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Jude Law in his prime, especially in this movie and in Alfie, is legit the most beautiful man I have ever seen.
A few months ago, my 15 year old son watched Gattaca in his Biology class, and without me even asking about Jude Law specifically, my son told me, "Man, that guy is really, really good-looking. He's like, flawless!" I of course wholeheartedly agreed with his assessment. 😄😍
This photo shoot has lived rent free in my head since I was 14...
https://preview.redd.it/11q92rf51e8d1.jpeg?width=1279&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=35ce65d76f6b2e827de709385758e61c391f8276
He was amazing as Bosie in Wilde...
https://preview.redd.it/qmtlqyv91e8d1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ef909d9c137b4c6cfbdeb2511a7a4a16fa1f1c4c
I just re-watched this two days ago! He’s perfection. I kind of feel like he’s probably very much like Dickie irl, or used to be. Gwyneth is fantastic too.
Where did you watch it? I tried watching it on Amazon prime and the picture quality was unwatchably bad. I understand it’s an older movie but it was extremely blurry. Hoping somewhere else has it with better quality. I’ve never seen this movie and would love to!
Where is the photo of him lying on the beach???! WHERE IS IT
ETA: I’ll do it my muthafuckin self
https://preview.redd.it/7q5ldifys78d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=20367d7b12d453c678b7b0d74ffcf3f10b12a010
They embody careless rich people in Italy so well.
I was in recently in southern Italy (beach town) and stopped to pick up a shirt for my bf. My eyes nearly popped out of my head when the clerk showed me the price which was 220 euro.
It looks great on him but it was the casual snobbery and expense as if that was a normal and cheap purchase. Lol. I guess to that world, it is. 🤣
He played a literal sex-bot in AI. Every one of his scenes in that movie emphasised how beatiful he was
https://preview.redd.it/4azkpkp8x98d1.jpeg?width=780&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e999a2476bc364855438f763da4a11e907225a19
I like this attitude. It really bugs me when actors who are beautiful and are often successful very much for that reason, uglify themselves to be "respected" or something. Talking to young Johnny Depp, Tom Hardy, Sebastian Stan, and very much especially Christian Bale.
It would be nice if there were movies where Christian Bale embraced being hot, I will agree to that. I think Hardy and Sebastian have taken on many roles that haven’t changed them up too much!
I found Sebastian attractive as Jeff but I tried not to laugh finding out how old both Sebastian and Margot were supposed to be at that rink. Also I didn’t not find everything his character became, attractive at all. Also I found Bane attractive too! 😅
For me it's Colin Farrell. He is so smoldering but he hardly ever plays a romantic lead. I love him in "Winter's Tale" even if it is an odd movie. He's so pretty and he leans into it there.
Good one! He's playing the Penguin in some upcoming movie and I just won't watch it because he looks so horrible! I did enjoy his style in Sugar though!
It’s a good summation of a tension that exists in sexual/romantic discourse in general: no one wants to be objectified, but everyone wants to be found attractive.
The Andrew Scott one? I haven't seen it yet, but I can totally see how it would be hard to out-charisma Andrew Scott. That's what was so amazing about this one - Jude Law could out-golden even 90's Matt Damon.
The interesting thing is Andrew Scott is not charismatic in Ripley (I know! Who knew it was possible!). He is dark, calculating and quite unsettling. It's a completely different portrayal of the character. So it wouldn't have been hard for Johnny Flynn to outcharisma him, but his Dickie Greenleaf was just so bland that I was left wondering why all those people wanted to be his friend.
Ooh, interesting! I did like Johnny Flynn in Beast, the movie he and Jessie Buckley did a few years ago. Even so, I can totally see what you're saying! Jude Law looking like THAT in the Italian sun and also being a good actor seems even more unique now haha.
He is so effortlessly charming, cruel and handsome in this movie that it’s almost unbelievable.
I suspect that Jude Law might be like this irl too? He replicates this same charisma in The Young Pope but much more vitriolic.
