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Is it just me, or was Kate Beckinsale just too hot for her role?


It's kind of tough to imagine someone who looks like her as some white trash single mother in a crap job in some small town who has to resort to having an affair with her best friend's husband who is way below the quality of guys she could get. I know her character was supposed to be hot with the kid having a crush on her and all, but she could've appeared a little more plain looking at things from a non-shallow perspective, like Charlize Theron often does in similiar roles. You can still tell she's hot, just at a realistic level.

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Totally agree. She's too beautiful and omg her skin is so perfect (Off topic but i wanted to say it). Even in a baggy sweater she looks amazing! Good acting in this though.

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I kept thinking about that too! No way would she have been married to Glen or screwing that other dude! I like when movies cast more realistic looking people where not everyone in the town is a perfect 10, which is what they seemed to do with the rest of the cast. I like Kate Beckinsale but she was just way too beautiful for that role. Maybe if she were a bartendar or at a higher quality restaraunt, but no way would anyone that hot work at a chinese buffett if they were out of high school.

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I find that opinion to be completely ridiculous. Like there are no hot single moms with crappy jobs anywhere. The fact is that she lives in a very small town and got pregnant at a very young age. She is not going anywhere. What do you expect of her? To move to hollywood to model and act? Her job seemed fine for her character. She clearly didn't have a college education. And given the town I doubt there were too many "high quality" restaurants to work at.

And she was with Glen from high school. There is nothing unrealistic about that. I'm sure he was cute and charming at some point. Try to imagine that they started out like the Arthur and Lily.

Also hot chicks date and sleep with losers all the time. Just because they are hot does not mean that they can't be manipulated and controlled. One of the hottest chicks I've ever known stayed in an abusive relationship for quite sime time. I never understood it and she just got defensivie when I would try to talk to her about it. I'm just glad she finally moved on.her

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She didn't get pregnant at a "very young age". Her daughter was 4, she was 34 at the time of the movie's making I'm not sure exactly how old her character was supposed to be, but she had to be at least 10 years older than the boy she used to babysit, and we if we assume he was like 16-17 you can do the math. She had her daughter in her mid-20s at youngest, not one of those high school pregnancies.

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Dude, situations like this happen everyday, everywhere. It wasn't hard to suspend your belief at all.

Would the audience have felt more sympathy for a less attractive actress in the role of Annie? Maybe. But don't discount the credibility of Snow Angels because Kate Beckinsale is a stone cold fox. I can assure you that hotter women get into situations like hers everywhere.

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True. Women that hot women don't have real problems.

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Then you're a virgin. Hot women have big ego and therefore they have real problems like this. Kate was the perfect woman to play. In fact, I would have selected a prettier actress.

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haha that's dumb. i mean, just cause she's attractive doesn't mean she may not have money problems or low self esteem or have depression.

also, glen was hot! i'm in love with sam rockwell though, so, yeah.

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I was able to suspend my disbelief. In a small-town environment, I could Sam Rockwell's chracter as a husband for Kate.

I had a much harder time with the movie Click, where it was easier to believe in a remote control that alters reality than to believe Kate was married to Adam Sandler.

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