Fellas, which actress makes you swoon and you want to marry her so that you don't care how bad the movie is?

This used to be Jennifer Connelly, but Zooey Deschanel seems to have captured the title.

I bet these actresses are undervalued in that they will draw more audience per salary $ than your average 'bond girl' or any conventional sexy lady.

(I think Ebert has a thing for Rosario Dawson, but this might be animal rather than he wants to marry her)

I would say Deneuve, but then I really didn't like Repulsion

...erm, there isn't one.

ethel merman

Judy Davis, Kate Winslet, Irene Dunne, Vanessa Redgrave. In that order.

Jenna James... oh wait.

paul giamatti

Jennifer Connelly's a good call, I don't think I've ever liked a movie she's been in or thought I'd want to see it for any reason other than her being in it.

has christina hendricks started making movies yet

fran drescher

cate blanchett. and seconding irene dunne

Drew Barrymore would have been my answer before "He's Just Not That Into You" came out.

lol elmo

parker posey

Emily Mortimer.
http://evamojje.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/photo_02_hires1.jpg

on the left ;)

Jessica Lange before she had an armadillo surgically grafted on her face.

maybe jennifer jason leigh or laura linney.

not that they make me swoon, i just am more inclined to see movies that they're in.

oh that reminds me i have to watch dolores claiborne again soon

JJL good call as well. (i cannot read that name anymore without hearing the Weakerthans in my head, oooh Jennifer Jason Leigh)

shelley winters

Kate Beckinsale

Mercedes McCambridge

shelly duvall

shelley long

comedy response

little surprised at lack of reppin for amy ryan...

Leatrice Joy.

haha, i would totally marry 70s shelly duvall

Angela Lansbury.

dianne wiest

judith anderson

bonnie hunt. no joek.

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/en/images/thumb/e/eb/TLar.jpg/180px-TLar.jpg

*swoons*

I don't have one of these, I don't think. BUT I would like to mention that I watched like 30 minutes of a movie called One-Eyed Monster because it starred Amber Benson from Buffy. It was about a snowbound porn set on which some kind of alien takes over Ron Jeremy's penis, and then the penis goes around killing everyone. At some point there was dialogue roughly as follows:

MAN: If we stay here we'll be sitting ducks for that thing.
WOMAN: It's not a thing.
MAN: Ron Jeremy was a great guy. I know you dug on him. But he's dead now. And that may be his dick out there, but it's a mass murderer.

amy ryan
maura tierney

nabisco, that is primo "John and FB will watch it"-fodder

oooh maura tierney

I don't know if it should be inflicted on anyone else. The fact that it wants to be that ridiculous and awful makes the ridiculous awfulness harder to really enjoy.

famke
maura tierney

Gloria Grahame

ha, gloria grahame would start cheating on you before the honeymoon was over

thought of a few this applies to for me: erika christensen, bryce dallas howard, rachel mcadams, toni collette, kate winslet

susan sarandon

elizabeth mcgovern (in her heyday - does she even make movies anymore?)

ethel merman

― velko,

LOL

First thing that came to mind

Fellas, which actress makes you swoon and you want to marry her so that you don't care how bad indie the movie is?

Michelle Williams.

^yeah. ever since Dick.

I can't think of any

I mean there's actresses I really like but it tends to be because y'know they're good in relatively good movies (Naomi Watts and Jennifer Jason Leigh spring to mind, but I wouldn't watch a movie just cuz one of them was in it.)

patricia clarkson

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f145/wvshowdown/Rachael_Ray_Corn_Porn_-_HOT_.gif

that is not nice

dianne weist is a good one, I will kinda watch her in anything.

Shelley Duvall too (man whatever happened to her)

but in those cases its not cuz they make me "swoon" or whatever (actually I don't think either Duvall or Weist is remotely attractive) I just really appreciate their acting chops and the characters they create

lolz rachael ray animated .gif how long did it take you to make that

Ashley Judd
Amy Adams

Ashley Judd would be mine too because she's made some awful movies but I've watched many of them anyway.

susan sarandon

+1

I'm rather smitten with Rose Byrne, yet I've never seen an episode of Damages.

oh god yes, basically Ashley Judd in a movie tells me two things:

1) The movie will be terrible.
2) She will be riveting in it.

xp: OH DUDE SEE DAMAGES, IT'S GREAT

Evanna Lynch

^^^haha i once watched all of 'eye of the beholder' at like three in the morning in a hotel room exactly

xp

I shouldn't click on the Rachel Ray gif, right?

it's not what its terrible, terrible name implies

I am not yet reassured

^_^

if ur anything like shakey it may push u over the edge and turn u into a raping murdering machine :(

Dan iirc we've discussed the A. Judd thing on a previous thread. I love her and wish we were bffs.

had not heard about Jessica Lange's armadillo-graft, hope she is recovering ok

x-post LOL it was one of your threads: ASHLEY JUDD

didn't Tracer Hand once post a story about Ashley Judd being awful, or something?

