Matthew McConaughey always looks like complete shit

He MUST be a POS if he votes GOP! Get over yourself, OP.

[quote] He MUST be a POS if he votes GOP!

Actually, yes! Most Republicans are, in fact, complete pieces of shit.

For real?

Um...you realise OP - that's the character he was playing? A washed up cop with big problems who has given up and dropped out.

I'm not a huge fan - but he was great in True Detective - and also great in Dallas Buyers' Club.

I can totally understand his original appeal tho' -

I remember seeing "Boys on the Side" when it came out back in the nineties - and he was featured at the end - bit part - but the whole cinema gasped when he appeared! He was this muscular, blond god. So handsome - and radiating good-health. I'm sure it wasn't the only cinema session where that happened - and soon after, seemed like he was everywhere.

Same thing happened with Brad Pitt after "Thelma and Louise" - he was a ridiculously hot, great looking bit-player - and everyone was like "who's that???" - and suddenly it began happening for him.

Think it was the same with Robert Pattinson as well after the Potter film too - he looked amazingly hot - handsome in a really exotic way - and everyone in the audience who appreciates male beauty - the straight women and the gay guys! - swooned over him. And again, soon after - he was the new "it" boy. It happens.

Sadly, they don't always stay as pretty and well-groomed as when they were young and in their prime. But at least McConaughey has gone on to show he can act the hell out of the right roles...

Can't stand looking at him, skanky role or not. I stay away from his movies.

Lots of actors ruin their looks for a role and never regain them.

I don't get McConaughey's appeal either. The proportions of his body are rather odd-- too short arms and torso area. He's not even all that handsome either.

Scorpio mojo at work. Granting McConaughey mass appeal for being an AWG.

I remember him in an episode of unsolved mysteries. It must have been one of his very first roles as he was really young.

He always seems creepy to me.

Small town Texas...prob inbreeding gene pool like OKlahomehh.

He doesn't vote or promote Republican.

He did want us all to support our elected president, the Red Don... but, so did Ofrah

The space between his brows says FAS.

Hi, aikc!

Hola R13. Que pasa?

Check for lowered brow and ear lines.

Ding Ding Ding.

Like most of Mississippi, Alabama and Oklahoma and parts of WV and Pennsyltucky.

A flamboyant, pretty face with a lot of presence and little depth who gets ugkyvto be taken seriously.

Call him the male Charlize Theron.

Si Pueda Tequilla.

Some long lost fragment of me remembers him as "hot" in a Texas Chainsaw Massacre flick. But yeah, he's not exactly the kind of betty you die for.

McBongo bump.

GOP-voting? Never heard that one before. More info?

Everybody is supposed to "get behind" a newly elected president for patriotic and sportsmanlike reasons.

Lots of Democrats have said the same thing — the motive is national unity, not partisan politics for some.

I can hardly believe McConaughey is a partisan Republican. I'd be VERY surprised.

He voted for Trump? Well fuck him with a claw hammer, I will not be watching him again.

he is nasty

God he was gorgeous when Vanity Fair did a spread of him in the -- 90s(?).

He has that FAS smooth philtrum.

Bump

???.

He didn't deserve the Oscar for Dallas Buyer's Club, Leto acted circles around him.

r17, he's not the male Charlize Theron--she bathes and can speak a complete sentence.

Charlize Theron can also act.

R16 that's supposed to look like McBongo? His mother's from New Jersey. Maybe that's the problem.

He's a great actor whether OP likes it or not. His comment about Trump was a pretty wimpy 'let's all try to get along' bit. Doubt if he's a Republican or anything. Seems apolitical to me.

He was very handsome, like Greek God pretty when he was young. I like his looks now though. He has great bone structure - Roman profile, cheekbones to die for, hooded eyes. There's an El Greco quality to his face now. Much more arresting and interesting to look at than bloated Damon, Leo and Brad. They all have peasanty, square heads like blocks of wood.

r32--a "great actor"? Mary, what are you on? I want some.

R33 ever seen Killer Joe, Mud or True Detective?

r33--yep. And I repeat: what are you on? You really think those were "great" performances in Killer Joe and Mud, in particular?

r34, I meant.

