Why does Gwyneth Paltrow keep showing up on film adaptations of my favourite novels. WHY?!
Examples: Emma, The Talented Mr Ripley, The Passion.
Today I find out she’ll be in A.S Byatt’s Possession.
I know I’m taking this way too seriously but her lack of talent and presence just annoys the hell out of me. And I am immensely pissed that this has to happen over and over.
Grrr.
You know, she’s one of the few actresses that I will avoid any movie starring just in general principles. I think I hate her as much as you do. The ONLY good movie she was in was “Seven,” and I think we all know why we enjoyed her in it.
you may want to check out * Malice* in which Ms. Paltrow is a surly lazy college coed that gets murdered.
Dearie… hate to point it out, but since she’s been in most adaptations of your favourite novels, don’t you think you two have a lot in common? gasp!
I’m neutral, be to my (dis)credit, I haven’t seen many of her movies.
Jeff.
Don’t forget her scene stealing performance at the end of Seven. Priceless.
My sister shares your pathological hatred for Gwyneth…I’ll have to tell her you guys are kindred spirits. 
Personally, I don’t mind her all that much, not having seen many of her movies apart from Shakespeare in Love (which I adore – though Cate Blanchett really should have won that Oscar).
Don’t get me started on my pathological adoration for Cate. That deserves a whole other thread.
You can imagine the amount of eye-rolling I did during Ms Paltrow’s Oscar acceptance speech. Not exactly a funsy thing to do, but my eyeballs couldn’t help it.
The solution is simple. Don’t watch any film adaptation of any book. If you enjoyed a book why in the name of everything Holy and Unholy would you want to see it made into a jejune movie—with or without Gwyneth and her chicken breasts.
I don’t like Gwyneth and her chicken breasts either, and I can’t stand Julia Roberts and her horse teeth. Just thought I’d share that :).
I kinda dig Gwyneth. I like that she seems to have no qualms about doing quirky, independant films. I can’t really say she’s ever done anything “big budget”, Se7en might qualify, but I don’t think of it that way.
Hell, even whiny, woe-is-me, waif-extrodinaire Winona Ryder did Dracula and some Alien flick. SHE is the real no-talent wonder.
Wah, wah, wah…I keep doing period pieces but I STILL don’t have my Oscar. Why? You SUCK!
The only thing that girl has going for her is a nice rack.
Oh yeah, Cate rocks, and I’m thrilled that she’s playing Galadriel in Lord of the Rings – you couldn’t ask for better casting than that! 
Thems fightin’ words, Sue!! Step back from my beloved Winona right now!! Yes, she has been in some truly bad movies, but Heathers makes up for all of them, and then some.
BTW, Winona’s best feature is not her rack, but her eyes.
Sua
I disagree, sugar. While Heathers was an excellent movie, it still doesn’t make up for the astounding lack of range she has.
I didn’t say her rack was her best feature, I said it was the only thing she had going for her.
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Hmmm, so it’s a period piece? Who would look hot in a corset? I guess we’ll have to go with Winona Ryder again. I wonder if she’ll be able to work herself up to rightous indignation without stamping her foot this time.
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Can I just say that I have nightmares about Julia Roberts enourmous, hideous teeth? I can’t watch any of her movies without thinking fondly of ball-peen hammers.
yall are forgetting gwyneth in Hard Eight. she was a prostitute. more than that, she was a low-down dirty hooker. one of her best roles, if you ask me. Vanity Fair’s favorite “It” Girl took a pistolwhip straight to her skanky dome quite elegantly.
actually, i like gwyneth. i believe she does have presence, if not talent. i’ve grown out of actually being attracted to her, but i still make it a point to go see all her movies.
resolutely refuses to d&r