# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2009, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/101 "2009-08-02T23:14:04Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > Good lord. I AGREE with you that Eastwood is attractive; I merely dislike that particular pic of him. Of course my fantasies enter into it–FOR ME. “Good lord” was my exact reaction to your extreme objection to his 3" of shorts. It was also my reaction to the claim that he looks like a weak punk. Hypercritical. Nitpicky. But if that’s the stated purpose of this thread, then I’ll take that under advisement. Probably should have just ignored the request to state who I DO think is attractive, realizing that this sort of exchange would be the outcome. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/102 "2009-08-03T00:29:11Z")
I didn’t ask whom you found attractive–maybe somebody else did? I merely posted my opinion on that picture. It has nothing to do with your choices in general. I find Eastwood attractive, just not in that picture. That’s all there is to it. Obviously, we disagree on this. I’m ok with that. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/103 "2009-08-03T00:35:27Z")
Pretty much any bodybuilder: Stallone, Schwarzeneggar, Diesl, even Eric Bana and Brendan Fraser when they’re really buff. I like tone on a body, but I can’t stand “super tone”- it’s almost animalistic. While I’m gay I’ve never understood why any man is attracted to skinny chicks- not even talking about Calista but Courtney Cox, Jennifer Anniston and others who just don’t look healthy. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/104 "2009-08-03T00:36:15Z")
> [@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. This is who I was going to mention…but for me it IS the lips. They are just too distracting. it’s like they just kind of overflowed the banks, and not in a good way. Johnny Depp. No appeal at all. ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/105 "2009-08-03T00:42:23Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Pretty much any bodybuilder: Stallone, Schwarzeneggar, Diesl, even Eric Bana and Brendan Fraser when they’re really buff. I like tone on a body, but I can’t stand “super tone”- it’s almost animalistic. > > While I’m gay I’ve never understood why any man is attracted to skinny chicks- not even talking about Calista but Courtney Cox, Jennifer Anniston and others who just don’t look healthy. If you want to talk physique, [this](http://72.5.117.144/fif=fpx/sc1/SC19845.fpx&obj=iip,1.0&wid=400&cvt=jpeg) is the guy I’ve always admired. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/106 "2009-08-03T00:48:26Z")
Brad Pitt, though I think he’s gotten better looking as he got older. He’s got…not sure how to describe it…lips like one of those baby dolls that you stuff a bottle in its mouth (as in, there always seems to be a little hole even when his mouth is closed). Benicio del Toro. I think he’s seriously ugly, but apparently a lot of folks don’t. Angelina Jolie–Eww. She’s not bad except for those huge lips. Pamela Anderson and Anna Nicole Smith: Blonde, plastic, overboobed, over-made up…they don’t even quite look human to me. That guy from “Scrubs”–Zach something? I don’t even like to look at him. Not that he’s ugly, just that there’s something about his face that completely turns me off. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/107 "2009-08-03T00:56:57Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > To me, Anne Hathaway is the prettiest woman working in Hollywood since Katie Holmes went crazy. I think her occasional aesthetical problems stem from the wrong person doing her hair and makeup. She does not need bangs or red lipstick under any circumstances. Barring those, she’s near flawless. I can’t really find any photo of her that I think looks good. I think I just figured out what it is… her irises are too large maybe? In any case her mouth is too large for her face. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/108 "2009-08-03T01:00:15Z")
There are people with the opposite phenomenon: people who aren’t conventionally beautiful at all – but are nonetheless _hummina hummina hummina_. Ellen Barkin in her prime (a la _The Big Easy_) comes to mind. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/109 "2009-08-03T01:01:34Z")
> [@Cosmic Relief](#): > > I can’t really find any photo of her that I think looks good. I think I just figured out what it is… her irises are too large maybe? In any case her mouth is too large for her face. Looking at Anne Hathaway throws me into the Uncanny Valley. She’s assembled to be quite beautiful, for a replicant. ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/110 "2009-08-03T01:12:22Z")
> [@Cosmic Relief](#): > > … her irises are too large maybe? Her irises are too large? _Irises_? Off with her head! ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/111 "2009-08-03T01:46:32Z")
