Uma Thurman vs Brandon Routh

Anyway, I (heart) Uma Thurman.

There's a thread about this movie over at GirlWonder, with some dicussion about how it plays domestic violence for laughs.

Have you seen "Just Friends"? I watched that this weekend, and Faris is great in it. Really pushes her character to the limits, and does a great job of shifting from over-the-top insane to normal in an instant. The movie itself, so-so, but she's great in it.

See, when I saw the trailer (watch the movie? for eight dollars? people, please, if I want to be insulted, I can watch Desperate Housewives. For FREE!) I thought, oh, it's this nasty weird boy's club "I am average - not hideous! - and thus I have a right to whichever woman I want and they keep saying no to me and don't they realize how hurtful and traumatic it is when they deny me my (rightful) sexxin'? Don't they realize that when they reject me, I have to settle for some ugly chick?" And the extension always seems to be - hey, wouldn't it be cool if some blinding hawt woman lusted after me to the extent that she stalked me? Wouldn't it be awesome if I had the power to deny her the hot sexxin' that she craves?

(And then I spiral into fuming about how - to name just one example - Jennifer Aniston, who is supermodel beautiful, always winds up playing the romantic partner of the crude, average-looking actor (no, not Hollywood average, average average. Have you seen Jim Carrey?) and how maybe someday we could make movies that were not solely about male wish fulfillment.)

(I have a sinking feeling that I'm not expressing myself well. This - even the trailer - hits so many of my buttons in all of the bad ways, and all I can really say is that every time I think about it I get all tense and nauseous and angry. Um. So. I will put away my persecution complex now.)

I started roffling at the bolded part. Yes, I am a dick.

I haven't, but it was filmed in my city!

Regina? The coldness of the city during filming is a major portion of the "filming of" documentary. Pretty funny watching the actors and crew cope with the snow and sub-zero temps. "Why couldn't you set this during summer?" was one comment to the writer that made me laugh.

she caught me looking at her— really, trying to get a look at those, ahem, lungs that so amazed me as a lad— and she gave me a "i caught you, schmuck, go check out someone who isn't famous" kinda look, which i suppose I deserved.

don't plan to see the movie, but Brandon Routh, as well as Bosworth and everyone else in the Superman picture, failed to evince any elementary human qualitities that one expects from a movie: i.e. the movie failed to make me give a shit about anyone therein. its pretty bad.

so I go with Uma. She's a good actress. Routh, based on this film, is not.

James Marsden?

ps. Uma wins every time (even if she wasn't incredibly hot - she can, at least, act). Brandon's a good looking guy and all that (and in the suit he does look the part) but he's so bland - Christopher Reeve had a bit of a twinkle in his eye.

Wait, what? The first thing you've listed I don't see in the post at all; the second two only to the extent that the poster's saying that the amount of average-man-with-uberhot-woman movies vs the amount of average-woman-with-uberhot-man movies is pretty ridicolous, which I don't think is a controversial statement to be making at all! Even if the examples used (as noted here and on the GirlWonder thread) don't really seem to pan out.

Interestingly, from my pov anyway, the average-guy-gets-with-uberhot-chick trope seems to show up mostly in comedies where the inference appears to be that such pairings are intrinsically ridiculous. Which would appear to be what the poster was getting at.

There is the action movie thing where an average (looking) guy almost always ends up with a superhot chick, but as he's usually the hero he tends to turn out to be a very long way from average in all his other attributes.

THIS IS NOT LOGICAL REASONING; IT IS PROJECTION

Advertising doesn't count, it's aspirational.
TV is usually about showing how stupid and shallow men are and how women are so much better than that.
Movies usually have the Mr Darcy thing going on.ie He might not be pretty but he's rich/powerful/famous etc.

Hate this show (and partially for this reason).

http://www.thetechnodrome.com/images/albums/Krang%2C_Shredder%2C_Bebop%2C_and_Rocksteady_Together/allrocksteadywiththecover.jpg

Average looking people doing average things!