# Why's everyone hate Gwyneth Paltrow?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 12, 2013, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whys-everyone-hate-gwyneth-paltrow/676179 "2013-12-12T18:23:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2014, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whys-everyone-hate-gwyneth-paltrow/676179/101 "2014-04-02T15:38:38Z")

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> [@Robot\_Arm](#):
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> I’ve often thought that Blythe Danner in her prime would have nailed it.
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> But who would you have cast in _Sky Captain_? I can’t really think of anyone in that generation of actresses who has done the spunky, plucky, fast-talking girl reporter role. I just wonder if that style of acting is so passé that no one was prepared to do it right.

Emma Stone, the lead from the Easy A could have nailed it, I think. She projected a smart, spunky attitude very well in that movie.

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**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:** [April 2, 2014, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whys-everyone-hate-gwyneth-paltrow/676179/102 "2014-04-02T15:44:26Z")

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> [@Evil\_Captor](#):
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> Emma Stone, the lead from the Easy A could have nailed it, I think. She projected a smart, spunky attitude very well in that movie.

November 6, 1988: Emma Stone born.  
September 14, 2004: _Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow_ released.

I’m not disagreeing with you, exactly, but I find it unlikely that at 15 she could have pulled it off. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2014, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whys-everyone-hate-gwyneth-paltrow/676179/103 "2014-04-02T16:04:39Z")

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> [@Irishman](#):
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> Reading that criticism, I find a couple issues with it right off the bat.
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> Okay, I’ll buy the complaint about soft focus and color, but then the next issue is
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> So Mr. Reviewer, you seem to be unaware that the Empire State Building was, in fact, designed and intended to be a Blimp docking station. Oops, we wouldn’t want facts to get in the way of your snark.
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> Followed by  
> The Hindenburg wasn’t the only Derigible. In fact, there was a second airship of that [class](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_class_airship), the Graf Zeppelin. It’s also interesting to note that the Hindenburg was not originally intended to be a hydrogen filled airship, but helium scarcity forced the redesign.
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> Be that as it may, if we were to assume the original Hindenburg crash did not occur and thus kill airships, it is entirely likely that the course of airships could have been different. And thus it is not unexceptional for there to be a “Hindenburg III” that is flying around. Maybe Hindenburg II is in Germany, or flying to Rio De Janairo. Who knows? The point is that it is a different future, and that name conveys in a milisecond something about the nature of that future, i.e. the prevalence of airships.
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> If that’s the level of criticism the critic can drag up, he’s a moron.
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> Sorry to hijack the topic.

If those are the only nitpicks, he (actually, I think it’s a she) is doing pretty well. Still not entirely sure why the hell the robot went to Tibet.

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