Brad Pitt covers the July/August issue of GQ Magazine

Jesus, did they design that hideous Beyoncé Vogue shoot, too?

So tired and played.

I hate it. Not interesting at all.

He should sue the stylist and photographer.

Jesus! He looks waxy, corpselike.

Love this

Love this shot!!!!

This is one of my favs!

Embalmed chic.

some of these shots especially the cover in OP he looks embalmed

don't know if he's had work done, bad makeup or bad photoshop

or a combo

He does look like he had some work done. Makes sense. He was looking pretty old.

I could have taken more flattering pictures with my phone, and I am not a photographer. Truly terrible work.

OP we need another 1893037298 pics from that photoshoot. Please post them all.

Who did these, the guy that did that terrible painting of Obama sinking into a hedge?

These are just tacky and derivative.

M.F.

I had no idea he had tattoos on his legs. Overall, these are not good pics. He’s too old to pull off this avant- garde photoshoots. Leave it to Harry Styles.

Didn’t they used to call him Jan Michael Vincent?

R22 agreed. He’s too old for this. If this was him 20 years ago, yes!

Such uber artsy stuff makes you look terrible no matter what age you are.

[quote] He looks amazing!!

He looks like an embalmed corpse - one where they forgot to close the eyes and fold the deceased's hands over one another.

R23 you beat me to it! Hideous.

In the first photo he looked like a corpse.

What a relief that he's on the other side of the mountain with the looks! Now he can catch up to the rest of us!

IT'S ALL DOWNHILL FROM HERE, SWEETIE!!!

GQ has been utter shit for decades.

I’m surprised he would even pose for that two-bit rag.

Ophelia?

It’s one of the most celebrated magazines still…

Ok, r8 made me laugh.

Looks like a corpse

Serious question: did Elon use BP’s plastic surgeon?

I think they're wonderful!

Not fair that older men can't be avant-garde. Older women do it all the time.

I love that they embrace a more expansive rendition of masculinity.

I find them reminiscent of Udo Kier style decadence. Shades of Bowie. A dash of Madge.

The only one I'm on the fence about is the yellow jumpsuit, because the pose seems out of character. But then again, he is an actor.

I predict a Matt McConaughey style Renaissance for him with edgier swishy roles, now that he's single and the kids are grown. The rumors of bisexuality are the perfect seasoning and are directly in line with the current trend of embracing fluidity, no matter what they say about who should play a gay role.

He could play Matt Bomer's dad.

The photograph in the OP is beyond terrible.

R38 =RDJ being jealous.

What do you want? Another boring shot in a suit or polo shirt in front of a white no-seam?

I mean, come on.

I haven't been this excited since those Interview covers of male actors embracing.

He might just surpass Delon for physical perfection.

He looks embalmed. Maddox must have hired the photogs.

Bitch Stole My Look

Was the photographer inspired by Weekend With Bernies?

Weekend at Bernies I meant..but the point remains. I'm not convinced Brad Pitt is even still with us looking at those photos.

Was his makeup compliments of Forest Lawn?

Yikes, these photos are so unflattering.

imgbb loads about half the time for me.

These photos are campy AF.

I love them! ❤️

And I love the colorful wardrobe.

Has anyone mentioned yet that he looks like a corpse?

I’m not saying he looks like a corpse or anything, but Jimmy Savile would like to get his number

And that Ophelia was a corpse?

Corpse?

A dead lay and a couch…

Now it all makes sense!

This look is so hot right now

I thought yellow alluded to “Cool World”.

Tom Ford has been pushing transgressive Eastern European Chic for the last three seasons. I don’t see tech bros or IBs in any of this.

.,.,

Wtf. He looks awful. And he is definitely looking his age despite some ancient queens and fraus still stuck in the 90s saying otherwise. He had a good run of maintaining hotness into middle age but nobody can escape aging. He just chose to go gracefully unlike Mickey Rourke.

What did he cover the magazine with, OP? Brown paper tied up with string?

I think Johnny Depp, Will Smith and Keanu Reeves all looked younger than their age for a while. But Brad always more or less looked his age to me though his voice and attitude was very youthful. He looked 35 in Fight Club, looked 40 in Troy and looked 54 in One Upon A Time in Hollywood. He is just an example of a middle aged person with good genes who took care of his body and health. Plus money helps with less stress. I don't think he smokes cigarettes either just pot and he seems like he rips bongs and takes edibles instead of joints and blunts

Crepe Away.

Oh yikes he does NOT

Blue is NOT his colour

Those are mostly terrible. R53 I howled ! Kudos ,Darling !

Of course I don’t know the man, but I’m surprised by the quote. Brad always looked like he was a happy as hell. Always seemed super close to his family too.

