | reply 55 | December 20, 2014 11:09 PM |
This makes me loathe her. Did she even WATCH the original trilogy before she signed up and see that the actors were left to their own devices?
Also, she has been in SO many crappy movies (Thor, hello) for the money that she needs to be way, way less pretentious and obnoxious.
| by Anonymous | reply 56 | December 21, 2014 11:59 AM |
In all fairness to Natalie, the scripts for the prequels were just awful, The Phantom Menace in particular. The greatest actress who ever lived could've done those movies and they still would've sucked, because the scripts were just unsalvageable. It really wasn't her fault.
| by Anonymous | reply 57 | December 21, 2014 5:46 PM |
The romantic dialogue in the second one was some of the worst in screen history.
| by Anonymous | reply 58 | December 21, 2014 9:01 PM |
r57, other actors have managed to outshine bad scripts. Natalie couldn't.
| by Anonymous | reply 59 | December 21, 2014 9:18 PM |
Why is Portman talking about this now?
| by Anonymous | reply 60 | December 21, 2014 9:30 PM |
Natalie sweetie,
What do you think "Star Wars" did to my career?
| by Anonymous | reply 61 | December 21, 2014 9:32 PM |
I don't know what she's bitching about. The three Star Wars films boosted her profile and she went on to win an Oscar. Yet she continues to do the big budgeted cgi films like Thor so go figure.
| by Anonymous | reply 62 | December 21, 2014 9:34 PM |
Natalie came off looking pretty good here. I kinda love her reaction.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 63 | December 24, 2014 1:55 AM |
r21 Don't know if it started during Mars Attacks, but I think they were on again/off again for years.
She was fine in Black Swan. People just don't like her Marie Antoinette personality, like with Goop.
| by Anonymous | reply 64 | December 29, 2014 3:22 PM |
She is a terrible actress and won't have much of a career past 40.
| by Anonymous | reply 65 | December 29, 2014 4:19 PM |
The Stars Wars films set her up financially and boosted her profile as an actress. Her career likely would have faded more quickly if she hadn't done them so I don't get her complaints.
| by Anonymous | reply 66 | December 29, 2014 5:29 PM |
I take it no one here has seen her turn in Forman's Goya's Ghosts where she plays two characters. It's one of the WORST pieces of acting ever recorded on film. She is a horrid actress.
| by Anonymous | reply 67 | December 29, 2014 8:35 PM |
I will be kind and say she's a very uneven actress. I thought she was genuinely good in "Black Swan" (but not Oscar-worthy), and incredibly bad in "The Other Boleyn Girl".
I don't blame her for the SW prequels. George Lucas can't direct actors or write dialogue, of course his young actors get lost.
| by Anonymous | reply 68 | December 29, 2014 11:27 PM |
[quote]The writing of the prequels was horrid.
Oops, my bad.
| by Anonymous | reply 70 | December 30, 2014 12:20 AM |
So is Natalie illiterate? Was she not able to read the script before accepting the role?
| by Anonymous | reply 71 | January 1, 2015 8:55 PM |
Anyone still believe that she got into Harvard on merit? $$$ over IQ in the numbers game, ok?
| by Anonymous | reply 72 | March 21, 2019 11:09 AM |
[quote]Natalie Portman has a vendetta against those terrible Star Wars prequels
.....doesn't everyone?
| by Anonymous | reply 73 | March 21, 2019 11:21 AM |
I love Natalie, but of course she had to give herself a "the struggle is real!" edit and make her life and career look anything but easy. And yeah, people laughed at her for selling out and star in a movie blockbuster franchise not exactly known for its sophisticated acting and dialogue.
| by Anonymous | reply 74 | March 21, 2019 12:01 PM |
Well at least she didn't get bullied for it.
| by Anonymous | reply 75 | March 21, 2019 12:04 PM |
Well hon, I've seen you do good work, but you were particularly amateurish in that movie. The only one who was worse than you was Hayden Christensen who seemed like he was reading every line from cue cards.
| by Anonymous | reply 76 | March 21, 2019 12:09 PM |
She did a Masterclass! LOL!
