Agreed. He's attractive and fit but not as conventionally good looking a Pitt.

Hugh Jackman's voice sounds a little deeper when he's doing an American accent too.

Bale is conventionally attractive, just not in a bland way.

He was very charismatic in The Hurt Locker but he's less watchable in the blockbusers he's done.

"Seriously, it is baffling that she moved on from Dawson's Creek to become such an excellent actress (Brokeback Mountain was only a couple years after that show ended). Jen was a seriously dull and unlikable character, and her acting did very little for the character. Katie Holmes schooled her acting wise on a regular…

I think season 9 is a pretty good season overall and it has some classic episodes. The first half of season 10 is quite good too. After that the show really declined.

Thats because Once and Again was a family drama. Family dramas  usually put couples together quickly. Sometimes too quickly.

Thats because Once and Again was a family drama. Family dramas  usually put couples together quickly. Sometimes too quickly.

A lot of populist/middlebrow entertainment is unfairly called bland/mediocre because they aren't ambitious.

"This may just be a problem with the medium as a whole, though. Character deaths have increasingly become a cheap way to goose drama"

"This may just be a problem with the medium as a whole, though. Character deaths have increasingly become a cheap way to goose drama"

I find that unless the writers are being repetitive that the soap style storytelling can provide more momentum than the short story form.

I find that unless the writers are being repetitive that the soap style storytelling can provide more momentum than the short story form.

"What was the last hit from Roberts?

Sometimes misleading advertising works but if the tone of the trailer is radically different than the movie it won't work. Selling a downer as a happy, feel good movie turns people off.

"If there were more women and people of color folks capable of making good profitable movies, they'd be making movies."
  I don't think thats true. There was a female director (can't remember her name) who was told to her face by an exec that she could not make an action movie because they thought a man should do…

They'll see Sanda Bullock, Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep and they're over 40.

"Mine is equally simple: I wish Hollywood still knew how to make great romantic comedies….Another problem is that back in the day, great writers and directors used to make these movies—Billy Wilder, Howard Hawks, George Cukor. Maybe this connects to Claire’s point about the ghetto-ization of “chick flicks"

I miss Diane's old love interest. She had better chemistry with him.

"Is it offensive when lesbian characters glibly decide to have sex with men?"