Just curious... Why does GC hate Ryan Phillipe?

Hmmm. Let me count the ways.

In my humble opinion, I think he's talentless. He only has a couple of facial expressions and he's boring to watch. Yes, he's gorgeous, but pretty does not mean talented. He cast in film after film and he's terrible! I hate it when directors/producers cast actors because of their looks expecting us to find their characters credible and likable just because they are pretty. Bleh. It's like all those talented people making music right now and all the focus lands on Justin Timberlake. How frustrating. There are other actors with depth who are ten times better than he is. I have not seen one of his films where I actually liked him. And he seems like a dunderhead in every interview I have seen him in. Listen to him talk and then listen to, oh say, Gyllenhaal talk. Big difference.

I know, this is sounding very close-minded and opinionated but it's just my thoughts on a dinglecheese actor.

Reese Witherspoon was right to leave him. Phillipe's film may have won the Best Picture Oscar but the Brokeback guy got his woman.
:D

Kinda how I feel about Leonardo DiCaprio - except I do not find him the least bit attractive.

Well, i have zero idea how Phillippe comes off in interviews or on talk shows or at a party. I don't know the man and have no interest in his life or in hearing him promote his projects. But I have seen a good sampling of his films.

Yeah, he's a pretty face, and often dull in many movies. But I don't think he's talentless. IMO, he was good in Breach and Flags of Our Fathers, which are his last two major films prior to the one just out, Stop Loss, which I have heard good things about.

So maybe he's getting better with experience.

Guess he just rubs Gemini Cricket the wrong way. Pretty boys sometimes do that to me, too (but in my case, it's usually just envy).


Leonardo DiCaprio is often craptastic, but also has some good performances under his belt. I don't think it's right to dismiss some of these people simply because they are not good in everything or, more likely, because one feels their fame is undeserving and based more on teen-fan sex appeal than talent.

I don't watch Leno on TV cuz I see him at work.

Yeah... I think one of the things that makes me dislike him is that so many people consider him to be a sex symbol when, to me, he looks all of 12. <Blech>

That, and that I don't think he can act his way out of a cardboard box.

Movies I thought DiCaprio was good in:

Blood Diamond, The Departed, The Aviator, Catch Me If You Can, Romeo + Juliet ... and What's Eating Gilbert Grape?

Hmmm, mostly his most current. Which suggests, to me at least, that he's also getting better with experience.



Yes, he looks like he's 12. Sometimes I find him attractive, oftentimes not. But I won't look at pictures of him in a library, that's for sure. ;)