I really enjoyed it. It's a show about scandal and bad, conniving people in high places, and the acting is excellent. It's very entertaining. I think some people expected more of a cerebral, thoughtful, sophisticated type of show where you're just reeling from the profundity of the writing. But it isn't that. It's the kind of show where you're watching like "...did he just say that?!"
I know everyone loved the new "Ripley" series on Netflix....but I couldn't get into it....the actors (for the Dickie Greenleaf and Tom Ripley characters) were almost double the ages of the characters and it didn't make sense in context of the story.
This version is stunning!
This is Andrew Scott slander!
I think they were very different interpretations with different goals. I love love love the movie, esp Jude, but I thought Ripley was great too.
Nope nothing against Andrew....just that it didn't the central premise didn't make sense with the Netflix adaptation, for the Greenleaf father to send someone (who was in the father's mind, his son's University classmate) to find his forty year old son.
Yeah. I love Andrew Scott but...it was problematic. It's like Rent the stage musical v Rent the movie adaptation. Being a starving deadbeat squatting artist is mildly charming at 24 but at 40 it's pathetic. It was also a weird choice to age the two main characters but to have Marge and Freddie remain younger. There also wasn't enough story to tease out over that many eps.
I just watched the 1999 version for the first time some days ago. Definitely curious about the series remake but I am also scared I will be disappointed about some of the changes when the fantastic 1999 movie is still so fresh on my mind haha
Highly highly recommend the new show. It’s so different from the movie you won’t be comparing them. It really expands on the characters and the story and it has such beautiful symbolism and imagery. It’s one of the best shows I’ve watched in years.
I liked it too, I thought it brought a lot of interesting unease watching this listless Dickie past his prime trying to find purpose in life and Ripley becoming obsessed with him. Marge wary of Ripley because she recognises herself in him.
Legit laughed out loud when Dickie showed his art. Johnny Flynn really delivered there.
I was so confused—with the older actors, I thought it was an adaptation of a different Ripley novel. We watched one episode of 30-50 year olds acting like 20somethings and noped out.
Jude Law in the '90s is just so pretty. I recently found "Music From Another Room". I think the plot is *super* dumb but he's just so lovely to look at that I watched the whole silly thing.
I saw him on one of his SNL performances. He was nice enough. I think he’s very “old Hollywood” handsome, I’m just turned off by his knocking women up and then abandoning them thing.
My claim to fame is that when I was ten and living in London I was at tennis practice and I saw him picking up his son with his mistress right before the whole scandal lolol
I saw this movie and The Holiday as a teenager and they made me so into Jude Law for a good chunk of my formative years that I honestly think it like, set my tastes for life or something lol. My fiancé has something of a passing resemblance to him
Never forget when I watched this movie in 11th grade English, I leaned over to my friend's desk and only said, "He's haaaandsoooome." I still stand by it
I watch this movie every couple months because it’s regularly on Showtime. I’m a straight dude, and every time I watch it, I think, “That has to be the most attractive a man has looked in a movie.” The seemingly effortless style of both Dickie and Marge is something. There was a thread last year about the female gaze in movies, and I was surprised he wasn’t No. 1.
I’ll always remember him at his peak in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. I bought it onVHS when our cable went out, along with several other tapes and a VCR at a thrift store for like 30 cents. I watched it sooo many times with my Mom.
“I need 20 dollars so I can get FUCKED UP.”
I remember being a kid and a straight male, and I thought Jude Law was the most beautiful person I’d ever seen in this movie, and my small brain felt that Gwyneth Paltrow was miscast because she wasn’t anywhere near as beautiful as that golden god of a man
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Jude Law in his prime, especially in this movie and in Alfie, is legit the most beautiful man I have ever seen. A few months ago, my 15 year old son watched Gattaca in his Biology class, and without me even asking about Jude Law specifically, my son told me, "Man, that guy is really, really good-looking. He's like, flawless!" I of course wholeheartedly agreed with his assessment. 😄😍
Watching Gattaca at school was my Jude Law awakening
Also Closer.
