So, this is rather late in the game, since the last film in the ever-worsening series came out years ago, but I hate Ana Maria or Anamaria or whatever her stupid name is from Pirates of the Caribbean.
Strangely, I have no problems with Zoe Saldana herself. I think her accent's a bit dodgy, but in fairness Caribbean accents are weird as hell and I can't claim expert knowledge. She's not odd-looking, and she isn't a perversely terrible actress.
She is, however, saddled with an absolutely excruciating part. She insults everyone constantly but has no skills of her own, which is useless. I don't think you ever even see her working around the ship. Her lines are stupid, they are timed badly, and she's not plucky--she's irritating and hateful. Elizabeth Swann is pretty plucky, and (except for the asinine corset pain line) not particularly irritating. So clearly these people were capable of writing female characters who aren't awful. They just refused.
Well, thanks.
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I know it's a somewhat old entry, but this is something I've had issues with for years - women who ruin films (or TV shows). They're freaking everywhere. They shriek like banshees at men who are trying to help them, and in the end it's treated like they were right all along, just because they're women. It's like a rule that the women have to win, even if it makes no sense and they're being complete b****'s. I was watching Dexter and I really enjoyed the first two seasons, but every time his girlfriend or his sister would come up, it would just tick me off. They would jump to conclusions or expect him to understand something which he really had no way of understanding. For example, when someone died and Dexter was in the guy's will, and he went and tried to find out more about him, the sister flipped out and basically demanded to know why he would do that, since she and her father should be the only family he ever needed and the only people he ever needed to know anything about. Then, even better, she later (I think next season) tells him that he builds walls and keeps her out, like how she still doesn't know how he felt about the guy who had died. Seriously!?
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