Top Three Overrated Actresses(Physically Speaking)

1. Julia Roberts
2. Sarah Jessica Parker
3. Nicole Kidman (Now days anyway. Circa Dead Calm, holy fuck)

Dead on the first two, but I'd eat my own foot to watch Nicole Kidman diddle herself.

1. Jennifer Love Hewitt-Maybe cute from POF but is just plain.
2. Brittany Murphy-still the girl from Clueless
3. Tara Reid-It's a stretch to call her an actress but her hard partying and implants don't warrent Maxim covers anymore.

Hon. Mention Sarah Jessica Parker-just a beast.

1. Sandra Bullock - She just hasn't looked all the good to me since Murder By Numbers, even though the movie sucked complete ass canal.

2. Rosario Dawson - I don't know how many people actually drool over her, but seeing her in Sin City sent me into a series of gagging convulsions...yuck!

3. Tom Cruise - Man, she has really gone south since Mission Impossible 2!

Sarah Michelle Gellar - if I wanted ribs, I'd go to a restaurant

Julia Roberts - Her breasts won her an Oscar, but even they aren't particularly above-average

Lucy Liu - she just looks... odd

Yeah, I hate this woman, especially from those goddamn Gap adverts. She's not attractive at all, she just looks like a horse! Extremely long face, you see.

Julia Roberts
Rosario Dawson
Nicole Kidman
Jennifer Lopez
Sara Michelle Gellar
Asia Argento
Devon Aoki
Sarah Jessica Parker

Amen, brother!

As for my top three, it'll have to be:

1. Sarah-Jessica Parker
2. Paris Hilton (not really an actress, but I hate her and her square man-jaw)
3. Jennifer Lopez (I just hate everything about this woman)

Sarah Jessica Parker's equine looks are even more offensive than her SEX AND THE CITY performance, which was very offensive indeed.

(Edited to add: It's not so much Parker's looks that irritate me, more the way she's being touted as some kind of sexy style icon. She's not. She's a fugly flake.)

Meg Ryan's recent adventures in plastic surgery have transformed a genuine cutie into...something else.

But the worst offender in this category is alleged actress Pamela Anderson. Anyone who finds this walking, talking RealDoll sexually attractive has got some deep-seated issues.

Don't tell Micah this.

Is there a reason no one tells Sarah she's ugly?
I mean, no one ever fails to remind Clint Howard every five minutes.

If I may act as a defence lawyer:

Devon Aoki- Had a tight little bod in 2F2F, but yeah, she does look like an alien.

I've never seen enough Sarah Michelle Geller flesh to see her ribs. Got any pics for evidence?

Tara Reid DID look adorable in the first American Pie.

Jennifer Lopez- I can't help it, that bod is perfect.

Pamela Anderson--Seconded.
Jessica Simpson--And for many of the same reasons as Anderson, really.
Elisha Cuthbert--It's starting to occur to me that I'm just not a big fan of blondes.
Famke Janssen--Jean Grey or not....way too skinny for my tastes.
Jessica Alba--Boobs aside, she looks like she's 15.

My friend maintains that she looks like a praying mantis. I find this extremely harsh as I personally find her quite attractive.

She is beautiful.

Kirsten Dunst- Snaggletooth was the only bad thing in a masterful Spider-Man 2.

Sarah Jessica Parker- Roof Roof! Almost every girl at the local mall is better looking.

Cameron Diaz- What happened to her after "The Mask"?

BTW I was at a C-grade Hollywood party a while ago and Pamela Anderson was there. She actually is quite pretty close up, but her body is horrendous. She has virtually no ass and pencil thin stick legs. She also has a huge gap between those stilts. Incidentally, Nikki Cox was at the same party and she was extremely hot. Absolutely blew Pam away.

I tend to agree with what every one mentioned except

how and the hell did Portman and Jolie make anybodys list sweet jesus

Lucy Liu I could see why some people dont like her, but freaking natalie

fist of I am 6'4'' 160 and bony so tall, slender brunnettes are my thing, and glofed I assume you have only seen star wars becuse in Leon, Beautiful Girls, Garden State, and Closer she is anything but wooden. Hell Leon is one of select few that amkes me tear up.

and I have all her Letterman, Daily Show interviews and Sesame Street appearnces and she far from obnoxious

Plus she has a laugh that is pue bliss

I think Dunst biggest problem is she is more of cute girl than a hot girl, but they try to play her as the hot girl, except ESOTSM where shes dead on,

Hillary Duff in my opinion she is the best singer of the tween set, but def not hot

Sarah Jessica Parker

Sandra Bullock something just not right especially consodering I think Marisa Tomei is smoking

I'll never stop being amused by these threads where random dudes talk about which women don't make their dicks stiff. Thanks, guys.

