Now, normally I would agree with you, especially on the people in Hollywood, as I tend to have a very low opinion of 90% of them. However we can not judge simply by what they do, we must consider what they don't do. Portman has turned down roles in several movies because of either "dark themes" or they required nudity. Now the names of the films allude me at the moment but if you do your homework I'm sure you could find them.Novall wrote: Yeah, she's a pretty girl and all. I still just have never found her to be that attractive to what I like. I have rarely ever found any movie-star to be that attractive because through all that glamor and beauty is usually someone you wouldn't pee on to put the flames on if they were on fire. Just becaues you read articles on em and watch a VH1 special that tells you how "good" someone is means in no way that their that good in real life.
So you plug her...and for awhile your friends say "Wow, he plugged Natalie Portman!". However that wouldn't be something I would like to think of as the "high point" in my life.
So she's a movie star, and in my life I've classified those people as being obtuse and materialistic because historically 90% of them (or more) have been. Unless she shows me anything different (which she has yet to do) then she will more then likley remain in that catagory...hence making her unattractive to me.
The point is being a parent you start to appreciate these kinds of things. The fact that she's not put her Hollywood career ahead of college, or her morals says a great deal to me about her character. Now granted I have no social knowledge on what kind of person she "really" is, she could be as stuck up and self serving as the next star, but at least she's stayed true to her values after sucess, unlike Britney Spears and many other stars before her.
So in this case unlike most others I feel she deserves the benefit of the doubt, so until I see her do something that's out of that character I'll support her films. At least if I had a daughter I'd much rather she look up to Portman then almost any other music or movie star in the secular main stream.
