Comments on: 05.07 PulseFLICKS – An Open Letter To Scarlett Johansson

By: Len Sousa

Len Sousa — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 19:03:33 +0000

Well, it’s definitely official. I’ll never be sleeping with Scarlett Johansson. Unless she’s really into self-loathing — which would just be kinda creepy.

By: Steven Flores

Steven Flores — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:55:39 +0000

Finally, someone who understands my own frustrations. I fell in love with her for films like Lost in Translation & Girl with a Pearl Earring (rare films that I saw more than once in the theaters). I also enjoyed her earlier work like Manny & Lo, The Horse Whisperer, Ghost World, An American Rhapsody, and The Man Who Wasn’t There.

Things did change and not for the better. I didn’t mind In Good Company, SpongeBob or A Love Song for Bobby Long. A Good Woman was decent though she had to act with Helen Hunt (who sucks).

When she did The Island. I was pissed. Working with Michael Bay to me is a career low. Her performance, sucked. Everything (except Steve Buscemi) about that movie sucked.

In Match Point, I thought her performance was very uneven. She started out as being this insecure, beautiful woman. Then she becomes this nagging, annoying bitch who needed to be whacked. In Scoop, she was alright and funny. Yet, it was just average. The Black Dahlia, she was OK but it wasn’t like I imagined in reading the book in which, the character was darker and more complex.

The Prestige was a film I liked yet I felt her character was unnecessary. The worst thing I think she was done was being in that goddamn Justin Timberlake video. It was awful beyond awful.

Her doing an album. Oh… I’m not up for it. An album of Tom Waits covers. I heard her cover of Billie Holiday’s “Summertime” and she’s got an OK voice but the song was just boring and overproduced. Her vocals on Coachella singing backup for the Jesus & Mary Chain weren’t very good. I think she can sing but it shouldn’t be a career option. Leave that to Jena Malone, a very underrated actress, who is making more interesting music that isn’t commercial.

While I don’t mind her seeing her as a sex symbol. My feelings are mixed because I don’t think she’s being taken seriously as an actress. I saw her TV Guide Close-Up recently and I found the whole program to be generic and too much mention that her films didn’t make that much money and all that crap.

I have worries for her next features. The Nanny Diaries looks more like a commercial feature than something different from the people who did American Splendor. The Other Boleyn Girl with Natalie Portman is a film I’m highly anticipating. Yet, the test screening report scared me over the fact that she’s being out acted by Portman.

I’m scared for her that she’ll end up being this once gifted actress who then has lost any sense of credibility and such.

By: Simon Underwood

Simon Underwood — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:46:31 +0000

I can only assume, Sir, you decided to write this letter before thinking it out, and were so far through and so devoid of anything else to write, that you decided to push ahead regardless.

An actress who has reason to prominence taking prominent roles in movies? Heaven forfend! Directors offered a choice of actress for the roles they are casting actually picking the one they think best suits the role?!? Egads, surely such evil has never been perpetrated before in this business!

Personally, I have enjoyed all of Scarlett’s performances (the only exmaple given above I have not yet seen is Scoop!), and where you find much to criticise, I find much to praise. In Good Company and The Prestige feature some extremely delicate moments, The Island some well played comedy (“Two-Delta…”) and The Black Dahlia is a stunning performance.

Frankly, I disagree with you, Sir, and I think that Messrs Allen, Weitz, Bay, De Palma and Nolan (not to mention Ms Coppola, Mr Zwigoff and The Coen Brothers), people in a far better position to judge then yourself, would disagree with you also.

And really, a Gone With The Wind pun – did you stay up all night working on that?

By: jt

jt — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 08:45:44 +0000

Under the guise of calm sophistication, this is a mean-spirited, unconstructive rant. It certainly should not have been plugged on IMDb’s front page.

Give the girl a break. She clearly has talent, which you alluded to in the opening paragraph, so why not aim your criticism on someone who actually deserves it?

By: Adrian M

Adrian M — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 07:59:38 +0000

First off, jerk, she’s the actress with the career. You just have an opinion. An opinion that you want to push on her. She decides what she wants to act in, not you. And do you know why she decides this? Because she does what she wants with HER career. No one gives a damn if you’re tired of seeing her name pop up in every movie you see. You’re obviously missing other movies. Movies that did without her because she didn’t really give much of a care for them. If she missed out on an Oscar or two, well then she’s aware. I don’t think she’s in any rush. She’s an actress because she wants to SAVOR and ENJOY her career. NOT because she’s concerned with an internet blogger who’s itching to see her have five more paragraphs of dialogue. You think she’s going to thank you when she takes that Oscar and establishes herself as an A-lister?

Jackass.

By: lambman

lambman — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 07:41:48 +0000

Honestly, this girl is just makeup, pushup bras and mouth-breathing.

I only ever liked her in Ghost World, I think a wooden dummy could have played her part in Lost in Translation or The Island

By: Lucas

Lucas — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 07:26:47 +0000

Hear hear! Good luck Scarlett. We all hope you can turn around this arresting slide. Take a page out of Natalie Portman’s book: after starring in a few turkeys (Star Wars, anyone?), lay low then come back with an Oscar nomination (Closer) to prove you can actually do this whole performing thing.