Gah! Sorry, I messed up the italic tags in my last comment. How embarrassing.

Hilarious post, love the “panting” mention. And speaking as an asthmatic, I can tell you that Emma has all of us beat when it comes to the breathless speech. Hopefully she will silence all of us with the next 3 films.

Emma is a highly talented actress, not just a pretty face and I’m so happy for her for this award, I hope she wins!!! As for the brow problem I see nothing wrong with it.

I am just going to come right out and say it, because I cannot hold it in any longer. & Please, to anyone, I do not hate on Emma. I think she’s a great girl! She really is! So please, I am NOT hating on her. Just stating my opinion. =)

Emma is not that much of a great actress when it comes to Hermione. She was okay in Ballet Shoes, actually I thought she was really good. But as Hermione… She’s too over the top in my opinion. It’s so annoying how she raises her eyebrows in every single gosh darn line! Emma receiving a nomination for “Best Female Performance” makes me laugh – it really does. I just think she doesn’t deserve it at all! There are a lot more talented people who are on Harry Potter. Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint for instance? Or Imelda Staunton, who did an AMAZING job as Umbridge?! Actors / actresses like that should be nominated, not people who just have more lines and overexaggerate over the smallest things!

Example for the overexaggerating: In the movie Chamber of Secrets, Harry hears the basilisk for the first time. When he runs down the corridor, he meets Ron and Hermione. He says, “Do you hear that voice?” (Or something like that. He asks a dang question, I know that. :D) And then Emma comes in and says “VOICE? WHAT VOICE?” So overdramatic! I mean, come on! Her tone like that just ticks me off so much that I can’t even watch any of the movies without saying at least five or more comments about her tone of voice, and how many lines she has compared to the oh-so-wonderful Rupert Grint. <3 =)

Example for the too-many-gosh-darn-lines-it-ticks-me-off-so-much: In the scene where Ron and Hermione are first seen in Order of the Phoenix, Emma has a kajillion lines compared to Rupert Grint. I counted! And he had about six words for his first line or something, and Emma had … let’s see … 16+ already?! I swear, if I counted all the lines / words she had in OotP, it would overcome Rupert’s. No wait, how about the main character himself, Daniel Radcliffe’s!

This is why I think Rupert Grint doesn’t get recognized for his amazing acting. He doesn’t have enough lines to show off his talent! It’s always directed to Emma. Emma this, Emma that. Let’s just give Emma Watson some more lines so that the audience all over the world will be annoyed with her flipping eyebrow raising! Like seriously. I’m so SICK of this! She’s not a good actress, she probably never will be in my opinion, she is too overdramatic for Hermione, and her tone sounds like she’s screaming!

Example: In Goblet of Fire, when Mad-Eye Moody introduced the Unforgivable Curses, she says “STOP IT! CAN’T YOU SEE IT’S BOTHER HIM?! STOP IT!” Too big, too overdramatic. And I know what you all are saying, ‘She was supposed to be sad , mad , dramatic , etc.’ But if you watch the WHOLE scene, you’ll see the her face is like crying even when Mad-Eye says “How many Unforgivable Curses are there?” She answers, “Three sir.” very dramatically. What the—-? She’s ALREADY overreacting? So ANNOYING, like seriously.

Geeeesss…do we ALL feel the same way? My son and I have a “standing date” to go see each HP movie (due to the fact that my husband and daughters HATE anything having to do w/HP…crazy?), and after leaving the theater from OOTP my son said, ” What’s the deal w/Emma…how come she’s always panting and out of breath…wow, that is SOOOO annoying!” Actually, I thought her most “natural” acting was in POA. Since then Daniel and Rupert have gotten better (well…more natural)and she’s gone downhill. Did anyone see “Ballet Shoes” ? SAME THING…the heaving breathing and eyebrow thing! In MY opinion…if Daniel could EVER figure out how to “CRY” on screen…he MIGHT be able to win an oscar! (He’d better learn fast, cause he’s gonna have to do ALOT of it when Dumbledore dies and in DH!)

Oops. I mean “STOP IT! CAN’T YOU SEE IT’S BOTHERING HIM?! STOP IT!”

Oh yes, and how she “cries” at the end of the movie for Goblet of Fire when Dumbledore talks about Cedric! MY GOSH! I mean, I know that she is supposed to be sad, but I’ve seen her overreact so many times, I pass it off as another part of her bad acting. It annoys me that she cried because she looked like a total doofus. Sorry Emma. It’s just …. gah.

AND (sighs) when she says “Everything’s going to change now isn’t it?” She looked like she was humping the wall or something! She kept on teetering on the balls of her feet and being sad/happy/whatever; like really, does she NEED to look like she’s humping a dang pole?

Wow, you guys are so over-analytical. Life better throw you some excitement pretty soon.

I agree with Miriam that Helena should have got an award or someone else who I think that has long been over due for an award is the Brilliant Alan Rickman as Snape. Something tells me his time might be coming in the Half – Blood Prince movie – Cause who is that again ( hint hint )

@ Jennifer: Ha! Touche.