If he did then I don't want to hear it. :-(

if ur anything like shakey it may push u over the edge and turn u into a raping murdering machine :(

aren't you banned yet

dont rape me bro ;_;

stay classy

would watch amy ryan in a leading role in a bad movie just to watch amy ryan. plz to give her more leading roles in movies.

Oh wait no, Tracer started an "in praise of Ashley Judd" thread. I feel like someone had a story somewhere about a restaurant and Ashley Judd being terrible.

No, I think you must be mistaken. I refuse to believe that's possible.

xxpost not the lead but she's the only "good" thing about Gone Baby Gone, and even then her character is such a ridiculously over the top caricature of course she was nominated for it. She totally deserves better though

still stanning for Connelly tbh

honorable mention: Theron, Watts

Watts, yes. Also: Catharine Keener

no drowning in the thread = no credibility

Catharine Keener seconded

ashley looked kinda old in her "don't shoot wolves from helicopters, okee?" ad. bummed me out.

Mary Louise Parker

haha I just reread that entire ASHLEY JUDD thread, good times

DEF Mary Louis Parker

yep keener = always watchable

nancy botwin has basically killed mlp for me

DEF DEF Mary Louise Parker

(but, like my Rose Byrne sitch, I've also never watched Weeds.)

HOOS otm re: parker posey

Charlize Theron. I can't objectively judge anything she's in.

Michelle Monaghan. Except for those dreadful romcoms she sometimes appears in.

kate winslet, drew barrymore. age prevents me putting a name to the 3rd face i can see in my mind.

got it: julianne moore

Kristin Scott Thomas and Maggie Gyllenhaal

Kirsten Dunst for me. Can't believe the crap I've watched just to see her.

kristin scott thomas otm

I absolutely love KST too, but the movies she's in tend to be good, no?

surprised no one's copping to Zooey...
How bout Anne Hathaway?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b4/Under_the_cherry_moon.jpg

surprised no one's copping to Zooey...
How bout Anne Hathaway?

― Philip Nunez, Friday, August 7, 2009 4:38 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

I'll fess up. It's all about Zoe. Specially in Yes Man. BE IN MY BAND YOU GORGEOUS THING YOU!!!

The only thing I've seen her in was The Happening & while she was highly watchable, the film belonged to Marky Mark.

i will watch ashley judd in anything too but i don't really wanna marry her. maybe when she was on sisters i did. or in ruby in paradise. but not now.

x-post - oh dude, you gotta at least see ELF. that and Bad Santa are probably the only good xmas movies of the last 20 yrs or whatever.

ooh, i thought of someone. annabella sciorra. i will watch her in any movie or anything on t.v. and she does make me swoon still.

annabella is a good one. I will kinda watch her in anything (but she doesn't seem to work too much anymore?)

i think she just does t.v. stuff now. probably can't get lotsa movie roles cuzza the age thing. that's usually how hollywood works.

used to be rosario dawson. prob others, but i cant think who right now. faye dunaway too. im working my way through her films.

Maggie Gyllenhaal <3

i think she just does t.v. stuff now. probably can't get lotsa movie roles cuzza the age thing. that's usually how hollywood works.

yeah. fuck hollywood.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

supersupercuet irl too

http://images.askmen.com/galleries/actress/sarah-polley/pictures/sarah-polley-picture-5.jpghttp://www.posters555.com/pictures/Molly-Parker-picture-Z1G148422_b.jpg

Sarah Polley and Molly Parker (I seem to have a weakness for ginger Canadians). Two extraordinary actors that have always pulled way more weight than than their roles sometimes require.

No actress can save some movies.

haha speaking of which what happened to all the natale portman crushes?

julie christie

the rumors are true?

whomever said Mercedes McCambridge, you are awesome!

xposts: I've spent so much time dreaming about Eleanor Bron

BUT I would like to mention that I watched like 30 minutes of a movie called One-Eyed Monster because it starred Amber Benson from Buffy.

