RACHEL MCADAMS: Y

I kind of hate Rob Schneider in general but I have a guilty fondness for The Hot Chick.

faris and mcadams are funny -- you can't front on that.

Haven't seen any of them and never heard of him, sorry.

you need a picture

she was in mean girls? good god, my brain is deteriorating quicker than i thght. :-(

This should be picture thread. For my Red Eyes.

That'd not be the only thing which is red when looking at Rachel. She's yummilicious

this is a disgrace

every single one of those movies costar a person (or sometimes MANY persons) more worthy of polls than boring mcteethface. i regret starting this poll fad.

it's gotten out of hand when we're doing RACHAEL MCADAMS polls over, i dunno, lindsay lohan or owen wilson or vince vaughn or christopher walken or even luke wilson or sarah jessica parker polls, just to name MANY of her more worthy costars. ;_1

She looks better as a blonde with fucked-up eye make-up than she did as a clean brunette, but basically she's unoffensively pretty in a "good breeding" kind of way that is almost totally uninteresting.

Is there a person in there? It's hard to believe.

I'm cranky today, I don't want to be at work dressed as little like an office drone as possible but still uncomfortable.

I was hating on her too until "Mean Girls" when she started freakin' ruling. Saw a bit of "The Family Stone" on HBO and it didn't look very good...but she seemed like she was pretty good there too. So I've been converted, although I never saw most of her movies and wouldn't actually seek out a film just acause of her.

Her forehead frightens me.

Mean Girls is her best movie and her best performance, but I don't like her as a blonde, so I'm voting for the movie she looked best in, The Family Stone.

Yeah... the Dino Jr. shirt...

The Notebook and The Family Stone are both movies I might've never watched if it weren't for bored Sunday afternoons at my parents' house watching their cable tv, but I thought she was incredible in both. I haven't seen the Hot Chick and don't know if I ever intend to. I'm torn between voting for the one which I found her best in (probably The Family Stone) vs the movie I actually enjoyed the most and will watch again (Mean Girls).

for that one guy & aib

http://images.eonline.com/eol_images/Profiles/20061003/244.mcadams.rachael.100206.jpg
http://ithacaishome.typepad.com/ithaca_is_home/images/rachel_mcadams_1.jpg

she's so purrrty

Forget Heath Ledger, she should play the Joker in the new Batman movie.

wait is she the one dating marilyn manson or is that some other young pretty boring girl with no distinguishing characteristics?

That second picture isn't Reese Witherspoon as June Carter Cash in Walk The Line?

She's not really a "young girl". She's 30.

Evan Rachel Wood is the one dating Manson.

Nath, your brain isn't deterioriating. It's just that Rachel McAdams has something I've just now decided to call TOFUFACE: her face doesn't look like anything on its own, and just takes on the flavor of however you make it up and do the hair. She's this great doll-like blank and I never recognize her because she doesn't look like ANYTHING. Seriously creeps me out. And her personality seems the same! I guess maybe that's good, for an actor -- she's, like, adaptable -- but it's also bad, because it makes her seem creepy and empty and made-of-tofu.

That theory makes sense to the degree that she's unrecognizable in Mean Girls (and that could probably be mostly chalked up to seeing that a year or two before seeing any of her other movies), but really she has too many distinguishing characteristics (mainly the freakishly wide mouth) for that to actually be true.

freakishly wide mouth, freakishly large forehead, and really, freakishly large eyes

I don't think a fivehead is attractive per se, but I can't think of any time it's turned me off of an otherwise attractive woman. Although now that I think about, maybe I do have a fivehead fetish (hello Tyra Banks, Helen Hunt, Christina Ricci, Tofuface McAdams, etc.).

Those are all characteristics of DOLLS, not humans!

(Anne Hathaway is exempt from the above.)

Anne Hathaway's secret unibrow shame absolves her from doll-ness (or maybe it's Emmy Rossum that's got the caterpillars?)

TOFUFACE

I should lighten up on that, actually -- per a google image search, I am beginning to be able to recognize her and place her as a person. But it's still creepy that I could see her in several movies and still have trouble with this.

Well, to be fair, in one movie she was the leader of a group of girls known as "the plastics," and she was the title character in "The Hot Chick," so those roles probably helped cultivate a generic pretty girl vibe, although I think there are way better examples of generic pretty girls in the current crop of Hollywood starlets.

wait, in which way is her mouth or eyes "freakishly large"

She's really good in the first season of Canuck melodrama Slings & Arrows.

the eyes look big to me, debateable
but look at that Joker mouth, smear some lipstick on her and she's Ledger's stunt double

http://images.eonline.com/eol_images/Profiles/20061003/244.mcadams.rachael.100206.jpg

uhhhhh

she looks normal to me, dude

http://www.bigredhair.com/portfolio/illustration/joker.sm

no i kind of see it

We said that her mouth is "freakishly wide," not large.

