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AIBU?

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to still fancy Ben Affleck?

58 replies

Maebe · 25/02/2013 16:48

Especially with a beard?

I remember when Armageddon came out and we all fancied him, we even had a poster of him up on the wall at university ('cos that's not sad or anything...)

And over a decade later... Yep, still would.

Anyone else? Or an old crushes still stirring the heart strings a decade or more later?

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Maebe · 26/02/2013 09:48

They made that documentary where Phoenix was extremely odd and apparently trying to start a music career, but then it turned out that it wasn't a documentary, it was all some big hoax. I don't think anyone came out of it very well.

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AnyFucker · 26/02/2013 10:00

erk, how strange

I rather like Joaquim Phoenix in a strange and rather fucked up way. He was brilliant in Gladiator.

BettySwollocksandaCrustyRack · 26/02/2013 10:04

I have no place telling you YABU.

I had a massive crush on Tony Hadley in 1984..........and I still would too Hmm

Each to his own :)

BegoniaBampot · 26/02/2013 10:05

There is something weirdly, freakily, sexy about Pheonix, don't really understand it.

SilentSplendidSun · 26/02/2013 10:09

Love Affleck, he is soooo...beautiful, isn't he? Perfectly symmetrical and exquisite. He is a work of art....

SilentSplendidSun · 26/02/2013 10:13

But he talks funny. That acceptance speech was a bit cringey, but I guess all those speeches at Oscars or Baftas are... Why is that??

BegoniaBampot · 26/02/2013 10:13

He has a big square jaw, like Desperate Dan.

AnyFucker · 26/02/2013 10:19

Big jaw...

Well, you know what they say.... Or erm, maybe I made that up in my head Grin

Princesspond · 26/02/2013 10:24

Me too, lovely eyes, not so sure about the beard but I suppose I could cope. Must put Argo on my rental lust list.

MrsMak · 26/02/2013 10:26

He's got a chin like Desperate Dan.

StuntGirl · 26/02/2013 10:31

YABU. So very, very unreasonable.

LadyClariceCannockMonty · 26/02/2013 10:32

I think he's fanciable now but wasn't back in the day. In the couple of interviews I've seen he comes across as delightful.

However, someone on here recently said he's known to be a serial shag-around. Sad

Alibabaandthe40nappies · 26/02/2013 10:37

He is delicious. I so would.

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Maebe · 26/02/2013 11:26

Nah, wife and 3 kids, I'm don't imagine he is shagging around too much at the moment. Or at least I'm telling myself that even though I definitely would should he ask, ass-kicking wife or not

AF, I like your thinking. He is indeed rather, er... big.

Stunt, you have to elaborate on that, especially being in the minority!

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LadyClariceCannockMonty · 26/02/2013 11:59

Doesn't seem to stop others!

Nancy66 · 26/02/2013 12:04

this is v. funny

CheerfulYank · 26/02/2013 14:31

I don't think he sleeps around. Jennifer doesn't seem the type to go along with it.

Pudgy2011 · 26/02/2013 14:38

He's my Clooney. I've had an inappropriate crush on him since his Armageddon years!!

I was spectacularly pleased to see him turn his hand to directing, thought Gone Baby Gone was a brilliant movie, and he really seems to have settled into himself. Seems like a great dad and husband.

I so would!!!!

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Nancy66 · 26/02/2013 14:59

Znaik - good isn't it. Then if you watch 'Smith saves Comic relief' you'll see that they TOTALLY ripped if off

minouminou · 26/02/2013 16:21

Bleuuhhhhh, bleuuhhhhh and thrice bleuuhhhhh......
Joaquin, you say, though......
And that Gael Garcia Bernal.....I would so totally break with trad and go Latino for those two.......

SneakyNinja · 26/02/2013 23:02

Totally with you on Gael Garcia Bernal!! I love him and his dirty sweaty face Grin

drownangels · 27/02/2013 09:06

sneakey and minou GGB is my crush as well. He is the cover of this months Sight and Sound and can't wait to see 'NO' I'm hoping it is a return to making good films for him after doing a lot of crap in recent years!