R35 tell me some performances you've seen then that you consider great.

Can't stand his voice. The sound of it makes me want to vomit.

Never liked him. and actually i hated him when i was a child.

R38 I don't know it's his voice or accent and he talks so slow it's really annoying

r37--to state the obvious: DeNiro, Pacino and Brando in the Godfather movies; Streep in any number of movies; Hepburn in Long Day's Journey; Bryan Cranston in Breaking Bad; Gandolfini and Falco in The Sopranos; Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Veep; Maureen Stapleton, Geraldine Page in any number of movies; Glenda Jackson in Elizabeth R; Vanessa Redgrave in several films in her career; Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot; these are just off the top of my head, from years and years ago to more recent, in tv and film. McConaughey doesn't come close to being a great actor; he's passable at best.

He never got his looks back after he lost the weight.

r41--no, he didn't. He just looks like what he is: a scuzzy, stupid pothead.

McBongo story made me hard.

If he just showed his cock like the dumb whore he is, and kept his mouth shut, that would be one thing.

R40 your tastes run to acting with a Capital A! Scenery chewing, mimicry, Bette Davis! Hepburn in Long Day's Journey? You must be an AntiqueGay not an ElderGay. Hate Streep. When have you EVER believed she was the character she's playing? It's all mimicry and LOOK AT MERYL ACT! To quote Pauline Kael, she only acts 'from the neck up'. Seen her in August Osage County? Yikes. Horrific. Compare her performance to the sublime work of Margo Martindale in the same movie. There was a great performance in that dumbass terrible-opera-singer movie last year. But it certainly wasn't Streep's. It was, surprisingly enough, Hugh Grant's.

I prefer naturalistic acting, not gimmicky OTT stuff. Favorite recent performances (beyond the ones I mentioned for McBongo) Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler, Hardy in Locke. I hate overly theatrical acting in a movie.

He only gets pretty for lance.

Apparently, r45, you think great acting can only be recent (and I had many recent performances in my list).

To quote Pauline Kael about Hepburn: "Watching her transitions in Journey, the way she can make herself look 18 or 80 at will, one can understand why the appellation 'The Divine' has sometimes been awarded certain actresses." So there, you cunt.

And btw, I didn't say Streep was great in everything. Now, may I invite you to fuck yourself?

He did deserve his Oscar but a Republican who voted for Trump? That is disgusting. I thought he was a human being...guess not.

I thought he looked cute all hippified. You guys who are all tweezed and shaved and oiled up? Big turnoff.

r48, that's a matter of opinion. My opinion is: he did not. In no world does this fool deserve an Oscar.

In the interview that was selectively edited by the BBC of his talk with Andrew Marr (who was practically begging him to say something nice about Trump) he said he hadn't voted for Trump. He gave the interview the day of the inauguration before Trump started up with his executive orders. McConaughey was interviewed just after the Marr interview by the Independent and was asked what he thought about Trump being inaugurated. He said it was weird.

Not a huge fan...but I love that he doesn't seem to care what people think about him.

R29 completely agree. Chiwetel Ejiofor should've won that year for 12 Years a Slave. I'm still pissed about it.

I never really liked him but after he got those teenage surfers to beat up those photographers for him a few years back I thought he was a piece of shit.

He did look good in True Detective, and I think it was filmed after Dallas Buyers Club.

He has really improved as an actor. I wonder what changed for him? He was playing Himbo's for most of the 90's and early 00's. His accent is really what bugs and his diction. There is just something so annoying about it. It's not his voice.

Ok, but consider Wooderson.

McConaughey's performance in DAZED... is somehow perfect, like he really just stepped out of a time machine from the 70s.

R53 Ejiofor? For fuck's sake, the guy has zero charisma and wasn't helped by the fact McQueen let Fassbender chew so much scenery Ejiofor looked like he was a backdrop. Granted, the role he was playing was so passive it was impossible to root for him and Patsey became the tragic character audiences became affected by, but Ejiofor's such a limited actor. Had McQueen cast Elba in the role, the movie would have taken the focus away from McQueen's beloved Fassy and Lupita and put it back on the character of Solomon where it should have been but Ejiofor just isn't a compelling enough presence to dominate the screen.