Rachel McAdams looks a little like Denise Richards' equally-pretty sister.

Although not as distractingly so as the aforementioned Anne Hathaway.

(xpost "equally-pretty" as Denise Richards? OOH BURN.)

ok in what universe are wide and large not synonyms

srsly ppl

i didn't think you guys meant she was a pro at deep throating or something

I don't know if DR got not-hot or if I stopped being a teenager interested in DR.

"my god, her mouth is CAVERNOUS"

denise richards isn't pretty at all, and also she has no idea how to handle her dogs which resulted in a hilarious episode of the dog whisperer with cesar milan.

POSTING! I'M POSTING!

ok I can totally think of people/face types who have a big mouth but not a wide joker/tofuface lip radius. not necessarily the same thing at all.

I am a little turned on by those pictures

if you want to nitpick go ahead but her mouth still looks totally normal to me. pplz mouths get wider when they smile, guys!

she's totally not smiling in the brunette picture and the creases of her mouth are still 2 inches out from her nose!

it's kinda crepey how everyone is dissecting this totally normal looking girl's facial features

http://rachel-mcadams-news.newslib.com/img/logo/5544.jpg

i think the idea is that she shows more teeth than most when she smiles

and how would 'wide' imply deep throating?

yeah sorry, this really is creepy, i'll stop. (xpost that picture made it even creepier)

hoos you need to read more carefully vis a vis the wide v large debate

oh sure make me the creepy guy that ends the thread talking about deep throating xpost

BIG LIPS aka the deepthroater

I have no interest in dissecting her face or anything else, I think she's totally normal and probably "prettier" than "average" on a technical scale. My only issue is that she is so FORGETTABLE, feature by feature -- I'm pretty sure there's research that states that we remember people, and differentiate them from each other, by how closely they adhere to or deviate from a mental standard that we hold, and she is kind of the most neutral-possible place on the continuum...which, while it makes her the kind of "pretty" that almost no one can disagree with, also makes her deeply uninteresting.

And with the exception of some photos in which she has pink hair, it feels like her style has been regulated by the need to keep her profile up and promote her movies, so she never looks like a person actually LIVES in that face. That is all.

Please rephrase those sentiments in the form of a "BIG ____ aka the _________er" construction.

Lil Laurel aka the OTMer

When she's brunette she looks like the post-Americanized Kate Beckinsale to me.

Totally. Beckinsale sometimes has similar blankness qualities -- what's weird is that she seems most totally animated by genuine personality when she's playing someone awful. (Cf The Last Days of Disco, which seems scarily like that's what she is actually like, and her slight woody stiffness in other roles comes from the difficulty of acting like she's not really horrible.)

I thought a likeable Beckinsale balance was struck in Cold Comfort Farm!

Ah, right, good point! That one worked for her.

(I am partly biased against her because she made Claire Danes cry.)

this thread

likable Beckinsale = Laurel Canyon, Underworld, Van Helsing or Brokedown Palace

Maybe I am a creepy stalker but I have never had trouble recognising her and in fact it was recognition of her in that Dinosaur Jr t-shirt that prompted me to not change the channel away from The Family Stone, which was actually pretty touching.

ugh NO ONE is likable in laurel canyon

;__;

I don't know that i had ever noticed this woman before. She seems an odd choice for crushing on, tho.

i don't think she's particularly hard to recognize either?? she was class in mean girls

"likable Beckinsale = Laurel Canyon, Underworld, Van Helsing or Brokedown Palace"

riiiiiiiiiight

Beckinsale sometimes has similar blankness qualities

she's also been cut to hell and back, but i guess everyone has

laurel i am sorry i hated the movie with your name in it. if it makes you feel better i'm pretty sure i'd have also disliked "alexander," had i seen it.

Kate Beckensale in Underworld = YES PLZ

those may have been the only four movies I've seen her in

Dan OTM

Dan, u weird. Katie B in Underworld does nothing but follow the cue card for "brooding" and purse her lips.

Alex: okay, forgiven.

"alexander" and "underworld" and "van helsing" are all in fact the three worst films i've ever seen.

I'm not going to defend "Van Helsing" at all because it was really silly but "Underworld" was awesome and most of that awesome was represented by Kate Beckensale's tight leather pants.

