groovethang
Sloane Ranger
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Jan 5, 2007 9:15:54 GMT -4
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Post by groovethang on May 16, 2012 18:17:45 GMT -4
Ugggh, Andrew McCarthy. I NEVER understood his appeal. Same here. I couldn't stand him, especially in St. Elmo's Fire. |
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Post by kanding on May 17, 2012 3:54:18 GMT -4
Thanks for the suggestion. It works better, but still leaves me with the same problem. If AC is inoffensive, does that make other men who're more traditionally attractive offensive? Maybe Andrew McCarthy just seems nonsexual. YMMV of course. I never thought I'd spend any time trying to define and label this man's attractiveness. |
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Post by Shalamar on May 17, 2012 11:08:04 GMT -4
Bland? That's the word that always comes to mind when I think of him.
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Post by kateln on May 17, 2012 13:22:39 GMT -4
Ugggh, Andrew McCarthy. I NEVER understood his appeal. Meh. Though I like that he seems to have found a second career playing rich scumbags. It's like casting directors go "We need a rich douche, someone with name recognition....get McCarthy!" |
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garnet927
Landed Gentry
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Mar 9, 2005 15:47:26 GMT -4
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Post by garnet927 on May 17, 2012 16:57:30 GMT -4
I didn't have really strong feelings about Andrew McCarthy's appeal (or lack of it) either way--Judd Nelson was the Brat Packer who I definitely get the appeal of, the characters he played seemed to need a haircut and an attitude adjustment.
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Post by Baby Fish Mouth on May 17, 2012 17:21:24 GMT -4
Bland? That's the word that always comes to mind when I think of him. An appropriate term given his character's name in Pretty in Pink. " Blane? That's a major appliance, not a name!" |
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Post by magazinewhore on May 17, 2012 19:51:19 GMT -4
Ok, I LOVED Andrew McCarthy (and still find him attractive). He seemed like he may be a sensitive guy as opposed to the Alpha males around him. I have an almost Pavloivian response to preppy pale guys with brown hair and blue eyes due to him.
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Post by chonies on May 17, 2012 22:59:42 GMT -4
I don't know...to me, his characters in movies have largely been sensitive and very, very bland. Eric Stoltz and John Cusack (even though I dislike him) both had great sensitive characters where the characters were more than not-the-Alpha. I'm looking at his IMDB and my favorite role of his was in that episode of Law & Order: SVU where his veterinarian wife was addicted to ketamine and he kept a Romanian slave in a box under the bed, just because it seemed to me that the twist worked so well *because* of McCarthy's McCarthyness.
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Post by forever1267 on Oct 24, 2012 21:20:29 GMT -4
PASTE Magazine has done a list of the 80 Best Movies of the 80's. I've seen 66 of them myself, but really, really, really need to watch Amadeus and Raging Bull one of these days. |
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Post by ratscabies on Oct 25, 2012 2:22:22 GMT -4
In my recollection, the best thing about "Raging Bull" was Vicki LaMotta's Playboy layout, timed to coincide with the movie's release. It apparently bugged the crap outta Jake.
"Amadeus", on the other hand, is frikkin' awesome. F. Murray Abraham is amazing in it.
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