Amber Benson? Really? But I guess I shouldn't judge because I did end up watching Piñata: Survival Island on AMC one night at some ungodly hour with Nicholas Brendon. I think I probably would have watched it without any Buffy involvement because of the premise of a demonic piñata.

i guess barbara stanwyck fits into this category for me.

molly parker ... i used to hate the affectation she brings to nearly every role. i still have problems with it, but i guess i can reluctantly admire it.

the movie sarah polley directed sucked.

she doesn't look like a ginger either

<3 <3 <3 Sarah Polley. Though I wish she quit doing boring dramas and did more stuff like Dawn Of The Dead.

haha speaking of which what happened to all the natale portman crushes?

― Philip Nunez, Saturday, August 8, 2009 1:15 AM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark

I used to have a huge crush on her about 8 years ago. I don't remember when or why exactly but it's pretty much disappeared; I kind of even dislike her now.

They only want you when you're seventeen
When you're twenty-one
You're no fun

Maggie Cheung. Mmmmm.

Hence why they fit here, and perhaps why no one's mentioned obvious contenders like Juliette Binoche or Helena Bonham Carter: they manage not to be cast in dreck without other redeeming qualities. Kristen Scott Thomas, with the exception of that Prince vehicle, probably doesn't belong in this thread either.

Few of the actresses here are chameleons of a Meryl Streep nature (and arguably, that's not an adorable type that audiences can fall in love with). These all are cast because they drag their own affectations, history, and sparks into the fray. Dying Polley in Life Without Me wouldn't be as affecting had we not watched her evolve in Munchausen and Exotica. Parker is just cast as prickly characters. It works for her. Can you imagine Hepburn cast as an ingenue? Me neither.

Binoche has been in plenty of mediocre films, and HB Carter has been in some true dogs. Sadly Helena's track record is so spotty that I won't watch movies just for her anymore.

ctrl-f "jessica alba" ... really? nothing? dudette has been in some baaaaad movies

haha speaking of which what happened to all the natale portman crushes? - Many of them were unhealthy to begin with, as they were rooted in the Lolita-isms of The Professional. Even so, whichever NP crushes survived the first two SW prequels would have been invariably obliterated by Garden State.

portman has seemed very sour of late. also she is a terrible actress.

tombot is a portman stan iirc

The hotter Boleyn sister: Scarlett Johansson or Natalie Portman

"obvious contenders like Juliette Binoche or Helena Bonham Carter: they manage not to be cast in dreck without other redeeming qualities."

http://videodetective.com/photos/190/008013_22.jpg

...whichever NP crushes survived the first two SW prequels would have been invariably obliterated by Garden State.

That's it!

xp. But, but, Theory of Flight was "funny, poignant, and deeply intelligent" according to critic's blurbs in the trailer. I'm actually going to have it seek it out given the synopsis...

i watched under the tuscan sun because of Diane lane

lol

more like tushcan

Why, Holly Hunter, of course. Maybe Joan Cusak too, and thirding Catherine Keener.

haha, i would totally marry 70s shelly duvall

― velko, Friday, August 7, 2009 3:15 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

^^ this

Scarlett J. after watching Lost in Translation and Ghost World; even considered watching The Perfect Score because of her; not so much now

also who's gonna man up and declare Audrey Tatou

Parker. Fucking. Posey.

Oh man. Good call on Joan Cusack. What a babe.

The answer to this question used to be Adrienne Shelley.

Cathy Keener is another solid choice.

Also, the young Sissy Spacek.

So many of this actresses make mainly good films. I thought it was ppl whose work includes a lot of shit movies you watch just because they're hot.

Minka Kelly.
She hasn't done many movies yet, and I actively like Friday Night Lights, but I could just stare at her all day. Plus, she's far and away the worst actor on FNL. That has to count for something, right?

I can't think of any. I don't really watch movies tbh.

Cecile de France

(il se pame)

teenage Winona (& not b/c I'm a perv, but b/c I had a MAD crush on her back when such things were actually pretty important).

shannyn sossamon, gina gershon, chloe sevigny

i'll say audrey tatou~ diane lane as well.

i think susan sarandon is still my prototype for 75% of the females i've gone out with. actually, zooey deschanel is maybe the other 25%. i should mention her as well.

Audrey Hepburn, Karen Black, Lili Taylor.