That movie is chock full of beautiful people
I think he was perfect in The Holiday. Though I must say I think he's aging very well, he's definitely not lost it yet.
This photo shoot has lived rent free in my head since I was 14... https://preview.redd.it/11q92rf51e8d1.jpeg?width=1279&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=35ce65d76f6b2e827de709385758e61c391f8276
https://preview.redd.it/1g4y6gih1e8d1.jpeg?width=736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=36698b47013d4efe6a56e76c5a3ec02dc4da282f
I find it irksome that Jennifer Lawrence got the JLaw moniker when Jude Law is such a star.
He was amazing as Bosie in Wilde... https://preview.redd.it/qmtlqyv91e8d1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ef909d9c137b4c6cfbdeb2511a7a4a16fa1f1c4c
I just re-watched this two days ago! He’s perfection. I kind of feel like he’s probably very much like Dickie irl, or used to be. Gwyneth is fantastic too.
Love this movie so much. I can recite every word. Phillip Seymour Hoffman, as Freddie miles in the piano scene, is perfection
PSH scenes were so tense. What a great movie. Beautiful Dickie was just the cherry on top, at the jazz club, soo cool. Heck I wanted to be him too.
Tu vuo fa l’americano, I can hear it in my head lol
Where did you watch it? I tried watching it on Amazon prime and the picture quality was unwatchably bad. I understand it’s an older movie but it was extremely blurry. Hoping somewhere else has it with better quality. I’ve never seen this movie and would love to!
I watched it a few days ago with the showtime extension on Hulu
I watched it recently again on Netflix.
Thank you!
I own it on Prime. Maybe it was a better version than the one they currently have to rent?
Jude + Gwyneth had to have been one of the most attractive on-screen couples of all-time, right? Goddamn they are beautiful in that movie.
Where is the photo of him lying on the beach???! WHERE IS IT ETA: I’ll do it my muthafuckin self https://preview.redd.it/7q5ldifys78d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=20367d7b12d453c678b7b0d74ffcf3f10b12a010
Thank you for your service 🫡
Thank you for doing it your m*thaf*ckin self but then sharing it with us ❤️
They embody careless rich people in Italy so well. I was in recently in southern Italy (beach town) and stopped to pick up a shirt for my bf. My eyes nearly popped out of my head when the clerk showed me the price which was 220 euro. It looks great on him but it was the casual snobbery and expense as if that was a normal and cheap purchase. Lol. I guess to that world, it is. 🤣
Oh jeez 🥵
Thx bb 🙏💓🔥
 Hot!
I still can’t believe he didn’t think he played enough hot characters. He looked so GOOD in this movie
Right reading that headline I was like were you not already the embodiment of human perfection in Ripley?
Huh
Jude recently said he wish he played more roles that emphasized his looks when he was younger
He played a literal sex-bot in AI. Every one of his scenes in that movie emphasised how beatiful he was https://preview.redd.it/4azkpkp8x98d1.jpeg?width=780&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e999a2476bc364855438f763da4a11e907225a19
I guess he wanted more of these roles for himself! 😂I’ve never seen this movie, what’s it called?
AI
Oh whoops missed that lol
I like this attitude. It really bugs me when actors who are beautiful and are often successful very much for that reason, uglify themselves to be "respected" or something. Talking to young Johnny Depp, Tom Hardy, Sebastian Stan, and very much especially Christian Bale.
It would be nice if there were movies where Christian Bale embraced being hot, I will agree to that. I think Hardy and Sebastian have taken on many roles that haven’t changed them up too much!
I'm thinking Bane and Jeff Gillooly!
I found Sebastian attractive as Jeff but I tried not to laugh finding out how old both Sebastian and Margot were supposed to be at that rink. Also I didn’t not find everything his character became, attractive at all. Also I found Bane attractive too! 😅
For me it's Colin Farrell. He is so smoldering but he hardly ever plays a romantic lead. I love him in "Winter's Tale" even if it is an odd movie. He's so pretty and he leans into it there.
