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Last night I started watching 'The Good Girl' starring TV's Jennifer Aniston. I had to stop after 14 minutes. It was bad, but maybe it would have improved. Usuaally I cut films a little more slack. But I think I couldn't deal with the idea of JA not being 'Rachel from Friends' just because it ran for so long and you get used to TV actors being their characters -- equally, James Gandolfini will always be Tony Soprano, and Alan Alda is Hawkeye even in 'The Aviator'.

This is tough on actors -- if they simply transfer their familiar TV personas into film roles they get slammed; if they don't, people like me can't dig it either.

Or maybe that's all bollocks. Maybe it's just a bad film and JA's (and Jake Gyllenhal's) forced working-class accent smacked of humbug?

― Miles Finch, Friday, 21 January 2005 11:07 (twenty-one years ago)

David Schwimmer: autistic serial killer
Matt LeBlanc: homosexual disc jockey
Matthew Perry: army general
Courteney Cox-Arquette: crack ho
Lisa Kudrow: U.S Secretary of Defence

― Stevem On X (blueski), Friday, 21 January 2005 11:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought Ashton Kutcher did very well to escape his traditional role when he did Butterfly Effect.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 21 January 2005 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I dug The Good Girl, because that motherfucking homicidal theme song has kept me from ever watching an episode of Friends.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 January 2005 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Jake plays a narked youngster who calls himself 'Holden' after 'Teh Cathcerin the Rye'. Like 'Garden State' it was almost preternaturally 'indie'.

― Miles Finch, Friday, 21 January 2005 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

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