# Why do I feel such a strong "backlash" against Ellen Page?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 17, 2008, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-i-feel-such-a-strong-backlash-against-ellen-page/460323 "2008-08-17T21:22:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2008, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-i-feel-such-a-strong-backlash-against-ellen-page/460323/1 "2008-08-17T21:22:37Z")

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She was impressive in _Hard Candy_, but I didn’t much like the movie; it felt like it was voyeuristically getting off on what it was pretending to indict.

She was impressive in _Juno_, but her vocal idiosyncracies were starting to grate on me. And the sheer artificiality of that character, while entertainingly portrayed, was part of what I didn’t like about\* Napoleon Dynamite: The Chick Flick Version.\*

\*The Tracy Fragments \*was unwatchable, but still she seemed to be giving it a lot of energy.

I just watched _An American Crime_. It’s an exaggeration to say I wished the torture was real, but not to say that my sympathy for the character was compromised by my growing dislike of this actress.

I’m not sure I get it. She’s obviously a talented, if maybe a limited, actor. It may be saturation, but I don’t feel the same about Amy Adams, who’s received similar exposure since her nomination for _Junebug_. Anyone else over Ellen Page? If so, any theories as to why she evokes this response?

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**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2008, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-i-feel-such-a-strong-backlash-against-ellen-page/460323/2 "2008-08-17T21:28:23Z")

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I’ll respond with your response to a fellow Cafe Society poster.

[QUOTE=lissener]  
Lots of people do; do a search.  
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**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2008, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-i-feel-such-a-strong-backlash-against-ellen-page/460323/3 "2008-08-17T21:35:14Z")

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Because we’ve done the cycle of everyone saying how great she is, and now we’re onto the cycle of her being terrible.

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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2008, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-i-feel-such-a-strong-backlash-against-ellen-page/460323/4 "2008-08-17T21:36:09Z")

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She looks good in body-hugging leather.

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**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2008, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-i-feel-such-a-strong-backlash-against-ellen-page/460323/5 "2008-08-17T21:38:46Z")

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[QUOTE=Sleeps With Butterflies]  
I’ll respond with your response to a fellow Cafe Society poster.  
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Helpful. You’ll see that I participated in the previous thread about her; this thread was intended to be about why the backlash. The other thread started out praising her and then swiftly died. But thanks. :rolleyes: