For proof, see her role as a sexually predatory dentist in Horrible Bosses. She is crazy hot in that role (emphasis on “crazy”).
Aniston could run with that and head into roles with dangerous but witty sexuality, as Turner did. She’d be the kind of woman that will fuck you up good, and not just because she’s crazy, but because she likes to fuck men up. Throw in a lot of sarcasm and I’d watch, in part because I have the (I assume typical) male fantasy of getting the upper hand on a woman who is hot and smart and would destroy me if I wasn’t just a tiny bit smarter than her.
Or maybe I just read The Fountainhead too many times at an impressionable age.
Anyhoo, I loved the interplay between Frasier and Lilith in various episodes of Cheers and Frasier. I like smart couples who challenge each other and occasionally snipe at each other. The more typical sitcom pairing of a hot/smart wife and dumb-guy husband is almost always intolerable. Now that I think about it, it is plausible that Aniston’s character in Just Go With It could stay interested in Sandler’s character? Does he mature a lot in the movie?
Is Jen Aniston ever going to show us the goods, or is it just gonna be more of the same bra and panty scenes until she eventually gives up showing even that much skin on-screen?
In Horrible Bosses, she shows her ass (though it could possibly be a body double) and in one scene is wearing only a lab coat and panties, open to show her breasts nearly to the areolas.
Well, there’s the boooiii-oooiii-oooiiinnnng!
She’s hot and got sympathy from the Brad Pitt split.
Didn’t she appear on the cover of “Rolling Stone” in the mid 1990s lying on the floor with about half of her ass visible?
I think besides being “net profitably”, Aniston may appeal more to television viewers. I wouldn’t be surprised if her movies are popular in the secondary markets of cable and
movies on television where viewers want an actor/actress they are familiar with that is reasonably attractive but not slutty and whom they have sympathy for. Those monies won’t count in box office receipts but still count to the film’s investors.
She’s attractive, she is very recognizable to millions of people around the globe because of Friends, and then there’s the Brad Pitt stuff. That’s pretty much all there is to it. If it weren’t for Friends (which I sincerely believe she was great in), she would have been stuck in “Leprechauns” quality movies for a while, and then faded into obscurity.
no one told you life was gonna be this way.
She was billed second in several of the other movies you mentioned.
It’s obvious you were just trying to pad the stats in an attempt to strengthen a rather weak argument.
Along Came Polly made $172 million (US) worldwide on an estimated budget of $42M. That doesn’t include the costs of P&A, but then the revenue doesn’t include DVD sales.
Similarly, The Bounty Hunter made $136 million worldwide on an estimated budget of $40M.
In short, she’s made highly profitable movies in the past…so to the extent she actually drove that, she’s worth it.
Did I mention $200M revenue on The Break-Up on an estimated $50M budget? This girl is box office gold!
Um, she was billed first when I looked up all those movies. Where did you see otherwise and for which movies?
I just checked IMDB for the movies in the OP (The Switch, Along Came Polly, Rumor Has It, Friends With Money, Love Happens, The Break-Up and The Bounty Hunter). Her name was either the first or second one listed (after the male lead) for all but Friends With Money, for which she was the tenth name listed.
She’s perfect for the tabloids. Not many actresses could take her place, they aren’t well known or sympathetic enough, and gosh, everyone has watched Friends and knows all about that mean Brad and Angie! She’s not ‘edgy’, doesn’t get into trouble, is a good-looking, modestly talented, amiable, All-American dullard who has sufficient fans that her movies make money. I always think her fan base is composed of those sad fat girls pushing a cart through Walmart and throw the Star magazine in the cart so they can drool over “Jen’s new multi-million dollar house!” or “Jen wows them on the red carpet”, or “Jen’s new diet - how she keeps her figure!”. Who else can they look up to (maybe Sandra Bullock?). She’s someone to admire and look up to. Not to mention the breathless waiting to see if she’ll get knocked up, like a panda in the zoo. “Jen’s baby joy! See exclusive pics of Jen’s nursery!” At the end of the day, Jennifer Anniston will come home, watch Entertainment Tonight, shrug in a slightly bemused way, and go to sleep on a mattress stuffed with thousand dollar bills, thinking what a lucky bastard she is.