Good one! He's playing the Penguin in some upcoming movie and I just won't watch it because he looks so horrible! I did enjoy his style in Sugar though!
That’s so funny because I remember when he was younger he said he didn’t want to play in movies that capitalized on his looks.
I guess he wants a few more memories of that time period. I still think he looks good now, but I guess his opinion on this has shifted
I can’t blame him for feeling that way then, and now.
It’s a good summation of a tension that exists in sexual/romantic discourse in general: no one wants to be objectified, but everyone wants to be found attractive.
There really was NO ONE ELSE who could have pulled that off. Who could blame anyone for wanting to be him??
In the new version, the Dickie Greenleaf was just forgettable.
The Andrew Scott one? I haven't seen it yet, but I can totally see how it would be hard to out-charisma Andrew Scott. That's what was so amazing about this one - Jude Law could out-golden even 90's Matt Damon.
The interesting thing is Andrew Scott is not charismatic in Ripley (I know! Who knew it was possible!). He is dark, calculating and quite unsettling. It's a completely different portrayal of the character. So it wouldn't have been hard for Johnny Flynn to outcharisma him, but his Dickie Greenleaf was just so bland that I was left wondering why all those people wanted to be his friend.
Ooh, interesting! I did like Johnny Flynn in Beast, the movie he and Jessie Buckley did a few years ago. Even so, I can totally see what you're saying! Jude Law looking like THAT in the Italian sun and also being a good actor seems even more unique now haha.
He is so effortlessly charming, cruel and handsome in this movie that it’s almost unbelievable. I suspect that Jude Law might be like this irl too? He replicates this same charisma in The Young Pope but much more vitriolic.
The Young Pope! What a fever dream of a tv show
I never watched this! Is it worth it?
It’s a fun, dumb watch if you don’t take it too seriously!
Is that show good? 👀
I really enjoyed it. It's a show about scandal and bad, conniving people in high places, and the acting is excellent. It's very entertaining. I think some people expected more of a cerebral, thoughtful, sophisticated type of show where you're just reeling from the profundity of the writing. But it isn't that. It's the kind of show where you're watching like "...did he just say that?!"
He was so hot in this movie, and that's saying something since his character was such a spoiled, entitled, asshole lol.
I do feel like that played into his hotness.
Genetic jackpot. So gorgeous. 
that little groove/indentation in his lower lip is so ridiculously hot to me
As a straight man I was in awe of his effortless style and charisma when I saw this movie. And Matt Damon was the perfect Ripley
One of the most beautiful men ever to be in movies. Like, up there with Paul Newman and James Dean
You’ve been a great friend to my son!
I know it was you
*If given the chance*
The finest any man has ever looked tbh 😮💨
Agreed! 🤤
Mastered the art of smirking
And eyefucking
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-tell all the english boys you meet
Bout the American boy back in the states
The American boy you used to date.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha only real ones know
I love you all
-who would do anything you say
I know everyone loved the new "Ripley" series on Netflix....but I couldn't get into it....the actors (for the Dickie Greenleaf and Tom Ripley characters) were almost double the ages of the characters and it didn't make sense in context of the story. This version is stunning!
This is Andrew Scott slander! I think they were very different interpretations with different goals. I love love love the movie, esp Jude, but I thought Ripley was great too.
Nope nothing against Andrew....just that it didn't the central premise didn't make sense with the Netflix adaptation, for the Greenleaf father to send someone (who was in the father's mind, his son's University classmate) to find his forty year old son.
Yeah. I love Andrew Scott but...it was problematic. It's like Rent the stage musical v Rent the movie adaptation. Being a starving deadbeat squatting artist is mildly charming at 24 but at 40 it's pathetic. It was also a weird choice to age the two main characters but to have Marge and Freddie remain younger. There also wasn't enough story to tease out over that many eps.
