# 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:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655/41 "2016-08-15T14:36:11Z")
Samantha Stewart in _Foyle’s War_, play by the improbably named but undeniably beautiful [Honeysuckle Weeks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeysuckle_Weeks). Feisty, smart, and able to put a suspect down in a pinch. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655/42 "2016-08-15T14:47:32Z")
Lenina Huxley from Demolition Man. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655/43 "2016-08-15T15:05:16Z")
Julie Newmar in the 60’s Batman series. Rrrowr! ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655/44 "2016-08-15T15:13:26Z")
> [@Reluctant\_A](#): > > I would be one of the former. But, honestly, I would push all four of them into a running turbine for YoSaffBridge. Oh God yes… She was the instigator of one of my very few slack-jawed drooling episodes, with the other big one I remember being Salma Hayek’s “Satanica Pandemonio” dance with the snake in “From Dusk 'Till Dawn”. ---
**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, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655/45 "2016-08-15T15:17:46Z")
> [@bump](#): > > …with the other big one I remember being Salma Hayek’s “Satanica Pandemonio” dance with the snake in “From Dusk 'Till Dawn”. I thought of her, but the big issue with that for me was that I wasn’t really invested in the character. Salma’s hot no matter what she does. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655/46 "2016-08-15T15:17:50Z")
My current one is Tulip (Ruth Negga) from Preacher. Man, there’s some je ne sais quoi. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655/47 "2016-08-15T15:25:10Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > Julie Newmar in the 60’s Batman series. Rrrowr! Yvonne Craig’s Bat Girl too, double rrowr! ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655/48 "2016-08-15T17:08:16Z")
> [@Lamia](#): > > 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. Absolutely this. Safety lights are for dudes. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655/49 "2016-08-15T18:03:25Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Dr. Maura Isles (“Rizzoli and…”); she can give my bloated corpse the once-over any day of the week and twice on Sunday. Do yourself a favor: see the episodes Sasha Alexander did of Shameless (Showtime). That’ll give you some rigor mortis. 😉 ---
**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, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655/50 "2016-08-15T18:06:23Z")
It’s on Netflix; I’m there! Much obliged! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655/51 "2016-08-15T18:12:43Z")
C.J. Craig and Hit-Girl. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655/52 "2016-08-15T18:40:30Z")
Alyson Hannigan as Michelle in _ **American Pie** _. Hot nerds turn me on! 🆒 (Hell, Alyson Hannigan in _anything_. She looks a lot like an old girlfriend of mine! :o ) ---
**Author:** ![Hocus\_Pocus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/41988e/32.png) [@Hocus\_Pocus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hocus_Pocus)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655/53 "2016-08-15T18:58:22Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > C.J. Craig If you mean the character played by Allison Janney on _The West Wing_, it’s Cregg. ---
**Author:** ![Hocus\_Pocus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/41988e/32.png) [@Hocus\_Pocus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hocus_Pocus)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655/54 "2016-08-15T19:43:27Z")
I’m not a spring chicken, so I’ve had a few… Helen Slater as _Supergirl_ in '84. Jennifer Connelly in _Career Opportunities_ Naomi Watts in _King Kong_ Penelope Ann Miller in _Kindergarten Cop_ Laura Dern in _Teachers_ Anne Archer in _Patriot Games_ Connie Nielsen in _Soldier_ Kate Beckinsale in _Pearl Harbor_ I know there’s more, but I can’t think of them at the moment. ---
**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, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655/55 "2016-08-15T21:38:17Z")
Bridgette Wilson (-Sampras) in–gulp–“Billy Madison.” ---
**Author:** ![HyacinthBucket](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hyacinthbucket/32/3063_2.png) [@HyacinthBucket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HyacinthBucket)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655/56 "2016-08-16T00:17:34Z")
Aside from a permanent crush on a certain blond elf, a part of my heart will always belong to Gordon Urquhart in Local Hero. I’d happily run off with him to run an inn on the Scottish coast any day, all he has to do is ask. Even 30 years later I still think Denis Lawson is a cutie-pie. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655/57 "2016-08-16T00:38:47Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > Julie Newmar in the 60’s Batman series. Rrrowr! Amen. Funny, gorgeous, and funny. > [@Johnny\_Ace](#): > > I thought of her, but the big issue with that for me was that I wasn’t really invested in the character. Salma’s hot no matter what she does. 😃 Friend How can a movie about vampire strippers be the greatest movie of all time? Me. How can a movie about vampire strippers NOT be the greatest movie of all time? but Juliette Lewis is, at best, maybe kinda cute. ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655/58 "2016-08-16T03:01:26Z")
Shaun from Shaun of the Dead. He’s cowardly and lazy. But brave. And he loves his mum. We’d have a horrible adventure and then just sit on the couch. If TV counts–Lennie Briscoe. Even The Fella loves watching L&O if it’s a Lennie ep. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cinematic-crushes/762655.md?page=2)