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Post by craftsbycarolyn on Dec 26, 2014 23:40:36 GMT
For me, it was several things.... Her first marriage to the guy from Elementary? She wore a t-shirt with his name written in her own blood. She shared a really creepy, gross kiss with her brother at the Academy Awards She wore her ex-husband's blood in a locket (the fact that it was a locket and not a vial is supposed to make it less creepy, I think) Part of me always cynically wondered how much of her weird crap was for attention and publicity, but it just turned me off to her from day one. Nothing to do with Jennifer Aniston. Yep, me, too! and I always thought she was dirty looking! I think all the weird crap was the real deal and all the humanitarian stuff she does is for attention and publicity!!!
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Post by meeko77 on Dec 27, 2014 1:52:08 GMT
For those who call her a home wrecker, get over it already. People act like Brad divorced the Virgin Mary. I laughed at that because it is just how I think. Yes, she has done some really weird things in her past. But, like the OP said, I sure don't want to be judged by my past, and so I don't judge her by her past. I like her too. At least as far as my like of celebrities go. I am not really one to follow any celebrity much.
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Post by caro on Dec 27, 2014 2:45:17 GMT
Unless you ( general) know Angelina and Brad personally, we only know what the media wants us to know. How do we really know if she is a great mom? I don't know and I just don't care one way or another. I have several friends who are good moms, have adopted internationally, and work for humanitarian causes and aren't plastered all over the news. They should be with all the good they do. Angelina and Brad. Meh.
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Post by pierkiss on Dec 27, 2014 2:49:53 GMT
For the life of me, I cannot figure out why the world loves Jennifer Aniston so much. I seriously do not understand why the media is still perpetuating the "Angie is always the bad guy, Brad is always the bad guy, and poor Jennifer, left in the dust and is all alone" stories. Get over it America. For whatever reasons, their marriage failed, and Brad and Angelina became a couple. It happens every day, to all sorts of people. Enough.
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Post by PNWMom on Dec 27, 2014 3:00:12 GMT
I will forever love her because of the publicity she brought to the struggles of BRCA positive women. I was diagnosed with a BRCA related breast cancer at the same time Angelina came forward with her BRCA story. While I have not had doubts/concerns/etc about the choices I made since my diagnosis (surgery/chemo, etc), my BRCA positive/cancer free sister had a very hard time making choices for herself. It was so helpful for her to be able to point to Angelina Jolie and say 'I have what she has' to explain having her ovaries removed, and eventually her breasts. She was/is very private about it, and I know it was super helpful to see a celebrity bringing some light to this particular issue.
Also.......the humanitarianism is just for publicity?? Please. I am sure they hand out UN Ambassador-ships to every celebrity looking to beef up their public profile. People are so ridiculous when it comes to judging celebrities they know nothing about other than tabloid info.
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Post by gmcwife1 on Dec 27, 2014 5:03:33 GMT
Unless you ( general) know Angelina and Brad personally, we only know what the media wants us to know. How do we really know if she is a great mom? I don't know and I just don't care one way or another. I have several friends who are good moms, have adopted internationally, and work for humanitarian causes and aren't plastered all over the news. They should be with all the good they do. Angelina and Brad. Meh. I don't understand why people want everyone to love her so much. I just don't care about celebrities that much!
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Post by sugarmama on Dec 27, 2014 5:21:28 GMT
Wow, there sure are a lot of you peas bringing up things Angelina did 10, 20+ years ago. i wonder how many of you act the same way you did years ago and how many stupid things you did that are now "cringe-worthy." Who cares? I think the woman she is now is much more appealing and hopefully she is sincere.
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Post by jackie on Dec 27, 2014 5:23:12 GMT
I don't think people necessarily want anyone to love them. I don't really "love" celebrities that I never met and don't know. I may admire them but love is reserved for people that are actually in my life. I just think many don't understand why people hate her, hate her to the point that they won't see her work, hope that she fails, and doubts the sincerity of everything she does.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2014 5:28:42 GMT
I've always thought of her as a baby collector but they've seemed to slow down on that. I think she is average in most ways. She always seems so poised. Like the awards show, throwing her bare leg out. Anyway, she's not relatable and I'm not interested in her life. Doesn't mean I "hate".