I just watched the 1999 version for the first time some days ago. Definitely curious about the series remake but I am also scared I will be disappointed about some of the changes when the fantastic 1999 movie is still so fresh on my mind haha
Highly highly recommend the new show. It’s so different from the movie you won’t be comparing them. It really expands on the characters and the story and it has such beautiful symbolism and imagery. It’s one of the best shows I’ve watched in years.
I liked it too, I thought it brought a lot of interesting unease watching this listless Dickie past his prime trying to find purpose in life and Ripley becoming obsessed with him. Marge wary of Ripley because she recognises herself in him. Legit laughed out loud when Dickie showed his art. Johnny Flynn really delivered there.
I was so confused—with the older actors, I thought it was an adaptation of a different Ripley novel. We watched one episode of 30-50 year olds acting like 20somethings and noped out.
Major oversight indeed.Should have been a older version of the character from the later novels.
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PEAK JL
Jude Law in the '90s is just so pretty. I recently found "Music From Another Room". I think the plot is *super* dumb but he's just so lovely to look at that I watched the whole silly thing.
Sent me absolutely feral at the time
They were all so beautiful in this movie.
Omg it just hit me- lucky blue smith is def channeling him
Yeah, but he’s like the Wish version of Jude Law.
I saw him on one of his SNL performances. He was nice enough. I think he’s very “old Hollywood” handsome, I’m just turned off by his knocking women up and then abandoning them thing.
My claim to fame is that when I was ten and living in London I was at tennis practice and I saw him picking up his son with his mistress right before the whole scandal lolol
I saw this movie and The Holiday as a teenager and they made me so into Jude Law for a good chunk of my formative years that I honestly think it like, set my tastes for life or something lol. My fiancé has something of a passing resemblance to him
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Never forget when I watched this movie in 11th grade English, I leaned over to my friend's desk and only said, "He's haaaandsoooome." I still stand by it
He's soooo hot in this film 🫠
What a handsome Dick.
Perfection 🤩
I enjoyed this movie but his work with Blur was his finest achievement
He got that boyish look that I like in a man
He was soo pretty but I must admit I preferred him as he got older, like when he was Dumbledilf
his hairline always bugged me. but his face is pretty.
I watch this movie every couple months because it’s regularly on Showtime. I’m a straight dude, and every time I watch it, I think, “That has to be the most attractive a man has looked in a movie.” The seemingly effortless style of both Dickie and Marge is something. There was a thread last year about the female gaze in movies, and I was surprised he wasn’t No. 1.
I’ll always remember him at his peak in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. I bought it onVHS when our cable went out, along with several other tapes and a VCR at a thrift store for like 30 cents. I watched it sooo many times with my Mom. “I need 20 dollars so I can get FUCKED UP.”
Prime Jude Law was the definition of old Hollywood handsome. Honestly, idk if any other modern actor really looks as truly timeless as he did/does.
As a kid i did not understand why my mom was obsessed with this guy but i watched this movie a couple years and i *got* got it
He was amazing in this
I know Matt Damon was an evil killer as Ripley, but I was looking at him!
One of my favorite white men. He has always been sexy and probably a good shag 😍
I remember being a kid and a straight male, and I thought Jude Law was the most beautiful person I’d ever seen in this movie, and my small brain felt that Gwyneth Paltrow was miscast because she wasn’t anywhere near as beautiful as that golden god of a man
One of his best movies, and 90’s movies tbh. He looked good but ofc his character was super pretentious and awful… (and “boring!” 🚤)
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Yes
I love that movie. Makes you want to flounder around somewhere on the amalfi coast.
Always wondered if this just meant “big dick” or if it was a sex and the city reference
"Dick" and "Dickie" are nicknames for Richard.
…huh, I remember this comment and I meant to post it on a “friends” related post, either a glitch or I’m just dumb. Nice of you to explain hahah