I’ve never watched anything Angelina Jolie has starred in, and now I never will. She’s as dead to me as Arnold Schwarzenegger.
“Changeling” was good. And I thought she was good in “Gone In Sixty Seconds”.
I understand your feelings on this completely.
That said, I did see one movie with Angelina Jolie in it that I really, REALLY liked, and that is “Mr. and Mrs. Smith”.
Hilariously done movie with her and Brad Pitt who are some kind of governmental assassins working for different secret agencies, each married to the other without knowing that they were both assassins. I recommend that to anyone with no reservations, and married couples are likely to appreciate the humor even more.
But of all the other movies she has made, I have never seen any of them. I started to watch the Tomb Raider movie once, but found it completely boring. She has big boobs, puffy lips, wears skin-tight clothes, and carries weapons, but that is a formula used in hundreds or thousands of movies, not original at all.
I did take umbrage with a movie she directed, “Unbroken”, a true story, because she cut out the single most impressive part of that story, the POW who crashed a B-24 in the Pacific and was captured and tortured by the Japanese in the camps. That was all good. But in real life, after the war, he spiraled into alcoholism, nearly strangled his pregant wife as he had a nightmare about the Japanese guards torturing him, but was saved by God through Billy Graham. He went back to Japan after the war (and after he found God) and forgave his captors (many of whom were still in jail for their war crimes)
She did not even spend one second on that part of the story, the single most powerful part of the man’s story. That movie could have been great. It could have been a classic. But she made the decision to downplay that aspect of the story, which made the move not great, just better than average.