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Post by elaine on Dec 27, 2014 5:32:26 GMT
I find it fascinating why it is so important for some people that everyone love Angelina Jolie - enough to start a thread on a public message board to convince people to love her, or to hand slap those that don't. I can't fathom why they think it will change anyone's opinion one iota.
I admire Hillary Clinton for a plethora of reasons, but I acknowledge the fact that many feel the polar opposite of what I do. I also know that I would accomplish nothing but conflict by starting a thread about how wonderful I find her and disparaging those who don't think and feel the same way. It isn't as if someone would read my words and say, "oh my! Elaine is right, Hillary really is amazing." They will only become more firmly entrenched in how they already feel.
Angelina Jolie, and Hillary for that matter, could not care less about what a bunch of women on a public message board think about them and no one should feel bad about whatever they think about them for whatever reason, IMO. What we think really isn't that important in the big picture, only that we are discussing them in a public forum giving them the publicity and attention they crave.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2014 5:45:39 GMT
We have no clue what goes on behind closed doors.
Angelina manages her publicity quite well and has seemed to have grown up since meeting brad. What can you say about a person who donates her money and time the way she does? And brad too. He donates a lot to building affordable homes for the poor.
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Post by papersilly on Dec 27, 2014 5:59:17 GMT
For the life of me, I cannot figure out why the world loves Jennifer Aniston so much. I seriously do not understand why the media is still perpetuating the "Angie is always the bad guy, Brad is always the bad guy, and poor Jennifer, left in the dust and is all alone" stories. Get over it America. For whatever reasons, their marriage failed, and Brad and Angelina became a couple. It happens every day, to all sorts of people. Enough.
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Post by Anita on Dec 27, 2014 6:12:29 GMT
Are you her publicist or something? Why the defensive post? I didn't like Angelina Jolie before she hooked up with Brad. Their in-your-face cheating didn't help my opinion. And no one gets to determine when I should "get over" things. If I want to boycott her movies forever because of her past, I will. But that's not why I do. I just think she's a terrible actress and a total attention whore. Good for her for her humanitarian acts, but I think the level of attention she gets for it is blown way out of proportion. There are plenty of other humanitarians out there who don't get the recognition they deserve.
I was never a Brad fan because I don't find his acting that compelling, either. I don't care at all about Jennifer.
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Post by stampinchick on Dec 27, 2014 6:32:36 GMT
1. I don't know if Angelina "stole" Brad from Jennifer or not. I am quite certain that even if Brad had never met Angelina he and Jennifer still would have divorced at some point.
2. The odds of Brad and Angelina staying together long term are very slim. Between their combined history of failed relationships and the divorce rate of celebrity couples it's just very unlikely that their marriage will last.
3. As far as Angelina being a great humanitarian, I do think it's admirable that she does humanitarian work, but there are many, many, many people who have done far more than she has ever done or will ever do and they go unnoticed by the masses because they aren't celebrities.
4. I saw Unbroken tonight and thought it was a wonderful film. Now I want to read the book which I've heard is even better than the movie.
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Post by Tamhugh on Dec 28, 2014 2:55:58 GMT
Why is that if people don't like her, we are told that we don't know what she is really like and we are basing it all on her weird tabloid stories? Those who love her don't really know her either and are basing their admiration of her on good media stories. How do we know which are more accurate?
It kind of reminds me of the whole Bill Cosby situation. I was a huge admirer of his because of his contributions to education and his philanthropic work. But really, if his bad stories are true, then I was just fooled by his good publicity (and I believe I was). Angelina may be a total saint. She may be nothing of the sort. None of us know unless we actually know her personally.
