# Your cinematic crushes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 13, 2016, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655 "2016-08-13T06:46:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2016, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655/21 "2016-08-14T06:11:13Z")
My more recent small-screen crushes seem to involve hot, smart and incredibly competent female detectives with somewhat odd personalities. Stella Gibson (Gillian Anderson) in _The Fall_. Saga Noren (Sofia Helin) in _Bron/Broen/The Bridge_. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2016, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655/22 "2016-08-14T06:28:32Z")
I’m pretty sure I blushed when I first saw Juliette Lewis in Cape Fear. I don’t recall having that reaction ever, well at least in a main-street movie. There was just something about her. ---
**Author:** ![GoodOmens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@GoodOmens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoodOmens)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2016, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655/23 "2016-08-14T17:33:30Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Kaylee, from _Firefly_/_Serenity_. Total nerd, sexy in an innocent way, and oh, that amazing smile. And the strawberry…ahem… Going back a bit, Simone on Head of the Class, played by Khrystyne Haje. I was around 10 when that show arrived, and I think she was my first red-head crush, to be followed by Willow on Buffy, Tori Amos, Felicia Day. I may have a type. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2016, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655/24 "2016-08-14T17:38:42Z")
Kaylee does nothing for me (in the pants department, I mean, she seems like a nice person in general), but I do have a thing for River. It’s something about the way she says “I can kill you with my brain”. I guess there are two kinds of people. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2016, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655/25 "2016-08-14T18:17:29Z")
> [@](#): > > I guess there are two kinds of people. At least four, since there are also those who prefer Zoe or Inara. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2016, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655/26 "2016-08-14T18:35:57Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Kaylee, from _Firefly_/_Serenity_. Total nerd, sexy in an innocent way, and oh, that amazing smile. Inara, River and Zoe are all interesting, but I want to protect Kaylee! ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2016, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655/27 "2016-08-14T18:37:37Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I’ve got a thing for James Hathaway, Robbie Lewis’s partner in the British cop series. He’s brilliant, nerdy, self-doubting, an ex-seminarian who plays classical/jazz guitar in a world music ensemble. He has impeccable manners and a sly, intellectual sense of humor. I watch the episodes over and over again just to hang out with him. I agree. Can we share him, **ThelmaLou**? ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2016, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655/28 "2016-08-14T18:47:31Z")
I was ready to propose to Holtzmann (Kate McKinnon) before the end of her first scene in the new _Ghostbusters_ movie. I think we’d be very happy together, at least until she managed to blow us both up in a bizarre lab accident. I was vaguely familiar with McKinnon from SNL and have seen her doing some promo things for the movie, but while I think she’s both funny and good-looking she doesn’t really do anything special for me _except_ as Holtzmann. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2016, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655/29 "2016-08-14T19:06:17Z")
I’d also hang out in Point Place, but that’s so I could get a piece of Hyde (Danny Masterson). Just the right amount of smart ass and tenderness. Also, on _Sons of Anarchy_, there was tortured, soulful, hot Opie (Ryan Hurst) and after that, former fearless leader, Clay (Ron Pearlman), gone good. But my absolute biggest crush ever had to be on Kevin Bacon as Ren McCormack from _Footloose_. Holy bananas, Batman! Then you add on that dance scene (and I don’t care if it’s not him!) and my teenage daydream life was complete. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2016, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655/30 "2016-08-14T19:09:53Z")
Jamie Buchman, as played by Helen Hunt, in “Mad About You.” But only until they started with the pregnancy plot. Up until then, she was cute and funny and neurotic and sexy. ---
**Author:** ![Vicsage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e68b1a/32.png) [@Vicsage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vicsage)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2016, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655/31 "2016-08-14T19:49:26Z")
Janice Rand from the original Star Trek. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2016, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655/32 "2016-08-14T20:12:04Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > I’m pretty sure I blushed when I first saw Juliette Lewis in Cape Fear. I don’t recall having that reaction ever, well at least in a main-street movie. There was just something about her. In still photographs, she looks rather homely. But in a moving picture, she is amazing. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_John_Marcej)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2016, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655/33 "2016-08-14T21:25:46Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I’ve got a thing for James Hathaway, Robbie Lewis’s partner in the British cop series. He’s brilliant, nerdy, self-doubting, an ex-seminarian who plays classical/jazz guitar in a world music ensemble. He has impeccable manners and a sly, intellectual sense of humor. I watch the episodes over and over again just to hang out with him. Ha! When I first read your post I thought you’d meant **Jane Hathaway** and I was going to ask you which one, **Nancy Kulp** or **Lilly Tomlin**? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Reluctant\_A](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@Reluctant\_A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reluctant_A)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2016, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655/34 "2016-08-14T22:17:44Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > At least four, since there are also those who prefer Zoe or Inara. I would be one of the former. But, honestly, I would push all four of them into a running turbine for YoSaffBridge. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2016, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655/35 "2016-08-14T22:44:23Z")
> [@pinkfreud](#): > > I agree. Can we share him, **ThelmaLou**? Okay by me. I’m a good sport. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655/36 "2016-08-15T00:00:02Z")
Penelope Stamp (Rachel Weisz in _The Brothers Bloom_). Competent at just about anything, innocent and romantic but quick, adventurous, literate and gorgeous… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655/37 "2016-08-15T00:27:39Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > In still photographs, she looks rather homely. But in a moving picture, she is amazing. Homely? God, no. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655/38 "2016-08-15T03:58:49Z")
Dr. Maura Isles (“Rizzoli and…”); she can give my bloated corpse the once-over any day of the week and twice on Sunday. ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655/39 "2016-08-15T14:01:26Z")
When I was little and these sorts of things _hurt_…Becky Thatcher in Tom Sawyer from 1973 I also had a thing for Helen, Garp’s girlfriend then wife in The World According to Garp (1982). ---
**Author:** ![eulalia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eulalia/32/457_2.png) [@eulalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eulalia)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655/40 "2016-08-15T14:17:39Z")
I’ve fallen for Aquaman, just from the trailer. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655.md?page=3)