I mean seriously is this to make all those retarded middle aged losers think they have a chance to get with good looking women?
What a load of crap we are subjected to. Its about time there ugly, old guys stopped getting cast, they where both like 20 years older. Whats up with that?
Disgusting, like totally.
Its showing us that not everyone is shallow. Anyway, Jason Bateman or whatever is not ugly in my eyes.
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Okay, if it's showing us that not everyone is shallow XCLFAX, then why is it only women expected not to be shallow? It's never hot guys with average girls.
shareExactly! I completely agree with Sasha.
shareHm... real life example: Hugh Jackman?
As for the movies: There ARE some examples. I just can't think of one of them right now... :)
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Well she's a fattie, so you have to expect she's not going to get much better.
sharethere was a hot actor in the movie named Jon Fleming but they cut his part. Him alone would be enough to keep you guys happy! check out pics from a show he just did Actor Jon Fleming is Hot and well hung!!! on a Episode of femme fatales He was on will and grace, csi, here is a link to photos
http://www.omgblog.com/2011/07/omg_hes_naked_jon_fleming.php#more
I thought of Shallow Hal when I saw your post. Ok, Jack Black isn't hot, he's more average but he ended up with an oversized obese woman and stopped being shallow! Great movie IMO. You just don't get those movies often though, women are portrayed as the not so shallow ones.
shareIt's never hot guys with average girls.?????????
Uhhhh? What about "Sixteen Candles"? also there is "Sex and The City" I mean Kristen Davis the the only "hot" girl on that show. Yet all the girls on that show seem to get really "hot" guys.
As far as "Sixteen Candles" goes I remember when I was in high school, a guy who looked like Jake Ryan would never go out with a girl who looked like Molly Ringwald, he's gonna go with the hottest girl in school.
"also there is "Sex and The City" I mean Kristen Davis the the only "hot" girl on that show. Yet all the girls on that show seem to get really "hot" guys."
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Except hot Kristen Davis whose character gets married to that ugly bland bald guy, which totally reconfirms our arguments here.
Not shallow? Why not cast some average-looking women, then? Or *gasp* an overweight woman? Or, how about a woman who doesn't have a perfect body? I know, Hollywood, it's a crazy suggestion.
Not that I don't appreciate the eye candy, but movies like these are just perpetuating the idea that men shouldn't have to take care of themselves, and that is totally acceptable, yet a woman needs to be immaculate. And the age thing was just strange...Kristen Bell is 12 years younger than Jason Bateman, and spent her entire career playing a high school student on tv. So, what, we throw some glasses and a cardigan sweater on her and suddenly she's in her mid thirties? Come on.
No, not everyone is shallow. Only the guys, right? Jason Bateman isn't ugly, but no way, is in Kristen Bell's league.
shareI agree. And what was up with those young girls at the other island all flirting with Jon Favreau's character? He is ugly as hell.
shareWhen you're the writer and director, that pretty much gives you the license to do what you want.
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"When you're the writer and director, that pretty much gives you the license to do what you want."
Agreed.
The career counselors do say to do what you like, don't they. No reason this doesn't apply to movie makers as well.
"I mean seriously is this to make all those retarded middle aged losers think they have a chance to get with good looking women?"
retarted middle aged, probly not. but rich or famous middle aged, totally. frankly, its just old women are jealous they cant get (and keep) a hot younger guy lol.
"Its about time there ugly, old guys stopped getting cast, they where both like 20 years older."
they were casted probly because they have done some succesful comedies in the past? if you are in a comedy, you should at least be funny (age is irrelvant). but the women, they dont need comedic talent. hell they dont even need to speak, they could just stand there and do nothing and the movie will still work..
Lighten up. They definitely weren't winners. A lot of times when you travel to these fun exciting places, attractive co-tourists (like the dance academy babes) will flirt, make passes, party, fling with you for various reasons.
If you have the time and money to go to Bora Bora, better yet a single exotic hotspot you are not a loser in their eyes. You lose most of your appeal being with a wife or accompanied by a fiancée. I been on several exotic trips and boat cruises so I know this from direct experience. Well, timing matters too.
Often it is felt like you are on another planet. I have had babes wave and smile at me from 100 yards out and they weren't selling anything just being friendly. I had to check behind me to see if they was a rock star or a movie celebrity nearby. That's one of my nicer stories.
Familiarity can breed contempt too. I actually have gone out my way to avoid other tourist ladies(particularly North American). This works out because a lot foreign and the American men are attracted them, especially the blondes like Cynthia and Ronnie. Also on that side of the world, you have Aussie ladies too with their scintillating accent, a definite distraction.
How many average looking 40 year old actresses are out there, little less average SIZED average looking 40 year old actresses.
Nia Vardalos & Monique can't be in every movie!
"Leeches suck!"
"How many average looking 40 year old actresses are out there"
Thousands. But they never get cast because Hollywood would rather cast younger and more beautiful women.
