I watch crap for attractive actors

[queerlyobscure]

So I watched What's Your Number? because I just really like Chris Evans' adorable little face, okay?

Protip: Don't make my mistake.

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[tracy7307]

I may or may not have recently listened to the Three Times a Lady clip from Youtube, like, an obscene amount of times *shifty eyes*

I want to see it. I think I'll probably have the same reaction as you as I really don't dig on slut-shaming....

Although I'll probably still dig on mostly-nude Evans in his doorway, as I've seen some clips, and I'm shallow like that.

[queerlyobscure]

That moment is stuck in my head *so* badly. I have never had a worse/more persistent earwig. It's not the worst thing in the world but, it's really stuck in there. He does another song right near the end and it's not quite as good, but it looks good.

There are some great mostly-naked scenes and I have to admit, the strip HORSE scene was kind of hilarious. It's just that the *actual premise* kind of sours it all for me. Mr. Evans is completely adorable, though, so it's probably worth it. Maybe worth having someone there to mock it with when you watch, because that was the only way I got through the icky bits.

[tracy7307]

I'll probably be watching it with my ever-sarcastic boyfriend who will mock it endlessly while I completely agree with him and drool quietly over Chris. I'm a sucker and yes, I'll watch garbage if I take a fancy to someone.

See: that time I watched She's the Man for Channing Tatum. Ughh, the things I do for the pretty...

[queerlyobscure]

I think in terms of 'worst things I've watched for actors I like', it's a toss-up between Caravaggio for Sean Bean (total acid trip) or Hex for Sam Troughton (so, so boring and such a *long* series). This is in the top ten, though.

[engarian]

Sorry, but can't live through the icky bits to find the small amount of gold. I'll just have to stay with pictures from Google and snippets from YouTube.

- Erulisse (one L)

[queerlyobscure]

If I hadn't been watching it with a friend I just wouldn't have watched it at all, so I totally get that. The gifs and screenshots running around capture most of the sort of okay parts of it, anyway.

[roh_wyn]

Ugh. I wonder if they could have kept the storyline and shifted it to, IDK, 1952, to make it work in context or something.

I've never understood why all the existential angst in the movies is about sex and romance. Why can't they make a movie about someone growing up in a conservative Christian family suddenly realizing they're an atheist or something? Is that not angsty enough? < /rant>

[queerlyobscure]

See, I much prefer movies where the angst and drama comes from the aliens/magic people trying to destroy the world, because that is actually worthy of getting a little upset over. I just cannot connect to the people in mainstream romance because not only are they not like *me*, they're not like anyone I'd want to know, either. I can connect to the guy who wants to save the world because, y'know, saving the world. Or at very least I can enjoy the villain.

I think the trick would have been to not have the storyline. In fact, I think the trick would have been to simply not make the movie :/

[roh_wyn]

I can connect to the guy who wants to save the world because, y'know, saving the world.

I think I'm more likely to connect with the guy who is doing his level best to save the world, only to have the hero swoop in at the last minute and steal all the glory. ;)

I like villains better than the save-the-world guy too, which may explain why Loki was the only part of The Avengers that interested me, lol.

[alias_amy]

I am so glad you posted this, because I had just put that movie in my Netflix queue for Chris Evans and Chris Evans only. Thanks for the warning. I will be sure to be drunk and have one finger on the fast forward button.

(I don't know what to make of Anna Faris. I know she gets plaudits for being one of those actress who aren't "afraid" to be funny-gross, instead of funny-neurotic, and the whole idea that this is somehow special is annoying. But I do find her onscreen persona to be so consistently coarse and stupid that it's not exactly empowering to watch her.

[queerlyobscure]

Yeah, you'll want to fast-forward through the train scene and the whole engagement party bit and honestly, if Chris Evans isn't on screen, the scene isn't worth the effort and you won't miss much.

(I... yeah. Basically, I am fine with women being portrayed that way because women are people and people are flawed, but I don't want to be asked to be sympathetic towards them. I would not be sympathetic towards a man who was similarly incapable of using his damned brain and I don't think the stupid-but-well-meaning girl thing is cute at all. I think it's disturbing.)

[lil_1337]

Taking that one off my list for when I finish working through Jeremy Renner movies and get to Chris Evans.