liamoversion2 said:
I completely agree with you and it's simply because the actress is, unfortunately, stuck in her own igo, to the detriment of not just her role, but everyone else involved. That completely blocks her ability to actually portray a character decently because all she's thinking about is how this looks and how much screentime she's getting... she's not actually doing her job of simplly portraying the character to the best of her knowledge and abilities which would have, in the long run, solved the problem entirely - that way, she would have been given more screentime anyway because underneath all the bull **** I'm sure if she had had the right attitude and put in the right effort from the beginning, she really could have brought the character to life. As it is, like you said, everytime Storm looks up, or has an opinion, or does something that's supposed to be meaningful, especially in the third one, all I see is Halle thinking 'what's the best way to do this?' She's really not acting at all. She looks friggin ridiculous.
Wow, this new line of Nell's anti-Halle tirade has taken a new low.
A part is only as good as the written material. Those crap writters didn't give a rats ass about Storm in the trilogy, and it shows. Whendon who was a writer in X1 blamed Halle for that ****ty line from Storm to Toad. WTF! Did he blame Singer for theawful direction, or did he cope up to his terrible writting, no. Why didn't Singer cut the line and just show Storm walking away? Apprently both men let their distaste for Halle get in the way of production.
Could you see another black actress putting up with this empty pointless role? Nope. Imagine Bassett or Iman (who can't act for crap) saying those lines in the first two movies, it would have been just as awful. That part was someone saying "Hey look, um maybe we should have her do more than stand in the back in a tight white shirt. Lets have her pretend to get involved. No big deal." Had everything gone Singer's way, Storm wouldn't have been in X3 4 or 5.
That's Halle's biggest mistake. She took the role in the first place. Storm in the X-men movies was NOTHING more than the token minority in a film about accpeting diversety. It would have looked morally hypocrticial for the story to be told with out at least one non-caucasion character.
And who better to play that part than an actress who is widely used a black figurative landmark than Halle. This was before the oscar, right when she scored that huge Revolon deal. Singer only used Halle's skill in drama once in X2 with Nightcralwer, and she had one in character line in X1. Storm was Storm when she told Wolverine to make a choice. That's it. That is the ONLY time she remotely resembled the uncanny character. It goes to show that alot of you naysayers don't know Halle's skills no do you know the character well at all. Had Storm actually had a part that paralled Halle's skill (which are situated with drama) we wouldn't be debating this back and forth.
I find it odd that people are willing to aceppt that in X1 Rogue took the niave, everygirl, Wolverine's sidekick role when that should have gone to Kitty, and Jean being a Doctor, a gene theropist nonetheless, when it should have been Moria. Again it's ok people because don't have anything against Famke ( who has had her parts in blockbuster disaters ie: I Spy), and same goes for Paquin, who has had her oscar far longer and couldn't keep up with her accent as well.
These anti-Halle tirads are losing steam and getting old fast. Once someone proves that Halle was truly detrimental to the films, I'll shut up. But the fact of the matter is Halle generated buzz and sold that maketing campaign insanely well. Also she headlines the movie and it's a 450 million dollar gross.
Cry and whine all you want. If there's a sequel get those tissues ready cause her importance to the franchise will only increase. And maybe, just maybe so will the character.