But remember, you’re sitting here, on a perfectly lovely evening, reading our overly analytical comments. Sounds to me like life might need to throw you some excitement as well. You know, people in glass houses, and all that. ;)

I know there are a lot of jealous people around who take every opportunity to vent their own inadequacies; in this case at Emma Watson. I think it goes with the territory, so EW had better get used to it.

If we are going to be analytical then I think there are three points being mixed together here and these need to be considered separately:

1. Why does EW keep getting nominated for awards?

2. Is EW a good actrice?

3. Do you like the way the filmmakers have decided to portray Hermione?

With regard to 1.); I agree that the number of awards EW is nominated for bears little or no relation to the performance that she gives; as others have noted there are a lot of other performances that are equal or better. Therefore I suspect that popularity is driving this.

Please bear in mind that EW may well feel that she does not deserve these nominations for all we know. EW does not put herself forward for these awards and if she ‘happens to ‘win’ then it would be very rude of her not to accept awards gratiously.

As for 2.); I think time will tell. Her performance in Ballet Shoes was strong and memorable, as were the performances of the other two Fossil sisters. I think EW has tremendous potential, however I have no idea if this will ever be fully realised. That said, my bet is that those who say that she cannot act will appear somewhat foolish in the fullness of time.

Point 3.) A lot of people do not like the way that Hermione is being interpreted. Here everyone’s opinion carries equal weight. The choice is yours: love it, hate it or be indifferent.

However I want to add that there are those who conveniently ‘forget’ that book Hermione is very earnest, very emotional, a bit of a bore and, because of her insecurities, tries a bit too hard to impress everyone with her admitedly very real academic abilities. She is also very kind, compassionate and loyal. Hermione stands up for the underdog; her heart is in the right place. These qualities are the one’s that I think the filmmakers are trying to convey.

To me Hermione is not supposed to be easy to like; others seem to forget this and blame the actress.

Had to throw in my two cents again as an actor, because, you know, I’m proud of that ^_

Seriously though-you guys are brilliant, and I can’t thank you enough for typing and reading all of this-I feel sooo vindicated. For the longest time, I’ve felt like I’m the only one bothered by her acting. I’m so glad I’m not alone.

I feel like I’m being too nice… the truth is…. I DESPISE her acting—Oh, it feels good to say it.

And Evanna SO DESERVES something. And just to add to how deserving she is: whether or not the character of Luna is like her own personality, it is entirely something else to be able to say lines as if in conversation, normally, without airs, aka, to act. The fact that Evanna is charming and true (depite her character’s similarities to herself) does make her fantastic, and undoubtedly (or I should say, probably) the best actress within the youth (that we’ve been allowed to see so far). I have seen plenty of actors go up on stage a butcher a character that is, for all intents and purposes, just like them. She’s so adorable and fantastic, yay Evanna.

And I also have to add something about Emma’s panting. (YAY I’m SO GLAD you guys noticed!!) This is, I believe, the by-product of her attempting NOT to Brow Act, which does give me some hope that she’s on the road to improvement. The panting is generally a sign of misdirected energy. I don’t think she has good control over her movement in general, and so her focusing so hard on NOT brow-acting is probably one thing pushing the panting onward. But we’ll see if she can overcome this.

The poor dear. If you watch Goblet of Fire closely (which I hate to do. Quite seriously, the worst acting, directing, and writing of the whole of the films, imho) you can see the makeup creases on her brow from take after take of brow acting. Its especially noticeable on the train.

And, once again, I feel I must follow this with: She’s not being HATED on here. We’re just viewing the situation honestly: She may be cute and adorable and sweet, but she is NOT an actress.

I just hope that she can get there… she needs time off in intensive coaching and dance classes to help organize her… and then, I think maybe, we could get something.

Don’t you just love it when every criticism of darling Emma gets her fans squawking that everyone is just ZOMG JEALOUS!

Look, Emma seems like a nice girl. I’ve nothing to say against her as a person. But she’s not a good actress. At least, she isn’t at the moment. She still needs a lot of improvement. Sorry, but she does. Waggling her eyebrows, breathing heavily, and delivering every line in a shrill, high-pitched voice is not good acting.

Love Emma if you like, praise her as an actress if you like. But others are allowed to disagree; others are allowed to think she lacks talent. To write off every criticism of your idol Emma as jealousy, is to unfairly devalue the opinions’ of others, and to turn a blind eye to Emma’s very real weaknesses as an actress.

Comment to SeaJay:

This is not an inadequacy thing. I am an actor. I intend to BE on professionally. I study acting at college, and make it my business to know what I’m talking about. That being said, I don’t think its foolish for us to say what we feel. Can Emma improve? OF COURSE SHE CAN. And we all want her to!

The awards things, are, honestly, usually popularity bits and voted on by the public. And, knowing how rampant we Potter fans are, if we know a Potter actor is up, we’re going to show up and vote, that’s usually just the way it is. For those she wins on her own merit, congratulations. I simply do not agree. I will not allow an award to dictate to me what is good acting.

And no, I don’t like the way the film portrays Hermione. But Emma’s acting does not help.

That being said, I respect your opinion, but feel I must clarify mine (and other’s).