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

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

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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."

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...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