And then there's the random dude that breaks the cycle and makes all us other random dudes second guess our posting.

I'll have to co-sign the Cameron Diaz and J-Lo mentions above and throw 'new-look Lohan' into the pot.

Thank you to Grofield; I have never, ever understood the Uma Thurman thing. She's just weird-looking.
And I back up the heavily-stated opinion on Sarah Jessica Parker. I don't get that at all.
Ditto Sarah Michelle Gellar. Buffy fans are odd people. Eat a sandwich, girl.

There was a time when I would have said Julia Roberts, but (oddly) she's getting much more attractive with age. So she's off the list.

And while I find Angelina Jolie attractive in some films/pictures, she's oddly mercurial, and sometimes I just don't see it. Strangely, she seems to be that woman who makes straight women declare that they'd fuck her. It's a bizarre phenomenon.

To be a fly on the wall when some of you met any of these women in real life would be a great thing.

Yeah, you'd tell 'em. Set 'em straight. Yeah.

Hilary should not be mentioned in this thread.

Id sleep with every single woman that has been mentioned in this thread.
And Tom Cruise.

A great Personals Ad.

"walking, talking realdoll"; there's your answer, right there. that's why people get a woody from looking at her. what would be the point with the big boobs, otherwise?


i'm prepared to second the lack of love for asia argento from the first poster, though. i admit i'd bang her (and the rest of the women on this perplexing list) if given the opportunity, but hot she is not.

Uma Thurman was uber-hot back in the day, and she's still quite acceptable, but she gives off some major bitch vibes. And while I believe Ethan Hawke can be a pretentious knob on occasion, I hold some residual ill will towards Uma because Hawke got so thoroughly trashed in the media after their divorce. I realise Uma probably had nothing to do with that, but this thread never struck me as the most rational of hangouts. Fuck it, she bugs me.

But this thread's about overrated in the physical sense, and these days it's two words: Eva. Longoria. Decent bod, for sure, but she's got the same dopey puppy-dog face as Marisa Tomei. If I had to do a Desperate Housewife, I'd be popping the Hatcher.

Oh, and Sienna Miller. Acceptable in black lingerie in LAYER CAKE or semi-naked in ALFIE. But pretty bloody bland otherwise.

Natalie Portman - Too thin, looks like a skeleton.

Jennifer Connelly - Too thin, looks like a skeleton.

Just glancing at the shriveled commentary in this thread shrinks the soul. I can only imagine how small it'd have to get before I'd ever contribute to it.

A bunch of wee petty bastards, ain't ya?

You're all right of course. Us pasty, basement-dwelling types have no right to have an opinion about the beautiful people. The key word here is "overrated", meaning people that are sold in the media as sex symbols but are actually quite plain . It doesn't mean I'd spit on Julia Roberts if I saw her in person, or that I wouldn't fuck her (I'd do anyone famous, just for the story), just that when I watch a movie where all the men are swooning over her, it creates a disconnect for me because I think she looks average, and a little like a horse. Lighten up.

I, and I'm sure I'm not alone here, have been with a girl or two that makes Sarah Jessica Parker look like Playmate of the Year. And I probably will again. And again, until I learn to control my drinking.

Julia Roberts, Amanda Peet, and Kirsten Dunst are all women whose offers for sex I would turn down.

Poor things. They have no idea.

-DD

Hey, you have every right to your opinions on the "beautiful people," and to express them to each other, just as you have the right to have a fart-smelling contest. Don't be surprised if some people think less of you for it though.

Me, I can be a mean SOB when it's called for, and own a dark sarcasm that can cut deep, but seeing a bunch of guys having a conversation about how ugly various women are just strikes me as witless, classless, and utterly lacking any sense of chivalry.

But hey, you be the kind of guy you want to be, I'll be the kind of guy I want to be.

Edited to reflect the other two "get off your high horse" posts that popped up while i was typing.

Actually, you needn't have edited. Unlike the other guy, you replied with some measure of wit, and it was appreciated. I happened to catch it just before it went away.

