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Feb042016
Good Morning, Tom
Thursday, February 4, 2016 at 8:30AM
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Reader Comments (24)
Those lips!
Sfenton -- yes. To be the coffee!
GUH. He's so hot if he walked by my construction site, I'd grab my crotch and whistle.
You can just tell he gives good rimjobs.
In this photo TH shows us less of his Brando and more of his Paul Newman "DNA." Me likely too.
Ugh, yes please. It's amazing that with a face and lips like his, directors have consistently cast him with masks or tons of facial hair to hide all of it, or in relatively sex-less characters. When is he going to get the steamy, sexy leading man role he clearly deserves?
Damn auto-correct.
LIKEY
I know beards are everyone's new favorite sexual pasttime, but Hardy's at his most gorgeous after a shave.
Hardy is a real actor DJ. He knows better than to accept romantic comedy roles which do nothing to further his artistry. Sure he did one with Reese for a paycheck and has learned to avoid that bullshit genre.
@3rtful - oh, I agree he's a real actor. but "romantic comedy" isn't the only type of movie he could that would utilize his looks.
P.S. I'm so over people denigrating romantic comedies. There are a ton of bad action films out there, but because they're so associated with macho manliness no one ever dares to speak badly of them. If romantic comedies were so easy, then why couldn't even someone as talented as Julianne Moore star in one successfully (Laws of Attraction)? Not just anyone can do them and do them well.
"I know beards are everyone's new favorite sexual pasttime, but Hardy's at his most gorgeous after a shave."
I agree. He does look best clean shaven.
Romantic comedies are evil. Hollywood produces them because they are the female equivalent of the big dumb macho action movies they roll out every year.
You want movies starring women which aren't about needing or wanting a man.
I want both. A good romantic comedy can be just as satisfying as any other genre. I mean, I know they can't ALL be When Harry Met Sally..., but they could try.
He's not even my type, and yet he is. so. damn. hot!
DJDeeDay -- exactly! i want both too. Love is just as much a part of life as anything else if not more.
I prefer romantic drama: epic (GWTW, Cabaret, From Here to Eternity, Moulin Rouge!, Brokeback Mountain) or intimate (A Place in the Sun, Blue Valentine, The Notebook (YES), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Happy Together, Her). When it comes to romantic comedies, I usually need them screwball or in the vicinity (Down with Love, Bridesmaids).
I can definitely see Hardy as a Brontë protagonist or a closeted gay cowboy. Not sure how he'd do with screwball, but if his lip-syncing is any indication...why not?
Name a romantic comedy which passes that test of two women talking to each other about anything other than a man.
The make up people should get an Oscar for making him look so ugly in "The Revenant"
Mr Hardy and Mr Gyllenhaal should co-star- playing lovers would be nice
@Kaa - mte x 1000
Here's hoping Bridget Jones's Baby is a return to form for romantic comedies!
Fuck me.
I watched this romantic comedy with him and Reese because of him, and then she decides AGAINST him!? NEVER.
"Romantic comedies are evil. Hollywood produces them because they are the female equivalent of the big dumb macho action movies they roll out every year."
Romantic comedies are barely even made now. Dumb macho movies are far more common.
@3rtful - normally that would bother me, too, but we are talking about ROMANTIC comedies. The focus is romantic relationships, so even if most don't pass the Bechdel test, that doesn't seem like the real problem. The real problem isn't that women in romantic comedies focus on men, it's that women are so poorly represented in every other type of film. If women were more fully developed characters everywhere else, then it wouldn't be so bad if they ALSO had one genre where they focused on relationships.