I saw the advertisement for this on the side of a bus, and was forced to uneasily smile to myself knowing that it would be another film I definitely wouldn’t venture to the cinema for. Even with unlimited Orange Wednesdays.
Now it’s not that I dislike Jennifer Aniston, because like the majority of the public (or so it would appear, according to gossip magazines) I have a soft spot for her, in a kind of feel sorry for her way because some ruthless power woman named Angelina Jolie stole her husband.
But I love her in the same way I love the whole Friends cast, I love them because they’re in Friends, and not because they’re amazingly talented actors. I’m deeply upset that Channel 4 chose not to renew its contract of airing Friends repeats over and over again. Let’s be honest it made the best background TV, no matter how many times we watched the same episodes. We could be napping, filling out job applications or necking back wine before a night out, Friends never fails to put us in a good mood.
All the actors were thrust into fame and fortune because of the unpredicted success of the show, but I really dislike the desperate attempts to make it onto the big screen. Why couldn’t they just have left it at Friends?
Aniston has probably remained the most in the public eye, both because of her split from Brad Pitt and because of her insistence in popping up in every romcom flop going. I tried to watch The Break Up with my boyfriend at the time, it was so bad, boring and depressing it definitely had the capability of causing a break up. I refuse to watch Marley and Me, mostly for the reason I can’t stand films, apart from Disney, that make animals the main characters, but also because Anniston and Owen Wilson working together could possibly be the death of me.
So what I am trying to say, is that as much as I like Jennifer Aniston, and would like nothing more than for her to settle down with a nice man, there’s a high probability I won’t watch an films she’s staring in. I just don’t see her as anything more than Rachel Green and as lovely as she is, I don’t want to see her everytime I head off to the cinema.
Unfortunately Miss Aniston doesn’t convincingly pull off any other characters, despite the decade she’s spent trying.
I like films. 