“I think joy’s been a newer discovery, later in life. I was always moving with the currents, drifting in a way, and onto the next. I think I spent years with a low-grade depression, and it’s not until coming to terms with that, trying to embrace all sides of self — the beauty and the ugly — that I’ve been able to catch those moments of joy.” He added, “I always felt very alone in my life. Alone growing up as a kid, alone even out here, and it’s really not till recently that I have had a greater embrace of my friends and family.” He mentioned that making and consuming art makes ‘him feel less alone’ in the world.

Geez, he's had surgery

In an industry of nasty, nasty narcissistic assholes. Brad always seemed sweet and surprisingly down-to-earth. Unlike his exes Angelina, Gwyenth and Jennifer who are all fake as hell. He doesn't seem to have good judgment in picking women in general.

David Bowie did it best.

Were these photos taken at his wake?

In most of these he looks like an older Helmut Berger.

He’s had his eyes done and now he looks feminized. Elon Musk, Kenny Rogers, Jon Voight, just to make a few who have that burn victim tightness after the procedure (whatever it is).

DUMB DUMB DUMB.

i like r7, e8, and r11

R69, but he probably had to have them done.

He has those eyes where you cannot see the eyelid, and eventually, those skin above the eyes droops so much, that older people have to have the extra skin cut off, because it starts to obscure their ability to see.

Those pics at R53 had me cracking up. Still LMAO. The bad wig with the colorful fingernails and the glass of beer is my fave.

That’s gonna be my Halloween outfit!

OP, that cover’s a very naughty reference to American Beauty. Love it.

Pitt says he has face blindness disorder (prosopagnosia) which actually sounds pretty awful.

"A person with prosopagnosia may avoid social interaction and develop social anxiety disorder, an overwhelming fear of social situations.

They may also have difficulty forming relationships or experience problems with their career. Feelings of depression are common.

Some people with prosopagnosia cannot recognise certain facial expressions, judge a person's age or gender, or follow a person's gaze.

Others may not even recognise their own face in the mirror or in photos." (not these photos anyway lol)

So what?

Yikes! Was this photo shoot done during his embalming?

That GQ cover photo is not doing him any favors at all.

He's supposed to look like a corpse on the cover photo. It never would have occurred to me that so many people would think that he just [italic] accidentally [/italic] looked like a drowned Ophelia or like a washed-up, bloated corpse.

Do you also think it was an accident that his face is cut in half or blocked out in many of the photos? That he just accidentally wore that leather skirt? The eyeliner just accidentally flew onto his face?

Looks like something scared the David Hasselhoff right into him!

He jyst looks ooollllddddddd.

And there is so much desperation visible in those cosmetic procedures meant to keep The Face from collapsing onto itself. Aging beauties are tragic.

R77, most people who aren’t into art have zero clue what you’re referring to.

Of course it’s an homage to Ophelia. There are other references/homages throughout the rest of the photo shoot featured in GQ as well.

Don’t expect the general public to get it.

Most people out there have either never set foot in a museum, aren’t into art, design, film, music, theater, etc., as opposed to those who have lived in big metropolitan cities, are into the all the arts, and have traveled extensively.

He looks like Sigfreid, or Roy, the one that the tiger ate.

Not only are they hideous, they have nothing to do with his personality or body of work.

Here’s how it’s done.

His eyes looked a bit hooded when young.

R82 ‘s photos aren’t displaying for me, but I agree with his sentiment as far as the meaninglessness of these images.

Brad's ok, but he's nearly 60 and not that interesting. They've glammed him up to make him seem vaguely edgy.

The photos are awful and kind of stupid. And wtf has he done to his face??

She never poses shirtless or otherwise.

After exposing her mircro-meat years ago it is understandable.

He looks waxy

He looks waxen like an embalmed corpse. In some of those photos he is unrecognizable. Too much plastic surgery, no doubt.

HEY GUYS HAVE YOU HEARD THAT HE LOOKS EMBALMED BECAUSE HE KINDA LOOKS LIKE HE'S EMBALMED

I thought that was a picture of David Cassidy circa 1995 posing for a picture for the poster of a dinner theater production of "Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat".

As an homage to Ophelia the question is.... why? Is Brad Pitt also Hamlet, because that might make more sense, barely. Alas poor York?

Only one image clearly elicits the comparison, the rest look like someone messed around with a photo app. Whacky just because technology says I can.

True, Ophelia was deranged during most of the play--is that it? Again...why?

R89 made me laugh.

Look at his face, the result of drugs and booze.

He's still such a great looking man but you'd never know it from these hideous shots. Simplicity is beauty and these are overly EVERYTHING. Jesus, stop with the water, the flowers, the ill-fitting plastic clothes, and the Emcee make up.

