Joan (HUG) xxx

Gerry has been in films since 1997, and was on stage before that, briefly, while he was in law school (where he graduated with honors).

I suspect, Gerry would like to break out of the mold of the beautiful male who pleases us by just walking in and out of scenes. It is an unfortunate thing that Gerry\’s female fans (and some of the male fans he obtained through 300), just love to watch him in anything ( no matter how bad it is), over and over again; I admit it is a weird obsession. A 6\’2\” Scot, trained in swords, an excellent horse rider, who can sing (well, we like his voice!) seems to call out to us! The fact that he also has flown a helicopter, and learned to use a machine gun now, underlines his over the top masculinity.

Somehow we recognize that under any role he is playing, is an intelligent, emotional man. Have you seen Shattered, with Pierce Brosnan and Maria Bello? Another interesting film, not much shown here in the US.

Although male critics uniformly hate it, PS I Love you is absolutely beloved by women (the model, Bar Rafeli, Leo\’s ex, just saw it for the first time, and cried a river, so she said). Frankly, it is ok that there are some films men love, and some that women love; I wish critics understood that. Sports (including boxing) movies leave me cold regardless of the acting, but men are moved to tears by some old favorites in that genre.

Law Abiding Citizen has become rather iconic as well: just after the Casey Anthony verdict, there was a surge of tweets mentioning that movie, apparently many would like to see private justice. It is one of the top 100 rentals for Netflix and for Blockbusters, not that this is any evidence a movie critic would find valid, but it speaks to the public, and that is, after all, the audience the actor aims for.

Trashing a film, and an actor, based solely on a trailer seems to be grossly unreasonable, unless it is just another damned Transformers film!

Clearly the only way this is going to be settled is if Butler and I strip off and have a Women In Love style man-wrestle in front of a fireplace, or otherwise engage some sort of Peep Show \”melon-off\” (look it up) to see who is the stronger/more alpha man.

Gerard – I\’m game. Call off your goons and let\’s set a date. IT\’S ON.

A professional critic\’s job is to watch a movie first, then write what they think about it. To have put this much effort into a two minute trailer is not an appropriate use of this space. But, I suspect the sole purpose of your rant was to prejudice people before they had a chance to view the film themselves and make their own decisions.

Have no fear, you are not the only talentless failure who has chosen to become a \”critic\” because you cannot make it in Hollywood, therefore choosing to attack those have succeeded. You are in good company. This \”article\” is not journalism, professionalism or anything else that would remotely justify you having an outlet for your personal demons, but so be it. We will see how you respond when you actually see the movie.

Take Nicole Kidman. Pretty much everything she\’s done since The Others/The Hours has bombed. But I respect her way more than Gerard as a performer (ok, maybe not so much with Nine, Bewitched and Just Go With It) because I don\’t think she\’s just cynically picking up the check on any old crap and coasting on the fumes of her biggest successes. Why else choose to work with Jonathan Glazer and Steven Shainberg on pretty out-there material?

To an extent Butler seems to have realised this and, yeah, he might blow me away in Coriolanus. In which case, I\’ll sing his praises. But he hasn\’t done that yet, not by a long shot. Believe it or not, I do pick my targets pretty carefully. I\’m not interested in just slagging off people indiscriminately. I appreciate there\’s some interesting stuff in his back catalogue (I\’ve seen Dear Frankie, it\’s not mind-blowing, but I\’ll take that on-board) but, honestly, John Gielgud had a pretty chequered career and he never felt the need to star in a film where Katherine Heigl wore vibrating panties.

@Lady Di
I haven\’t trashed the film, which is why I\’ve qualified my statements. Nowhere have I said \”this film is shit\”. It could be a masterpiece. I thought Rise of the Planet of the Apes looked ridiculous before it came out, and it turned out to be one of the best films of the summer. If my perception of this film turns out to be wrong, then of course I\’ll recant. But I\’m far from the only one to think this material could potentially be objectionable. Just look at the poster.

If you have a good butt, we will willingly participate! Signed, Gerry\’s fans!

I don\’t care if you like Butler or you don\’t (I do), but don\’t get your little boy panties in such a twist until you\’ve at least seen the film.

Actually, if you can find a definitive reference for \”whale on\” being more correct than \”wail on\” we\’d be happy to change it. But while there are many such refs for \”whale\” and even \”wale\” — meaning to beat up or to mark with welts, respectively — it seems when used in the phrase \”whale/wail/wale on\” it\’s slang and as such there are just as many good refs for \”wail\” as for other variants.

Let us know if you find a final word on this, but till then, it stays \”wail\”.

While I think the HW support staff andmusic and artistic types in HW are heavily gay (lots of gay artists for some reason), I don\’t think there are more gay celebs than in the average population, likely 8-15 percent.

G is so thin right now, he has nearly disappeared, I am guessing his weight is around 175-180, way too thin for his height of 6\’2\”. However, as recent pics in Scotland and in Malibu demonstrate, he is well muscled despite the too thin appearance.

He specifically GAINED weight for Machine Gun Preacher. He has lost it for the soccer and surfing movies he filmed this year. You sound cranky and bitter. I am so sorry about that!

it\’s CELEBITCHY here:all Butler fans came

Not as wrong as whoever convinced Gerard Butler it would be a good idea to cut a timeshare agreement with Justin Bieber\’s fans (yeesh, the comments on this post), but wrong. Maybe.

Gerard Butler did very good work with some complex characters in smaller pre-300 movies. What I\’ve heard from people who have seen the film, people who are actually into film and not just hopelessly devoted to particular actors, is that he returns to that form here. They also say that the remainder of the cast and all facets of the production are solid. As a whole, I understand that it does justice to what you note is a compelling story.

It may not be the Oscar turn that some are humming about, but I\’ll be surprised if it turns out to be the caricature that you predict when I see it.