On how to be a coquette? A child woman?
| by Anonymous | reply 77 | March 21, 2019 2:44 PM |
Those prequels are better than these shitty reboots.
| by Anonymous | reply 78 | March 21, 2019 2:53 PM |
I agree that the prequels are better than the Disney stuff. But the Disney stuff is like reheated roadkill.
| by Anonymous | reply 79 | March 26, 2019 11:15 AM |
But you are Nat, buy you are!
| by Anonymous | reply 80 | March 26, 2019 11:19 AM |
For having a rep as so skinny, she has a wide, fat ass/bubble butt type thing going in the prequels.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 81 | March 26, 2019 11:25 AM |
and a big wide ass in Closer. Hmm. I spotted cottage cheese on her thighs in that movie. Why does an avowed vegan look like she eats big macs?
Or at least she did. Since Black Swan she looks like she lost 15 or 20 pounds. I wonder if she's going to end up like Maria Shriver from the obsession with being skeletal. Catch 22: if she eats it will all go to an ass that's already in the neighborhood of big. Oy veigh, Natalie.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 82 | March 26, 2019 11:29 AM |
I wonder if the actress who played Rey in the sequel. will feel the same one day. Her character is more forgetful than Queen Amidala.
| by Anonymous | reply 83 | March 26, 2019 12:47 PM |
R81 I loved that outfit. It's something Britney Spears would've worn in her Oops video lol.
| by Anonymous | reply 84 | March 26, 2019 12:55 PM |
Weren't Britney and Natalie friends? She's a big in the ass but I think Natalie looked really great in that Star Wars outfit. Britney peaked looks-wise in 01, been a drunken, drug, happy-meal bloated decline ever since.
| by Anonymous | reply 85 | March 26, 2019 1:00 PM |
Daisy Ridley is the female Mark Hamil. Without the talent.
| by Anonymous | reply 86 | March 26, 2019 1:04 PM |
Daisy Ridley is great as Rey!
| by Anonymous | reply 87 | March 26, 2019 1:17 PM |
Mike Nichols made her sign the Polanski petition to make sure he wasn't extradited. People like them stick together.
| by Anonymous | reply 88 | March 26, 2019 1:23 PM |
Well she wasn't as bad as Hayden, so there’s at least that.
| by Anonymous | reply 89 | March 26, 2019 1:28 PM |
Lowkey, Sam Jackson gives the worst performance in those movies. Outside Jake Lloyd and JarJar. Portman still doesn't understand that she was paid to stand there and look good. While Mike Nichols paid her to dance her fat ass around a pole -- she doesn't get that either. She thinks he hired her for her "acting" talent.
| by Anonymous | reply 90 | March 26, 2019 1:31 PM |
[Quote] Weren't Britney and Natalie friends?
I don't think so. I do remember Britney being friends with SMG.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 91 | March 26, 2019 2:04 PM |
r91 Britney and Natalie hosted a New Year's Eve party together in 2002.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 92 | March 26, 2019 3:00 PM |
LOL
But seriously, nobody blamed her for the prequels. It’s all on Lucas.
| by Anonymous | reply 93 | March 26, 2019 3:29 PM |
She was the worst in the "Thor" movies, the best one is actually the one she was removed, she can't play comedy at all. She shows zero chemistry with the males characters in general, she should blame SW for showing how bad is she.
| by Anonymous | reply 94 | March 26, 2019 3:29 PM |
[Quote] she can't play comedy at all.
She was ok in No Strings Attached. But she is better in serious roles.
| by Anonymous | reply 95 | March 26, 2019 7:28 PM |
She was born in Jerusalem , Occupied Palestine. Not sure if she's a supporter of Zionist oppression.
| by Anonymous | reply 96 | March 26, 2019 7:49 PM |
I only - and ONLY - can handle her in HEAT, JACKIE and her self-directed A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS because she plays embittered and bitchy and doesn’t cover it up with trembling lips, coquettish smiles and poor-little-me posing.
| by Anonymous | reply 97 | March 26, 2019 9:24 PM |
Refreshingly honest, most of us did think she was untalented.
| by Anonymous | reply 98 | March 26, 2019 9:58 PM |
To go from the amazing Natalie Dorman playing Anne Boleyn in The Tudors to Natalie Portman in the Other Boleyn Girl was disheartening. Watching Portman, I couldn't help but hope for her beheading to occur sooner than it did. Johansson should have played Anne.
And who is fathering her children? It certainly is not her gay ballet dancer/director husband.
| by Anonymous | reply 99 | March 26, 2019 10:12 PM |
I haven't kept up: what's the evidence that Millipied (sp?) is closeted? I keep hearing it. Anything specific?
| by Anonymous | reply 100 | March 28, 2019 4:42 AM |