And it's very possible I was too high horse, but it's one of my pet peeves. Watching the way people act online can be like watching them in traffic, or watching them defend George Bush's policies. You hope for better from people at least sophisticated enough to know the alphabet.

I wouldn't get too worried about it, Chappers. There's a certain class of people on these forums who seem to do nothing but drop into threads to bitch about what a waste of time they are, apparently completely oblivious to the irony.

chappers initially asked:
you, outlawmoon, have instead said:
there's a world of difference between overrated and ugly. i admit that someone in this thread has done what you said, and called these ladies "beast" and "horse face" and whatnot, but overall most have just replied to chappers initial motion. pretty harmless, i think.

and honestly, are you telling me you've never looked at a girl with your buddies and dropped a not so courteous comment about her?

And since you started it, and I butted in, I owe you a response, I think.

Understood. In retrospect, I was reacting to the nastiness of a few replies, rather than the thread itself. There's an exponential difference between saying "I just don't see the appeal of this woman" and "I hate that horse-faced beast."

Add to that the weird fact that I dated a cousin of one of the ladies mentioned herein, and met the lass in question (finding her sharp-witted, warm, and enchanting overall), and actually had a very enjoyable make-out session with another of the named ladies years ago, just before her career really got going, and it becomes oddly personal. Knowing the lasses, sort of, I couldn't help defend them.

But then again, I might have spoken up even if I'd never had any contact. Probably would have.

I have a tendency to think of celebrities as just a bunch of people I don't know. A lot of them look pretty hot, and some seem like I'd like 'em in person, some not so much, but ultimately they're just people I don't know. What I see of them is all gossip and advertising, and I don't buy the illusion that I know any of these people well enough to actually comment on them as people. (Except when they actually screw up and show their real natures, like Russell Crowe bashing some guy in the face with a phone, which definitely says something about Crowe as a person).

In a forum like this, it's common to think of discussions as being like a bunch of guys sitting around the living room BS-ing. But in truth it's more like a bunch of guys sitting around a very popular cafe BS-ing, and they can be overheard by anybody. That cute little starlett who just went up to get a frappe may be hot, may not, depending on your opinion, and it's certainly not out of bounds to comment on and discuss that, but the oaf who broadcasts to the whole cafe his opinion that she's a skinny little hag is just being nasty.

It's generally not in my nature to viciously assess women anyway, unless they give me good reason (and the shape of their face isn't good reason). But even if it was, if I were posting about someone in the film industry, I'd have some awareness that it's not an impossibility that that person might just happen across one of the better sites covering that industry, and might even wind up reading my crude appraisal of them. And who knows what shit that person might have had to dig through to get where they are, what shit they may even now be digging through? Unless they give me reason to wish them ill, I don't want to add to their pains.

Of course, that's an extreme, and largely beside the point. I'm not the kind of guy who makes cruel comments on women's looks anyway, whether there's a chance they can hear or not.

An utterely untenable comparison and you know it. But if you really wanted to be autistic-level literal about it: a purely dispassionate, academic study of a niche, if stomach churning for some, exploitation genre for the purposes of a film degree done far from the enclaves of a message board is, I'd bet, a far more desirable trait than having, with full seriousness (unless you guys are all playing devil's advocate) debated "[xyz] sent me into a series of gagging convulsions...yuck!" or "[a certain someone is an] attractive ass with some human thrown in around it" in public.

Stereotypes are stereotypes for one reason only: they're true. And this thread is pretty much living proof, quasi-witty come backs or not.

Nice.

(Just to reiterate, to Grofeld I guess, who's made the least derogatory and most honest posting on the subject, there's nothing wrong with debating exactly what chappers laid out in that post, nothing at all. But to get defensive in a thread where folk - who let's face it are very likely not Brad Pitt - are arbitrarily decrying some fairly innocuous looking girls - who let's face aren't Divine (Brown or the dead trani) - is to be uppity about someone mentioning that you're not much higher on the "Classy!" scale than a bunch of builders shouting "Pwwwroooooaaar" at some woman walking under their scaffold.

The irony is not lost at all, Buggering, not at all. In fact what you might think I started, you make it pretty much complete.)

After reading this, I feel you may have a point. Maybe some have been too insulting, myself included (I guess I was the first to use the 'h'-word). Whilst I still find SJP unattractive and overated, I withdraw the comparison, as it does step over the line from being critical to being insulting. I apologise. I'm usually a nice guy, who is respectful to women (at least I like to think so).

