Mark’s Soap Box

If it is so bad then why is she starring in a movie that portrays a terrorist as a “hero”? Oh and she was born in Israel! Hmm.

I couldn’t understand why there was any coverage of her making comments about terrorism last week. Now it makes sense. Natalie in an attempt to shamelessly play on terror as a hook for her new movie “V of Vengeance” decided to attend a class on Terrorism at — get this — Columbia U. *ROTLMAO* This sham attempt to portray her as a “Professor” and expert on terror; came off … well a bit lame.

Some of Nat’s stellar intellectual reparté

- “My immediate reaction is that torture is wrong.”

- “I don’t think it’s right to take down the Twin Towers.”

- “Censorship is bad.”

Wow! I never knew! Thanks for the heads up. Note to actors: you only play people of substance, you are not a person of substance.

Even Time magazine is baffled by this movie.

Is it possible for a major Hollywood studio to make a $50 million movie in which the hero is a terrorist? A terrorist who appears wearing the dynamite waistcoat of a suicide bomber, and who utters the line — from beneath a full-face wooden mask that he never takes off — “Blowing up a building can change the world”? A movie written and produced by the Wachowski brothers, the cyberauteurs who created The Matrix? Starring Natalie Portman, shaved as bald as Demi Moore in G.I. Jane?

These are not rhetorical questions. V for Vendetta, set for mid-March release in most markets, is that movie, and it is the most bizarre Hollywood production you will see (or refuse to see) this year. It’s the kind of film that makes you ask questions like, Who thought this was a good idea?

The same idiots who green-light the other 9 Gazillion pounds of celluloid shlock that is released each year.