> [@Shamozzle](#): > > Her irises are too large? _Irises_? > > Off with her head! You’re getting wrapped up in the terminology. The point is that her eyes look freaking bizarre, whatever the reason. My guess is the irises. Imagine the weirdness of an eye that is 100% iris. She’s 80% of the way there. ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/112 "2009-08-03T01:46:47Z")
> [@lshaw](#): > > Again, call me crazy, but I don’t find Daniel Craig that good looking. I wouldn’t give him a second glance if I passed him on the street. [Daniel Craig](http://www.nilacharal.com/enter/celeb/images/DanielCraig.jpg) in still pictures is not attractive. [Daniel Craig in motion](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI7OrpzDy90&feature=related) is about the sexiest thing ever. He is one of those actors who is sexy because of the total package, not solely because of their features. ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/113 "2009-08-03T01:51:09Z")
> [@Cosmic Relief](#): > > You’re getting wrapped up in the terminology. The point is that her eyes look freaking bizarre, whatever the reason. My guess is the irises. Imagine the weirdness of an eye that is 100% iris. She’s 80% of the way there. Well, Maybe you have a point. As long as she doesn’t do backflips across the living room and then pull my nose off via the nostrils. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/114 "2009-08-03T02:46:15Z")
> [@pbbth](#): > > [Daniel Craig](http://www.nilacharal.com/enter/celeb/images/DanielCraig.jpg) in still pictures is not attractive. [Daniel Craig in motion](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI7OrpzDy90&feature=related) is about the sexiest thing ever. He is one of those actors who is sexy because of the total package, not solely because of their features. I remember a very long and active thread from before [Casino Royale](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381061/) came out with a bunch of people who had never seen Danial Craig in a movie, who had only looked at still pictures of him on the net, wailing and gnashing their teeth over how could they choose this “ugly guy” to be James Bond. Then the film came out, and those people got very quiet. Of course we’re talking Hollywood here, where Jeanene Garafolo is the “ugly one” in a movie. I’d love to look as “ugly” as Daniel Craig ---
**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 3, 2009, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/115 "2009-08-03T03:05:35Z")
I wasn’t one of the ones who got very quiet. I still think Daniel Craig looks like an ape, and I think the two Bond movies he’s been in have been really terrible (but the latter is more the fault of the directors and writers and less the fault of Craig himself.) ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/116 "2009-08-03T03:15:09Z")
> [@Rubystreak](#): > > 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. Er… there was no :dubious: meant in what I said. I was just honestly interested in who you found attractive. No judgment there at all - I hardly think that I’m some sort of expert on great looking movie stars. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/117 "2009-08-03T03:26:39Z")
Penelope Cruz seems to have some sort of explosive blackmail material that’s given her control over the entire world’s media. How else can you explain why every article about her refers to her beauty, and not one contains the words “rat-faced”? If they say she’s beautiful often enough, will that make it true? ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Mama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@Atomic\_Mama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Mama)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/118 "2009-08-03T03:38:35Z")
Angelina Jolie & Julia Roberts come to mind. Highly-overrated. As far as guys go: Brad Pitt & Tom Cruise. Gimme Burt Lancaster or Kirk Douglas any night of the week! ---
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/119 "2009-08-03T03:48:49Z")
I’m not a big fan of Hugh Jackman or Tom Cruise. Both look too phony to me, insincere. Which is probably true in Cruise’s case, but can’t really judge Jackman based on his looks. I just don’t like that too perfect looking man thing… give me a little rough edge to them please :). As far as women go- never understood the popularity Julia Roberts or Angelina Jolie. I like Anne Hathaway as an actress, but there is something funky about her face too, like her eyes are too big for it and the lower half of her face is too thin to support those huge eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/120 "2009-08-03T03:50:51Z")
> [@Rubystreak](#): > > Ewan MacGregor. I thought the same thing until I saw him in his documentary journey across Africa (or some such thing - can’t remember the title). Without make-up, and with a little bit of sun on his skin, he is quite the handsome fella. It dawned on me then that it was _the movies_ that were making him appear ugly. Fascinating. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975.md?page=7)