# What famously "good looking' people do you not like the looks of? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 1, 2009, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975 "2009-08-01T14:36:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2009, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/41 "2009-08-01T20:33:13Z")
> [@benbrian](#): > > For some reason I just don’t “get” Angelina Jolie. And I know that it’s not the lips, so I’m not sure exactly why I don’t “get” her. > [@Katriona](#): > > Brad Pitt. He looks like a caveman to me. Angelina Jolie, so easy a caveman could do it! I don’t get her either. Kind of bug-like, bizzare looking. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2009, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/42 "2009-08-01T20:44:07Z")
> [@Ruffian](#): > > Uma Thurman has always looked like a frog to me. Great body and all, but not at all attractive to me above the neck. You know how we all look different – better, worse, whatever – with makeup, different hairstyles, different clothing, different lighting, different angles? I think Ms. Thurman has somehow dramatically widened this field for herself. Sometimes she looks breathtakingly gorgeous, and sometimes she looks… less so. Somehow, [this](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2a/Munch_09.jpg) is the same woman as [this](http://www.wallpapergate.com/data/media/911/Uma_Thurman_007.jpg) is the same woman as [this](http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c21/cortnerd1234/Pulp_Fiction_Mia-1.jpg) is the same woman as [this](http://www.bennadel.com/resources/uploads/gattaca_starring_ethan_hawke_and_uma_therman.jpg) is the same woman as [this](http://www.1stclasswallpapers.com/backgrounds/movies/image/kill_bill_vol.2,_uma_thurman_(the_bride).jpg). Couldn’t credit it if I didn’t know it was true. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2009, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/43 "2009-08-01T20:48:31Z")
> [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](#): > > the same woman as [this](http://www.bennadel.com/resources/uploads/gattaca_starring_ethan_hawke_and_uma_therman.jpg) Wow, that tie totally makes her look like a dude! Who’s the chick on the right? ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2009, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/44 "2009-08-01T21:05:56Z")
Ugh. Ribbit, ribbit, ribbit. The second photo, though, is nice, since it’s angled so we don’t see those weird, wide-set amphibian eyes. The sunglasses do her similar credit in the last one. I like her as an actress, I absolutely do, and I don’t feel _every_ woman in Hollywood ought to be some sort of genetic ideal (more Kathy Bates, please)…but well…_ribbit_. BTW, I forgot about Gwyneth Paltrow. Totally plain to me. Not odd-looking, not unattractive, just not…pretty. I swear, I have a thing against most blonds. And Sarah Jessica Parker…well, she’s the cover girl of this subject. Great body, though. FTR: I find Scarlett Johannson and Angelina Jolie (well, more pre-Brad Pitt era) completely yummy, so there you go. Male-wise, I like 'em scruffy and masculine…Russell Crowe is decent, but Hugh Jackman is yummy. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2009, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/45 "2009-08-01T21:12:02Z")
> [@Rubystreak](#): > > I don’t like Crowe and MacGregor, so I must have no taste, eh? :dubious: But, she didn’t say that. At all. She said that it proves that everyone really does have DIFFERENT tastes. For the record, I don’t find Crowe, MacGregor or any of the guys you mentioned all that good looking either so I have no dog in this… ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2009, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/46 "2009-08-01T21:24:23Z")
> [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](#): > > But, she didn’t say that. At all. She said that it proves that everyone really does have DIFFERENT tastes. She said, “I wonder who you DO think is good looking,” meaning perhaps that my taste must be, I don’t know, suspect? Or that my standards are too high? There was some element of :dubious: to the question. This always happens in these threads-- you mention someone that someone else thinks is gorgeous, and they get all :dubious: on you. It’s strictly a matter of taste, and there doesn’t have to be a reason for it. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2009, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/47 "2009-08-01T21:41:13Z")
> [@Lamia](#): > > I know it’s hard to imagine that a woman could become a celebrity and a fashion icon without being conventionally beautiful, but Sarah Jessica Parker did it. What’s really impressive is that she also did it without being conventionally talented. For the OP, I agree with Angelina Jolie, and I’ll add Julia Roberts. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2009, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/48 "2009-08-01T21:54:22Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > What’s really impressive is that she also did it without being conventionally talented. Splort! Parker’s weird. In some films/photos her nose is right out there and in others the bump is barely noticeable. And she always looks like she’s judging people’s reactions to her. “What do you think of me?” rather than “I wonder what you’re like.” ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2009, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/49 "2009-08-01T22:07:37Z")
Marilyn Monroe. Not that she was ugly or anything; it’s just that she looked no more than “moderately good looking” to me. Not some sort of sex goddess. It doesn’t help that she was dyed blonde, which is the vanilla of hair colors in my eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2009, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/50 "2009-08-01T22:43:58Z")
I have to second this, both Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield I could never understand the attraction. ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2009, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/51 "2009-08-01T23:26:04Z")