And I've had a crush on Jodie Foster since I was 9. (Never considered killing the Prime Minister tho)

Mia Sara
Stefania Sandrelli

Gene Tierney

After her 30 Rock appearance, I've been very taken with the re-emergence of Anna Chlumsky. Anyone making this face:

http://images.starpulse.com/Photos/pv/Anna%20Chlumsky-2.jpg

...in a paparazzi picture is a keeper.

Cecile de France, seconded. I was forgetting about french actresses. I'd like to add Virginie Ledoyen and Ludivine Sagnier.

After seeing In the Loop, I completely agree w/ Chlumsky.

Pretty sure I would not have seen Disturbing Behavior, The Gift, or Abandon if not for Katie Holmes, though she's a pretty terrible actress.

yeah i saw the gift more or less entirely for katie holmes and her two friends

shannyn sossamon

Can't figure out why she's not cast in everything. So hot. Also, she named her son "Audio Science" with gets about 1B bonus points.

with=which

Even cooler, wikipedia says she was in two Mr. Show episodes and a Daft Punk video.

yeah i saw the gift more or less entirely for katie holmes and her two friends

You mean the two magnificent parts of herself in the faded glow of night's light?

shannyn sossamon

Yes, I love her too. I watched 40 days and 40 nights because of her for christ's sake. Her character's name in that was Erica iirc. :-)

young julie delpy, but she's kind of horrible now =(

pretty sure I stopped crushing on actresses once I turned, like, 21.

Samantha Morton and Kim Novak and Emilie Dequenne.

Linda Hunt.

That Fay Wray dame- she's got gams that just don't quit!

not nuf pictures in this thread
http://blog.newsok.com/bamsblog/files/2008/12/kristen-stewart-2.jpg

I just saw Adventureland last week and she's fantastic. Not fantastic enough to make me ever see Twilight, though.

no matter how fantastic she is, you still have to see Twilight

pretty sure i've watched every anna hathaway movie.

haha except rachel getting married

actually watched one of the princess diaries movies three or four times and still couldn't tell you anything about the plot except that there's a talking book

alicia witt

Rachel Weisz
Mary Lynn Rajskub

Mercedes McCambridge

― velko, Friday, August 7, 2009 12:12 PM (2 weeks ago)

forgot how awesome she was in the original "All the King's Men"

this thread was pretty homosexual.. until now

http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/date-machine/Monica_Bellucci.jpg

elbow nip

What? She couldn't even feel it. Those things hardly have nerves.

Molly Parker

kinda agree with this, even though the only things i've really seen her in are that one episode of "party down" and lol wickerman

rachel weisz

doesn't it just burn you up that she's with Aronofsky

i don't know that much about the guy, but imo the fact that she's banging some nerdy technician isn't hurting her internet appeal.

http://ephemerist.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/joan_holloway.jpg

http://patdollard.com/wp-content/uploads/faye_dunaway.jpg

>Molly Parker

Kissed is kind of a bittersweet, thoughtful feminist take on Jörg Buttgereit's 'Nekromantic 2', pretty good one in the 'falling for a girl with some issues that she doesn't really see as issues' category (even thought the film's from her point of view), I remember liking it and occasionally having to remind myself that it really exists

Dunaway belongs on the 'make you swoon and marry her no matter how batshit crazy she is' thred.

Watching State of Play right now & I gotta say, put me down as +1 for Rachel McAdams.

http://www.celebrityroyale.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/anne-hathaway.jpg is currently boring the shit out of me on telly.

http://www.vh1.com/sitewide/flipbooks/img/movies/production_stills/y/you_dont_mess_with_the_zohan/emmanuelle-chriqui-zohan-1.jpg

top five:

1.) anna karina
2.) isabelle huppert
3.) anne hathaway
4.) asia argento (might actually care how bad the movie is here.)
5.) about five hundred i can't settle on.

emily mortimer. I guess I kinda have a 'thing' for sad-eyed british girls. (see also emily watson)

And emily woof?

rosario dawson
elizabeth banks

I'm strangely attracted to Natasha leggero

And Katy perry is obviously not an actress but I'd break it off in her ass

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/jessica-lange-behind-the-lens/?fbclid=IwAR2SdujFOzfq6rWqyN5I_zuJcMVSD3wnOY_GF9scR0DvLQXOdqIL8sw2-8A

Jessica Lange is a photographer in addition to an actress. Has a Highway 61 exhibit in NY through the 18th.