Wednesday, September 23, 2009

217) Gerard Butler's Agent

Gerard Butler holds Hollywood's dubious distinction of being the biggest star to have made zero (0) good movies. A sampling:

-Time Line
-Lara Croft: Whatever of Such and Such
-Dracula 2000
-P.S. I Love You (the memory of which upon typing the title, it should be noted, just caused a pixie to die)
-Gamer

Which is not that surprising, since Butler also holds the dubious distinction of both having "burst on to the scene"* in the Joel Schumacher-directed big-screen adaptation of the most overly and unjustly beloved musical of all time, "The Phantom of the Opera" and having starred in the highest-grossing feature-length Playstation1 cutscene/gay porn of all time, "300".



Thing is, unlike, say, Jennifer Aniston (with whom he is apparently in a one-shirted relationship...) , the only real problem we have with Butler is every single movie he has made ever. Shouldn't we love him? He's Scottish! And the list of things from Scotland that we love far outweigh and outnumber Butler's filmography (Craig Ferguson, David Tennant, Travis, the entire cast of "Trainspotting", transparent tape). And he sort of looks like he might be Australian, too. Like a Scottish Russell Crowe. Aren't these people supposed to make good movies? Where's Butler's "Gladiator"??

Oh, wait.


*remind us to do one about annoying Hollywood-"journalism" lingo

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