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Yeah, we're talking about her performances, not her acting choices, Brian. Include everything that she's done, not the ones that you personally think she was miscast in.
No, I think "One of the Best Actresses Under 30" covers that, Brian.
I went with "Fine in the Right Role". I think she was once a pretty strong actress with her performances in GHOST WORLD, GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING, LOST IN TRANSLATION, IN GOOD COMPANY, and even THE PRESTIGE, but the last few years, she has been relying far more on her looks and voice than her acting chops. She just doesn't seem to care much anymore to craft fine performances.
I chose "She's got looks, but no chops" because "Worst actress of her generation" was not an option. If you look at her supposed acting in some of her earliest works, "The Man Who Wasn't There" and "Ghost World", it is a wonder that (even with her looks) she was able to continue to get work. Her acting in those early years was embarrassing. Literally. I remember getting ashamed on her behalf for such a blatantly poor job.
I will admit that she is now about 20 times the actress she was back then, which brings her up to being just your run-of-the-mill bad actress. It is no wonder that her most acclaimed film had her playing a robot (I know she wasn't really a robot in 'Her', but the comparison is fitting if not completely accurate). She seems to ooze lack of emotion and dynamism. Her delivery of lines are so vague, and her face so expressionless, I often wonder if she is perhaps not aware of her poor acting abilities and thus tries to minimize the damage on purpose by doing absolutely nothing.
I know that somehow my opinion is a minority one. But any of you who have acquaintances who have actually been trained as actors, ask them their thoughts on ScarJo's abilities. I will guarantee to a man and woman they will concur with my sentiments, even as vitriolic as they may seem.
She's great when she's not being asked to be a bombshell or a pinup girl -- where she is given the latitude to just be a real person, rather than being an icon. Lost in Translation was an excellent example of that, whereas something like The Island? Not so much. Others have mentioned Ghost World, and I also appreciated her performance in The Man Who Wasn't There.
Don't refer to her as ScarJo since apparently she hates it. Can't say I blame her. http://www.thewire.com/entertainment/2014/04/please-do-not-call-scarjo-scarjo/360381/
Sam VanH...you should listen to Brian.
Brian is ABSOLUTLEY right. Sam, next time you need to consult him before you formulate a poll question.
This is a good question but with terrible choices. There should be the following option: "Very good Actress who is sometimes miscast"
I definitely refrained from actually voting in this one. I feel like she is moving towards being a fantastic actress, her performance in Her was one of my favorites of last year and Under the Skin is one of my most anticipated film of this year. But then again, placed into the wrong role she will end up being a weak link within the films. I am looking forward to seeing her grow even more as an actress through the years
Sorry Jonathan... Glazer! not Galzer... eeks iphone...
Her performance in Jonathan Galzer's 'Under The Skin' really impressed me.
I went with fine, but I wish it was really good in the right role. My favourite SJ role is Nola in Match Point. Great mix of vulnerable, sexy, hopeful and tragic.
Went with "Fine in the right role," though I think that understates it a bit. She can be phenomenal in the right role, as proved by "Ghost World," where we believe in a gradually dying friendship in part because she's a perfect counterbalance of growing maturity to Thora Birch's Enid; "Lost in Translation," where her smoky timbre frequently sounds cracked as profound loneliness and longing looms over her character; "Her," which doesn't work unless you have an appropriately lively and warm presence in the role; and now "Under the Skin," in what's one of the gutsiest performances from a major movie star in some time not because of the nudity, but because of the need to frequently be inscrutable rather than emotive, something that requires trust of the director, the material, and the audience to project whatever it is they think she's feeling onto the character. We have a tendency to underrate modern movie stars, who perhaps don't have a range as wide as Cate Blanchett or Kate Winslet, but Johansson has more than proved herself to be a good actress. It's just that now she's not being badly miscast like she was in stuff like the "The Black Dahlia."