Also I notice that in listing those three movies you have completely forgotten about "Catwoman"; LOL ALLY U NOW LIKE "CATWOMAN"

oh man that movie was terrible too

Katie B in Underworld does nothing but follow the cue card for "brooding" and purse her lips.

aka HAWTTTTTTTTTTTT

I actually thought Van Helsing was high-larious, but I went into Underworld as a totally excited would-be fan and was SOOOOOO disappointed. I mean, THEY HAD ME and then they lost me.

http://media.movieweb.com/news/old/05_03/underworld.jpg

HAWT

"Van Helsing" was absolutely high-larious! So so so so so so ridiculous and awesome!

that last pic above looks like a blond parker posey

But being made to look cool in tight leather monster-slaying outfits and treated gun-toting poster images = action figure, not person. You can dress her up all cool and pose her and stuff and she looks terrific (she has a face that's cool to look at, as opposed to McAdams' more neutral-pretty), but that's mannequin action, not personality.

Yeah, I mean, Starbuck makes them all look like pansies inside of three seconds.

Whoop-de-doo KB was HAWT in leather - the movie sucked ass, w/ all its boring DEATH DEALER / LYCHAN / SCOTT FUCKING SPEEDMAN IS A SUPER-ORC VAMPIRE bullshit. & Van Helsing was the same deal - KB HAWT, but the movie was shiiiiiiiiite.

I am now convinced that that Daver's testosterone ducts are broken.

Also Starbuck is massively overrated.

Speaking of people with things being broken....

I don't have ovaries so how could they be broken?

(The Asian Cylon and Lucy Lawless pwn every other woman on that show.)

This thread makes me feel strange. I thought McAdams was fairly recognisable, albeit maybe slightly Sydney Bristowed by the ever-shifting hair color.

Wait is Lucy Lawless on BG now? I keep trying to get into that show unsuccessfully.

I am disowning all you people.

I don't know that i had ever noticed this woman before. She seems an odd choice for crushing on, tho.

-- kenan, Tuesday, June 19, 2007 1:25 AM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

kind of gratified

I haven't thought Beckinsale was hotttt since Cold Comfort Farm. Something too calculated about her. Also, I have read a few interviews with her that have resulted in the dreaded Permanent Cold Shower reaction. But that might be because I have not seen any of the infamous action movie roles that all y'all are repping.

The rest of this thread makes me happy I never ended up doing my Kirsten Dunst Poll thread.

i swear to god i always thought she had sort of a distinctive face, maybe i couldn't put a finger on what made her stand out (being like 30) among the mean girls cast. that results in this thread being weird as shit btw

Dunst Poll = crazy/beautiful in a walk

Except Nabisco, I'll keep him because he agrees with me.

XP MILO U MAD

i don't think she's THAT plain looking. i mean just cuz ur white and blond and have nicely drawn features doesn't mean ur plain. she has that irish-sense-of-humor look to her

thread doesn't just have to be about looks yo

oh, well i think she's a great screen presence and it makes me happy to watch her

thread doesn't just have to be about looks yo

This is true

i don't go about my day with RACHEL MCADAMS on my mind or anything, but she's a more-than-capable actress and is damn pretty as well. i mean, all this tofu mcboringface boredom talk is all, we are spoilt of casually gorgeous ladyhood film product, and have been all our lives, and always will be, isn't it?

No, kind of the opposite: actually I enjoy women who are LESS pretty, and more striking and individual.

dunst poll = virgin suicides

i dunno who this person is, but she isn't especially pretty

yeah well that's kind of my point! oh another entrancing tall blonde, you don't say? also brainy, a little? pshaw! i want some scars and bad dental work and shit, next!

xp

whoever makes the Dunst poll, plz include a "nothing, she sucks" option thx

i don't go about my day with RACHEL MCADAMS on my mind or anything, but she's a more-than-capable actress and is damn pretty as well. i mean, all this tofu mcboringface boredom talk is all, we are spoilt of casually gorgeous ladyhood film product, and have been all our lives, and always will be, isn't it?

that's how i feel. i just don't like hating on pretty for hating on pretty's sake.

virgin suicides otm!

on the other hand, some people just genuinely like appreciate faces taht aren't necessarily "pretty", but that are interesting. like on a this is my chemical reaction pretty, some people just appreciate that more...

lol maybe if i spoke english... :-) u get the point

I'm pretty sure I was clear about my opinion on this earlier but I think she's a pretty excellent actress, maybe moreso in a makes-a-character-believable sense and not so much in a omg-leather-pants-and-crazy-acrobatics sense.

Virgin Suicides is an excellent movie and I will pre-emptively forgive Sofia Coppola any and everything she might do wrong in her career for it.

yeah it was pretty great, and i'm sorry i liked Marie Antoinette, except for that 1 scene where they're doing like the Clueless montage of hors d'ouevres... anyway off topic

mcadams is more nondescript in still photos than i would have thought, though still v pretty. on screen she has a lot more presence than anne hathaway or whoever, and she is def the best thing in 'mean girls'.

