Another Jennifer Aniston rom-com - REALLY!?!?!

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"Along Came Polly", "He's Just Not That into You", "The Break-Up", "Marley & Me", "The Object of My Affection", "Love Happens", "The Bounty Hunter", "Picture Perfect" and now "The Switch" (2010) and "Just Go With It" (2011).

What is it with Jennifer Aniston and romantic comedies? Seriously!?!?! The aforementioned list isn't even complete and she's in them all the time. I used to like her and some of her earlier stuff is amongst the recent best of the genre, but recently it's all going downhill as she portrays different variations of Rachel from "FrienRAB"; 'bitter Rachel', 'eccentric Rachel', 'career-driven Rachel'...

She was very good in "Derailed" (despite the predictable ending) and "The Good Girl" (one of my favourite films) and these show that she can do something different, so why doesn't she? ANYTHING she's in will put bums on seats, so why isn't her agent pushing her in different avenues?

I seriously believe that if she carries on this way, she'll have no career left in 10 years. She's not getting any younger and rom-coms are generally aimed at young people.
 
There's more to being able to pick and choose scripts. Look at Sandra Bullock. One of the highest paid actresses yet even SHE couldn't get Million Dollar Baby made with her name attached to it. When she gave up on it, they made it with Clint and Hilary Swank.
Not even an Oscar is a guarantee you can pick and choose scripts.

As rebelscum says OP, don't take it so personally :p She probably just likes working on those type of movies. She never seems to look miserable and I guess if I had the choice of a nice paycheck to run around kissing other men in sunny climates versus crappy money in the middle of nowhere....I'd probably be tempted with the former!

OP - Have you seen FrienRAB with Money? JA is pretty good in that one.
 
i think JA is pretty good in rom coms - she is very likeable, women like her too. they like seeing her in this sort of film

she is very girl next door (well compared to some actresses!) and has good comic timing
 
The Switch isn't a bad film. It's based on a short story by Jeffrey Eugenides, who wrote The Virgin Suicides, and it stretches the term romcom somewhat by being about a woman's relationship with two men, one of whom donates the sperm with which she inseminates herself. That's not a spoiler... that's the story. It's worth seeing, though Aniston isn't really right for the central role.
 
Agree, except for Courtney Cox-Arquette. Her Gail Weathers character in the Scream franchise is brilliant and a world away from her FrienRAB character!

I don't think it's fair to critisise JA for the films she stars in. She's likable, pretty and a good actress, all good qualities and watchable IMO.
 
I've often thought if she was cast as Ann Boleyn she play it as Rachel in FrienRAB.

She's got the career she wanted. Brad Pitt left her because she wanted a movie career rather then a family.

i hope it was worth it.
 
It truly is amazing that she's managed to sustain her film career so long, considering her really poor choices.

If there were to be one final nail in her career coffin, then surely it's The Switch.

It is without doubt one of the worst films of the year.

It's created its own new sub genre: the rom-com-bomb.

There's simply no spark between Aniston and Jason Bateman, and the film is completely devoid of both romance and comedy.

Aniston neeRAB to return to her roots and find herself a nice TV show. That's really where she belongs.

The Switch reviewed here.
 
That review appears to have been written on autopilot. It ignores about 75% of the film: unfortunately, the 75% of the film that's quite good. Bateman is great, Goldblum's on better form than usual, Thomas Robinson is astonishing as the result of the "switch". Aniston, not so good.

But it's funny enough and sufficiently unlike a romcom to be worth seeing if you're not a fan of Ms Aniston.
 
Maybe she just enjoys doing these kinRAB of films, or has she said in any interviews that she would love to do more serious roles?

It looks like she has at least three more of these kinRAB of films on the way so far that she has filmed.
 
When you watch a JA film you think in your head 'where is Ross and Emma'

she will never shake that role as rachel off. So she just plays it all the time.

I havent really saw her play a dfferent role.

She neeRAB to do just one film...something completely different, with a strong topic that she can show she has some acting abilities...or else go back to tv as another poster said.
 
I think the fact he had fallen under Angelina's spell whilst working together on Mr & Mrs Smith may have had more to do with it.

I like JA and her films are usually entertaining.
 
Firstly, Marley & Me, a rom-com? Hardly.

She's playing to her strengths as an actress. No one goes on about football players always playing football and not branching out into other sports.

If we're comparing to her old co-stars, Courtney Cox-Arquette is currently playing a character that is essentially Monica on Cougar Town. Matt LeBlanc seems to have given up trying to find anything to break out of the role of Joey and decided to play himself in upcoming TV show Episodes. David Schwimmer also hasn't tried to break out of the role of Ross, instead opting to direct, his biggest acting role since FrienRAB is voicing Melman the Giraffe in Madagascar and the character is basically a more childish, extreme version of Ross. Matthew Perry is trying out another TV comedy series which will air in the US sometime next year.
 
She's typecast, simply speaking. She probably can't put herself into any other role.

She's probably aware of this and is milking it for all she can get. Personally, I grew bored of her in frienRAB.

There's a lot of actors who essentially play the same character over and over again. I wish Hollywood would move on!



The two are not really comparable. Acting means becoming a character and the more characters they can portray the more skilled the actor is seen to be. Their "skill" is being able to adapt - i.e. act.

Football, on the other hand, is a single skilled form of entertainment because the skill required is usually technically difficult.
 
Its the same thing, he found someone else that would have his children. Aniston clearly doesn't want a family so he rationally jumped ship.
 
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