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Well, speaking as an average looking 41 year old guy engaged to a stunning 29 year old woman, let me just say long may it continue :)
Plus I'm not loaded or anything, just lucky and happy
41 guy, 29 year old girl - daddy issues.
shareSince when is a 29 year old classified as a "girl"? How old do you have to be? 29 is a full-grown woman and it's not odd to see a 29 year old woman with a 41 year old man. I didn't think any of the women looked that much younger than their men - they were just gorgeous women with out of shape men.
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Since when is a 29 year old classified as a "girl"? How old do you have to be? 29 is a full-grown woman and it's not odd to see a 29 year old woman with a 41 year old man. I didn't think any of the women looked that much younger than their men - they were just gorgeous women with out of shape men.
I know what you mean, mk52.
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
Enh, I tend to find older men to be very attractive, including some of the people in Couples Retreat, but I do know what you mean about the average girl -vs- average guy thing. It appears that men get away with being shallow a bit more than women do. Being shallow is nothing to be proud of, but it happens. *shrugs*
sharePfft. Watch Seinfeld then come back and complain about this movie.
share^ lol true, fat, short, usually unemployed, bald, ugly guy with a new above looking woman in fine physical form each episode...
shareYeah I thought the guys were really way below average in looks (less Bateman) plus they whined as much if not more then there very good-looking wives. Of course the women were pissed-off looking at the ugly smucks they were stuck with. I figured they must have married these ugly losers for their bank accounts. And why would that hot-looking black girl want to be sleeping with that much older grossly overweight black man. He must of been paying her alot of green for that action. For a comedy this film totally flops as it had very few laughs, maybe a chuckle or two at best. I heard no one really laughing in my showing, except in the two scenes with the little boys. I think the little kid had it right when he basically demonstrated to the audience that the film was a load of crap!!
shareI couldn't help but notice that all of the women were very thin and attractive while the men were not so great, like a lot of you are saying. Favreau looks and acts like a total skank and yet those young, pretty girls are all over him? I really find that hard to believe. My friends and I are in our twenties and we would not react that way to a guy like that. I'm not saying its impossible, i'm just saying it seems slightly skewed to the myths of male fantasies where all hot, young, fun women would want them if they could only get rid of their annoying wives (who also happen to be beautiful). At least his wife was portrayed as being almost as bad as he was. Unfortunately, our society has allowed women to be portrayed as the objects of desire and the givers of pleasure for so long that we are not even comfortable seeing women in films that would be in the same league as these men.
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I agree, its called the male ego, take Robert Redford casting himself opposite a much much younger Michelle Pfeiffer. Sadly in this, life reflects art, and have you ever noticed how ridiculously young looking women play "mothers" to "daughters" who cant be more than 5 years younger? that gets my goat too!
shareIt's a total joke. I am like 20 and old guys have hit on me since i was like 12 and got boobs. Me and my hot girl friends would never even look twice at such ugly old dudes.
I think its cos Hollywood is full of fat middle age to old directors who wanna live out their fantasies.
And as for the older dude who has the young wife, i bet you have money and she's gonna dump you or cheat on you.
Old guys learn you place and hang on to your zimmerframe you sick fat, bold, ugly twits. I bet y'all can't get it up without Viagra.
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You realize that, especially as they mature, people are a lot more attracted to personalities? I mean, not everyone. If you're a shallow retard then that's all you're gonna be for the rest of your life.
But people who are interesting, and can actually talk about interesting things, like they got a culture and a brain, they are actually very attracted to personality. Seriously, there are tons of great looking girls with average looking guys, especially here in Europe. Just because they're great guys, they got personality, a culture, are interesting.
I don't really know if all the girls in the States reason like you, cause I haven't lived there in quite a while. But if they did, that'd be a real shame. If you reason like you do you seem pretty ignorant and retarded. Sorry.
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"You realize that, especially as they mature, people are a lot more attracted to personalities? I mean, not everyone. If you're a shallow retard then that's all you're gonna be for the rest of your life."
Not sure who you are referencing here, but I think you are missing the point, Edoardo. The point is that ALL women are ridiculously hot in movies, whereas the men don't always have to be. Men are allowed to have chubby bellies and double chins but women have to look (and stay) perfect. This would make it seem as if WOMEN are attracted to personalities and are therefore willing to date average looking guys, even if they are totally hot. So, basically, women learn from watching movies that they have no worth unless they are thin and attractive even though men do have worth regardless of what they look like. So I am definitely not impressed that there are tons of great looking girls dating average guys in Europe. If you were telling me all about how many great looking guys there are with average looking girls in Europe, I would be the first to applaud you guys for it. I just find it beyond tacky that you are trying to put down American women by acting like it is shallow for any of us to comment on the less-than-stellar looks of these men when the whole point of this thread is that the MEN are the ones who are shallow.
Coach McGuirk: All right, listen up, that was a good game. We all showed up, and I'm proud of that.