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Angelina Jolie<\/a> has played all kinds of characters throughout her career, from video game heroines and wicked witches to a tiger and Maria Callas (not in the same film, sadly). Outside of acting, she puts other celebrities to shame with her relentless philanthropic efforts, which, at this point, are about as highly publicised as her acting career. <\/p>\n

Because of this (and her marriage and divorce from Brad Pitt that has kept the paparazzi fed and healthy for more than two decades), it\u2019s easy to forget just how serious of an actor Jolie is. One director even compared her to James Dean<\/a>. Think of movies like Girl, Interrupted and Gia. She can be an electric force on screen, and it\u2019s no small feat that she became one of the first female action stars. <\/p>\n

In all the years that she\u2019s been on screen, though, Jolie has been in plenty of duds, too, and it just so happens that one of those duds required her to play a character she absolutely despised. 2002\u2019s Life or Something Like It is a mystery. The plot isn\u2019t a mystery; it\u2019s just a mystery as to why it ever got made. Jolie plays a shallow TV personality who interviews a homeless psychic who tells her that she is going to die in a week. Even soap opera writers would roll their eyes at it. <\/p>\n

For Jolie, though, the problem was with the character. In an interview, she said that she hated everything the fictional woman stood for. \u201cWho she is through the majority of the movie is the kind of person I find sad and I can\u2019t stand,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

Adding, \u201cSomeone who\u2019s really self-centred and really focused on just superficial material things, it\u2019s just awful, it\u2019s a horrible thing.\u201d The same could be said of the movie itself.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sure, the character\u2019s no angel, but that doesn\u2019t mean she couldn\u2019t have been played in a properly compelling way. Just take Nicole Kidman in Gus Van Sant\u2019s To Die For from \u201995. She took on an even nastier role \u2013 a TV presenter so obsessed with fame and control she\u2019s happy to kill for it \u2013 and ended up delivering one of the strongest performances of her whole career.<\/p>\n

Then again, actors can only do so much with the material they are given. Kidman\u2019s performance is masterful, but she had a good script to draw upon. Jolie, on the other hand, was saddled with the sort of rom-com quips and Hallmark \u201cHome is where the heart is\u201d tosh that would make Meryl Streep look like an amateur. With this in mind, Jolie really didn\u2019t deserve the Razzie nomination she got for the part. <\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, Life or Something Like It failed to find its audience, and it made less than half its budget back at the box office. It wasn\u2019t the only romantic comedy featuring a big star to crash and burn in 2002. <\/p>\n

That year, Madonna fouled the screen with Swept Away, and Hugh Grant showed his true villainous colours in the very un-romantic romantic comedy Two Weeks Notice. Jolie\u2019s efforts were stellar by comparison.<\/p>\n