Nicole Kidman. At best, she looks like a somewhat realistic blow-up doll. She looks especially unappealing on the poster for The Others. Like a skinny baby wearing a wig.
Also, and this maybe just my theory, Allyson Hannigan seems more approachable to a lot of her male fans. In contrast, her “Buffy” co-star Sarah Michelle Gellar, while arguably more “conventionally” beautiful than Hannigan, seems too “perfect” to have this quality.
In addition, when Hannigan played Willow, she was a redhead and to many people that gave her a special appeal over the typical Hollywood blondes.
I am a straight male. I watched him in A-Team and even I thought he was HOT.
Ehhh, I watched SJP in Square Pegs in 1982. She didn’t strike me as attractive back then, either.
She often looks mildly greasy, which from a practical standpoint I guess could be useful, but the dead-eyed RealDoll stare kills it for me.
I don’t know that I’ve ever heard of Bradley Cooper till last week!
I would add Ryan Reynolds and make it a trifecta. He is the very definition of “ordinary” and has beady little eyes.
Anjelica Huston looks like Leonard Nimoy in drag. Did you see her on The Medium?
My wife would totally agree with you. I thought he looked handsome in Snatch, but my wife ranks him with officially weird-looking dudes that are typecast as such like Steve Buscemi and Clint Howard.
Here in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, there’s a classic rock radio station (92.5) with a a funny morning show. Bo (Roberts) and Jim (White) have a producer (Randy) that they frequently involve in their morning hijinks, and Randy often dealt with Bo and Jim mocking him because he professed to find Nadya “Octomom” Suleman attractive - especially when she made herself up to look like Angelina Jolie with the lips and all.
That was put to rest one morning when Bo and Jim actually got Octomom to call in to their show and converse with them and Randy for about twenty minutes. Her inane banter and screechy voice (c.f. Fran Drescher) cured Randy of any attraction he ever felt.
I agree. Must be the sharp elbows and flat chest.
I find Lady Gaga similarly terrifying and, to some extent, Nelly Furtado weirds me out in a similar way; but I enjoy the music of all three. Maybe we can blame Steve Jobs for that because I have an iPod.
Another thing that makes me scratch my head is that my wife finds Cee-lo Green attractive. He’s a cool guy and all (and yes, he’s on my iPod, too), but attractive? I don’t see it.
I think Sarah Jessica Parker peaked in hotness in “L.A. Story.”
(I hope that link works - it was doing odd things.)
The way I understand this thread, it’s about women who everyone says is hot, but you disagree.
I can’t think of any now, myself. I used to could say Paris Hilton, but somehow she’s gotten better looking.
A lot of that had to do with the fact her character on the show was supposed to be homely so she wore glasses and dull clothes. Despite that, I thought she was rather cute–a prototype for later nerdy but smart and attractive girls like Daria Morgendorfer and Liz Lemon. However, in the last 15 years, Parker’s role on SATC has pretty much shaped her public image and her image to many straight males is that of an entitled high-maintenance clotheshorse who’s not attractive enough to be worth all the trouble. That’s why a lot of men regard her looks as overrated (to say the least).
You’re half right. I would add Honeymoon in Vegas where she was also at her most appealing.
Andie MacDowell
Kristen Steward. The girl from Twilight. I keep looking but I don’t get it. I mostly agree with the others listed as well. Except for Halle Berry, I’d swim an ocean of broken glass for her.
Sarah Palin.
I’m not sure she’s considered particularly good looking. She was likely chosen as a not-too-good-looking-so-teenage-girls-can-think-they-also-have-a-shot-with-Edward actress.
Wow. Julia Roberts’s name always comes up in these threads, but I haven’t the foggiest idea why. To me, she is pretty close to the ideal. De gustibus, I guess.
My own pick is Charlize Theron. I can’t quite explain it but there’s a certain doughiness to her features that I find unappealing. Also, in interviews, she comes across as a possibly unpleasant person, which maybe affects my view of her.
Now don’t get me wrong, she is obviously very attractive. Just not movie-star-attractive in my book.
So the next time Charlize comes knocking on my door in the middle of the night, I’m’a hafta say “Go on home Charlize, I done told you.”
There’s no possibly about it. She was interviewed in last week’s Entertainment Weekly and the interviewer more or less calls her a bitch multiple times.
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Sarah Jessica Parker. She’s never struck me as anything other than plain to homely.
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I think, in these sort of threads, SJP is pretty much a given.
Also, Julia Roberts. A walking “Before” picture for top-lip depilatory cream.
Halle Berry. I don’t get it.
A lot of the names mentioned here aren’t really thought of as hotties, though, are they? Renee Zellweger? She’s not exactly marketed as teh h0tness. 
ETA: That SJP link still makes me cry with laughter every time I look at it. Especially when I get to the penultimate entry.
Ding ding ding! Imagine her without the beehive or whatever her head looks like, imagine her speaking (or listen to her). Extremely average, and she’s only, like what, in her early 40s?
Halle Berry too.
I pre-emptively strike against objections to Christina Aguilera – I think she’s OK, although probably as mental as Palin.
Males: I never got Hamm, or McConaghey (sp?), or Hugh Jackman. I’m not the ideal judge, being a straight man, but I can understand certain types as being attractive to those suited for it. Just not these, really. Brad Pitt too – he looks like a total roided out meathead. Something for everyone, I guess, but I don’t really “get” the attraction of the super “rugged” types for those disposed in that direction. Plus, they can’t really do anything – if I was into men, I’d go for a Jet Li or the saxophone man Hamm played on SNL. At least they can kick ass and kick a saxophone’s ass.
Favorite line from Jean van Heijenhort’s biography: “Even though he was a logician, he was popular with the ladies” (or something very similar on the flyleaf). Go logicians!
She’s been cast as Snow White, which means the mirror has to claim she’s the hottest woman in the land. Or fairest, anyway.