However, my problems with SJP are not simply down to me not finding her attractive. She just appears to me to be everywhere in the media (although it has quietened down over the last few months, thank God). It got to a point when that Gap commercial was on during every break, and I was sick of hearing how much she 'loved being a girl'. Such ubiquitousness soon breeds hatred (for me anyway), leading me to react in bad ways, as seen above. I guess the problem lies in the media rather than many of these women. They are said to be so hot, attractive and hyped by the media, that when people realize that they 'aren't all that', well there's a backlash. Hence the 'overated' nature of this thread.

Thus the problem does not really lie with the woman per se, but with the media and the hyping of their attractiveness. I don't really have a problem with the person themselves, I'm sure most of them are nice people, (except for Paris Hilton). Possibly such people in the public eye should try and have more control over their life, and not accept every single offer they get to make money. The actors/actresses and musicians etc. I respect the most are the ones that keep their private life secret, and go to lengths to keep it so. They don't appear in commercials to make an easy buck. Stars have to realize that the more they put themselves out there, the larger the target will be for people to 'shoot at'.

Lastly, it's not only the male gender that believes SJP is overated, as the majority of my female friends really dislike her and feel that she is not that attractive. I guess some would possibly chalk that up to jealousy, but knowing these people, I don't believe this to be so. Admittedly, they're hardly the 'Sex in the City' watching set.

Outlawmoon nails it exactly.

And you know, while she's not your cup of metaphorical tea, SJP - to take the example at hand - is obviously extremely attractive to a vast number of the population (guys/girls who want her, guys/girls who want to be her) or else GAP wouldn't be spending millions on advertising with her face central to the campaign. Same goes for L'Oreal, or whichever company she pimps for. I say again, a vast number. It's not the media's fault, it's the publics for reacting favourably to a celebrity. You (I'm generalising to no one in particular here) may not like it, but that's between you and your recollections of Princess Leia in Return Of The Jedi.

I kind of agree with you, but the media is very good at convincing the general public (who are extremely gullible) that certain individuals are the current 'hot' thing. (I actually think many people find certain people attractive because they are told by the media that they are attractive) The public reacts appropriately (unfortunately), and so the media just try and push it a bit further, and when breaking point is reached, they drop that celebrity for another and it all starts again. It's like a vicious circle, and both the media and the gullible general public are equally to blame. However, the celebrities are to blame as well, albeit to a lesser extent, as if they did not choose to go along with it, the media would be proved to be a lame duck.

I think an important distinction to make when discussing this sort of thing is who you find beautiful, and who you find attractive. For example, I think that Halle Berry is very beautiful. She has a very pretty face, and a nice body. But I don't find her attractive, because there's nothing about her that really attracts me. It's something in the way that she carries herself that turns me off. I think she's beautiful, but not attractive.

However, someone like Catherine Zeta-Jones I find to be very attractive, because she has those intangible qualities that I find exciting.

I know, easy money I guess. I really do see your point. But really, how much money do some people need? I'm sure she was extremely well paid for 'Sex in the City', seems almost greedy to me. Guess that's human nature and it isn't gonna change anytime soon. I suppose I see such corporate 'whores' as having no integrity, and that some things are more important than money. A minority voice nowadays, I'm afraid.

And Agent Helix pretty much hits the nail on the head between the difference between beauty and attractiveness.

Salma Hayek is one of those women who may not be the prettiest girl in the world, but she's got sex appeal to spare. Much like Phoebe Cates' infamous bikini scene in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, the snake dance from From Dusk 'til Dawn has forever etched in stone Hayek's status as a movie sex symbol, and an object of lust from, well, creepy guys like me. Drool drool drool, etcetera. And again, I think it's those intangible qualities that separate people like them from the rest of the Hollywood starlets, for me. For example, I've been completely smitten with Mira Sorvino pretty much since I discovered girls weren't grody, but I couldn't exactly tell you why. She's not aesthetically as gorgeous as someone like Halle Berry, but there's something about her that I find very alluring.

In the spirit of the thread, though, the three actresses I'd say that don't "do it" for me:

1) Halle Berry (Obviously, if you've been paying attention)
2) Denise Richards (Not sure why. I think she's a bit squinty, I guess.)
3) Jessica Alba (Again, she's pretty, but she just doesn't have any sex appeal for me. Even as Nancy, she was still too much of a little girl for me to take her seriously as an object of lust.)