Are you finding it increasingly harder to take the changing physicality of Hollywood actors?Things change; they grow old, they morph, and sometimes even evolve. It's a fact of life, and usually a good fact of life. But lately, I find myself constantly having to try and ignore certain physical aspects to enjoy a trailer, an image, a film. Rather than absorbing the project, the mood, the plot, I'm trying to blur my eyes so Mr. or Ms. So-and-So doesn't look quite so silly.
On the one hand, of course, it's the plastic surgery. Practically everyone in Tinseltown does something. There's no way everyone has smooth foreheads and bright skin. But when the random nose job or improvement turns into new cheeks, chin, or balloonish lips until the original person is nowhere to be seen, it becomes too much. If this was happening to actors known for morphing into characters, whose performance shines much brighter than their own image or personality, fine. But when the stars whose name and faces are their fame, you can't ignore it. I simply cannot see Mickey Rourke without thinking back to The Pope of Greenwich Village, spot Meg Ryan without trying to recognize the girl from Innerspace, Melanie Griffith, Sylvester Stallone, Nicole Kidman... Can they really think that's better than a few wrinkles and some sagging skin?
And then there's an additional layer of utter goofiness. I feel like when the '80s fashions started to make a comeback a few years ago, the most dreadful styles went away, while leaving behind a love of the ridiculous. Or maybe Schumacher's damned nippled heroes gave us all a dose of the crazy. Nicolas Cage seems like less of an actor and more of a male Barbie doll for silly looks these days, between gigs like Sorcerer's Apprentice and Season of the Witch... "Fashion" flicks give us women wearing this or this.
Hollywood has always been image-crazy, but now it's like something out of a more brightly hued Tim Burton film. And my god, it even zips into our marketing with terribly Photoshopped pictures being sent on like professional movie posters. Has the industry lost their eyesight?
What do you think of Hollywood's increasingly distracting visual flair?

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