While the thread has focused on her looks, she’s a better actress than I think most of us are giving her credit for. She’s just seems to have bad taste is scripts. Or maybe she has fine taste but she’d rather make a pile of money than a piece of art. I don’t think there’s anything to look down upon in such an attitude, especially when you grow up poor and your mom gets sick.
–Cliffy
Better decide fast. From what I saw in that ad, the movie will be thrown out of theaters after the first weekend.
I’m stunned you would even consider watching it in the first place. Yikes.
And I’d say she was terrific in Ruby in Paradise, a movie which showed she had great promise to have a diverse, interesting career–a promise she’s managed to almost unilaterally piss away through incredibly bad decision after bad decision (though she was also very good in very small parts in Smoke and Heat).
But she still is a smoking hottie. She needs to ditch the thriller crap and the second-tier romantic comedies and find a strong, well-written movie for adults. Before it’s too late.
Hey – I thought Miss Congeniality* was a good movie – admittedly, I saw it in a hotel room with my (then) 85-year-old aunt. And it had Benjamin Bratt in it. /defensiveness
I loved **Ruby in Paradise ** and also thought she added a touch of class to that **ST:TNG ** episode about the evil videogame. Other than that, meh.
I really just wanted to finally use ‘meh’, which I learned from the SDMB, in a sentence…
Let’s run down the facts here. She’s:
[ul]
[li]Hot (Yes, that’s a fact)[/li][li]Intelligent[/li][li]A sports fan[/li][li]Wealthy[/li][li]Still hot[/li][li]And is probably a demon in the sack (Okay, that’s conjecture, not fact, but still)[/li][/ul]
Therefore, she’s pretty damn close to the perfect woman. It is settled. QED. Can we get a Mod to lock this thread? 
You are so shallow, quixote. Women are not sex objects you know.
What do I think?
I think I’d do her.
So, is she of a different magnitude of “doability” than other female stars of romantic comedies (Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, Meg Ryan, Michelle Pfeiffer)?
I would never do Julia Roberts, and Sandra Bullock has never really done anything for me. Now, Meg Ryan? Only before she pumped her face full of rat poison. Michelle Pfeiffer? Hell yes.
Ruby in Paradise was a great movie. I glad I saw it. I haven’t been interested in seeing an Ashley Judd movie since but she was a knockout at the Oscars. I don’t remeber which year.
I’d hit it.
What do you want from me? I don’t know the woman personally, so I can’t judge her on that. The facts I listed are all that I know about her, and based on that, she’s about the perfect woman.
Besides, I said she’s intelligent and a sports fan. How does that lead you to broadly paint me as treating women like sex objects?
[sub]Apologies in advance if I’m being wooshed here![/sub]
I don’t know if you are but some of the replies in this thread do support my belief that the evaluation of a young actress’ talent (or “likeability” as a performer) begins with the question, “Would I do her if I had the chance?” Of course, most men aren’t this blunt and try to be less superficial and more subtle when expressing their opinion, but this mental query is still at the core (even if the actress in question couldn’t learn to effectively emote even if she had 20 years of acting lessons).
I should add, by the way, that I’m trying be moralistic or PC toward any of the posters here since I’m “guilty” of the same thing. That’s just the way males are.
As for Ms. Judd, if by some fantastic twist of fate the opportunity arose, I wouldn’t turn her down. Her presence in a movie, however, has no influence in determining whether I’ll shell out $9 and/or set aside a couple hours of my life to watch the film.
I was being a bit facetious for the benefit of roger. See, roger has already scolded me for being crass and uncouth when I mentioned that he at least got to nail Eva Marie Saint in “North by Northwest”. Something about how a gentleman does not “nail” Ms. Saint, but “rogers” her.
To which I replied I would tap it like a keg.
I suppose, in retrospect, I could say the same for Ms. Judd.
I would as sooner whoosh you as I would roger Angelina Jolie.
I get her confused with Charlize Theron. Or rather, I never recognize Charlize Theron and consistently think Ashley Judd is her. Example: Devil’s Advocate, The Astronaut’s Wife, and more recently there was some stupid movie with Jeff Daniels and Kramer in it and even though I’d just seen Monster I still thought the girlfriend was Ashley Judd. Nope - Charlize Theron.
I thought she was one of the hottest women I’d ever seen in the Star Trek: TNG episode, “The Game”. Even if she did kiss Wil Wheaton - either her or Wil’s first onscreen kiss.
Unfortunately, I haven’t found her nearly as attractive in the various photos I’ve seen of her on the 'Net. Of course, I’ve noticed that most actresses don’t look as good at “events” as they do onscreen. My sister tells me this is because when they’re doing a movie, they have a professional doing their makeup, but when they go out somewhere, they probably did it themselves, and that explains why they so often look like they used a spatula.
Be sure and catch **2 Days in the Valley ** for ya some Charlize
In that one I mistook her for Vendela.