I’m trying to imagine a world where [this](http://www.btinternet.com/~brmerc/monroe/mm15.JPG) is no more than moderately good-looking but I can’t. I also thought Uma Thurman was the goddess of love in “Baron Munchausen”, but was less attractive than Jeanene Garafolo in “The Truth About Cats and Dogs”._Obviously, tastes vary._\* I’ll add another vote for [Angelina Jolie](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jolie.png) (scary!), and another vote for “Nobody said Sarah Jessica Parker _was_ beautiful except Matthew Broderick when he was trying to get something.” - There were at least three names I don’t know how to spell in that sentence. \*\* Not intended as an insult! ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2009, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/52 "2009-08-02T00:00:17Z")
I have to go with Angelina Jolie, too. I don’t like the way her face fits together. I do think Halle Berry is quite beautiful, though. Diana Ross has something hard in her face (even in her heyday)–she doesn’t look like she’s a pleasant person to know. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2009, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/53 "2009-08-02T00:35:48Z")
> [@DianaG](#): > > I’ve always been baffled by the praise for Gwyneth Paltrow. She’s just so… _bland_. Which is weird, because she looks so much like her mother, and I think her mother is gorgeous. It just goes to show that what’s behind the face really does matter. My God, I agree completely. I think Blythe Danner is one of the sexiest women EVER. I would be all over the Blythe Danner of _now_, to say nothing of _Prince of Tides_ Blythe Danner. How could such an insanely gorgeous woman produce a daughter whose looks are (IMO) only so-so? The answer is that her father is the late Bruce Paltrow. [Here’s a photo of him](http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/object/event/wireimage/5/225/279_g.jpg) standing next to Gwyneth who is standing next to her mother - you can clearly see the differences in the facial features. Paltrow wasn’t a bad-looking man, but he had a real craggy face and a big, chiseled jawline, and in that photo you can see that Gwyneth inherited the rough facial features of her father and not the delicate, soft face of her mother. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2009, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/54 "2009-08-02T00:37:28Z")
**Charlize Theron**. I find her not only _not_ attractive but vaguely _repulsive_. I suspect it may be because she looks a little like some of my family members. (So maybe there’s an instinctive, broaden-the-gene pool thing at work here.) **Angelina Jolie**. (I would pick Jennifer Anniston over her any day, had I Brad Pitt’s options.) ---
**Author:** ![Windwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/5e9695/32.png) [@Windwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Windwalker)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2009, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/55 "2009-08-02T00:43:22Z")
> [@spoke-](#): > > **Charlize Theron**. I find her not only _not_ attractive but vaguely _repulsive_. I suspect it may be because she looks vaguely like some of my family members. (So maybe there’s an instinctive, broaden-the-gene pool thing at work here.) > > **Angelina Jolie**. (I would pick Jennifer Anniston over her any day, had I Brad Pitt’s options.) Wow, I think both of these gals are smokin’. I will throw **Natalie Portman** into the mix. She’s kinda pretty, but she’s way too average for all of the worship she got during the height of the new Star Wars craze. And she still looks like a child, which is not her fault, but I can’t see that being goddess-like. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2009, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/56 "2009-08-02T01:04:25Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > Scarlett Johansson does NOTHING for me in her wannabe golden age of Hollywood garb and makeup. I thought she was mildly cute in Ghost World, but I’d probably walk right past her if I saw her in public. . I thought she looked better than most Hollywood “hotties” in _Lost in Translation_, and in candid shots, but I agree that her professional look isn’t that great. I liked Angelina Jolie when she was younger, but, ever since the latest plastic surgery (or two), she just hasn’t looked the same. What’s weird for me is that, even though she looks different, she didn’t look any older until recently. And I want to add Paris Hilton to the mix. At least, all my friends used to talk about how hot she was. But I think she has the funniest shaped head, and I can’t get past that. I may or may not think of more later. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2009, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/57 "2009-08-02T01:12:48Z")
> [@Rubystreak](#): > > He’s pretty much my ideal, as is the young [Clint Eastwood.](http://9.media.tumblr.com/XbvkpE10lppgz6aiugXJVN73o1_400.jpg) Clint Eastwood was young?!? ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2009, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/58 "2009-08-02T01:57:59Z")
In general, muscular dirty-blond men and tanned dirty-blond women. Ugh. All those supposed glamour people turn me off majorly. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2009, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/59 "2009-08-02T02:15:14Z")
Another vote for Angelina Jolie…goddess, she’s a horrifying looking woman. ---
**Author:** ![Windwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/5e9695/32.png) [@Windwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Windwalker)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2009, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/60 "2009-08-02T02:25:53Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > Another vote for Angelina Jolie…goddess, she’s a horrifying looking woman. Horrifyingly sexy! Honestly, I wish everyone else felt that way about her, because then she’d have no choice but to be mine! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975.md?page=4)