The doom has come upon me! cried

The Lady of Shalott.

[quote]Alas poor York?

Oh, dear

[quote]The doom has come upon me! cried The Lady of Shalott.

Poor Lady; doomed to be misquoted.

The DL misquoter strikes again

Alas, poor Pork?

These pics are great! Are they all from that issue of Vogue? Who's the photographer?

Sorry, ^ meant GQ.

R98 Stevie Wonder

The photographer

Born 1987 in Moscow, Elizaveta Porodina moved to Munich in 2000, where she later studied clinical psychology. At the same time, she worked in different fields of visual media such as illustration, drawing or digital painting, until she turned to photography at the age of 22.

She also worked as a mortician.... apparently.

He and Rob Lowe must share a plastic surgeon.

The photographer must be a fan of Angelina Jolie. Those pictures are just awful.

Man, some of y’all are dumb AF.

He’s SUPPOSED TO LOOK DEAD.

Google the story of Ophelia.

Wikipedia is your friend.

Sheesh!

Those Hollywood celebs are always copying me!

Oops.

At least he finally quit smoking.

Bitch stole my act.

I like Brad Pitt but Bullet Train looks terrible.

These photos don’t seem to have anything to say or reveal about him. They could be shot with anyone as the subject.

Here 👇🏽

To the person going off about Ophelia, you do realize we all got that very pedestrian allusion when we saw the photo, right?

We are saying it is lame, cliched, done to death, and pointless.

Remember on the beginning of the pandemic and everyone in Hollywood was trying to cheer us up? And Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston did a reading of Fast Times at Ridgemont High—Jennifer played Phoebe Cates’ role and Brad played “Brad”? I loved them for that.

The problem is that he looks like an old man that took a nap and had a stroke when he laid down. Not a young maiden whose youthful looks were preserved in death....he just looks worn out.

The posters who are bitching about these pics sound like they're altogether unfamiliar with Brad Pitt's photoshoot oeuvre. He's been doing this edgy stuff (glam, dresses, etc) for years. It's nothing new.

But I like these, and I've always appreciated his daring.

Are his tattoos fake for the photoshoot?

How is looking like an aging man who has had bad plastic surgery which he is edgy?

An elderly homosexual tinymeat......NOT a good combinatia.

Sad last days

Can the Trivago commercials be far behind?

The photographer is a secret admirer of Angie Jolie!

I looked at the cover and thought it was Nan Kempner back from the dead.

^ 😂😂😂

This is ART, darling!!

He was absolutely stunning in his prime

Thanks!

Tammy C has also lost her beauty

But Tammy still got the box office

You know that there are very few actual gay men left on Datalounge when a Nan Kempner reference doesn't get a flurry of replies.

"It's nothing new. "

Exactly. It's OLD, STALE, and SO 2005.

It’s the middle of the night, I wouldn’t say all is lost. I, myself, am watching The Apple on Tubi.

Someone on another thread made a good point about Brad. He's better as supporting than leading. And he's stronger as a foil to a protagonist than a protagonist himself. I feel he realized this and that's why he's chosen more artistic films. Hollywood misused him because they assumed because he was pretty that would guarantee he'd be good in every lead. His best roles were ones where he's a foil like in Twelve Monkeys, River Runs Through It, Fight Club, Kalifornia, etc. He's not interesting enough to be a protagonist with depth. Better as a personification of an ideal or a walking plot device.

He makes a wonderful floating corpse.

[quote]The problem is that he looks like an old man that took a nap and had a stroke when he laid down. Not a young maiden whose youthful looks were preserved in death....he just looks worn out.

That's the whole point of them. He's an elderly, used-up old lounge lizard, posed as the beautiful young tormented Ophelia.

That's why the bitchy comments about the Ophelia pose having been done to death is so stupid. How many times have we seen an older celebrity put himself in clothes, contexts and poses that are meant to make him look even older and worn out than he already is? And how many times has the image of Ophelia been conjured up for that purpose? Very few, if any, and not enough times for someone to claim that it's been "done to death since 2005" and "we're sick of seeing it."

Looks like Mark McGrath.

Why are you so pressed, r135?

Are you the photographer? Why u mad that we don’t “GET IT” !!!!111!!!

R137 because he's a decrepit old man who wants to think he still looks cool and "edgy" like Pitt. Except Pitt doesn't look cool and edgy anymore, just old and tired, so that means he looks even worse than Pitt.

That's what you get for consuming sinful things like alcohol. This photoshoot should be a warning to other celebs.

At least there were no surprise photos of his penis.

Looking at that cover photo, I'm sure his agent was inundated with grandfather roles for Brad.

I just got cast in the remake of The Big Chill. I'm playing the Kevin Costner part.