I have no personal opinion regarding the man's voting record. He has the right to vote for whoever the fuck he wishes to vote for, even if I don't agree with his choices. I don't give a shit about the political views of these guys. They're actors, and I pay to watch them act, not to watch them vote.

That being said, the man IS a pretty decent actor. As others have mentioned above, he actually was fantastic in 'True Detective', and deserved the win for 'The Dallas Buyers Club'. I hope to see more of him and his unusually short arms, in the future.

He did not vote for Trump, just made a stupid statement about unity after the fact.

He was gorgeous from Lone Star and before he lost all the weight for The oscar movie.

R54 paparazzo at 54! Yeah it's so fucking unfair when celebs get mad at paps doing their job.

R29, with respect, has Leto really ever acted circles around anyone?

The man has a powerful & emotive singing voice, beautiful looks, charisma. He isn't a natural actor, though. No-one in life can truly have it all, and if most of us have one great talent or attribute then we're lucky. Someone may be a fan of Leto but there's still a way to appraise his work objectively. And he just isn't the best actor.

He was even terrible in a Malick movie, difficult to do when you're given 2 minutes screentime by Herr Director. Even the Hamtastic Travolta and play-it-safe Clooney were better than Leto was in THE THIN RED LINE.

I agree OP, I never understood this mans appeal. I get it, he's "attractive" by white people standards.....not saying much but he ALWAYS looked corpsey to me. Like a corpse lol. Has nothing to do with his his roles, trust me. It's like white people just looks the abs....sorry but I don't care if you have a six pack when it's your face I have to look at. Also he comes off as just so stupid to me putting his 2 cents in about "embracing Trump". Oh I get it your dicks get too hard looking at him that you can't remember he said "we need to embrace him and work with him......see I don't care about politics but I just can't stand oblivious stupidity. He's entitled to his opinion but hen you come off as so out of touch with the you know whole Russia thing, his treatment of women, the fact that he basically hired nothing but white guys for the MAJOR roles in his cabinet....and on and on....sorry but no.

R63 he said, according to the Hollywood Reporter, that we need to "embrace THE FACT" not embrace Trump.

BBC's Andrew Marr asked the actor if he thought it was time for Hollywood and the "cultural elite" to give Trump a break.

"Well, they don't have a choice now," said McConaughey. "He's our president. And it's very dynamic and as divisive of an inauguration and time that we've ever had. At the same time, it's time for us to embrace, shake hands with this fact and be constructive with him over the next four years."

He added that people will have to wait and see if Trump does everything he said he was going to do during the campaign.

McConaughey gave that interview on inauguration day in London so maybe he thought, like a lot of people did, Trump was just bullshitting to get votes from rightwingers but would govern from the center. Remember Sarandon who said there was no difference between Trump and Hillary?

Those kids who attacked the paps R61, a lot of them were underage, so he got kids to fight his battles for him!

R65 Google is your friend. The LA Times:

Surfers seen as the heroes in Malibu paparazzi case Two years after a beach brawl with photographers angling for a shot of actor Matthew McConaughey, defendants Skylar Peak and Philip Hildebrand go on trial for misdemeanor battery. Local sentiment is behind them.

The showdown at a Malibu beach two years ago looked like a Frankie Avalon movie gone very wrong.

A dozen paparazzi were huddled on the sand -- angling for a shot of famously bare-chested celeb Matthew McConaughey -- when suddenly they were confronted by a pack of local surfers.

"Let's go!" shouted one surfer. "We'll draw a line in the beach, and we'll fight for the beach. If you guys win, you can have the beach."

A fight broke out, and L.A. prosecutors charged two of the surfers with misdemeanor battery.

Two years later, the trial against Skylar Peak and Philip Hildebrand is getting underway. But the popular sentiment in Malibu is that the surfers should be hailed as heroes, not hauled into court. The defendants get pats on the back and words of encouragement as they make their way around town, according to their lawyers.

P.S. Skylar Peak is now the mayor of Malibu.

Looks pretty fine to me.

He looks good on his back.

R47, Lance is not gay. Lance foes not hang out w gays. Lance is butch jock.