However, I've tried to sit through the movie twice. Can't do it. Scarlet Johannson(sp) was just terrible. I've never noticed her bad acting in other movies, but she was just dreadful. I never saw Natalie Portman as Anne, though I do think she can act.
Johannson was very good in
Lost in Translation, but a few other movies I've seen her in (
The Prestige comes to mind) didn't exactly impress me. She supposedly appears headed down the same thorny path of substance abuse as Kisten Dunst, sorry to say.
Natalie Portman is an entirely different matter. She grew up on Long Island in New York only a few towns away from where I was brought up, although in different eras. Loved her in
Leon and the kid absolutely stole the show in
Beautiful Girls. In fact, I've enjoyed everything she's been it that I've seen except the
Star Wars movies. Thought she was horrible in those and apparently she herself has said the same thing as well. In fairness though, in no way, shape or form am I a fan of the
Star Wars franchise, Natalie or not.
Would loved to have seen her on Broadway playing Anne Frank.
