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[Runa216]

mZuzek said:

Runa216 said:

Have you even seen the movie? I haven't seen a superhero enjoying themselves this much since Guardians of the Galaxy or Iron Man. Maaaaybe Thor but only in Ragnarok. she smiles, she laughs, she's clearing having a blast, she's funny, she's smart, she's witty...Honestly, I'm baffled that people think she's wooden. She's just not. Literally nothing about her performance - even the parts where she realistically SHOULD have been stoic, she was having fun with the role. 

Yeah I haven't seen the movie yet and of course I don't know how she felt while doing it, and neither do you. Regardless of what she felt like, however, the way she acts on-screen will be seen in a different light by different people, and if someone thought she looked "dead", they're not spewing falsehood, they're spewing an opinion.

I can understand where you're coming from, of course - my favorite movie ever is considered underwhelming by loads of people including many around here, and that also bothers me to no end. I can't see anything other than a masterpiece in that movie and I find it incredibly annoying when people say it's mediocre or "just okay". It's no secret I, too, have a hard time accepting different opinions, and that's something I should probably work on. But to come out and call someone else's opinion "false", well, there's just no defending it.

Saying 'her acting was wooden' was not an opinion. She either was acting wooden or she wasn't, your interpretation of it is irrelevant. Just like "Evolution is a myth and that's my opinion" or "The world is flat and that's my opinion." 

you say say she didn't act WELL, since quality of performance is subjective, but to imply her performance was 'wooden' is factually incorrect. Why? because she carried plenty of expression and showed a lot of emotion. You know who's acting was wooden? Keanu Reeves in The Matrix. It was appropriate for the role and he still did well, but it was a stiff, wooden performance. 'wooden' is not how her performance could be described. 

You could argue it's inconsistent or juvenile or inappropriate, you could argue many things, but 'wooden' is not one of them and anyone who says otherwise - yes even professional critics - are wrong.