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The girls were way less attractive than the boys


I thought it was weird they didn't cast hotter girls in this film. I'm not saying they were ugly, but certainly not up to par. Meanwhile, all the boys in the film were smokin' hot. Any theories?

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i actually thought rebecca and marieh were really pretty, each in their own ways. rebecca reminded me a little bit of winona ryder and bree turner, both of whom i think are gorgeous. marieh was cute and just gawky enough to take on the role of an unsure luca.

but yes, the guys WERE amazingly hott.

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To each his own!
Not because you didn't find them attractive, doesn't mean no on else did!
Not every one is a "Megan" or whomever you consider "up to par".
It's all relative!


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I thought Janine was pretty hot and Luca wasn't bad. I didn't care much for the other females.

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i though michelle was hot. the rest.. no.

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I agree. My guess is that Martin Curland is gay, wanted to make a movie saying it was okay to be gay, and really likes hot guys. I also noticed that it was basically a bad thing to be a girl. That's kind of off.

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I agree but not with the "it is bad to be a girl" part. I just think he is gay and wanted to make a gay movie but realized it's harder to sell a gay movie so this came close enough . lol. And he wanted to work with hot guys. ;)

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I'm a lesbian, but Max was super hot.

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I assumed the director and writers wanted actors who at least somewhat resembled each other, and that limited their choices. I thought Marieh looked like she could be Taylor as a female. They even kept the hair style roughly the same, even though Marieh is a lot smaller physically than Taylor. The actors who played Sydney/Sydney were roughly the same physically as well. However, the actors who played Max/Michelle didn't resemble each other at all.

In the real world, femininity and masculinity are the product of years of influence by the sex hormones (for example, the facial bone structure). You'd think any "real" zerophiliac would largely be governed by whatever sex he/she was born with before his/her first transformation. So you'd expect a "real" zerophiliac to generally be better looking as his/her original sex.

Just the same, I thought the female actresses who played the zerophiliacs were pretty enough.

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Ah interesting.

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I wonder what a "real" zerophiliac who was transgendered would end up looking as after transformation (given no surgery has occurred that is).

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In the real world, femininity and masculinity are the product of years of influence by the sex hormones (for example, the facial bone structure).
You're right, of course. Gender differentiation starts in utero and kicks into high gear with the onset of puberty. In the real world any doctor would be able to distinguish a person's original gender from the facial structure, Adam's apple, shoulders, the long bones, and most especially the pelvis.
So you'd expect a "real" zerophiliac to generally be better looking as his/her original sex.
Perhaps we should assume that this condition transformed not only the outward appearance but the skeleton and musculature as well — sort of the way a human is supposed to be transformed in a werewolf movie. We saw how it affected body hair
a) when Luke noticed his chest hair had disappeared, and
b) when Michelle transformed into Max in the shower.

Did you notice: There was no one in that town or at that school who looked over 30? (Except Dr Sydney — who'd left her Savannah accent in Georgia.)

My biggest gripe: Whoever sang that opening song just could not reach some of those notes. (Perhaps she broke into song because she couldn't find the key.)

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I thought it was because Michelle was Max to begin with, so the two boys were hotter in the forms they were before they figured out they were zerophiliacs, but that's just my theory.

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He grossed me out a bit, mainly it was his hair.
As good-looking as the entire young cast is, I do agree that the film company's make-up people really needed to get a little more acquainted with a new invention — it's called a "hairbrush".

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