Granted I understand the comments about the movie probably being sucky, but this whole "Charlize Theron isn't all that pretty " thing I'm totally lost on. I agree Jessica Simpson is over-hyped ....but I think Charlize (like many other actresses) is very beautiful.
I mean come on guys, you're telling me that if a woman who looked exactly like Charlize came up to you at a GenCon, and said "Hey, want to go try that WarMachine demo with me?" You'd say "Uh..no thanks" and walk away muttering to your friend "Ugh,she was ugly like i drew her wrong." You'd do that?
Granted everyone has their own tastes so there's bound to be a few that differ in opinion. However, I find it interesting that,time and time again, the most critical judgements of 'looks' come from this message board and not my friends in fashion or the ones that are aspiring actors/actresses.
I think that its possible that ...the thing isn't a matter of which group is more critical about looks but possibly that one group has different tastes. For instance, my gamer friends would praise a b-movie actress of their favorite guilty pleasure show before getting behind and actress they perceive as Hollywood trying to 'sell' them on. Like how trancejeremy said, "IMHO, they should have gotten Kari Wuhrer to star in it." That totally sounds like a comment my Feng Shui gamemaster would make.
Not to say Hollywood doesn't have its fair share of "hey hey hey you're suppose to think this woman is beautiful look look look" ... for instance , I don't see the hype with Julia Roberts or with Juliette Lewis (when she did have hype - around Cape Fear era).
But Charlize....yah I think she's pretty. I've always thought so, even before she was anybody big ...like on Devil's Advocate and Mighty Joe Young.