Ugly Baby.
Seriously, the kid almost ruined the movie for me. He's hideous. You honestly expect any of us to believe Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes could ever make a baby that ugly?
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not a politically correct thing to say, but I admit I thought the same thing when I saw the baby....
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Not the point. Whatever you think, they wouldn't spawn that bobble-headed homunculus. That kid's parents were related.
shareEveryWorld55 finally someone with good taste and common sense. I agree 100%, Gosling isn't ugly, but he's not good looking... And Eva Mendez is actually quite an ugly woman (and I love my latina girls!)... With that said, that baby was a cutie..
shareI notice this in movies. Jersey Girl with Ben Affleck/Jennifer Lopez had an adorable actress that was totally believable as JLo's daughter. The baby in this movie had no resemblance to Eva or Ryan. Bet their daughters are cuties but they hide them from photographers.
shareSeriously? I had to respond to this because I was shocked anyone would think that the baby who played Jason as an infant was ugly - every time he was shown him in the first part of the movie I thought how stinkin adorable he was! And, no, I am not one of those people that think ALL babies are automatically cute by default, as if being a baby gives one a free pass. I actually thought baby Jason was much cuter than the baby who played AJ as an infant.
It's a Zen thing, like how many babies fit in a tire.
I guess someone has to think the ugly ones are cute so they don't starve to death, but I believe you're in the minority here.
I'd love to take a poll on whether a couple would want that baby or a shaved chimp.
He was only 15-16, so he might grow into his looks. I think that there are picture circulating of Ryan Gosling when he was in high school and he looked pretty awkward. I thought that the most implausible part was how white the baby looked with a Hispanic mother. The most crazy part was when they were in court and you saw the white kid with a Hispanic mother and black father! Definitely the opposite of what you expect.
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But seriously, that was kinda retarded. Him looking white isn't so strange though. Many Hispanic people have genes for blonde hair, blue eyes and anglo features. If you go to Mexico you'll see a lot of Mexicans that look anglo-european. Very white but speak no english.
Hmm... it's not like white is a recessive gene though. Eva Mendes is not white at all. He would have been a diluted Mexican looking person, not a white looking guy.
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Well, there's no such thing as "white". It's just a descriptor for a fairly wide range of combined physical features. Eva Mendes can have all sorts of ancestral genes that would create a much lighter child given the right set of partner genes, just like Ryan Gosling could have genes that create a child much darker than him given the same situation.
shareThis is not true at all, I've seen my fair share of mixed white-latinos, with the one parent looking completely latino/a, that look completely white. And vice versa
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"Hmm... it's not like white is a recessive gene though. Eva Mendes is not white at all. He would have been a diluted Mexican looking person, not a white looking guy."
This is a picture [see link below] of Dezi James Calvo who is actress Jaime Pressly's son. His father like Eva Mendes is Cuban. That means that the kid is half Hispanic. Look how white he came out. Doesn't look like a "diluted Mexican looking person" at all. Similarly, its not implausible for Eva Mendes's kid in the movie to be "so white."
http://www.fotolog.com/celebrity_babies/78212005/
Well the father of this boy, DJ Eric Calvo, isn't as brown-looking as Eva per say, he even has light colored eyes! The only ethno phenotype I see on him is his nose (I see African/mulatto geno there), had he had a thinner shaped nose I would have thought he was a white man. Personally I don't think the kid coming out white isn't that surprising given his father isn't the darkest of latinos. As for Eva on the other hand she's brown all over, black hair, dark brown eyes, brown skin so idk....
shareYou came back at the poster who made an ignorant comment with a good argument but then unfortunately you chose a hurtful antiquated word, "retarded" to further your point. To many people the use of that word is just as offensive as the racist comment. Nobody's perfect-I've learned along the way that words like that are hurtful-I urge you to find another word- but in the end it's your choice.
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The ignorance of some people is beyond belief. Yes, Trackmaster, I'm talking to you. Just because Eva Mendes is Hispanic doesn't mean that she can't have a fair skinned baby. Cameron Diaz is the offspring of a Cuban father and non-Hispanic white woman and Cameron is as white as can be. Ryan Lochte, the Olympic Swimmer is similarly half-Cuban and half non-Hispanic white and he's also very white. And did you know that Joanna Garcia, the girl that played Cheyenne in Reba is also half Cuban and half non-Hispanic white? She's also very non-ethnic, fair-skinned and blond. In fact, Ryan, Cameron and Joanna are whiter than that little kid in the movie. So, no, it's not implausible "how white the baby looked," you're just very ignorant.
shareWoah. Woah. In no way was that baby ugly. Have you ever actually seen an ugly baby? I've seen babies who are way more hideous looking. Seriously, you must not have seen many babies if you think he was ugly.
When you grow up, your heart dies.
Good story-great acting and all you can comment on is the baby's appearance? Why don't you try watching again and focus on the acting or interesting story arc that many posters have commented on-perhaps you won't even notice the baby then..
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Yeah, it was a pretty good story, with pretty good acting, and one ugly, ugly ass toddler. These things aren't mutually exclusive. I'm actually surprised that a movie which was pretty well made would jeopardize everything casting such an repulsive kid.
shareYou probaly get a feeling of glee and self satisfaction talking *beep* about a baby,people like you are the skid marks of society.
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Thank, god. I thought I was the only one thinking that. The people saying he's "stinkin cute" and "adorable" need to have their eyes examined.
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