I have only seen her in a few movies and I didn't like her in any of them. She is beautiful, but I don't think she is a great actress and I stand by the fact that she just gives me the creeps a little. Nothing to do with jealousy or unfair judgement. I can rest easy knowing that my opinion does not hurt her in the least.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2014 4:22:11 GMT
I don't care for her either and I saw Maleficent only because I heard it was amazing, but I would've rather her not been in it. I think she's just ridiculous.
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Post by luckyexwife on Dec 28, 2014 4:32:54 GMT
I think the OP is Angelina Jolie, Googled her name, found the board, and is trying to set us all straight! For the record, I'm apathetic towards her. The media portrays her to be a great mom, but who knows what her life is really like. I am partial to Brad and Jen, though, as my DH and I got married the same day they did!!
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Post by msliz on Dec 28, 2014 5:19:49 GMT
Well, I'm more interested in her life than anything to do with the Kardashians. The surgery stuff is interesting, the ambassador stuff is interesting, the acting/directing stuff is interesting, the family stuff is interesting. That doesn't mean I want to spend more than a few minutes a year reading the headlines at the checkout counter, but it's better than time spent on the K sisters.
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Post by anniebygaslight on Dec 28, 2014 5:27:35 GMT
Well, I'm more interested in her life than anything to do with the Kardashians. The surgery stuff is interesting, the ambassador stuff is interesting, the acting/directing stuff is interesting, the family stuff is interesting. That doesn't mean I want to spend more than a few minutes a year reading the headlines at the checkout counter, but it's better than time spent on the K sisters. Exactly. I wouldn't cross the street to shake her hand, but I can't muster enough energy to dislike her. Her family is no more dysfunctional or weird than many.
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Post by camanddanismom on Dec 28, 2014 5:29:52 GMT
I don't hate her. I lost respect for her recently in a news report about her health choices...she went through that traumatic surgery to avoid potential breast cancer and was caught on film smoking with Brad.
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Post by Skypea on Dec 28, 2014 5:47:07 GMT
Are you her publicist or something? Why the defensive post? I didn't like Angelina Jolie before she hooked up with Brad. Their in-your-face cheating didn't help my opinion. And no one gets to determine when I should "get over" things. If I want to boycott her movies forever because of her past, I will. But that's not why I do. I just think she's a terrible actress and a total attention whore. Good for her for her humanitarian acts, but I think the level of attention she gets for it is blown way out of proportion. There are plenty of other humanitarians out there who don't get the recognition they deserve. I was never a Brad fan because I don't find his acting that compelling, either. I don't care at all about Jennifer.
same here. don't care for either one of them. I think I've seen each in a movie and wasn't impressed by either. Never thought Brad was all 'that' in the looks dept either. Don't understand those who think that way. Jolie always appears to be a snot.
The ambassador thing is very much a celebrity thing...
not a fan of Jennifer either.
Does it keep you up nights or something that not everyone likes them? There are bigger things in life to make a fuss about.
And making a public thing out of her dd is disgusting. Timing is questionable too with the movie coming out - and the Sony email slamming her.
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Post by creativecricket on Dec 28, 2014 6:19:39 GMT
She does good humanitarian work, she loves her children, and she was candid about her health. For those who call her a home wrecker, get over it already. People act like Brad divorced the Virgin Mary. Like i said, I like her. I like her. I like her humanitarian work. I think over all she is a good person. I'm certainly not going to judge anyone as I am far from perfect myself. I get that not everyone is going to like everyone one else, but there is some serious hate for her out there and I don't understand it.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2014 7:24:09 GMT
I admire her because she loves kids.
She obviously adores her kids & tries to help even more through her philanthropy.
All the rest of it? Water under the bridge.
I certainly lose respect for any person who cheats, but dislike her & Brad for it? Nah.
And I still haven't ever even seen a movie with her in it. Unbroken & Maleficent are the first 2 that have remotely appealed to me, so maybe I will soon.
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