Brainy? Whence brainy? I am not trying to spoil anything, and I don't actually care about her looks in particular -- the looks just seem like a metaphor for some endless blank nothingness that I can't get into. I doubt I'm being deprived of anything, because I can still look at CGI or stare at mannequin or a doll or a blank wall or down a well or something.

She does seem like a competent actress, and the blankness probably assists with that -- except I think to be anything more than a competent/inoffensive actor/actress, you have to have some personality of your own to put into it, right? Maybe she dredges some up in The Notebook, I certainly haven't seen that.

But make a McAdams-in-peril thriller like Red Eye and it's like eh, what am we supposed to be scared about, she barely exists to begin with.

WHAT AM WE

I think brainy is a nicer way of saying fivehead, nabisco

I don't know about scars and bad dental work, but I like people who look like...well, PEOPLE. With pasts and bad days and some smile lines, that kind of thing. With people I really enjoy it's like the imperfection is the thing that makes you able to look at them directly instead of trying to stare into the sun. RMcA is sort of just not that bright to begin with.

the i want candy montage is like the best part of marie antoinette of which i am admittedly not a fan

man if foreheads were the same as brains, Alexis Bledel would create cold fusion, Jena Malone would cure cancer, and the whole horn of Africa would have telekinetic powers

But make a McAdams-in-peril thriller like Red Eye and it's like eh, what am we supposed to be scared about, she barely exists to begin with.

-- nabisco, Tuesday, June 19, 2007 3:41 AM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

damn mcadams and her generic writing-and-directing skills, god damn her all to hell!

yeah well that's kind of my point! oh another entrancing tall blonde, you don't say? also brainy, a little? pshaw! i want some scars and bad dental work and shit, next!

-- gff, Monday, 18 June 2007 21:24 (57 minutes ago) Link

She's like, 5'5", bro. No joek.

What does that even mean? I'm saying she makes a really poor person-in-peril choice for me, because she doesn't actually seem like much of a person.

even brian cox didn't seem like a person in that film.

i don't really get the "blank" argument... i don't think she's totally blank, empty, a canvas, whatever. it's not every person who can turn on the cheery blond with attitude appeal. i certainly can't and most people i know can't, so when i see that, i regard it as something special, not as a meaningless canvas.

i don't know if that's the scene i'm talking about, i think it is, but yeah that marie antoinette scene where they have the screens of different scrumptious sweets just did NOT work for me. the rest of the filmography was so elegant, it felt ridiculous.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y216/jreach/rachel.jpg

she actually reminds me a little bit of amber valetta, she's like amber valetta c rossed with parker posey

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

boooo results. Red Eye was kinda OK, but it should not be above The Family Stone and Wedding Crashers.

wait what does that mean, did u want mean girls to win

well, like I said above, Mean Girls is by far her best movie and best performance, and it was pretty much always gonna win this poll, I just take issue with the order of the runner-ups.

Nabisco, you are making absolutely no sense here.

"She doesn't strike me as the type of person I would be interested in either physically or mentally" != "LOL SHE IS A MANNEQUIN WITH NO BRAINS"

Of those, Mean Girls is the best film, but my favorite McAdams performance was in the Family Stone. She was hot and awesome in it...

http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Ss/0356680/FS-197.jpg

*masturbates sadly

wow

TOFUFACE

she's hella good in Slings and Arrows.

man i've had that show on the my netflix queue for the longest time

State of Play is a steaming shitpile, haven't seen her in anything else

xpost It starts kind of slow (in each of the seasons) but picks up quickly and gets pretty awesome by the end.

she's drippy and dull in Time Traveler's Wife, but I don't think that's entirely her fault. Sherlock Holmes looks like a worst-film-of-the-year contender.

Can I confess that I kind of want to see The Vow? NB: I never saw The Notebook.

btw it's Rachel McSmashems and she is way cuet

where is that .gif of her with the butt from that movie no one saw

I think it was in last year's WS iirc.

http://www.tinygif.net/pictures/1193326514c61d8fc2dba8.gif

she is way cuet

Je suis entièrement d'accord

NSFW!!!!

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DAT ASS makes a prominent appearance in one of the tv trailers for The Vow

Ah, crap - sorry! :(

u wouldnt expect dat ass to be on rachel mcadams but there it is boom

wauuuuuu

I think I saw that in the past but it burned so brightly in my memory that I forgot it

Bladow

I kind of feel like that is why the animated gif was invented.

(No biggie, E!)

i think in Mean Girls when Regina ate those nutrition bars and put on weight, they didn't pad her ass, that was just the one scene with the real McAdams ass in it

I like her ass. I like her even better.

^^ opening couplet of a classic pop song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4wiXj9NmEE

huh, that looks kinda fun

She was very good in True Detective season 2.

She's been good for a long time. Should've gotten an Oscar nom in 2023.

For what? Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, or Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret? I didn't see either.